Two weeks into the season, former Tar Heels from 1998 to 2017 are making strong plays and shooting big shots.
The North Carolina women’s golf team tied for ninth place out of 18 teams over the weekend with a 42-over par at The Landfall Tradition in Wilmington.
It still hasn’t settled in for sophomore Ryan Gerard.
85 minutes and 17 seconds separated the No. 3 UNC women’s soccer team's (10-2-1, 5-0-0 ACC) two goals in its 2-1 win at Notre Dame on Thursday night.
For the North Carolina men's cross country team, it was good to be back. The men's team got its feet back on the ground, placing fifth out of 23 schools and beating out No. 12 Campbell. The women placed 14th out of 23 teams.
The No. 2 North Carolina women’s soccer team lost on the road to No. 1 Stanford 2-1 in overtime on Sunday night. The loss puts the team at 5-2-1 on the season, and is its second loss in a row. With the win, Stanford improved to 6-0 on the season.
Once upon a time, major league baseball players thrived in Chapel Hill. Author Anne R. Keene recently released a book, titled "The Cloudbuster Nine," about a team of MLB players who played while at a Navy training school at UNC in 1943. The team of fighter pilots never had their story told until now, by Keene, the daughter of their bat boy.
The Carolinas clashed on Tuesday night as the North Carolina softball team fell to No. 24 South Carolina, 5-0, in Columbia, S.C. It was the first of the Tar Heels’ six road games. The Tar Heels fell to 5-5 after their third loss in a row.
On Feb. 17, 1974, UNC's Tony Waldrop set an indoor mile world record of 3:55. Forty-four years later, the 2018 North Carolina men's and women's track and field teams set some records of their own. In the UCS Invitational this past weekend in Winston-Salem, UNC took first place in two events and second in two others. It was the team's final event of the indoor regular season before the ACC indoor track and field championships.
Redemption isn’t only important in basketball. The women's lacrosse team looks to a rigorous season with top-rated first-years and key returners.
