Tar Heels still have a way to go

Posted Dec 28, 2008
In the gray gloom of late afternoon, as the little fog moved out and the big fog moved in, North Carolina learned another incremental lesson about its emerging football team. Not yet. The Tar Heels flirted with victory over perennially flinty West Virginia, which would have been the ninth win and the firmest recent evidence of unwavering resurgence, but the scoreboard described another outcome: Mountaineers 31, Tar Heels 30. (Winston-Salem Journal)

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