Welcome to another edition of Tracking the Tar Heels.
Here’s what the Tar Heels have been up to:
- The men’s basketball season will kick off tonight with Late Night with Roy. But Sports Editor Brandon Moree writes that it was almost Late Night without Roy.
- Williams announced that freshman Marcus Paige is expected to start at point guard, ESPN’s Robbi Pickeral writes.
- I caught up with former Tar Heel Donald Williams, who won most outstanding player honors on the 1993 national championship team. Now a coach himself, Williams has tried to emulate Dean Smith.
- The UNC football team will play Miami on Saturday. Here’s the lowdown on the matchup.
- The Miami game is a homecoming for UNC tailback Giovani Bernard, writes Andrew Carter of the (Raleigh) News & Observer.
- Junior men’s soccer transfer Andy Craven is ready to take on his old team this Saturday, Jonathan LaMantia writes.
- Lastly, the Fall World Series gives UNC players the opportunity to work their way into a starting role. Here’s a story on two pitchers who were attempting to do just that on Wednesday.
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