Top 10 ACC Running Backs of the BCS Era
4. Giovani Bernard, North Carolina (2011-12): It’s a shame fans in the ACC only got two seasons of Bernard because he could have been really...
Wednesday February 12, 2014

Bengals rookie review: Giovani Bernard
Overall, Giovani Bernard had a better rookie season than most outside the locker room could have anticipated. After veteran BenJarvus Green-Ellis carried Cincinnati's running game...
Wednesday February 12, 2014

Seven UNC Players Invited to the NFL Combine
National champion Florida State led the ACC with eight players heading to the NFL draft combine at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis Feb. 19-25, but...
Tuesday February 11, 2014

Post-Signing Day Football Top 25
16. North Carolina Tar Heels: UNC's recruiting class wasn't ranked in the top 25 nationally and was probably in the middle of the pack in...
Tuesday February 11, 2014

Ryan Switzer in rare air at North Carolina
Can Ryan Switzer someday be a first-round pick in the NFL Draft? What about a Heisman Trophy winner? Those might seem like outlandish questions to...
Tuesday February 11, 2014

Kevin Reddick: 2013 season in review
Kevin Reddick led the New Orleans Saints in special teams tackles in 2013. This two-time team captain at North Carolina joined the Saints as a...
Monday February 10, 2014

UNC Adds Heckendorf, Porter To Football Staff
Keith Heckendorf and Larry Porter have been hired as the newest members of the North Carolina football coaching staff, head coach Larry Fedora announced Monday...
Monday February 10, 2014

Jacksonville Jaguars hire UNC football's head athletic trainer
The Jacksonville Jaguars named Scott Trulock head athletic trainer, the club announced Monday. Trulock spent the past seven seasons in the same capacity for the...
Monday February 10, 2014

Salaries for UNC football trail ACC
Among the eight ACC universities required to disclose public records in USA Today’s database, UNC ranked last in total assistant football coach pay at about...
Monday February 10, 2014

Darian Durant ready to pursue another CFL title
Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Darian Durant has spent the CFL off-season basking in the glow of being a champion. While he has enjoyed that, it isn't...
Saturday February 8, 2014

Tar Heel Trailblazer: Ricky Lanier
Ricardo 'Ricky' Lanier's impact on Carolina football goes far beyond a single line in the media guide. In the fall of 1967, he became the...
Thursday February 6, 2014

Stress-Free Signing Day Allows Fedora to Look Ahead at 2015
North Carolina’s football signing day was a bit anticlimactic compared to some of the other buzz and excitement of coaches hanging over fax machines across...
Thursday February 6, 2014

Porter, Heckendorf to Complete UNC Football Staff
North Carolina is set to name former Texas assistant coach Larry Porter as its running backs coach and Arkansas state assistant coach Keith Heckendorf as...
Thursday February 6, 2014

Extra Points: All Business
UNC officially signed 22 football players on Wednesday (five of them already having enrolled), and the only intrigue was the fact that a Maryland offensive...
Thursday February 6, 2014

Butch Davis: I want to coach again
National signing day can be the most stressful day for a coach, but Butch Davis isn’t afraid to say he misses it. The former Miami...
Thursday February 6, 2014

Q&A with UNC offensive coordinator Seth Littrell
New UNC offensive coordinator Seth Littrell spoke to the media for the first time Wednesday on National Signing Day. He discussed UNC’s incoming class, his...
Thursday February 6, 2014

Faculty executives consider effects of recent news on athletes
For many, recent news addressing UNC athletics and academics have been reduced to words printed on a page. But for UNC student-athletes, the emotional effects...
Wednesday February 5, 2014

Report: Keith Heckendorf will be UNC's QB coach
Per sources, Keith Heckendorf is returning to North Carolina as quarterbacks coach. Heckendorf was offensive quality control at UNC this past season and had accepted...
Wednesday February 5, 2014

Video: Larry Fedora Signing Day Press Conference
North Carolina head coach Larry Fedora and Assistant Head Coach for Offense Seth Littrell discuss UNC's 2014 football signing class...
Wednesday February 5, 2014

Larry Fedora on the 2014 Recruiting Class
North Carolina coach Larry Fedora spoke with reporters on Wednesday about his 2014 signing class. Here's a rundown: Fedora was surprised by Russell Bodine's departure...
Wednesday February 5, 2014

Signing Day Updates: Meet UNC's 2014 Football Recruiting Class
Meet the UNC Football Signing Day class of 2014. Check back throughout the day as National Letters of Intent continue to roll in...
Wednesday February 5, 2014

Recruiting In The Modern Age
Rivals, Scout.com, the ESPN 300 and 150, and ESPN Insider-and those are just the heavy-hitters. Welcome to the world of high school recruiting, and in...
Tuesday February 4, 2014

Connor Barth's Road to Recovery
Seven months removed from his torn his right Achilles tendon injury, Connor Barth is back on the field kicking -- most recently hitting a field...
Tuesday February 4, 2014

School rivalries shouldn’t turn fans into criminals
The Free Expression Tunnel at N.C. State exists to combat graffiti on campus. Just because UNC doesn’t have an equivalent space on its campus doesn’t...
Tuesday February 4, 2014

Art’s Angle: Getting It Right
Mary Willingham is right in one thing she says: we owe a relatively few athletes who don’t or can’t find it for themselves a better...
Monday February 3, 2014

Gio gets some consolation
Packers running back Eddie Lacy may have won the Associated Press Offensive Rookie of the Year on Saturday night at the NFL Honors, but Bengals...
Sunday February 2, 2014

Kevin Reddick, Quinton Coples make rounds in New York City
Kevin Reddick and Quinton Coples would much rather be playing football this weekend. Instead, they are roaming New York City making appearances and taking in...
Saturday February 1, 2014

Video: UNC Football - Letters To The Troops
North Carolina Football writes letters to overseas troops and talks about what it means to hear back from them...
Friday January 31, 2014

T.J. Yates recognized by City of Houston
Texans quarterback T.J. Yates was honored by the City of Houston, the Lone Star Veterans Association, and the Wounded Warrior Project for his dedication to...
Friday January 31, 2014

High-Ranking UNC Educator Supports Willingham’s Claims
Former interim dean of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences and current Kenan Professor Emerita of Slavic Literatures, Madeline Levine wrote a letter to Chancellor...
Friday January 31, 2014