Tar Heel born, bred, and working on that third thing
The rise of televised exhibition games has made it easy to overreact to a contest that doesn’t actually count for anything. For example: based on UNC’s exhibition win over Memphis last season, Jalen Washington was going to be a dominant post player, Seth Trimble the team’s leading scorer, and Elliot Cadeau one of the top […]
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For the first time in the 2025-26 season, the Tar Heels will play a game against another team, and they’ll do so in a way that’ll be available for us to see. Ever since the NCAA got rid of the so-called “secret scrimmages,” schools have taken advantage of having exhibition games against other big schools […]
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As we continue with our preview of the 2025-26 North Carolina Tar Heels’ basketball roster, we’ve come to the final group of players: the seniors/graduate students. While there are plenty of experienced players on this year’s team, there aren’t a ton that are seniors. There are just two official seniors on this year’s roster, and […]
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UNC faces Virginia at home in an ACC tilt Saturday, with kick-off set for noon. Let’s look inside the numbers for these two programs this year and see if we find a plausible path to victory for our Tar Heels. 2025 Season So Far: Edge Virginia The Cal loss moved UNC up from 101st to […]
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The 2025 North Carolina football team has not been the most fun watch to this point in the season, but guess what: there’s another game to watch this Saturday. This weekend, the Tar Heels will take on Virginia in the latest edition of the “South’s Oldest Rivalry.” Whereaas UNC has really struggled this season, the […]
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Belichick addressed the media Tuesday in his weekly pre-game conference. This week Belichick discussed the aftermath of the California game and the challenges presented by Virginia. Belichick also addressed a couple of lingering program questions. The most notable new information: Armand Hawkins has returned to active status. UNC Compliance has cleared the cornerbacks coach, and […]
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The North Carolina Tar Heels football season is now half over and a lot has changed in the three games since the last time we did this (mainly a bunch of losing). That recap came right before the UCF game when the team looked to be moving upward at 2-1 and a convincing win over […]
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We continue our journey through the UNC men’s basketball roster with a look at this year’s junior class. The class designation is a little arbitrary this year, because of the six players listed as juniors on UNC’s roster, one is a former walk-on and the other five are transfers. I don’t think it’s incorrect to […]
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This week saw three more players leave the football program: The 4 prior departures: Pryce Yates, a transfer from UConn prior to the season, was expected to be a starter on the defensive line. Yates has a concussion history, and it appears another one has hampered him this season. He’s played one game for the […]
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With Ian Jackson transferring to St. John’s and Drake Powell getting drafted by the Brooklyn Nets, the sophomore class is a little uncharted and a lot unfamiliar. There are two new arrivals, two returnees from last year and one player who sat last year out. It’s not the most exciting group, but you never know […]
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While they did play a bit better, UNC football’s struggles continued last weekend. A trip out west to play Cal ended in a loss after Nathan Leacock had a potential go-ahead touchdown punched out of his hands and out of the back of the endzone for a touchback and a turnover. Now, Bill Belichick’s squad […]
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This season marks the beginning of a new chapter for UNC women’s basketball. That core recruiting class from five years ago that included Kennedy Todd-Williams for three years, Deja Kelly for four, and Alyssa Ustby for five has left college after playing a huge role in stabilizing and rebuilding the program under head coach Courtney […]
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Bill Belichick’s Tar Heels were a ball punch away from potentially winning against Cal this past weekend, which is either good or bad depending on how you look at it. For most fans, it felt like a game that shouldn’t have even been close because the Golden Bears were practically begging UNC to win the […]
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Believe it or not, the 2025-26 Carolina basketball season is just around the corner. It feels like it has been quite a while since we were sweating out the Heels making it to the NCAA Tournament, which is likely because of all of the football distractions that took place since then. While the football distractions […]
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Back when the ACC use to be in two divisions there was a yearly thing known as Coastal Chaos. Basically the Atlantic side of the conference was always pretty straight forward with Clemson or Florida State usually coming out on top fairly easily (those two won it 13 out of 17 times), while the Coastal […]
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The last two weeks have been more of the circus in Chapel Hill. Somehow through all that, though, a football game was played that didn’t end till after 2 AM Eastern Saturday morning, and people that went to bed early woke up to the highlight of being able to once again laugh at UNC’s struggles. […]
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When your team struggles through a season, it can be easy to get caught up in that at the expense of enjoying some of the fun things happening elsewhere in the sport. That’s why I’m really hoping Carolina fans are able to zoom out from the mess unfolding in Chapel Hill enough to recognize that […]
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Not all exits are made equal. We see it time and again; veteran players losing a step, or veteran coaches watching the game pass them by. The more graceful among them transition easily into other roles, refusing to chase the limelight that had so effortlessly followed them in their prime. Vince Carter, for example, easily […]
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We’re hitting that time of year where sports start to overlap. The fall sports are deep as they approach the end of their regular seasons, and the winter sports are gearing up to get going. We even had some baseball this past week. So you’d be excused if not everything that came out this week […]
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Well, just your average 10:30pm ET kickoff since Cal’s on the Atlantic Coast now (I know, with the current conference realignment, geography doesn’t matter). It was at least a good game even if it was UNC’s third straight loss. At least they were competitive in this one. Quarterbacks: D+ Gio Lopez returned with some poor […]
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If you went to bed at a reasonable hour last night, you probably missed most of Carolina’s 21-18 loss to Cal – in which case, you didn’t miss much. I’ll hand it to Belichick and Co., though: the Tar Heels looked better than I thought they would after schlepping across the country for a game […]
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The North Carolina Tar Heels fell to Cal 21-18 early Saturday morning. Once again, a slow start and self-inflicted wounds were major factors in the second straight loss for the Heels. Another Late Start And this is not in reference to the 10:30 PM ET kickoff. Carolina fans put their heads into their hands after […]
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Anybody that chose to stay up for the UNC/Cal game was treated to a close game by the time the fourth quarter arrived, but the quality of the game wasn’t a whole lot different than what we have been seeing from the Tar Heels. The main difference in this one is that Cal had their […]
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Whether you are ready or not, the Tar Heels are back in action tonight to face off against Cal. While this game is starting at 7:30 PM Pacific time, which is a great local time for a football game, us here in North Carolina will likely be up until almost 1 AM watching this game. […]
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In fans’ last opportunity to see the team before the season starts next spring, the Diamond Heels held an exhibition game against NC State at Durham Bulls Athletic Park on Thursday night. It was a pretty cool event all around — even in an exhibition setting, the in-state rivalry doubled the crowd size and felt […]
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