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UNC Football: First Quarter Grades
Well, after the Tar Heels blew a 17-6 halftime lead against Clemson to collect their first loss of the season, the North Carolina football season is now a quarter of the way over and with that comes some first quarter grades. Quarterbacks: Billy Edwards ranks as the fourteenth-best passer in the ACC by yardage (in […]
Games to watch during UNC’s second bye week
As UNC regroups from the collapse at Clemson on a bye week, UNC football fans have a lot of viewing options to choose from. Tomorrow morning, fellow Tar Heel Blog writer Matt Ferenchick will review some of the high profile match-ups nationally for you. Today, let’s look at some games that otherwise might fly under […]
Which Tar Heel’s success as a pro surprised you the most?
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Vance Honeycutt’s potentially career-saving turnaround after being promoted to the Baltimore Orioles’ Double-A affiliate. Even more recently, fellow Diamond Heel alumnus-turned-first-round-pick Aaron Sabato got a call up to the majors at almost literally the last possible second, starting two games for the Minnesota Twins this week after hitting […]
UNC women’s soccer ranked #1 in the country
It’s been a great week for the UNC women’s soccer team. The Heels scored a rivalry win over Duke last Thursday, rallying from a 2-1 deficit to win the match 4-2. Carolina followed that victory up by defeating an out-matched Alcorn State team 5-0 on Saturday. UNC entered this week with a 9-1 record, 2-0 […]
UNC Football: Flipping the Narrative against Clemson
What looked like another Tar Heel win and a surefire Bill Belichick has resurrected UNC football quickly fell to the ground as the Clemson Tigers stormed back from a 17-6 halftime deficit to beat the previously unbeaten North Carolina squad 28-20. That also means another round of flipping the narrative, though as promised, this time […]
Four UNC athletes gain eligibility after judge’s ruling
An Indiana judge granted eligibility to a group of college athletes, including four at UNC, through a preliminary injunction in their lawsuit against the NCAA on Wednesday. Football player Rece Verhoff and field hockey players Ryleigh Heck, Dani Mendez, and Sietske Brüning are among nearly 100 plaintiffs in the suit and will be able to […]
How big of an impact will Michael Malone have on UNC in Year 1?
Carolina Basketball feels like something that is bigger than the university itself, and a lot of that is because of the winning culture that has been developed for decades now. Only rivaled by women’s soccer, men’s basketball has been the premier sport on campus, but things weren’t great after Roy Williams retired. No shade to […]
2026 Five-star Nasir Anderson arriving early for his official visit to UNC
While there still hasn’t been any commitments for UNC basketball’s 2027 class, there has been more than enough activity on the recruiting trail. The latest of such activity involves five-star prospect Nasir Anderson — he was supposed to visit USC this week, but instead has canceled that trip and will be in Chapel Hill today […]
Should UNC make a change at QB?
There are a lot of reasons UNC suffered a dispiriting 28-20 loss to Clemson last Saturday. The defense that was so stout in the first half wore down in the second and couldn’t get a big stop. Clemson QB Tait Reynolds found his footing as both a passer and a runner, flashing why so many […]
UNC football enters a make-or-break stretch after collapsing at Clemson
How a team loses matters. Clemson came into its game against the Tar Heels reeling on offense. The Tigers offense ranked near the bottom in many statistical categories, having surrendered 11 tackles for loss and converted only two of fourteen third downs against Georgia Southern – not Georgia. Dabo Sweeney announced a switch to a […]
UNC football enters a make-or-break stretch after collapsing at Clemson
How a team loses matters. Clemson came into its game against the Tar Heels reeling on offense. The Tigers offense ranked near the bottom in many statistical categories, having surrendered 11 tackles for loss and converted only two of fourteen third downs against Georgia Southern – not Georgia. Dabo Sweeney announced a switch to a […]
Henri Veesaar tears ACL, will miss entire NBA season
The Atlanta Hawks announced on Monday that former Tar Heel Henri Veesaar tore his right ACL during a workout on Sept. 15 and will miss the entire NBA season. The 22-year-old Estonian was an all-ACC performer for Carolina last season, averaging 17 points, 8.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.2 blocks while shooting 42.6% from 3-point […]
ACC Power Rankings: After Week 3
