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The Life and Times of Sportswriting Legend, UNC Alum Peter Gammons


In the mid-1960s, enrolled at the University of North Carolina and became a curious reporter for the campus’s Daily Tar Heel. Taught by his father, Ned Gammons, to be inclusive, Peter was especially drawn to the burgeoning head basketball coach , who was about to make the first Black athlete at the university. (Sports Business Journal)

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The Life and Times of Sportswriting Legend, UNC Alum Peter Gammons


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