Southern Mississippi football coach Larry Fedora is expected to be announced as North Carolina’s new football coach as early as Wednesday. According to sources and multiple reports, Fedora has accepted the position offered by UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham.

The lawyer of former North Carolina football coach Butch Davis filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss the subpoena of Davis’ personal cellphone records.

When Bryn Renner learned that coach Butch Davis had been fired, the quarterback had to let it all sink in a little bit. Even though Renner — whose father coaches Davis’ son Drew at East Chapel Hill High — had yet to start a football game at North Carolina, he and Davis shared a close bond. But while it was tough to see Davis go, Renner wasn’t going to let anything shake his focus less than six weeks away from kickoff.

After Saturday’s season-opening win against James Madison University, interim head football coach Everett Withers gave partial credit to his predecessor Butch Davis.

Chancellor Holden Thorp’s long overdue decision to fire head football coach Butch Davis, paired with Athletic Director Dick Baddour’s resignation, represents a much needed reinforcement of UNC’s values. But his attempt at damage control is overshadowed by the months of unnecessary waiting that have left the University’s reputation scarred by scandal.

Firing Thorp? C’mon, let’s not rub it in. The football team’s mistakes might have proven that we can be stupid at UNC, but we can’t possibly be that stupid. Or maybe some of us really are.

UNC has named defensive coordinator Everett Withers interim head football coach, effective immediately.

Chancellor Holden Thorp’s long overdue decision to fire head football coach Butch Davis, paired with Athletic Director Dick Baddour’s resignation, represents a much needed reinforcement of UNC’s values. But his attempt at damage control is overshadowed by the months of unnecessary waiting that have left the University’s reputation scarred by scandal.

In a press conference held by athletic director Dick Baddour and Chancellor Holden Thorp on Thursday morning at UNC’s Friday Center, Baddour announced his plan to resign.

Butch Davis, head coach of the North Carolina football program, has been fired in connection with the ongoing NCAA investigation, according to a statement released by the University on Wednesday.

Still smarting after its fourth straight loss to N.C. State on Saturday, the North Carolina football team will have a chance to redeem itself this weekend when it travels to Duke to take on its other in-state conference foe. “It’s something that probably helps your football team in some respects bounce back,” UNC coach Butch Davis said.

TO THE EDITOR: Monday’s editorial titled “Davis should go” (Oct.

TO THE EDITOR:
To the person who wrote an editorial (“Davis should go,” Oct.

TO THE EDITOR: As Director of Athletics, I hired Butch Davis to lead our football program because he was an outstanding coach who shared the core values that we try to uphold at the University of North Carolina.

At a news conference Monday, North Carolina football head coach Butch Davis said he would have fired associate head coach John Blake had he known Blake had improper relations with an agent.

UNC officials are standing behind head football coach Butch Davis amid increasing reports of the improprieties of former associate coach John Blake.

CHARLOTTE -- Saturday's game between North Carolina and Pittsburgh marks the second straight year that UNC has played its bowl game in Charlotte and the Mieneke Car Care Bowl.

But it will be a completely different team and matchup.

With a narrow 20-14 win against rival Duke on Saturday, new head coach Butch Davis finished his inaugural season in Chapel Hill with a 4-8 record – highlighted with six losses by a touchdown or less. Although the saying goes that close counts only in horseshoes and hand grenades, it apparently counts in dollars for Davis. The University agreed in principle to a one-year contract extension through 2014 and a $291,000 annual raise for the head football coach Wednesday, pending approval of the UNC Board of Trustees this week.

North Carolina football coach Butch Davis is undergoing chemotherapy this spring after a small growth removed from his gum was found to be non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Butch Davis had never set foot inside Kenan Stadium before Monday.

But at 3 p.m., the former coach at the University of Miami and the Cleveland Browns, was formally introduced as North Carolina's new football coach.