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How NIL Contracts Benefit UNC Baseball

Old Well Management, which absorbed previous collectives Heels4Life and Secondary Break Club, handles NIL negotiations for UNC’s 28 sports teams. Less than two months after the NCAA rule change, UNC Baseball concluded its season at the College World Series. Old Well Management was ready for negotiations when the Tar Heels returned home. (Inside Carolina)

Kaleb Cost on Baseball, Football, Balancing Both at UNC and More

Kaleb Cost is a baseball guy. But he’s also a football guy. Baseball is harder, he says, and football is the sport that has him on scholarship at UNC. It’s also the sport in which he will start this season. A sophomore who appeared in all 13 games last season, Cost taking over the star position has been one of the most interesting stories of preseason camp. (Tar Heel Illustrated)

How Kaleb Cost juggles college football and baseball at UNC

Picking UNC, Kaleb Cost made Mack Brown and Scott Forbes two happy coaches. Brown was able to add a defensive back to his football roster with super hand/eye coordination and explosive speed. Forbes picked up an outfielder who was all-state. hit .545 as a senior, and stole 84 bases. It was up to Cost to make it work. "It’s definitely a lot," Cost said. (AOL.com)

Diamond Heels Wrap Up Summer Baseball

The newest edition of Diamond Heels will assemble at Boshamer Stadium this week with the 2024 fall semester beginning on Monday, August 19. Over the summer, numerous Tar Heels competed as part of the USA Baseball Summer Tour, Appalachian League, Cape Cod League (CCBL), Coastal Plain League, and Old North State League. Here's a recap. (GoHeels.com)

Orioles prospect Vance Honeycutt has always been fast. A growth spurt made him a ‘freak.’

Vance Honeycutt played shortstop at Salisbury High School in North Carolina. He played a few times in the outfield for his travel team, but the new position was somewhat of an experiment to see what the newcomer might bring to a UNC roster that already had an established shortstop. While center field might have been new, the speed required wasn’t. (The Baltimore Banner)

Kaleb Cost Excelling At Defensive Back, Covering Bases As Two-Sport Athlete

One trait that served Kaleb Cost well in the spring was time management. Cost doubles as a defensive back for UNC football and an outfielder for the Tar Heels' baseball team. In the spring, Cost began his days at 6:30 a.m. for team meetings with the football team, and he'd watch the team's practices before going over to play with the baseball team. (Inside Carolina)

Summer Baseball Q&A With Mason Yokum

UNC Relief Pitcher Mason Yokum: "I learned a lot about myself during the spring and what I needed to work on to carry over into next season. I bought into Coach Forbes' trust-the-process mentality and figured out what I could do to help the team better. I've been implementing that into summer baseball, building my confidence and trusting my stuff." (GoHeels.com)

Former Ivy League Pitcher Tom Chmielewski Seeks New Chapter in Chapel Hill

Tom Chmielewski knew that his Ivy League career would be coming to an end after the 2024 college baseball season. What he didn't know was how much earlier his last pitch as a Princeton Tiger would be. Before his final Ivy League season, he reached out to UNC pitching coach Bryant Gaines because he wanted to continue his collegiate pitching career. (Inside Carolina)

UNC Baseball Olympians Reflect On 1984 Games

Today, August 6, is the 40th anniversary of the start of the medal round of the first Olympic baseball tournament in Los Angeles "I'm fortunate I got to go to the Olympics as a baseball player," said B.J. Surhoff, former UNC All-America catcher, reflecting on the 1984 U.S. Olympic baseball team. "As a baseball player, you never really saw that as a path." (GoHeels.com)

Summer Baseball Q&A With Olin Johnson

What was it like taking the field for the Cape Cod League's workout day at Fenway Park? UNC Pitcher Olin Johnson: "That was a couple of days after I got here, so I didn't know what to expect, but everybody was hyped up. Historically, that's a ballpark you want to be at, and getting to go in the outfield, stand in front of the Green Monster, was really cool." (GoHeels.com)

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