Graduation marks end of three unconventional journeys
Among the 6,027 graduating Sunday was 87-year-old Helen Joan Hunter, a grandmother of six who returned to UNC to get the degree that she couldn’t finish in 1947. “She’s a great story teller, and all growing up, this was a reoccurring story that she would tell us,” said Ryan Helton, Hunter’s grandson. (Daily Tar Heel)
No. 7 Cavs Baseball Battles No. 2 UNC in Regular-Season Finale
The No. 7 Virginia baseball team completes regular-season play Thursday through Saturday with a three-game conference series at No. 2 North Carolina. The series at Boshamer Stadium begins at 6 p.m. Thursday, to be followed by 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday contests. (VirginiaSports.com)
Adam Warren finding a niche in Yankees' bullpen
Coming into this season, Adam Warren was at a weird place in his career. He repeated the Triple-A level in 2012 and pitched marginally better than he had in 2011, but not well enough to really force his way into the team’s plans. His disastrous one-start big league stint last summer didn’t help matters either. Warren was stuck in spare arm purgatory, a nice pitcher to have in the organization but hardly a cornerstone. (River Ave. Blues)
Fedora knew ring backlash would come
No, North Carolina coach Larry Fedora was not wearing his Coastal Division championship ring during the ACC spring meetings. Yes, he did expect the backlash that followed after it was revealed his players got those rings despite being ineligible for the postseason. "I knew there would be but that’s not why it was done," Fedora said. (ESPN.com)
Virginia-UNC Baseball Division Title Scenario
Virginia heads to North Carolina Thursday for game one of a three game series. The ACC Coastal title is up for grabs. UVa will have to sweep to win the division and the subsequent number one overall seed in the ACC Tournament to be played next week in Durham, NC. Any loss at UNC and UVa will likely be the 3 seed in the Tournament. (WSET)
UNC Lacrosse Set To Meet Denver For Final 4 Berth
Two of the highest-scoring teams in NCAA Division I will meet in the quarterfinals of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship Sunday as the fifth-seeded North Carolina Tar Heels will play the fourth-seeded Denver Pioneers at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind. Game time is 12 Noon Sunday. The game will be nationally televised on ESPNU. (GoHeels.com)
Carolina Baseball Closes Out ACC Regular Season
No. 2 North Carolina closes out the ACC regular season slate this weekend with a top 10 showdown as No. 7 Virginia comes to town.The Tar Heels will be in search of a second-straight ACC Coastal title and can lock up the top seed in the ACC Tournament with a win. A win would give the Tar Heels their first ACC regular season title since 1990 and UNC would be the No. 1 overall seed in the ACC Tournament for the first time since 1990 as well. (GoHeels.com)
Mets’ Matt Harvey Makes Cover Of Sports Illustrated
Harvey is really, really good. We’re talking cover-of-Sports-Illustrated good. The Mets phenom is featured on the front of this week’s SI magazine, flanked by the headline “The Dark Knight of Gotham.” Harvey has dominated in 2013, flirting with both a no-hitter on April 13 and a perfect game four starts later. (CBS New York)
Madison Square Garden Could Host ACC Basketball Tournament
The ACC is "thoroughly investigating" playing its men's basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. One source was adamant that the ACC tournament eventually would be held in the World's Most Famous Arena, which would take it out of traditional ACC country for the first time. "We'll be playing there," a source said. "It's just a matter of getting all the legal ramifications worked out." (ESPN.com)
Harrison Barnes huge for Warriors yet again
Warriors forward Harrison Barnes was named to the NBA All-Rookie first team on Tuesday. Then in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals, he went on to look like an All-NBA selection. Barnes led the Warriors with 25 points on 10-of-18 shooting to go with seven rebounds in a 109-91 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. He had his 3-pointer and his midrange shot going, and his post game looked unstoppable at times. (Contra Costa Times)
Chansky: That KU Comparison
Carolina and Kansas are in the college basketball news again, this time over the commitment of top recruit Andrew Wiggins to play for the Jayhawks and not the Tar Heels. It’s becoming a small irritant to many Tar Heel fans, who expend most of their energy hating on Duke and N.C. State. Kansas is a time zone away, but KU and UNC have remained tied at the hip since Roy Williams left Lawrence in 2003. (Chapelboro.com)
ACC Baseball: One Week to Go
Carolina needs to win one more game to sew up the Coastal Division title and the top seed at the ACC Tournament. That's what you need to know heading into this huge weekend matchup with Virginia. The Tar Heels would still be ahead of the Cavaliers on conference win percentage even if Virginia is able to take two of three in Chapel Hill this weekend. (Tar Heel Monthly)
How Many Point Guards Does UNC Need?
