Hospital Tradition Provides Pregame Highlight

Posted Sep 6, 2013
On the eve of the season's first home game, North Carolina football players kept up what has become a pregame tradition, visiting with patients at UNC Children's Hospital. The participants vary week to week - this Friday it was Alex Bales, Allen Champagne, Jarrod James, Shakeel Rashad and Nathan Staub - but without fail, Carolina players visit the hospital on Fridays before home games. (GoHeels.com)

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