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UNC Football picked to finish 15th in ACC in media poll
Media day events like ACC Kickoff mean that the football season is just on the horizon. While prognostication on the next season happens basically as soon as the confetti falls at the previous national championship game, this is around the time of year in which we really start to see it ramp up. Well, there’s […]
Things I’m actually excited to see this UNC Football season
I’m not looking forward to this UNC football season. I didn’t like the Bill Belichick hire from the beginning, and despite being proven right on nearly every one of my worse visions for how this could go wrong, I was still somehow disappointed by just how hard he made this team to root for. This […]
Should Michael Lombardi in fact collect his UNC paycheck wearing a ski mask?
Monday morning, UNC announced — at the university level — that football General Manager Michael Lombardi was being placed on immediate paid administrative leave. Later details revealed that UNC was in process with an investigation based on a Human Resources complaint by a former staffer. A Claude Pro search reveals that over the last five […]
Carriage Return
Humans tend to hold on to the past. The good and the bad; we bundle it all up neatly and carry it with us into the untamed future, leaning on our memories to inform and guide us through uncharted waters as we navigate the churn of times that grow less and less precedented as we […]
UNC is currently the favorite for 2027 top recruit CJ Rosser
Michael Malone has made it very clear that he thinks he can recruit with the best in the industry despite this being his first rodeo in the college ranks. One of the biggest questions about him since he took the head coach job for UNC was whether or not he would be able to do […]
UNC football general manager Michael Lombardi placed on paid administrative leave
The University of North Carolina announced this morning that the football program’s general manager, Michael Lombardi, has been placed on paid administrative leave effective immediately. Here is the full announcement: “The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has placed Michael Lombardi, general manager for the Carolina football program, on paid administrative leave, effective immediately. […]
P.J. Hairston gets into the coaching ranks
P.J. Hairston has had a bit of an odd ride in the basketball world. After a breakout sophomore season with North Carolina in 2012-13, he seemed on the verge of becoming a star for the Tar Heels when he got caught up in possible NCAA violations. A very eventful summer eventually led to him being […]
What UNC moments would you like to see a documentary about?
While they’ve always been around and a thing people enjoy watching, the rise of streaming in recent years has seemingly also led to a rise in documentaries. They often can be a source of cheaper content for the streaming services to create, and whether it be true crime, entertainment, or even sports, people have shown […]
Which Diamond Heel landed in the best spot?
The 2026 MLB draft wrapped up last weekend, with six Tar Heels getting selected by a major league team. Somewhat surprisingly, Gavin Gallaher wasn’t one of them; the clutch-hitting junior wasn’t selected, and will return to UNC next season to further hone his skills (and presumably make some decent NIL money). Five different MLB teams […]
Michael Malone adds Gonzaga assistant Jorge Sanz to UNC coaching staff
It’s been three-and-a-half months since Michael Malone was announced as UNC’s head men’s basketball coach, and it looks like the NBA champion has finished assembling his staff. Gonzaga beat writer Theo Lawson of The Spokesman-Review reported on Thursday that assistant coach and director of basketball operations Jorge Sanz is set to join the Tar Heels. […]
Should UNC leave the ACC if offered?
Congress is in the process of trying to solve the problems that the NCAA refuses to fix — leveling the NIL/transfer portal playing field, and figuring how to navigate realignment. Focusing on realignment specifically, one of the options on the table is capping the Big Ten and SEC to a certain amount of schools per […]
Where the “Protect College Sports Act” currently sits and how that might impact UNC
Congress loves nothing more than a chance to aim legislation at targets less popular than, well, Congress. Senators Ted Cruz (TX) and Maria Cantwell (WA) think they’ve hit paydirt in that respect, putting the NCAA in general — and the SEC and B1G in particular — in their legislative crosshairs. With the help of self-styled […]
What UNC football game are you most excited for in 2026?
