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General Info
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Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Colors: Powder Blue and White
Nickname: The Tar Heels
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Stepheson to transfer from UNC because of family health concerns
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CHAPEL HILL -- Alex Stepheson, a rising junior power forward on the North Carolina men’s basketball team, will transfer in order to be closer to his family in California due to several health concerns.
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Is ACC football in good shape?
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5.14.2008 : 11:23 pm
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One way or another, the ACC is going to continue to tell us its football is in good shape.
Mike Finn, an ACC associate commissioner, will point this out to you, I am certain of it. Finn works the angles better than most and carefully points to the positives, which is a wise thing to do in his position.
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Looking ahead to football in 2008
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5.10.2008 : 11:48 pm
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I've never met a college football coach who didn't say he has a difficult schedule.
It comes with the territory -- one-game-at-a-time theory ... no game is bigger than the next one. Stupidity is to overlook somebody, even it's Charleston Southern or Jacksonville State or Gardner Webb.
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Duke takes aim at title as lax tourney begins
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5.9.2008 : 11:25 pm
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DURHAM -- Last season, the Duke Blue Devils put everything they had into trying to bring home the top prize in men's lacrosse.
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UNC baseball handles North Florida
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5.7.2008 : 12:04 am
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From staff reports
CARY -- North Carolina's Kyle Shelton doubled three times and drove in two runs and Chad Flack reached the 200-RBI mark for his career to lead the No. 2 Tar Heels to a 9-2 win over North Florida on Tuesday at the USA Baseball National Training Complex.
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Passing grades for Duke, UNC
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5.6.2008 : 11:57 pm
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DURHAM -- Duke and North Carolina's athletics teams easily passed the grade in the annual Academic Progress Rate report released by the NCAA on Tuesday, but a couple of their neighbors will have to pay a price for substandard scores.
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Hatchell to get new deal, ends discussions with USC
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5.1.2008 : 10:59 pm
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CHAPEL HILL -- Sylvia Hatchell will remain as North Carolina's women's basketball coach, spurning South Carolina's interest after the Tar Heels promised to re-work her contract.
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Slide show: A look at UNC through the years
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4.30.2008 : 11:21 pm
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Heels' coach met with South Carolina officials last week
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4.29.2008 : 12:33 am
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With South Carolina looking at Sylvia Hatchell for its head coaching vacancy, North Carolina’s athletics director said Monday that the Tar Heels are committed to keeping Hatchell as their women’s basketball coach.
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Williams unsurprised by Green's move
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4.27.2008 : 10:49 pm
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CARY -- Roy Williams isn't surprised that Danny Green declared for the NBA draft.
"Danny and I have been talking about it for three weeks," UNC's coach Sunday as he watched the Tar Heels' baseball team beat Florida State.
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Heels walk to win over FSU
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4.27.2008 : 9:57 pm
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CARY -- Mike Fox liked something about Mark Fleury's body language, so he opted to keep his left-handed designated hitter in the game with Florida State left-hander John Gast on the mound and the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th inning on Sunday.
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San Francisco takes UNC's Balmer
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4.26.2008 : 11:26 pm
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It was close, but the San Francisco 49ers made good on Gary Wichard's guarantee that Kentwan Balmer would be selected in the first round of Saturday's NFL draft.
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Green to test draft waters
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4.26.2008 : 11:02 pm
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The way Danny Green Sr. sees it, the decision was an easy one.
Danny Green could apply for June's NBA draft, not hire an agent to keep his options open, and find out what he needs to do to bolster his chances for a professional future.
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After a breakout senior year, UNC's Balmer a projected 1st rounder
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4.25.2008 : 11:08 pm
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The promise Kentwan Balmer showed in his superlative senior season is the reason he's projected to be taken in the first round of this afternoon's NFL draft.
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Hansbrough stays; Lawson, Ellington might
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4.25.2008 : 10:56 pm
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CHAPEL HILL -- By announcing Friday that he will return to UNC for his senior season, Tyler Hansbrough set in motion a series of events that will likely see him become the Tar Heels' all-time leading scorer in the first month of the 2008-09 season.
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Hatchell thought to have met with South Carolina
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4.24.2008 : 11:44 pm
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CHAPEL HILL -- Sylvia Hatchell is believed to have met with South Carolina officials while at her beach house in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Thursday evening to discuss the Gamecocks' vacant women's basketball coaching position, according to multiple sources.
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Russell, former UNC runner, gets her shot
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4.21.2008 : 11:04 pm
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Former North Carolina track athlete Blake Russell earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic women's marathon team by placing third in the U.S. Olympic Trials on Sunday in Boston.
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Area runners at the Boston Marathon
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4.21.2008 : 11:04 pm
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BOSTON -- Finishing times at Monday's running of the Boston Marathon for runners who listed towns in Durham, Orange, Chatham, Person and Granville counties:
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Tar Heels still evaluating NBA draft potential
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4.17.2008 : 11:36 pm
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CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina's trio of potential NBA prospects haven't decided whether they will return to Chapel Hill for another season or try their hand at the professional game.
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UNC coach loves to hit the links
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4.12.2008 : 10:59 pm
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CHAPEL HILL -- Roy Williams stands accused by his golfing buddies of being a serial sandbagger.
How does he plead?
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Tar Heel QBs get time to show off
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4.7.2008 : 9:11 pm
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CHAPEL HILL -- Whether North Carolina has a real battle for its starting quarterback position this fall remains to be seen, though second-year coach Butch Davis said Monday that nothing is set in stone.
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Questions abound after UNC loss
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4.7.2008 : 12:03 am
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SAN ANTONIO -- Only a week ago, it felt like North Carolina's season was just beginning.
"We felt like we've been trying to get to this point since last year, since we were sitting in the locker room after the Georgetown game," junior forward Marcus Ginyard said before the Tar Heels disposed of Louisville in the East Regional final last Saturday in Charlotte.
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Tar Heels 'frustrated' by their loss to Jayhawks
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4.6.2008 : 1:07 am
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SAN ANTONIO -- There were moments when it looked possible.
Maybe the first was when Danny Green sprinted to the Kansas basket for a fast-break layup with seconds left in the first half.
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Jayhawks' huge first-half run buries Heels
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4.6.2008 : 1:04 am
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SAN ANTONIO -- North Carolina and Kansas actually played on even terms on the scoreboard for 36 minutes of their NCAA Tournament semifinal showdown Saturday night.
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Hansbrough Selected Player of the Year
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4.5.2008 : 8:22 am
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SAN ANTONIO -- Tyler Hansbrough, who topped the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring and rebounding and led North Carolina to the Final Four, was selected The Associated Press college basketball player of the year Friday.
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