When Ron Smith walked into UNC’s Wilson Library, he wasn’t looking for a passion project. He was looking for a distraction.

"He (a young Dean) had it in his mind that whenever he coached a college team, it was time for him to integrate it too," wrote the author. Smith, who passed away in 2015, truly made that impact ...

Many have recalled the times Smith sat down to put pen to paper, and indeed, he appears to have been a prolific letter-writer. Here are a few of his greatest written hits. In 1980, Smith wrote to ...

The writer and producer reveals his original vision for the ... Dean Devlin reveals secrets of the never-made sequels to 'Godzilla,' 'Stargate' and the 'Rocky III'-esque Will Smith version of ...

Longtime SI college basketball writer Curry Kirkpatrick, a North Carolina alum, on the death of Dean Smith and the rivalry with Duke.

SI.com's Seth Davis recently spoke with acclaimed author John Feinstein about his latest book, The Legends Club, about iconic college basketball coaches Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Valvano.

"Baltimore is an acquired taste like the mustard scraped from a crab's backfin," said poet Dean Bartoli Smith, who won the Maryland Prize for Literature in 2000 and the Washington Writer's ...

When you do something right, do not seek recognition for it. That was the essence of a comment that Dean Smith made to John Feinstein about not wanting to be remembered for helping to desegregate ...

Some variation on the word ‘ambition’ was uttered no fewer than 10 times as Charlotte FC introduced Dean Smith as the third head coach in their brief history on ... National Writer: Charles Boehm.

As FAS dean, Smith was largely responsible for guiding the school through the 2008 financial crisis, ... —Staff writer Elias J. Schisgall can be reached at elias.schisgall@thecrimson.com.

Dean Smith entered his fourth season with a 35-28 record and finishes of fourth, third and fifth in the league. ... The Daily Tar Heel’s Peter Gammons – later a vaunted baseball writer ...

Smith’s critics took these pieces, then compared college Jordan to GOAT pro Jordan, and a clever putdown took flight. Jordan didn’t average 20 points a game in Dean Smith’s offense.