No position has shaped Roy Williams’ decade with the Tar Heels like the point guard spot. Each of his successful seasons has come with an elite player at the position. Each of the Tar Heels’ shakier ones have coincided with instability there. Without question, with Williams’ preferred fast tempo, the play at point guard has been the leading indicator of the Tar Heels’ success and struggles. (ACC Sports Journal)
UNC will be fine without Wiggins; Florida State, not so much
The Tar Heels return an explosive scorer in P.J. Hairston and one of the best big men in the ACC in James Michael McAdoo, to go along with improving point guard Marcus Paige. They also have a pair of recruits in small forward Isaiah Hicks and big man Kennedy Meeks that have the potential to step in and contribute right away. (Wilmington Star News)
Bolt's Back
No. 2 North Carolina’s midweek game against Appalachian State on Tuesday almost seemed secondary to the return of freshman phenom Skye Bolt. The highly touted right fielder had missed his previous 17 games due to a broken right foot. Doctors cleared him to play on Monday, less than 10 days before the start of postseason play. (Inside Carolina)
Trio Combine On One-Hitter In 2-0 Win Over Appalachian State
The trio of Reilly Hovis, Chris McCue and Chris Munnelly combined on the second one-hitter of the year Tuesday night as No. 2 North Carolina downed Appalachian State, 2-0. Hovis surrendered a two-out single in the first inning before settling in and tossing five scoreless frames in his fourth start of the year. The freshman right-hander struck out three as he improved to 2-0. (GoHeels.com)
Warriors' Harrison Barnes growing up before our eyes
When Harrison Barnes is 24 or 25, still well off in the distance for a young man who turns 21 on May 30, what Warriors fans saw from him Sunday might well become the norm. Game in and game out, Barnes could evolve into a go-to scorer, a guy who routinely shoots 20 or more times a game, a player who might average 20 points and 10 rebounds. Then again, that evolution might not take that long. (San Jose Mercury News)
Harrison Barnes, Tyler Zeller Named to 2013 NBA All-Rookie Teams
The NBA announced its 2013 All-Rookie teams on Tuesday. The first team: Damian Lillard, Trail Blazers; Bradley Beal, Wizards; Anthony Davis, Hornets; Dion Waiters, Cavaliers; Harrison Barnes, Warriors; And the second team: Andre Drummond, Pistons; Jonas Valanciunas , Raptors; Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Bobcats; Kyle Singler , Pistons; Tyler Zeller, Cavaliers. (NBA.com)
Roy Williams is N.C.'s highest-paid employee
With a salary of a reported $2 million, UNC basketball coach Roy Williams is the highest-paid public employee in the state. That shouldn’t come as a surprise. In 40 states either the head football coach or head basketball coach of that state’s largest public university is the highest-paid public employee in that state. In North Carolina, Roy’s salary is nearly four times what anyone else in the UNC System is paid. (Triangle Business Journal)
After 766 tries, the Mets have a homegrown ace in Matt Harvey
Matt Harvey has won seven games in his young Mets career. This should tell you how bad New York has been at drafting and developing pitchers: Harvey already ranks 12th in wins for the Mets among the 766 pitchers they drafted in the past 30 years. Mets fans have every reason to be excited about Harvey, the cover subject this week in Sports Illustrated. (Sports Illustrated)
An Updated Basketball Top 25 for 2013-14
12. North Carolina Tar Heels: Two of last season's top three players (James Michael McAdoo and P.J. Hairston) opted to return to school while Reggie Bullock entered the NBA draft. That means the Tar Heels will have four starters (two of their leading scorers) back from the team that went 25-11 last season and lost in the NCAA round of 32, and they'll have a few key additions, as well. (ESPN.com)
Freshman Skye Bolt Cleared To Play
Coach Fox had some good news about freshman Skye Bolt during his weekly radio show Monday night. “He is cleared, and he’s ready to go,” Coach Fox said. That announcement comes just in time for the freshman phenom to get back into the swing of things before the ACC tournament begins next Wednesday. (Chapelboro.com)
ACC Baseball Roundup: Walkoff Weekend
It was Walkoff Weekend. Virginia’s come-from-behind thriller Friday was just Exhibit A. It simply got the Walkoff Train rolling. Later that evening, Georgia Tech did the same to No. 2 North Carolina, dealing the Tar Heels just their fourth ACC loss of the season. Entering the bottom of the ninth tied 4-4, shortstop Mott Hyde drilled a one-out walkoff homer off UNC starter Kent Emanuel. (ACC Sports Journal)
ACC-Big Ten Challenge Preview, Day 2
North Carolina at Michigan State: Two blue-blood programs. Two Hall of Fame coaches. Both teams return almost all of their talent from last year. North Carolina hasn't played in East Lansing since November 29, 2000. The Tar Heels have won seven in a row against the Spartans since, including three in the NCAA Tournament. Roy Williams is 6-0 against Izzo since returning to North Carolina. (Fox Sports South)
Waived by Falcons, Casey Barth waits for another offer
Casey Barth chose a free agent offer from the Atlanta Falcons over those of two other teams last month because he felt it gave him the best chance to compete for an NFL job. It didn’t turn out that way. The former North Carolina kicker was waived last Friday after a week at the Falcons’ rookie mini-camp. “I’m not sure,” Barth said when asked what went wrong. “I thought I did pretty well.” (Wilmington Star News)
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