North Carolina

Want power programs and internecine ferocity? The ACC gives the Big East a run

After a 23-year career in which he won at least 13 games in 20 consecutive seasons, Relying on pinpoint control (he walked 20 hitters in 33 starts in 1997), Maddux, 42, had one of the most dominant stretches ever...

Flaunting refined games, three big bangers have muscled their way into the early player of the year discussion

Turner Gill has orchestrated a masterful turnaround at Buffalo (7--4). The Bulls, who had a 10--69 record in their seven Division I-A seasons before Gill's 2006 arrival, have already clinched the school's first bowl...