The bowl ban handed down by the NCAA on Monday may hurt UNC’s athletic department for more than one season and cost it far more than a $50,000 fine.

Kevin Reddick isn’t concerned with what North Carolina can’t do this season. He’s only focused on what the Tar Heels can control.

Joe Nocera is a columnist for The New York Times and financial expert who has focused his writing on reforming the NCAA. He will speak about big-time college sports and universities from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center Theater.

The first step to reforming college sports won’t be taken by the much-scrutinized NCAA, but by universities themselves. Taking the initiative to promote change within the NCAA on a conference level was a central theme by panelists at a UNC discussion Tuesday night on reform in college sports.

National Signing Day, the first opportunity for Division I college football recruits to sign letters of intent to their future schools, has finally arrived.

On Dec. 26, the North Carolina football team will take on Missouri in the AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl, marking the Tar Heels’ fourth-straight postseason appearance.

In the days following the dismissal of head football Coach Butch Davis, University administrators decided to prioritize the reform of the honor system as a way to repair UNC in the wake of the NCAA investigation.

The possibility for additional sanctions for the UNC football program still exists after a year-long investigation has finally reached its end.

Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson dismissed former North Carolina defensive end Michael McAdoo’s lawsuit against the University and the NCAA Monday, effectively closing another chapter in UNC’s ongoing football woes. But McAdoo might not be ready to stop fighting just yet.

For some students, the attention on the African and Afro-American Studies department has come at a heavy cost.

Days after returning from the NCAA hearing in Indianapolis, Chancellor Holden Thorp discussed implementing the changes to academic support for student athletes at Tuesday’s faculty athletics committee meeting.

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

The UNC athletic department’s compliance office kept few written records related to the NCAA investigation, said Amy Herman, associate athletic director for compliance, in a deposition made public Tuesday.

Possibly no other athletics department in the nation can match North Carolina in homegrown talent. The 15-year athletic director hails from Goldsboro, both the men’s basketball and baseball coaches were born in the mountains, the women’s basketball coach has a drawl you can only find in Gastonia and the interim head football coach went to high school in Charlotte.

After nearly a seven-week search, North Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp introduced UNC’s next athletic director, Bubba Cunningham, at a press conference Friday.

Holden Thorp is trying to walk a straight line in the changing world of higher education. As the University’s 10th chancellor, he, like every other chancellor who has come before him, has had to balance present emergencies with a vision of UNC’s future. And he’s no stranger to emergencies.

For better or worse, the NCAA investigation has left a lasting imprint on UNC’s Academic Support Program for Student Athletes.

Nearly one year after the UNC football program suspended players’ Twitter accounts, the legality of the decision is being revisited by the campus community.

Members of the Board of Trustees’ academic affairs committee questioned what the University is doing to address the support of student athletes at its meeting Wednesday.

The University released 80 exhibits Tuesday that were used in UNC’s response to the NCAA’s notice of allegations.