CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- North Carolina coach Roy Williams told ESPN he hasnt been asked to attend the NCAAs Division I Committee on Infractions hearing and is optimistic he wont need to go, despite the fact that the school still hasnt been notified of who will be expected to be in attendance.Williams said he was uncertain of the actual date of the hearing, only to say hes hopeful its very soon.North Carolina officials have not been told the date of the meeting and dont yet know who will be asked to attend.Williams name was mentioned once in the initial NCAA report, and it was to reference the date of the interview. He wasnt mentioned at all in the amended notice. The NCAA has alleged five Level 1 violations -- none involving the mens basketball program.If Williams isnt asked to attend the COI hearing, it would further the notion that the Tar Heels coach and his program wont be hit with significant sanctions following a lengthy academic fraud investigation at the school.Williams said he has been investigated as much as anyone over the past few years.Five investigations, five different groups that concluded Roy Williams didnt know what was going on, didnt know anything about it, he said. Were down the stretch run now.In fact, UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham confirmed to ESPN that there were a total of eight investigations.Williams said that the investigations havent just affected recruiting, but also worn on him emotionally. Williams said that three knee surgeries in the past year, along with a vertigo attack on national television last season, contributed to the growing speculation he was going to retire.Add that, limping around and Im not feeling good, I can understand it last year, Williams said. The other thing with me is all the junk I was putting up with that I was not involved. Nobodys been investigated as much as I have. We were not involved. ... With the whole thing, you put it together, I can see why somebody said it last year because of the way I looked.However, the 66-year-old Williams said he played golf eight times since his latest knee surgery and has no intention of stepping away anytime soon.As long as Im healthy, Im going to keep coaching, Williams said. Coach [Dean] Smith told me years ago he retired too early and Im not going to do that.Williams said he also recently has had to deal with the ramifications of the HB2 controversy -- in which events have been moved out of the state of North Carolina as a result of the controversial House Bill 2 law that limits the legal protection of the LGBT community.I get asked about it in recruiting, Williams said. Its put our state in a very negative situation. Im embarrassed by it, Im sad about it, I dont like it. Very, very passionate about it. In a way youve got to be very careful because people going to say your school -- state supported. But were wrong. Were wrong. Thats all you can say is were wrong. The worst thing about it is its given people a different image of our state than what it truly is.Thats the saddest thing, he continued. A guy asked me the other day, How can you live there? Im thinking, Gracious. Thats the saddest thing. 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The Giants have now gone 5-14 since the All-Star break and their lead is slipping in the National League West.We have to start winning ballgames. This is a big series, said Bruce Bochy, the Giants manager.Cain got the 100th victory of his career but had to leave after five hitless innings due to a high pitch count last weekend against the Nationals. The Giants got the win 3-1 over Gio Gonzalez, who has also been known to reach 100 pitches in five innings at times.Strasburg was named the Pitcher of the Month for July in the National League and entered Friday as the league leader in winning percentage (.938) and wins and was fourth in strikeouts with 161 and fourth in opponents batting average at .194.In three games at home against the Giants in his career, Strasburg has been given 5.93 runs per game by his teammates.Hunter Pence is hitting .260 (4-for-16) against Strasburg while Buster Posey is hitting .375 in 16 trips to the plate while first baseman Brandon Belt, who did not start Friday against lefty Gonzalez, is 1-for-7 against Strasburg.Eduardo Nunez, just acquired from the Minnesota Twins in a trade, is 3-for-4 in hhis career against Strasburg.dddddddddddd.A few of the Nationals hitters have interesting -- albeit limited -- track records against Cain.Daniel Murphy, the July player of the month in the National League, is hitting .167 against him but has two homers in 12 at-bats.Danny Espinosa, the Washington shortstop, has two homers in eight at-bats for an average of .250.Clint Robinson, a backup first baseman for the Nationals, is two-for-two in his career against Cain.The slumping Bryce Harper is hitting .167 in seven at-bats against Cain. Harper has hit the ball hard the past few games but has little to show for it.He was 1-for-3 with a sacrifice fly on Friday.He hit the ball hard, said Washington manager Dusty Baker after Fridays win. Good times are around the corner.Gonzalez pitched for the Oakland As through the 2011 season so he is no stranger to the Giants.The lefty, who won 21 games with Washington in 2012, has had amazing success against right-handed hitting Hunter Pence -- who is hitting .059 in 17 at-bats against Gonzalez.Buster Posey is hitting .333 in 15 at-bats against the Miami-area native while Angel Pagan has an average of .364 in 11 trips to the plate.Brandon Crawford is hitting .273 in 11 at-bats against Gonzalez.We have to find a way to get this offense going, Bochy said Friday. We have to bust out of this. It better be sooner than later. We have our work cut out tomorrow (against Strasburg). ' ' '
