Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oakland at Carolina...
Cunningham, a basketball Hall of Famer who played on Smith's first Tar Heel team, says, "The most overused cliche in sports might be 'We're a family,' but at North Carolina, the team truly is a family. Coach Smith treats the last guy on the bench the same way he treats the best player on the team, and he is as concerned about their education as he is about winning. He takes as much pride in the doctors and lawyers he coached as he does in the All-Stars...
...watching his protege, Larry Brown, push the 76ers through a practice at Chapel Hill: "I thought, 'I used to be like that.' If I can't give this team that enthusiasm, I'd said I'd get out." But there is also a smiling suspicion in North Carolina that Smith waited until the eve of fall practice so that Guthridge, and not some high-profile coach, could be named the top man. Loyalty begets loyalty...
ESPN first broke the story of the coach's resignation on the evening of Oct. 8, but by then, Smith had already told his players--past, present and future. That night, hundreds of North Carolina students were camped outside the Dean Smith Center, chanting, "We love Dean! We love Dean!" As one would expect from a man who wears a tie even in practice, Smith showed up two minutes early for his 2 p.m. press conference. He tried to make it sound routine when he announced, "I have decided to resign as head basketball coach at the University of North...
...name of evil. Which, the theologian replies, is nonsense: the person who did the deed may be a victim himself or may have merely been having a bad-hair day, as someone remarked in trying to figure out Susan Smith's murder of her children in a South Carolina lake. But the deed is, indelibly, evil...