The redemption tour is finally over, and the Tar Heels have a sixth national championship banner to hang in the Smith Center. read more
Unbeaten college basketball teams are rare. The 1957 Tar Heels knew they were good, and Lennie Rosenbluth ’57 recalls how they got that way. read more
Bob Young ’57 made plays on Carolina’s first national championship team in men’s basketball. These days, he believes in the power of poetry. read more
The two best teams in the tournament met in the final, and by any assessment it was a classic. Both can’t win, but this was about as close as you can get. read more
In what his coach called “a moment of inspiration,” junior transfer Ben Speas turned in the goal of the tournament Sunday to provide Carolina with a 1-0 win over UNC-Charlotte in the 65th minute of the national title game in men’s… read more
John Keats penned some of the most quoted lines in English poetry: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”; “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.” On Thursday, the poet who would “sooner fail than not be among the greatest” took… read more
The UNC field hockey team won its fifth national championship in November with a 3-0 victory over Penn State at College Park, Md. The team finished its season undefeated with 24 wins. Karen Shelton, who has coached the Heels since 1981, has… read more
Baseball is a funny game sometimes. After posting a 4-8 record in May and finishing tied for sixth in their conference, the defending champion Oregon State Beavers had no momentum entering the NCAA tournament, barely qualifying for the field of… read more
There’s a saying in baseball that chicks dig the long ball, and if that’s true, they sure haven’t been digging North Carolina lately. But on Thursday night, the ladies had to love what they saw as the Tar Heels exploded for four homeruns in a 7-4… read more
Carolina’s baseball team may command a lot of attention, but six Olympic-sport athletes are making headlines of their own this summer. This month, Sara Anundsen and Jenna Long were named 2007 Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) National… read more