Tar Heels head to College Cup

Kirk Urso felt good shooting from long range on Friday.The sophomore midfielder, who has been known to shoot immediately off corners and from well outside ...

Dixon strikes again for UNC

For the first 20 minutes of Sunday’s third-round NCAA match between North Carolina and Indiana, Hoosiers coach Mike Freitag thought nobody wanted to ...

Men’s soccer advances to third round

Alex Dixon thought about bringing it out a few times this year, but refrained. Sure, the sophomore forward recorded North Carolina’s first hat trick ...

Men's soccer team hopes for repeat trip to NCAA Championship

North Carolina begins its quest to repeat its surprising run to the NCAA Tournament final last season at Fetzer Field on Sunday.The Tar Heels are one ...

Women’s soccer downed twice; men's squad avenge Boston College loss

Two seasons, 1982 and 2000, mark the only years where the North Carolina women’s soccer team lost two straight games. Sunday, the 2009 season was added ...

Men’s soccer mistakes lead to second loss of season

Saturday was Charlie Rugg’s lucky day.On two separate occasions during Saturday’s 2-1 loss, UNC defenders made mental gaffes that led to Boston College ...

M. Soccer: Eagles ground UNC

With the game over and a tough 2-1 loss in the books, each of the North Carolina players slowly made their way across the field and onto the steps of ...

M. Soccer: UNC gets record win with stellar defense

With the score 1-0 against No. 11 Duke, midfielder Cameron Brown booted a shot headed over the goal.Dip, dip, dip, he commanded.It did, the scoreboard ...

Men’s soccer starts ACC play with win

Down by a goal after just 70 seconds into its ACC opener against N.C. State, the No. 3 North Carolina men’s soccer team regrouped and ultimately escaped ...

M. Soccer: Farfan and Martinez power UNC attack

Enzo Martinez and Michael Farfan received their first tastes of ACC play Saturday against No. 18 N.C. State.Thanks to them, the outcome was a familiar ...

Versatile Ababio ready whenever, wherever

Plain and simple, Eddie Ababio has been a forward his whole life. When his career in soccer began in his native country of Ghana, so too did his career ...

Brazil soccer in state of decline

I've accepted the fact that soccer might never catch on in the U.S. I've accepted that by screaming at Jozy Altidore to do something other than jogging ...

Sports briefs for January 16

UNC striker Brian Shriver selected in MLS SuperDraftNorth Carolina striker Brian Shriver was chosen in the second round of Thursday's MLS SuperDraft as ...

Nogueira leads women's soccer to national championship

DEC. 7 CHAPEL HILL — For most of her career at UNC" the word ""potential"" hung over Casey Nogueira like a dark cloud. It followed her around" fairly ...

Tar Heels' run ends in _¶ nals

DEC. 14 FRISCO Texas — The North Carolina men's soccer team shouldn't even have been playing in the NCAA championship game. That would mean the ...

Comeback Casey

DEC. 7 CARY — Forward Casey Nogueira had shown all season that she was one of the top players in the country.  But Nogueira's 23 goals in 27 ...

Heels' NCAA run ends in finals

5:30 P.M. SUNDAY DEC. 14 FRISCO Texas -- Both teams said it would come down to just one play to win or lose the game. In Sunday's College Cup final Maryland's ...

Women's soccer claims 19th title

6 P.M. SUNDAY DEC. 7 CARY – Her coach called forward Casey Nogueira the best player in her sport at the college level. And on the greatest stage ...

Physical play marks semifinal game