Welcome to another edition of Tracking the Tar Heels.
Let’s see what the Tar Heels have been up to:
- With the indictment of former UNC tutor Jennifer Wiley Thompson last Thursday under the Uniform Athlete Agents Act, reportedly the first of its kind, prosecutors are testing the law, Assistant State and National Editor Lucinda Chen writes.
- Sticking with University athletic and academic scandal, degrees are at risk for UNC students who took fraudulent classes in the Afro and Afro-American Studies department, Jane Stancill of the (Raleigh) News & Observer writes.
- Jack Tabb, tight end on the UNC football team, will be suspended for the first half in the Tar Heels’ next game against Miami after being ejected in the fourth quarter against Virginia Tech Saturday.
- ESPN’s Eamonn Brennan writes that longtime UNC athletics tutor Jack Halperin resigned in protest of the North Carolina men’s basketball team’s handling of guard P.J. Hairston. Halperin announced his departure in a letter he wrote to The Daily Tar Heel published last Friday.
- Check out this story from Carolina: The Magazine on UNC women’s soccer players Crystal Dunn and Kealia Ohai.
- The undefeated North Carolina volleyball team has reached its highest ranking in program history, jumping up one spot from last week to No. 10 in the AVCA Division I Coaches Poll.
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