Steve Smith Sr. inducted into North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame

Darin Gantt

CHARLOTTE-Growing up in Los Angeles, all Steve Smith Sr. knew about North Carolina was seeing the occasional ACC basketball game on one of the family television's 13 channels. He never got farther east than Las Vegas until he became a standout receiver at the University of Utah, and planes took him as far as the Pac-12 stretched.

So when the Panthers drafted him in the third round of the 2001 d