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UVA’s Chandler Morris is the X-factor in this weekend’s game

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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UNC Women’s Basketball: 2025-2026 Season Preview

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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Opening odds for this weekend’s UNC vs. Virginia game

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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2025-26 Carolina Basketball Freshmen Preview

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 […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

ACC Power Rankings: Coastal Chaos Edition

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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UNC vs California: Winners, Losers, & Honorable Mentions

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. […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

The ACC adds a ranked team after top 25 upheaval

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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The Sunset Beckons

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 […]

about 2 months ago | 1 read

Carolina Basketball Preseason Updates

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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Position grades for UNC’s disappointing loss to Cal

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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UNC’s Player of the Game against Cal: Kobe Paysour

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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Three takeaways from UNC’s 21-18 loss to Cal

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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Fourth quarter fumble dooms UNC in 18-21 loss to Cal

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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UNC Baseball beats NC State 3-1 in an exhibition

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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College football is a people business

Bit of background: I used to work with technology and media companies at a corporate level. One thing stood out in all those interactions between engineering, accounting, news rooms, product development, tech support, sales, and all the other entities that had to work together for the product in the field to be successful: Effective leaders […]

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Inside the Numbers: Cal Golden Bears vs UNC Tar Heels Preview

UNC faces California in an ACC tilt Friday night, kick-off 10:30 EDT. Let’s look inside the numbers for these two programs so far this year and see if we find a plausible path to victory for our Tar Heels. The Investment: Edge UNC The University of North Carolina made massive investments in coach, general manager, […]

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