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Coach: Carrieri Headed To Pros At Season's End

By Staff Editor | November 29

North Carolina striker Chris Carrieri has called Fetzer Field home during the past three years. For his career, Carrieri has netted 24 goals - including ...

Tar Heels, Spartans Face Young Season's First Tests

By Staff Editor | November 29

The records of North Carolina and Michigan State show that each team has played three regular season games in the 2000-01 season. But neither team has ...

VT Coach Decides to Stay Put

By Staff Editor | November 28

Jim Weaver made the prediction last Tuesday. "I full well expect - when the dust settles - that Frank Beamer will still be at Virginia Tech," Weaver, ...

UNC Wins 6 Classes at Open

By Staff Editor | November 27

North Carolina captured first-place honors in six weight classes at the VerticalNet Open on Saturday at Carmichael Auditorium. Two UNC wrestlers earned ...

Dominant or Not, Women Advance

By Staff Editor | November 27

Maybe it was domination. Maybe it wasn't. The point is arguable. But what is certain is the fact that the North Carolina women's soccer team is headed ...

Kluegel Expects to Play Despite Sprained Ankle

By Staff Editor | November 27

If Anson Dorrance was afraid, he wasn't showing it. The North Carolina women's soccer coach had just learned that he might be without star midfielder ...

No. 1 Men Move on To Final 8

By Staff Editor | November 27

Before the NCAA tournament, Dean Smith sent North Carolina men's soccer coach Elmar Bolowich a note with a simple message. Survive and advance. The Tar ...

Freshman Leads ODU in Win Against UNC

By Staff Editor | November 27

Three years ago, Corrina Turner spent her falls and winters playing the clarinet in the marching band at Monsignor Edward Pace in Miami. Since then, the ...

Curry Plays in Exhibition Victory

By Staff Editor | November 22

The North Carolina men's basketball team defeated the EA Sports/California All-Stars 88-65 on Tuesday at Carmichael Auditorium. UNC center Brendan Haywood ...

Laycock Makes Most Of Chance

By Staff Editor | November 22

Matt Laycock knows how to use his time wisely. The redshirt junior's playing time had been limited to 20 minutes a game due to knee and hamstring injuries ...

Brown Delivers in Tar Heels' Blowout Win

By Staff Editor | November 22

The North Carolina women's basketball team faced one major question as it opened its season last week. Everyone wanted to know if sophomore Coretta Brown ...

Donnan, Walker Take Names Out of Hat

By Staff Editor | November 22

North Carolina Director of Athletics Dick Baddour is convinced he has an attractive football program to sell. But Baddour's task of finding a new coach ...

Cross Country Takes 12th Place at NCAAs

By Staff Editor | November 21

A fourth-place finish by freshman Shalane Flanagan in 20 minutes, 42 seconds led North Carolina's women's cross country team to a 12th-place team finish ...

Peppers Leaps Atop UNC Record Book

By Staff Editor | November 21

DURHAM - Julius Peppers might be North Carolina's best defensive player, but the sophomore end is still learning from his teammates. Take Saturday's ...

Schwoy Returns to Scoring Form

By Staff Editor | November 21

For Laurie Schwoy, the resurgence could not have come at a more opportune time. The North Carolina women's soccer team trailed Virginia late in the second ...

Smart Play Leads Tar Heels to ACC Title

By Staff Editor | November 21

WINSTON SALEM - Good teams play well when they need to. During much of the season, the North Carolina volleyball team played like it was fighting itself. ...

Coach Declines Baddour's Offer To Step Down

By Staff Editor | November 21

On Nov. 22, 1999, UNC Director of Athletics Dick Baddour sat in the Bowles Room at Koury Natatorium and announced his support for Carl Torbush as the ...

Decision Shocks Tar Heel Players

By Staff Editor | November 21

The team meeting on the second floor of the Frank H. Kenan Football Center started at 2:15 p.m. like it does every Monday. Members of the North Carolina ...

Tar Heels Become Eligible for Bowl

By Staff Editor | November 20

Players and coaches had said all along that they could do it. But somehow, some way, it just never got done. Until Saturday. In what might have been its ...

A Dream Deferred: Tar Heels Fall Short of NCAA Title

By Staff Editor | November 20

NORFOLK, Va. -- For Marina DiGiacomo, it was a storybook ending. In the last game on her home field, DiGiacomo scored the first goal on a penalty corner ...