UNC Baseball Announces Promotions For Bryant Gaines and Carter Hicks
Following another highly successful season that saw the team win its 27th ACC Championship and advance to the NCAA Super Regionals, North Carolina Baseball Head Coach
Scott Forbes has promoted Bryant Gaines to Associate Head Coach and Carter Hicks to General Manager. Gaines will enter his 16th total season with the program in 2026. (
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Video: Locked On Tar Heels - UNC Athletics Top 10 from 2024-25
Host Isaac Schade kicks off the Top 10 countdown of the moments that defined UNC athletics over the last academic year. In episode 1, 10: The Lane Violation, 9: Field Hockey's perfect season falls just shy, 8: Ethan Strand's record-shattering track performances, 7: Best season of the
Courtney Banghart era for Women's Basketball.
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Tom Brady Tells UNC Football Players What to Expect in First Season With Bill Belichick
"What they’re going to get is the most prepared, the most hardworking coach I’ve ever been around," Tom Brady said of
Bill Belichick. "If you go to (UNC), you will be prepared to play at the next level. He’s going to teach you the right fundamentals, the right techniques. He’s going to have a high expectation for you, and you’re going to develop a lot." (
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Willie Lampkin looks like an undrafted gem for the Rams after just one preseason game
Former UNC offensive lineman
Willie Lampkin is out to prove size doesn’t matter. It took him just one preseason game to make a name for himself as a potential undrafted gem for the Rams. He was dominant against the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday, earning a PFF grade of 94.1. That was second-highest among all NFL linemen in Week 1 of the preseason. (
USA Today)
No Preseason Games, No Problem For Bill Belichick
In his 30th season as a head coach,
Bill Belichick's squad won't play another team until TCU on September 1. He's coaching college now, and there are no preseason games or even scrimmages against other teams. Does this put Belichick at a disadvantage because his college contemporaries are used to beginning the season without facing anyone else? (
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Chansky’s Notebook: Man At Work
The Belichicks are different than many of us thought.
Bill Belichick was known in New England for his short but not-so-sweet press conferences. In his first week of training camp, the new UNC head coach and his defensive coordinator are father and son, but they are definitely their own people with jobs to do as they were trained but in their own ways. (
Chapelboro.com)
UNC's Taissa Queiroz Running It Back With Brazil, Competing At 2025 GloblJam
UNC Women's Basketball freshman
Taissa Queiroz will again represent her native country Brazil this summer by heading to the 2025 GloblJam. U-23 teams from around the globe will go head-to-head in Toronto Aug. 13-17. A native of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Queiroz recently represented her country this past spring for the Tour Brazil at the WNBA. (
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THT Newsletter: UNC's Major Recruiting Win, Injury Setback, and Defending Champs Impress
The North Carolina sports year is underway with the first two women’s soccer scrimmages in the books. Football training camp is in full swing, Montenegrin UNC Basketball commit
Luka Bogavac is expected in Chapel Hill this week, and women’s basketball landed the No. 1 recruit in the 2026 class. All that and more in Monday's edition. (
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Video: Coast To Coast Podcast - UNC Basketball Reuniting for Fall Semester, Recruiting Updates
Sherrell McMillan, Sean Moran, and Joey Powell from Inside Carolina dig into UNC Basketball and recruiting, the
Tar Heels roster, upcoming class of 2026 UNC Basketball recruiting visits, where North Carolina stands among offered players, and more.
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Phil Steele 2025 UNC Football Forecast
Bill Belichick will need the experienced transfers to step up and lead UNC's relatively green defensive unit. Belichick signed a lot of talent and hired solid coordinators. The Tar Heels also draw a
favorable ACC schedule. A good portion of
North Carolina's roster has little experience but Belichick develops players. This could be a surprise ACC contender. (
On3.com)
Video: Tar Pit Podcast - Interview With UNC Quarterback Commit Travis Burgess
Class of 2026 UNC quarterback commit
Travis Burgess takes us inside his senior season at powerhouse Grayson High (Ga.), the personal goals driving him, how competing against elite talent every week prepares him for the ACC, his impressive Elite 11 Finals run, and how that experience shaped his game.
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UNC Offensive Lineman Austin Blaske Suffers Training Camp Injury
Austin Blaske, who has earned the reputation as UNC’s best and most versatile offensive lineman, has been lost for perhaps two months due to a non-contact foot injury suffered in training camp, multiple sources told Inside Carolina on Sunday. Sources said the foot is broken, and the sixth-year senior is expected to miss the Tar Heels’ first four games. (
Inside Carolina)
Healthier Caleb Hood Hopes to Finally Have a Full Season As UNC Running Back
Caleb Hood's game as a Tar Heel can be easily partitioned: When healthy and when not healthy. A fifth-year senior, Hood hasn't appeared in more than seven games in any season at UNC and overall has played in just 23 of 53 games over the last four seasons. He saw action out of the gate in 2021, but injuries then hit and haven't really stopped. (
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UNC Men's Golf Adds Transfers Andrew Riley, Niall Sheils Donegan
Graduate student Andrew Riley and junior Niall Sheils Donegan are joining the UNC men's golf team, coach Andrew DiBitetto announced. Riley played two seasons at Palm Beach Atlantic and one at North Florida. The St. Johns, Fla., native won the Division II NCAA championship in 2023. Sheils Donegan played the last two seasons at Northwestern. (
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Know Your Foe: Tracking training camps of UNC's four non-conference opponents
With 70 new players, a new defense, and numerous new coaches, no one knows how UNC Football will fare this season. But the
Tar Heels' schedule is manageable. Outside the ACC, Carolina plays non-conference games against TCU, UCF, Charlotte, and Richmond. Let's look at how each non-conference opponents has performed throughout camp. (
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