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August 10, 2022

Mack Brown

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Different expectations, same goals for NC State, Wake Forest, UNC

July 27, 2022 Brett Friedlander

CHARLOTTE — North Carolina football coach Mack Brown referred to last week’s ACC Kickoff media event as a time for hype and hope. It’s an accurate description. While the assembled media provides hype for the […]

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Tar Heels look to kick disappointing habits with a dose of ‘PAT’

July 21, 2022 Brett Friedlander

CHARLOTTE — Mack Brown isn’t talking about kicking extra points when he makes references to a PAT this summer and fall. It’s an acronym that has become the Hall of Fame coach’s mantra for his […]

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Ekwonu, Howell lead NFL Draft prospects from NC

April 6, 2022 Brett Friedlander

The 2021 college football season began with a player from a North Carolina school being hyped as the possible No. 1 overall pick in the next NFL Draft. Three weeks out from the draft, that’s […]

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Chizik returns to rebuild UNC defense again

January 19, 2022 Shawn Krest

It took three years longer than expected, but Mack has his man on defense. When Mack Brown returned to Chapel Hill, replacing Larry Fedora as Tar Heels football coach after the 2018 season, there was […]

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Plenty of work ahead for Tar Heels in offseason

January 5, 2022 Shawn Krest

For the first time since 1997, Mack Brown will need to face the prospect of coaching a North Carolina team without Sam Howell as starting quarterback. When Brown returned to Chapel Hill following the 2018 […]

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UNC quarterback Howell enters NFL draft

January 1, 2022 The Associated Press

CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina quarterback Sam Howell is forgoing his senior season to enter the NFL draft. Howell’s decision was not surprising, but he made it official Saturday with a video posted on UNC […]

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UNC’s Sam Howell: ‘I still have some decisions to make’

December 31, 2021 Brett Friedlander

CHARLOTTE – Sam Howell said he’s got a lot of thinking and praying to do before making his decision on whether to enter the NFL draft or return for one more season at North Carolina. […]

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Mayo shower hurts so good for South Carolina coach Shane Beamer

December 30, 2021 Brett Friedlander

CHARLOTTE — Asked about the mayonnaise bath that awaited the winning coach following Thursday’s Duke’s Mayo Bowl, North Carolina coach Mack Brown said that he’d “let someone hit me in the face with a frying […]

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North Carolina loses Duke’s Mayo Bowl to South Carolina

December 30, 2021 Shawn Krest

CHARLOTTE — South Carolina entered the Duke’s Mayo Bowl without their leading rusher and starting quarterback. It turned out the Gamecocks didn’t need them, cruising to a 38-21 win over North Carolina in Charlotte. UNC […]

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Look Ahead — 2022 Bold Predictions

December 29, 2021 North State Journal Staff

Every year, the sports staff of North State Journal (sports editor Cory Lavalette and reporters Brett Friedlander and Shawn Krest) look into our crystal balls and try and predict what some of the bigger news […]

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