The Tar Heels (52-12) prevailed against LSU on Sunday to win 8-4. They move on to play Fresno State on Tuesday at 7 p.m. (Eastern). With the Heels back to the College World Series, Carolina alumni are seen as the backbone of the surging… read more
John Haus ’83 will not return for a ninth season as head coach of the men’s lacrosse team. The coach’s overall record was 58-52, and his team was 8-6 this spring – winning its first five games but losing four of the next seven. The Tar Heels lost… read more
Area fans are invited to cheer together for the men’s basketball team Saturday, viewing the NCAA semifinals broadcast from the Alamodome in San Antonio on the Tar Heels’ home court, the Dean E. Smith Center. The UNC Department of Athletics,… read more
He coached basketball for just two years at Carolina but took a team to the national finals. As a college player and coach he had a 5-0 record against UNC. And he provided a key link in the chain of events that brought the young Dean Smith… read more
Tyler Hansbrough led the ACC regular season in scoring and rebounding, he’s All-America, he has his second 2008 national player of the year award, and he’s the last to wear No. 50. As The Sporting News 2008 National Player of the Year,… read more
Anson Dorrance ’74 has been elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Dorrance and U.S. National Team veteran player Hugo Perez were elected with unprecedented totals in their respective categories. Dorrance was named on 54 percent of the… read more
Tar Heel basketball and football fans are used to getting their radio play-by-play straight up and by the book. It may be as exciting as the game itself, but one never wonders whether there’s going to be an off-color slip of the tongue. It’s… read more
Carolina’s latest basketball milestone made all the papers. But there was one paper Sylvia Hatchell probably didn’t want to hear anything about. On Monday, Feb. 4, Hatchell’s team drove to Durham and took care of the usually tough Blue Devils,… read more
The Carolina Basketball Museum is not just about the more than 450 artifacts in the display cases, such as the shoes, uniforms, rings and balls used by players over the decades. It’s also about the come-from-behind victories, the final moments of… read more
The University has agreed to pay former UNC soccer player Melissa Jennings ’00 $385,000 in a settlement stemming from a sexual harassment lawsuit that has put head coach Anson Dorrance ’74 in the national spotlight for something other than his… read more