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Brown, UNC land 5-star recruit Travis Shaw
Mack Brown is such a gifted salesman that it’s been said he can sell ice cubes to an Eskimo. Still, it was the Hall of Fame coach’s actions rather than his words that helped him […]
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UNC 10th in preseason football poll; Alabama at No. 1
Another college football season will start with everyone chasing the Tide. Alabama is No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 preseason poll for fourth time in the past six seasons. Coming off its sixth […]
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Bypassing college proved right move for Trot Nixon
Technically, Trot Nixon came within one day of becoming a two-sport star at NC State. In reality, he never actually got that close. As much as he relished the opportunity to play football and baseball at the […]
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A conference divided: ACC returns to two-division format
RALEIGH — Opinion is split right down the middle when it comes to the return of divisional play in the ACC. Coaches in the Coastal Division are all for it. Their counterparts in the Atlantic? […]
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NCSHOF inducts new class after year’s wait
RALEIGH — Mack Brown has been inducted into several halls of fame during his long, successful career as a college football coach. This one, he said, was the most special because of who he went […]
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Tar Heels football coping with uncertainty on several fronts
Coming off a trip to the Orange Bowl, North Carolina football is ready to take another step forward. “We had a good year last year,” coach Mack Brown said. “We’re trying to be great.” With […]
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ACC, ECU announce early season football starting times
North Carolina’s college football teams will be prime time players during the early portion of the season this fall. All four ACC schools, along with East Carolina, Appalachian State, Charlotte and NC A&T, have all […]
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Future bright for UNC football
The NFL Draft will kick off Thursday, and the focus in Chapel Hill will be on the players that the Tar Heels are losing to the League. Last weekend, however, the Tar Heels wrapped up […]
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Former players, friends react to ‘end of an era’ of UNC basketball
CHAPEL HILL — Shammond Williams, like virtually everyone else when they first saw the news Thursday, thought it was an April Fools’ gag. But when the former North Carolina basketball star realized that coach Roy […]
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Spring football, pro days take center stage in ACC
Football spring practice often has to live in the shadow of March Madness in the state of North Carolina. This year, however, with the hardwood season coming to a premature end for every basketball program […]