Welcome back to another edition of Tracking the Tar Heels.
Let’s see what the Tar Heels have been up to:
- Sports Editor Brooke Pryor writes that North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell will take a temporary leave from coaching after being diagnosed with leukemia.
- UNC women’s basketball associate head coach Andrew Calder will take over Hatchell’s duties in the meantime, Assistant Sports Editor Daniel Wilco writes in this From the Press Box blog post.
- Georgia real estate agent Patrick Jones was the third of five to be indicted in relation to the North Carolina football scandal.
- Starting quarterback Bryn Renner will start against No. 10 Miami Thursday after sitting out of the UNC football team’s last game against Virginia Tech with a foot injury.
- The campus is readying for traffic for the Miami game Thursday, marketed as “Zero Dark Thursday”, Kylie Nowicki writes.
- Check out ESPN.com’s Heather Dinich’s midseason report of the North Carolina football team.
- UNC’s Eric Ebron was named to the midseason watch list for the John Mackey Award, given each year to the most outstanding collegiate tight end.
- Mark Thompson of the (Greensboro) News & Record writes that freshman running back T.J. Logan has hit the ground running heading into only his second game as a Tar Heel.
- GoHeels.com’s Emily Fedewa writes that UNC baseball sophomore outfielder Skye Bolt is back in form after a strong fall.
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