Overnight Travel, Minimal Sleep: UNC Football Takes The Practice Field In Ireland

Posted Aug 27, 2026
Neither Christo Kelly nor Kaleb Cost were rubbing their eyes when they took the practice field on Thursday in Dublin, Ireland. They were wide awake for two totally different reasons. Cost slept for all but 45 minutes of their seven-hour-plus flight to Dublin that started on Wednesday night and ended when they landed in Dublin on Thursday morning. (TarHeel247)

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