While it’s probably still quite hot and summer-y wherever you are, we aren’t that far from the start of the college football. The North Carolina Tar Heels’ season will begin in just a little over a month, when they take on TCU in Dublin, Ireland. Last year, infamously, things did not go as planned for […]
Where do you think Carolina Football will finish in the ACC?
It’s “talkin’ season,” as Steve Spurrier used to call it, and to riff on an old NASCAR adage, “if you ain’t provokin’, you ain’t talkin’.” In the wake of the ACC’s media event last week, pundits start rolling out various predictions and hot takes. Al on Monday highlighted ESPN’s most aggressive agent provocateur, Paul Finebaum, […]
What quirk of a college sport do you find most notable?
Like many of you I’m sure, I spent a lot of my last month watching the Men’s World Cup. One of the knockout games in particular — I don’t remember which and it doesn’t really matter — I was watching with some friends, and the game went to extra time. And if you watched the […]
UNC wrestling adds highly-ranked recruit to 2027 class
UNC wrestling head coach Rob Koll got a late pickup for his 2027 class when Braylon Reynolds committed to the Tar Heels this past weekend. Reynolds, a senior out of Brownsburg, Indiana, has mostly wrestled in the 144lb category; he last competed in the Fargo Nationals in July. He made it to the championship match […]
ESPN names Caleb Wilson “most electric rookie” from NBA Summer League
The NBA Summer League has officially concluded after the Golden State Warriors took down the Memphis Grizzlies to win the Summer League title. Less than 24 hours after the final game ended, outlets began dropping their mild to hot takes from what they saw over the last few weeks, and naturally Caleb Wilson has come […]
Center Christo Kelly will be key for UNC’s offense to thrive
Two players touch the ball every play: the center and the quarterback. A bad snap can kill a drive, and that assumes the QB or a running back manage to recover it. A bad line call can kill a drive, and that assumes the QB survives the missed assignment. An inability to stand up a […]
The optics for UNC Football this season could be horrible
It was just your basic, boilerplate question at ACC Kickoff. One where a reporter just tries to get the coach to talk positively about their team, and one that just about every coach gets during these types of events. This was the answer Bill Belichick decided to go with. Not “a much better commitment on […]
Bill Belichick is talking a better game in 2026, but he and UNC still need to prove it
Earlier this week, the annual ACC Kickoff media days event was held and, as all coaches are, Bill Belichick was in attendance. Following his infamously bad debut season in charge of North Carolina, Belichick was talking up improvements the team has made going in 2026, saying they were “night and day” ahead of where the […]
Is Pat Narduzzi right about the ACC?
There’s a healthy debate to be had about the usefulness of conference media days. Yes, they give outlets a chance to generate fresh content ahead of the season, but so many coaches and players fall back on the same generic soundbites each year that we rarely learn anything of value. Every now and then, though, […]
A 24-team College Football Playoff could be cool, but the system they’re going to pick won’t be
Basically ever since the first ever edition of the College Football Playoff, the powers that be have been plotting — secretly and sometimes not so secretly — on how to make it bigger. They eventually succeeded a few years ago when it went from four to 12 teams, and in the past couple months, the […]
What should UNC do if the SEC breaks off from the NCAA?
Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger reported on Friday that the SEC is considering breaking off from the NCAA and operating as its own entity if the conference isn’t satisfied with legislative action to regulate the college sports landscape. Dellenger writes: “Plan B,” as some have referred to it, is a self-governance model in which the conference […]
Tar Heels in the NBA: Las Vegas Summer League Recap 2.0
The Las Vegas Summer League has finished its “regular” season, and all that is left is the four-team playoff and a bunch of consolation games for the other 26 squads. As mentioned after the weekend, the North Carolina has quite a few players represented, so lets take a look at Tar Heels (and former Tar […]
ABS Coming to College Baseball?
The thing about technology is that when one entity sees something work well, then everyone wants it. For a few years Major League Baseball has been experimenting with Automated Balls and Strikes — some call them Robo-umps — to try and figure out a way to create consistency throughout a sport where subjectivity can creep […]
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