No position in any sport has more of an impact on the success of its team than the quarterback has in football. That’s what made preparations for this week’s season-opening college games so interesting for […]
So much can change in a year. Last summer, Larry Fedora and UNC were struggling on the recruiting trail. NC State was on an impressive hot streak, seemingly landing every in-state prospect that coach Dave […]
Preseason football camps opened at most colleges around the state on Friday. But according to new/old North Carolina coach Mack Brown, who’s been around long enough to know about such things, the real preparations for […]
CHAPEL HILL — Tap tap tap. Chazz Surratt clearly doesn’t want to be talking about this again. As the media crowds around him at UNC preseason camp, he stares straight ahead, rocking back and forth, […]
The college football award watch list season ended last month. Over a two-week span, watch lists for 18 different awards were released, honoring everything from best punter to top coach, from best player to most […]
CHARLOTTE — Before Mack Brown could start thinking about winning football games in his return to North Carolina, the new/old Tar Heels coach first had to win over his players. The process began the moment […]
CHARLOTTE — There could be a much higher energy level at college football games in North Carolina this year, regardless of what’s going on down on the field. Credit for that can go to H.B. […]
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 […]
Two of the biggest surprises in this year’s NFL Draft involved players from North Carolina colleges, one because of how early he was taken and the other because of how far he fell before his […]
The NFL Draft begins on Thursday, and more than two dozen players with North Carolina connections will be waiting by the phone during the three-day event to see if they get chosen. Whether they get […]
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