Britt’s steals thwart comeback effort
Leading by just 10 points with just under nine minutes to play, the North Carolina men’s basketball team was at risk of allowing yet another comeback.
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Leading by just 10 points with just under nine minutes to play, the North Carolina men’s basketball team was at risk of allowing yet another comeback.
It was a day when the little things in the end to a perfect season at Kenan Stadium seemed to mean more — like fifth-year senior Marquise Williams’ tears, before and after the game. Or the brief play when the offensive seniors took the field together toward the end of the game to a standing ovation from the crowd. Or that strange moment in the third quarter when a running back wearing No. 34 ran 34 yards to the Miami 34-yard line.
If Joel James wasn’t a basketball player, he’d be a teacher. High school. That’s when there’s the best chance of impacting young people, he said at North Carolina men’s basketball media day.
Different day, same problems — and the biggest race of the season so far.
Off to a sluggish start, the North Carolina football team’s coaching staff decided to make a change on Saturday — playing backup quarterback Mitch Trubisky over fifth-year senior Marquise Williams for most of the game.
In its past three games, the North Carolina football team (2-1) has rushed for more than 200 yards per game — much more than its average of 161.3 yards over its first three games of the 2014 season.
T.J. Logan came to North Carolina with a lot of hype.
CARY — It wasn’t really even that important of a race — it’s early in the season, a kilometer shorter than a typical race and the team didn’t taper down or spend months mentally preparing for it.
A storm delay and a race canceled halfway through made for an interesting opening meet for the North Carolina men’s and women’s cross country teams.
They call themselves “the hybrids.”
Sometimes everything works out. And sometimes a literal misstep changes everything.
It’s 9 a.m., already growing hot, and off go the church bells. For 15 minutes they ring from the top of Marcus United Methodist Church, which sits across the street from N.C. State University’s Sandhills Research Station, where I trudge across sandy fields carrying trays of baby peanut plants.
It’s hard for any single event to stick out when 15 North Carolina track and field athletes set personal, season or career records in one weekend, but the women who ran the 1,500-meter race put together races that were hard to top.
Seniors Annie LeHardy and Lianne Farber are finally on the same page.
Just one centimeter — less than the width of a dime.
Xenia Rahn didn’t just have a personal best performance.
A new ACC championship record. A broken school record. Twelve All-ACC finishes.
RALEIGH — It’s been many years since the North Carolina gymnastics team has nailed an uneven parallel bars performance at Reynolds Coliseum, Coach Derek Galvin said.
RALEIGH, NC — Two events in and with a lead at the halfway mark, the North Carolina gymnastics team was cruising in the noisy Reynolds Coliseum, where screaming fans belted out the lyrics to Frozen’s “Let It Go” during a break between events.
Just a half point ahead of Towson University going into the final event of Sunday evening’s meet, the North Carolina gymnastics team did what it had been doing the entire evening — it stayed in the moment. And by remaining poised, they scored the win over Towson, West Chester and William & Mary en route to a season-high number of points.