UNC Football Opener Sets Up Tar Heels For Success

This is the benefit of a win in the season opener. If North Carolina loses that game on Saturday, it’s a long time to ETSU, and then you’re talking about having to go into Clemson, where you’re going to be an underdog, knowing that you’ve already lost a game. But you win the opener – cathartic – that gives you a reason to feel confident. It wasn’t fluky. (Inside Carolina)

UNC Women's Basketball Announces 2026-27 ACC Schedule

With preseason action picking up next month, UNC Women's Basketball has received its 2026-27 ACC schedule with the league announcing the 18-game slate. Carolina opens league action in December with a rivalry matchup against NC State on Dec. 13 at Carmichael Arena as the Tar Heels look to make it four straight wins against the Wolfpack at home. (GoHeels.com)

Caleb Wilson and a new regime: The summer that changed the Chicago Bulls

It's August 22 and Chicago Bulls fans pack the area surrounding the United Center. The team is hosting its annual Bulls Fest, and fans are lining up to meet the 20-year-old who has not only provided a new, unfamiliar hope around the franchise but someone to pull the franchise out of a decade of irrelevance. This is Caleb Wilson's introduction to Chicago. (ESPN)

Antawn Jamison Returns to UNC in Teaching Role

Twenty-year-old Antawn Jamison, hesitant to speak in front of crowds and cameras, never imagined himself doing what he does now. Nearly three decades later, as he stood alongside Steve Kirschner in Carroll Hall, listening as Kirschner delivered a guest lecture to Jamison’s students, he couldn’t help but smile. Yes, you read that correctly: Jamison’s students. (Inside Carolina)

How a name in common brought UNC Football's living mascot tradition to Dublin

Stasia Droze Jost had found something. It was with a 3 a.m. Google search that she stumbled across the exact name she was looking for in Ireland. And of course, UNC Football was set to play its season-opener against TCU in Dublin. So the director of the upcoming documentary “More than a Mascot” called her executive producer, Brad Bennett. (MSN.com)

Video: TarHeel247 Podcast - Hall of Fame Connections On Michael Malone's UNC Basketball Staff

Andrew Jones and Jacob Turner from TarHeel247 discuss the impressive Hall of Fame connections on the UNC men's basketball coaching staff under head coach Michael Malone, including John Calipari (Chuck Martin), Mark Few (Jorge Sans), and the Tar Heels' own storied history with Dean Smith and Roy Williams. (View Video)

Deja Kelly earns playoff MVP award, leads Charlotte Crown to Upshot League title

Former UNC Women's Basketball standout Deja Kelly delivered the signature performance of her professional career and a championship. Kelly scored 29 points to lead the Charlotte Crown to an 81-76 win over the Jacksonville Waves in the inaugural Upshot League championship game Saturday night at Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Fla. (Tar Heel Tribune)

Jelani Thurman Shines Wearing Number 45

The first play for UNC Football on Saturday night in Ireland went to number 45 for 20 yards to the Tar Heels' 45-yard line. Two plays later, number 45 split the seam for another 35 yards deep into TCU territory. Those receptions for tight end Jelani Thurman were just a sample of why he left the Aer Lingus Classic as offensive MVP in UNC's 15-10 win. (TarHeel247)

UNC Men's Golf Finishes Third In Knoxville Behind Top-10s from Bertagnole, Roscich

The UNC Men's Golf team opened its 2026-27 season this week with a third place finish at the Visit Knoxville Collegiate at Fox Den Country Club in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Tar Heels shot a combined 9-under par score of 831 over the three-round team event. That was six strokes behind Tennessee who double dipped as the tournament's winner and host. (TarHeel247)

College Football TV Ratings: North Carolina vs. TCU draws 4.9 million viewers in Week 0

To start his second year as UNC head coach, Bill Belichick got a signature win over TCU. The matchup in Ireland also brought strong TV ratings. UNC’s victory in Dublin averaged 4.9 million viewers on ESPN, the network said Tuesday. That includes a peak audience of 5.8 million viewers to make it the second most-watched Week 0 game since 2019. (On3.com)

UNC football optimism flows - along with the beer - as Tar Heels take Dublin

It started out as a means of following a country star. Well, Chase Rice wasn’t a country star yet when Sophie Watkeys, 32, first started following him - he was a UNC football linebacker. Watkeys is from Wales, but her dad got her interested in American football at a young age, and through her love of surfing, fell in love with Wilmington, North Carolina. (MSN.com)

100 Years of Kenan Stadium: Jones Angell’s First Visit

Longtime listeners of 97.9 The Hill now know Jones Angell as the Voice of the Tar Heels, but Angell grew up as just another fan from Jacksonville, N.C. In today’s installment, Angell remembers his first time attending a UNC football game in Kenan Stadium, and why the circumstances of that day provided a good omen of things to come in his life. (Chapelboro.com)

Harrison Barnes Stops By His Newly Purchased Bank In Iowa

The new owner of Community State Bank in Paton stopped by Wednesday to meet with the staff and introduce the new board. Iowa native Harrison Barnes, of Barnes & Company, and an NBA veteran recently purchased the 70-year-old bank and said banking was an option he wanted to invest in after he was entering his final years of his playing career. (Raccoon Valley Radio)

What's New In Kenan Stadium In 2026

UNC Football's 100th season in Kenan Stadium gets underway in just under two weeks, and Carolina Athletics wants to make sure Tar Heel fans are prepared for their return to Kenan Stadium ahead of the Sept. 12 home opener against ETSU. Check out the updated gameday experiences and procedures. More details will be posted throughout the season. (GoHeels.com)

Vance Honeycutt off to fast start in Double-A

Perhaps all Vance Honeycutt needed was a fresh start. The Orioles’ 2024 first-round pick had struggled mightily, seemingly hitting a wall in High-A. The Orioles decided there was nothing left for Honeycutt in Frederick, so they promoted him to Double-A Chesapeake to see if a change of scenery could help. Ten games in, he looks like a completely different player. (MSN.com)

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