Sports - The Daily Tar Heel

Baseball Warms Up Season With Sweep of Dukes

By Staff Editor | February 12

North Carolina's bats didn't cool off Sunday like the weather did.The Tar Heels opened the 2001 season by sweeping a two-game weekend series from James ...

Women's Tennis Splits Weekend Matches

By Staff Editor | February 12

Staff ReportNOTRE DAME, Ind. -- The No. 28 North Carolina women's tennis team fell to 11th-ranked Notre Dame on Sunday at the Eck Tennis Pavilion 6-1.The ...

Wrestling Rips Maryland

By Staff Editor | February 12

This wasn't tag-team, and they didn't have outlandish nicknames.But the one-two combo of heavyweight Matt Kenny and 125-pounder Chris Collins dominated ...

UNC Outlasts Tigers in 2 OTs

By Matt Terry | February 9

It took 50 minutes and 199 combined points, but the North Carolina women's basketball team eventually wound up with the result it wanted.The Tar Heels, ...

Brown Burns Clemson From Floor

By Rachel Carter | February 9

With the clock ticking down toward 0:00, Juana Brown charged hard through a sea of Clemson basketball players, stopped short and fired a jumper at the ...

Bunting Announces 1st Recruiting Class; Signs 21

February 8

John Bunting knew he had some learning to do.Having spent five years as head coach at Division-III Glassboro State and almost the rest of his coaching ...

Dawson's Huge Night\Not Enough for Deacons

February 7

WINSTON-SALEM -- Wake Forest guard Craig Dawson has a little extra incentive to perform every time he plays against North Carolina.For one, Dawson wasn't ...

No. 1 Tar Heels Survive at Wake

By Bret Strelow | February 7

WINSTON-SALEM -- Brendan Haywood stood in the corner of the court, waving his arms wildly into the air. His eyes were locked into the array of camera ...

Wrestling Pummels Blue Devils

By James Giza | February 7

DURHAM -- Corey Bell admitted he was a little apprehensive about traveling to Duke on Tuesday after North Carolina's basketball win last week.His fears ...

San Jose Picks Carrieri No. 1

By Matt Terry | February 6

Following the lead of the North Carolina men's basketball team, former UNC forward Chris Carrieri claimed his own No. 1 on Monday at the Major League ...

Ill Tar Heels Dominate Play

By Kelly Lusk | February 6

There was no way Campbell could pull off a win at Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center on Monday night. But the Camels' second seed, Juan Osorio, refused to give ...

Sutton Takes Advantage of Height

February 6

Candace Sutton has been a consistent producer for the North Carolina women's basketball team this year.Coming into the Tar Heels' contest with Wake Forest, ...

Boone Excels as Reserve

By Will Kimmey | February 6

Freshman point guard Adam Boone became the 16th North Carolina basketball player to start his first game for the Tar Heels.Then after seven games, Ronald ...

Balanced Attack Paces UNC

By Will Kimmey | February 5

Brendan Haywood had a message for his North Carolina teammates before Saturday afternoon's tilt against Georgia Tech."I just went out there and told ...

Tired Tar Heels Persevere Against 'Pack

By Kelly Lusk | February 5

RALEIGH -- Sometimes things don't have to start off perfectly to end well. Four months ago, North Carolina's women's swimming and diving team lost to ...

Tar Heel Wrestlers Roll Over Cavs

By Randy Wellington | February 5

Last-gasp comebacks are an exciting part of sports.Usually, those sports don't include wrestling.But don't tell that to North Carolina(5-4, 2-0 in the ...

Gymnasts Save Their Best for Last

By Brad Broders | February 5

The North Carolina gymnastics team was in an early funk Saturday at the Governor's Cup at Carmichael Auditorium.But not to worry. The Tar Heels saved ...

Tar Heels Shoot Past Deacons

By Mike Ogle | February 5

When Wake Forest's women's basketball team started the game red-hot from the Carmichael Auditorium floor, it was a bad omen for Charlene Curtis' club.The ...

Swimmers Keep Wolfpack at Bay

By Brad Lewis | February 5

RALEIGH -- How do swimmers tell how fast they're swimming?They usually just look at the scoreboard after touching the wall.But this was not an option ...

Hatchell Earns 300th Victory

February 2

ATLANTA -- The North Carolina women's basketball team defeated Georgia Tech 85-63 on Thursday at Alexander Memorial Coliseum.With the win, UNC coach Sylvia ...