We are now three weeks/four weeks (depending on what you want to count the abbreviated Week 0 as) into the 2026 college football season. At this point, all but three ACC teams have at least one conference game in the books. That includes our own North Carolina Tar Heels, although that didn’t go great, as […]
The UNC Sports Week Ahead: September 21st-27th
After a busy week last week, we are at a bit of a pause for sports on the calendar. Once play concluded on Sunday, the only action for anyone wearing Carolina Blue is going to be from both tennis squads continuing ITA play until Friday. The football team is also taking their last week off […]
AP Top 25 Poll: After Week 3
Week 3 of the college football season featured our own North Carolina Tar Heels going in conference for the first time in 2026. It…could have gone better. While they got off to a decent start against Clemson, the Tigers rallied and UNC didn’t have many answers once the rally started. Elsewhere around the country, there […]
UNC vs. Clemson: Winners, Losers, and Honorable Mentions
Lightning has hated UNC for years. It’s going to be tough to escape thinking “what if” there wasn’t a lightning strike within eight miles of Death Valley during the fourth quarter of the UNC loss to Clemson on Saturday. This isn’t to say the delay was the reason why Carolina lost, but it absolutely changed […]
So, how do you see the rest of UNC’s football season playing out?
That’s not the “Are we better or worse than you thought?” question, since we did that one yesterday. No, today we attempt the impossible when it comes to college football: predict the future. College football reliably delivers shockers, and sometimes it delivers two in one game. UNC dominating Clemson to start the game was shocking, […]
UNC women’s volleyball wraps nonconference play with weekend split
The 25th-ranked UNC women’s volleyball team collected a 3-1 loss and a 3-1 win at Nebraska this weekend, giving it a 5-3 record heading into ACC play. The Tar Heels opened with the top-ranked Huskers on Friday before returning to the Devaney Center to face FGCU on Saturday. Playing in a true road environment for […]
A dominant start and late collapse lead to a mixed report card for UNC Football’s loss to Clemson
Welcome back to writing these, me. After two games of looking like a bad team playing against worse teams, UNC looked, for about 25 minutes — in Death Valley, no less — like… a decent team playing against a bad team. And then, well… the rest of the game happened, wherein they looked simply like […]
Benjamin Hall earns Player of the Game in career performance against Clemson
UNC started off so well against Clemson yesterday afternoon that Tigers fans started clearing the stands to go blow off some steam. Fortunately for them, things got much better for them in the second half, which ultimately led to the extension of UNC’s losing streak to the boys in purple and gold. Despite the issues […]
Three takeaways from UNC’s wildly frustrating loss to Clemson
I’m not even sure where to begin. When Clemson punted with 7:06 left in the 2nd quarter, Carolina ran it back to the Clemson 46 while holding a 17-3 lead. A 14-point lead, with the ball in field position that often results in points, had UNC fans feeling confident. To that point in the game […]
Are the Tar Heels better or worse than you thought they’d be?
It feels a bit hard to believe, but UNC’s disheartening 28-20 loss to Clemson marks the quarter point of their college football schedule. Three games is not a huge sample size, but it seems like enough to get a feel for how the team is and reconsider expectations for the rest of the year. Carolina […]
Clemson rallies to hand UNC their first loss of the season
Sometimes sports can very predictable in really silly ways. Going into halftime of today’s game between UNC and Clemson, anybody outside the Tar Heel fanbase probably said that the mojo was on their side and they had a great chance to pull off a needed win in Death Valley to end a horrendous losing streak […]
UNC vs. Clemson Live Discussion
One of the biggest games of UNC’s 2026 season is here: the Tar Heels are in Death Valley to take on Clemson in what should’ve been an opportunity to earn a signature win. That said, it’s really hard to call it “one of the biggest games,” but there will still be a number of people […]
How to watch UNC’s road matchup against Clemson
The Tar Heels will take the field this afternoon against Clemson in Death Valley. This is one of the more interesting matchups between these two teams in quite some time, but as many of you know, it isn’t for good reasons. Yes, UNC are 2-o going into this game, but it’s unclear how much of […]
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