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Spring football underway
If there’s a central theme to college football spring practice in North Carolina this year, it’s “New.” That’s new as in the four first-year coaches that will spend the next few weeks getting to know […]
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Slow down a second: Just how fast is UNC’s tempo offense?
CHAPEL HILL — Every Saturday, when Larry Fedora’s offense takes the field, announcers rave about how fast things move. “Don’t blink,” one broadcast team said earlier this year, as quarterback Nathan Elliott got everyone lined […]
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Five questions to ponder before kickoff
Saturday’s showdown between unbeatens NC State and Clemson at Death Valley won’t determine the ACC championship. That won’t happen until Dec. 1 in Charlotte. But it will go a long way toward determining which team […]
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Five questions to ponder before kickoff
Another hurricane has come and gone through our state. But when it comes to football, Saturday’s action is really just the calm before the storm with NC State taking the week off in preparation for […]
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Tar Heels’ QB situation complicated by Surratt injury
CHAPEL HILL — The only thing worse than a quarterback controversy is a quarterback problem. And North Carolina has a big one of those on its hands right now. It’s bad enough that both neither […]
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Cross-country trip awaits Tar Heels
CHAPEL HILL — In the estimation of coach Larry Fedora, the North Carolina football team has come a long way since the start of preseason camp less than a month ago. But that’s not nearly […]
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Suspensions a misstep UNC hopes it can overcome
CHAPEL HILL — The other shoe dropped on the North Carolina football program Monday. Literally. With the suspension of 13 players for their part in selling school-issued athletic shoes, including quarterback Chazz Surratt and both […]
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Surratt, defensive ends among UNC football suspensions
CHAPEL HILL — A year after playing most of the 2017 season with a roster depleted by an epidemic of injuries, the North Carolina football team will begin the new season equally as shorthanded. Only […]
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Tar Heels hoping to apply lessons learned from ’17
CHARLOTTE — If there’s a silver lining to the dark cloud that hovered over the North Carolina football team during an injury-riddled 2017 season, defensive tackle Aaron Crawford said it’s the lessons he and his […]
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Tar Heels focus on improvement during spring practices, scrimmage
CHAPEL HILL — The North Carolina football team needed to make the most of its 15 spring practices after a 3-9 season marred by a rash of injuries that forced many young players into action […]