Former Aston Villa manager Dean Smith has paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne following the sad passing of the Black Sabbath ...

FILE - In an Oct. 9, 1997 file photo, North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith smiles during a news conference in Chapel Hill, N.C.,where he announced his retirement.

Charlotte FC boss Dean Smith has criticized the proposed transfer of forward Patrick Agyemang to Championship side Derby ...

Dean Smith was a spiritual man, and there is no doubt if he had any say in the matter, this escape would have come long ago. As a coach, he had many great rivals, ...

Dean Smith, who passed away at the age of 83 on Sunday, won 879 basketball games, two national championships, made 11 Final Fours, coached 24 first round NBA Draft picks, among countless other ...

On Sunday, when he learned Smith had died at the age of 83, he said simply and quietly, "I'll miss Dean." If Smith wasn't the last of his kind, he was certainly one of the last, a man from an era ...

Dean Smith, decent and caring as he was, loved to be in charge. He liked running things, and running them his way. Looking through my notes on the story, I see it so many times.

Dean Smith’s first face-to-face meeting with a potential new signing is crucial. He’s looking for a few simple traits: a man who can hold a conversation, asks questions and absorbs ideas.

One night in 1965, when Dean Smith was still a 30-something basketball technocrat trying to justify his post as successor to the magisterial Frank McGuire, his Tar Heels returned to campus from a ...