Tar Heel born, bred, and working on that third thing
Do you believe in magic? Well, these Tar Heels sure do scoring two runs in the bottom of the ninth to send North Carolina to Omaha for the second time in three seasons. Unlike last season where UNC had a chance to win at home and go to the College World Series but came up […]
It’s good to still be watching the Tar Heels play meaningful baseball in the month of June. It’s good that a season that started in the stinging cold of February should come down to the wire as the mercury rises en route to a North Carolina summer. The Bosh has never looked better than under […]
Man, how can you not be romantic about baseball? Jason DeCaro spun what was easily the best game of his Carolina career yesterday as the Tar Heels were able to stave off elimination and win 4-0 against USC. A season that hasn’t seen him go for a complete game and one where he would usually […]
With the season on the line, the Tar Heels, led by top pitcher Jason DeCaro, did what they had to do to even the series and force a winner take all game three in Chapel Hill against the USC Trojans. A day after surrendering nine runs, North Carolina won 4-0 to get the all important […]
While you can’t always point to a single moment when a game turns, it was pretty obvious when that moment was in Game 1 of UNC’s Super Regional appearance. UNC was cruising along heading into the sixth inning; they had a 5-1 lead, and starter Ryan Lynch was rolling through the USC lineup up to […]
It was all going well until that sixth inning. While you can be upset that the Tar Heels wasted a situation in the bottom of the first where they had bases loaded and no out, for the most part in the first five innings Carolina got exactly what they needed against USC. They had built […]
When we think of college sports, the first ones that come to mind are often the team sports. It’s the football teams running together out of the tunnel as a mass of humanity. It’s the basketball teams huddling together before one of the players goes to shoot a key free throw. It’s the baseball and […]
USC scored eight unanswered runs to take a 9-5 win over Carolina in Game 1 of the Chapel Hill Super Regional on Friday. The loss puts the Tar Heels on the brink of elimination from the NCAA Tournament. They’ll have to beat the Trojans in Game 2 on Saturday to force a winner-take-all Game 3 […]
The Diamond Heels will host a Super Regional for the tenth time in school history when UNC and USC start their series in Chapel Hill. This will be the third year in a row that UNC has made the Super Regionals, and their 13th Super Regional overall. Last year, the Heels jumped all over Arizona […]
Fact: next year’s football team could be vastly improved relative to 2025 but still finish 4-8. The schedule on paper appears that daunting. Yes, predicting how good or bad next season’s opponents will be when they show up on the schedule this far out makes things extremely speculative. Still, working through the schedule, it’s clear […]
Just like last year, the Tar Heels are two wins away from a trip to Omaha. Just like last year, the team they are facing is not the team people thought they would be facing. Hopefully this year is not like last year. In an NCAA Tournament that has seen a boat load of upsets […]
Carolina baseball opens its Super Regional against USC today, and I want to know how important you think this series should be to the program’s future direction. I recognize that this question may be puzzling on the surface, so let me break down my reasoning. The way I see it, the program is at a […]
For the second year in a row, the Diamond Heels of UNC will host a former PAC-12 member in a Chapel Hill Super Regional after the Southern California Trojans came out of Texas A&M’s College Station Regional as the #2 seed. UNC will be hoping that this time, they’re more successful than they were a […]
Caleb Wilson has been a busy guy over the last month, to say the least. One recent stop that he made was to NBA Today, where he was asked about the NBA Draft, and whether or not he felt like he should be drafted #1 overall. Here is what the now former Tar Heel had […]
This isn’t limited to football. As Tar Heel fans, we enter every season with some level of expectation, and how a team fares relative to those expectations tends to color our perception. So, expectations for basketball may have your top “OMG, that was painful” seasons dedicated to that sport. The big revenue sports draw the […]
The end of last week through the beginning of this week saw the NCAA hold the finals of the men’s golf championships out in Carlsbad, California. The North Carolina Tar Heels’ men’s golf team has been regular contenders for the national title in recent years, and they made an appearance at the championships again this […]
Another sport that’s reaching crunch time in it’s respective season is college track and field. Last week, the regional rounds of the NCAA Championships took place, with the best performers in the East and West region fields advancing on to nationals, which will begin June 10th. The Tar Heels competed in the East regional, which […]
So I was perusing various articles about this year’s UNC Baseball team amidst their attempt to return to Omaha and maybe bring the program its first ever championship, and in one of the comment sections, a question caught my eye: somebody asking how UNC fans could be sure they’d still get to watch freshman wunderkind […]
After the ECU Pirates blew out VCU early Sunday afternoon, they’d earned the right for a rematch of Saturday’s winners’ game. Fortunately, the Diamond Heels were up for the challenge. Folger Boaz, Walker McDuffie, and Jackson Rose combined to cool down the Pirates’ bats, and the UNC offense had its best day of the regional […]
Now we hit that wonderful time of the NCAA Baseball Tournament when things are just up in the air. The good news for UNC fans is that they are now 2-0 in the Chapel Hill Regional after a 7-5 win over ECU yesterday. That means that they get to sit back today and watch as […]
When the SCORE ACT withered in Congressional committee over months, Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R) and Washington Senator Maria Cantwell (D) put forward a “bipartisan” alternative this week. The rule changes making headlines would directly address some of the most frustrating dynamics in college sports today. Eligibility would be capped at 5 years. Transfers would […]
UNC baseball overcame an early three-run deficit and came back to defeat East Carolina 7-5 in the Chapel Hill Regional of the NCAA tournament. The Heels are now only one win away from advancing to the Super Regionals. The Heels got off to a slow start. ECU got out of a bases loaded jam in […]
The 6’11”, 212 lb Greek native comes to Carolina from Panathinaikos, a club competing in Greece’s top professional league as well as the EuroLeague. 21 years old, Samodurov has represented Greece on their U20 team as well as the national team. At UNC, he projects to share minutes with Sayon Keita in the middle, with […]
Twenty-four hours ago, UNC looked like it was in for one of the toughest regionals out of any of the top eight seeds — if not top sixteen. They were staring down a team they had already played before, and then they would face the winner of an ECU-Tennessee game that had saved their Aces […]
Things most college fans say they want: Things every college fan knows they want: In an ideal world, any proposed “fix” for college sports would make these two lists compatible. However, what happens if those two things come into conflict? Fact: rules help some more than others. We have a phrase for that: “It depends […]