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May 20, 2025

Jace Ruder

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NSJ Comeback of the Year 2019: UNC’s Brown, Surratt flip script with unlikely revivals

December 25, 2019 Shawn Krest

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 […]

College Football

Deacons hold on as Tar Heels finally run out of comebacks

September 13, 2019 Brett Friedlander

WINSTON-SALEM — Given the personalities of the teams involved, it was almost inevitable that the game would end with a furious comeback and a result that wasn’t determined until the final play. And that’s just […]

Sports

Quarterbacks not one size fits all around the state

August 28, 2019 Brett Friedlander

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 […]

Sports

Expectations, new faces mark start of camps

August 7, 2019 Brett Friedlander

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 […]

Sports

Chazz Surratt’s crooked path to linebacker

August 7, 2019 Shawn Krest

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, […]

Sports

Tar Heels, Brown ready to get to work

July 24, 2019 Brett Friedlander

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 […]

Sports

New coaches at UNC, ECU use spring to examine rosters

April 17, 2019 Brett Friedlander

The thing about spring football games is that regardless of the scoring system that’s used, nobody ever loses and everybody walks away saying that they accomplished everything they set out to do. The goals, of […]

Article

Late touchdown sends UNC to fifth straight loss

November 3, 2018 admin

CHAPEL HILL — Tobias Oliver got his chance and ran with it. Oliver rushed for 120 yards and two touchdowns and passed for a score to help Georgia Tech beat North Carolina 38-28 on Saturday. […]

Article

Five questions to ponder before kickoff

October 19, 2018 Brett Friedlander

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 […]

Article

Suspensions a misstep UNC hopes it can overcome

August 8, 2018 Brett Friedlander

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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