A year ago, Mack Brown was trying to resurrect interest in his program. He’d much rather have his current challenge. “We’ve had a lot of hype since the bowl game,” Brown said. “A lot of […]
GREENSBORO — Top-ranked Clemson is the preseason favorite to win the Atlantic Coast Conference championship for a sixth straight season. The league released voting results Friday from media members for predicted order of finish and […]
Wake Forest all-conference wide receiver Sage Surratt has opted out of the coming season to prepare for the NFL Draft amid the coronavirus pandemic. Surratt announced his decision Wednesday on social media, citing “the many […]
The seven college football teams in North Carolina have plenty of offensive firepower. The situation on the other side of the ball, however, is in a bit more flux. The teams that were the best […]
College basketball is rapidly heading toward Selection Sunday and baseball season is just now getting into the swing of things. But for football coaches and fans across the state, the next month is the most […]
It turns out rational decision-making is vastly overrated. Just over a year ago, the North Carolina Tar Heels’ athletics department lost its dang mind. Having dismissed Larry Fedora, UNC seemingly had a line on a […]
Fifteen players from North Carolina made all-conference teams for their college this season. In the ACC, a total of six players made the first team. Sage Surratt was the only local ACC player chosen on […]
It’s rivalry week. Sort of. Because while North Carolina and NC State will be meeting at Carter-Finley on a regular-season ending Saturday that also includes such classic rivalries as Alabama-Auburn, Ohio State-Michigan and Georgia-Georgia Tech, […]
Coaches will swear they only “take ‘em one at a time” and never look beyond the next game on the schedule. But we’ve reached the point in the college football season in which even they […]
CHAPEL HILL — Charlie Heck isn’t the fastest player on the North Carolina football team. Far from it. At 6-foot-8 and 315 pounds, Heck is used to seeing the backs of his teammates’ jerseys during […]
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