On the day after Butch Davis was dismissed as head football coach, Athletics Director Dick Baddour ’66 said he will step down as soon as his successor can be found. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 told a news conference on July 28 that… read more
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 announced late July 27 that Butch Davis has been dismissed as Carolina’s head football coach. Davis was informed by Thorp and Director of Athletics Dick Baddour ’66 of the decision. The University issued a… read more
Carolina, a perennial top 10 finisher in the annual measure of postseason success in men’s and women’s varsity sports in the NCAA’s Division I, placed sixth in 2010-11. It is the Tar Heels’ 16th top 10 finish in the competition’s 18… read more
Jones Angell ’01, who has been host and color analyst for the Tar Heel Sports Network the past six years, will call radio play-by-play for Carolina football and men’s basketball broadcasts beginning in the 2011-12 season. Angell takes… read more
Woody Durham ’63 is retiring after 40 years as the play-by-play announcer for Carolina basketball and football. The “Voice of the Tar Heels” has called play-by-play on more than 1,800 football and men’s basketball broadcasts on the… read more
Women’s soccer national players of the year Casey Nogueira ’10 and Whitney Engen ’10 and All-America swimmer Chip Peterson ’10 are the recipients of the 2010 Patterson Medals, awarded annually to Carolina’s most outstanding male and female… read more
The University announced on Feb. 9 that the NCAA has upheld its original decision of permanent ineligibility for Michael McAdoo, a junior from Antioch, Tenn. A pending decision on Devon Ramsay, a junior from red Bank, N.J., in the ongoing… read more
Fifth-year senior forward Will Graves has been dismissed from the men’s basketball team for failure to comply with team rules, head coach Roy Williams ’72 announced Thursday. “This is 100 percent not related to any NCAA matters on… read more
Few names, personalities and records of achievement are more closely associated with the University than that of Dean Smith. For some months, there has been a conversation in the UNC community about the 79-year-old Smith’s health. The… read more
The UNC-based College Sport Research Institute is hosting its second annual Tee Off for Tar Heels Benefit Golf Tournament in October to help support the University. The event is being planned, organized and managed by UNC sport administration… read more