Former Tar Heel happy to be a Pirate

Posted Aug 5, 2007

“The Stop,’’ as it’s known up the road in Chapel Hill, will probably link Khalif Mitchell to the University of North Carolina forever. But while that moment on a fall afternoon in October 2004 against N.C. State remains special, Mitchell is hoping to create more reasons to be remembered as his career resumes at East Carolina this fall. (Fayetteville Observer)

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