Dean Smith, the coaching innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina, an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and induction into basketball's Hall of Fame more than a decade before he left ...

Richard Wyman Smith was born May 21, 1945, in Missoula to Marjorie Louise Cajune and Richard Louis Smith. He was the middle son of five children—Lawrence "Johnny" Smith, Nancy Hall, Mary "Ease" Smith, ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Phil Ford’s watch may read 4:18 p.m., but your clock will tell you the time is really 4:08 p.m. “I’m 59 now, but that’s still left over from Coach Smith,” Ford said “That was Coach ...