Against Louisville, UNC field hockey avenges only loss of season to claim ACC title
(11/09/20 1:32am)
For a minute it looked like, as the saying goes, "déjà vu all over again."
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For a minute it looked like, as the saying goes, "déjà vu all over again."
The phrase “second-half team” has two slightly different meanings for North Carolina football this season.
In an earlier-than-usual rivalry matchup, the No. 14 North Carolina football team (4-1, 4-1 ACC) handled No. 23 N.C. State (4-2, 4-2) on Saturday, 48-21. Up 17-7 at the half, the Tar Heels used a dominant run game to put the Wolfpack away, winning the rivalry game in a rout for the second straight year.
In an already unusual season for the North Carolina field hockey team, it took an unusual week of practice — which followed an even more unusual game — to vault the team to a dominant, standard-issue, unremarkable, all-too-predictable 5-1 win over Virginia on Sunday.
It was November 2014, and Mark Newhouse was on the run of his life again.
Roy Williams has been a head coach for 32 years, which means he's been answering reporters' questions for 32 years.
North Carolina’s first drive of the game made it all seem so normal.
With North Carolina football set to kick off its season Saturday against Syracuse, team doctor and Director of Sports Medicine Dr. Mario Ciocca said he is in favor of playing fall sports amid the COVID-19 pandemic, despite concern from others in his profession about the still-unknown effects of the coronavirus on college athletes.
Diana Newton can pull out her calendar and tell you exactly when the Chelsea Theater first shut its doors: it was March 16, which was almost six months ago but feels more like six lifetimes ago. Newton is a programmer for the theater, which for 30 years has peddled in “first run, independent, foreign, documentary, and specialty films,” per its website. She says the initial choice to shut down was an easy one.
North Carolina basketball's Leaky Black and Andrew Platek were among the first to show up Saturday, standing and waiting outside McDonald's, the latter in a "Black Lives Matter" T-shirt. Others soon began popping up: volleyball players here, fencers there, recognizable by their team-issued merchandise and brandishing signs with phrases like "Matter is the minimum" and "Black lives > white comfort." Before long, a crowd had formed on the north side of Franklin Street.
The NCAA Division I board of directors voted Friday to grant all fall sport athletes — even those who compete this season — an additional year of eligibility, and will work toward hosting championships for those sports in the spring, the organization announced.
Editor's note: This is satire.
No one is quite sure when the fire started, or how it began, exactly. The only thing that’s certain is that it’s there. Maybe it always has been.
If there's one thing North Carolina basketball isn't short on, historically speaking, it's point guards.
If fall sports seasons are able to proceed as planned, two North Carolina teams will be right back in the title hunt, while a third will seek a return to national prominence. Take a look at the 2020 outlook for the UNC field hockey, women's soccer and men's soccer squads.
Travis Tygart graduated from UNC in 1993 with a degree in philosophy. Now, he's the CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which in 2012 helped expose cyclist Lance Armstrong in a massive doping scandal. In light of ESPN's recently released documentary, Lance, senior writer Ryan Wilcox caught up with Tygart to discuss his role in the Armstrong saga and more. Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity.
It’s Friday, May 29, and gray clouds hang over Boshamer Stadium.
Elizabeth Haus was in high school when she realized she wanted to work in the medical field. Now, after spending four years on the North Carolina women's lacrosse team from 2015 to 2018, she's a registered nurse stemming the tide of COVID-19 at Children's Hospital Colorado in Denver.
Senior writer Ryan Wilcox caught up with Brandon Robinson, who just finished his senior season with UNC men's basketball, to talk "The Last Dance" — ESPN's 10-part documentary on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls — and more. This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
Days after the news that NFL tight end Rob Gronkowski had been traded from the New England Patriots, UNC professor Jonathan Weiler was running errands in his car. It was prior to the NFL Draft, and the sports radio talking heads were running the gamut of off-season topics: Which teams would take which players? How would Gronkowski and Tom Brady fare in Tampa Bay, their new home? Were the Buccaneers now the favorite in the NFC?