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UNC, ECU suspend football practice; NC State, Duke press on

August 21, 2020 Brett Friedlander

Early in the coronavirus pandemic, college administrators — including ACC commissioner John Swofford — were adamant in their assertion that the only way fall sports could take place this year is if students were back […]

UNC baseball coach Mike Fox announces retirement

August 7, 2020 Brett Friedlander

Mike Fox has opted out as baseball coach at North Carolina. For good. The winningest active coach in Division I and the first to lead an ACC team to four straight College World Series appearances […]

ACC approves 10-plus-1 schedule, Notre Dame in the fold

July 29, 2020 North State Journal Staff

Notre Dame will play in the Atlantic Coast Conference this season as part of a plan to play 10 league games and start the week of Sept. 7, alterations brought on by the pandemic. The […]

Testing results vary as NC colleges try to manage COVID-19

July 15, 2020 Brett Friedlander

Phase 2 of the NCAA’s approved plan leading up to the 2020 football season went into effect on Monday, allowing players up to eight hours per week of weight training, conditioning and film review under […]

ACC officially cancels all sports activities for 2019-20 academic year

March 17, 2020 Brett Friedlander

It’s official. There will be no more athletic events in the ACC for the remainder of the 2019-20 academic year. Whatever hope there was that spring sports schedules might eventually be resumed ended Tuesday when […]

Clemson ends drought in Chapel Hill, beats UNC in OT

January 12, 2020 The Associated Press

CHAPEL HILL — Year after year, every Clemson team that played at North Carolina left the court in the same fashion: by throwing another loss onto what had grown into a bizarrely long streak. No […]

UNC rewards Brown with contract extension

December 15, 2019 Brett Friedlander

Mack Brown might be 68 years old, but like most people his age he isn’t looking to retire anytime soon. Saturday, the new/old North Carolina football coach was rewarded with a one-year contract extension after […]

UNC moves to artifical turf at Kenan Stadium

June 20, 2019 Brett Friedlander

CHAPEL HILL — Everything old is new again. Take artificial turf, for example. Unveiled in the 1960s with the opening of Houston’s Astrodome, fake grass became a fixture at stadiums all across the country over […]

UNC’s Hatchell resigns after findings of program review

April 19, 2019 Aaron Beard | The Associated Press

CHAPEL HILL (AP) — North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell had built a Hall of Fame career over more than three decades with the Tar Heels, including a national championship and becoming the ACC’s […]

Despite firing, Fedora still held in high regard by UNC

November 28, 2018 Brett Friedlander

CHAPEL HILL — Shortly after he was hired as North Carolina’s athletic director in November 2011, Bubba Cunningham began a search to hire a new football coach. The first person he called was Mack Brown. […]