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Henri Veesaar tears ACL, will miss entire NBA season
The Atlanta Hawks announced on Monday that former Tar Heel Henri Veesaar tore his right ACL during a workout on Sept. 15 and will miss the entire NBA season. The 22-year-old Estonian was an all-ACC performer for Carolina last season, averaging 17 points, 8.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.2 blocks while shooting 42.6% from 3-point […]
ACC Power Rankings: After Week 3
We are now three weeks/four weeks (depending on what you want to count the abbreviated Week 0 as) into the 2026 college football season. At this point, all but three ACC teams have at least one conference game in the books. That includes our own North Carolina Tar Heels, although that didn’t go great, as […]
The UNC Sports Week Ahead: September 21st-27th
After a busy week last week, we are at a bit of a pause for sports on the calendar. Once play concluded on Sunday, the only action for anyone wearing Carolina Blue is going to be from both tennis squads continuing ITA play until Friday. The football team is also taking their last week off […]
AP Top 25 Poll: After Week 3
Week 3 of the college football season featured our own North Carolina Tar Heels going in conference for the first time in 2026. It…could have gone better. While they got off to a decent start against Clemson, the Tigers rallied and UNC didn’t have many answers once the rally started. Elsewhere around the country, there […]
UNC vs. Clemson: Winners, Losers, and Honorable Mentions
Lightning has hated UNC for years. It’s going to be tough to escape thinking “what if” there wasn’t a lightning strike within eight miles of Death Valley during the fourth quarter of the UNC loss to Clemson on Saturday. This isn’t to say the delay was the reason why Carolina lost, but it absolutely changed […]
So, how do you see the rest of UNC’s football season playing out?
That’s not the “Are we better or worse than you thought?” question, since we did that one yesterday. No, today we attempt the impossible when it comes to college football: predict the future. College football reliably delivers shockers, and sometimes it delivers two in one game. UNC dominating Clemson to start the game was shocking, […]
UNC women’s volleyball wraps nonconference play with weekend split
The 25th-ranked UNC women’s volleyball team collected a 3-1 loss and a 3-1 win at Nebraska this weekend, giving it a 5-3 record heading into ACC play. The Tar Heels opened with the top-ranked Huskers on Friday before returning to the Devaney Center to face FGCU on Saturday. Playing in a true road environment for […]
A dominant start and late collapse lead to a mixed report card for UNC Football’s loss to Clemson
Welcome back to writing these, me. After two games of looking like a bad team playing against worse teams, UNC looked, for about 25 minutes — in Death Valley, no less — like… a decent team playing against a bad team. And then, well… the rest of the game happened, wherein they looked simply like […]
Benjamin Hall earns Player of the Game in career performance against Clemson
UNC started off so well against Clemson yesterday afternoon that Tigers fans started clearing the stands to go blow off some steam. Fortunately for them, things got much better for them in the second half, which ultimately led to the extension of UNC’s losing streak to the boys in purple and gold. Despite the issues […]
Three takeaways from UNC’s wildly frustrating loss to Clemson
I’m not even sure where to begin. When Clemson punted with 7:06 left in the 2nd quarter, Carolina ran it back to the Clemson 46 while holding a 17-3 lead. A 14-point lead, with the ball in field position that often results in points, had UNC fans feeling confident. To that point in the game […]
Are the Tar Heels better or worse than you thought they’d be?
It feels a bit hard to believe, but UNC’s disheartening 28-20 loss to Clemson marks the quarter point of their college football schedule. Three games is not a huge sample size, but it seems like enough to get a feel for how the team is and reconsider expectations for the rest of the year. Carolina […]
Clemson rallies to hand UNC their first loss of the season
Sometimes sports can very predictable in really silly ways. Going into halftime of today’s game between UNC and Clemson, anybody outside the Tar Heel fanbase probably said that the mojo was on their side and they had a great chance to pull off a needed win in Death Valley to end a horrendous losing streak […]
UNC vs. Clemson Live Discussion
One of the biggest games of UNC’s 2026 season is here: the Tar Heels are in Death Valley to take on Clemson in what should’ve been an opportunity to earn a signature win. That said, it’s really hard to call it “one of the biggest games,” but there will still be a number of people […]
How to watch UNC’s road matchup against Clemson
The Tar Heels will take the field this afternoon against Clemson in Death Valley. This is one of the more interesting matchups between these two teams in quite some time, but as many of you know, it isn’t for good reasons. Yes, UNC are 2-o going into this game, but it’s unclear how much of […]
UNC vs. Clemson: Who you got?
While a game against an FCS team in East Tennessee State was always one they should have won, UNC football took care of business last weekend, as they beat the Buccaneers 35-3. The victory took the Tar Heels to 2-0 on the young season, but now is the point of the season where we’re really […]
Time for Bill Belichick to deliver some evidence of coaching greatness
Bill Belichick was hired on December 11, 2024. That was 646 days ago. While some learning curve could be expected, this experiment rapidly approaches the two-year mark. The entirety of Belichick’s time at UNC to date has lurched from one embarrassment to another, both on the field and off. Yet, UNC yesterday, in its announcement […]
UNC Roster Spending Below CFB Average
In The Athletic’s latest study on 2026 NCAA college football roster budgets, the University of North Carolina ranks in the bottom 40% of Power 4 schools outlined. While roster budgets in the current day and age of Name, Image, and Likeness remain murky, The Athletic’s conversations with general managers, coaches, athletic department personnel, and agents […]
UNC women’s soccer knocks off #2 Duke
In front of the second-largest home crowd in program history, the seventh-ranked Carolina women’s soccer team rallied for a 4-2 win over second-ranked Duke on Thursday. The 6,791 fans who showed up to Dorrance Field (a number surpassed only by a 1995 NCAA semifinal crowd of 7,212) saw the Tar Heels take a 1-0 lead […]
UNC hopes to end their seven-game losing streak against Clemson
As the North Carolina Tar Heels prepare for their first true road test of the season, let’s take a closer look at their opponent this weekend, the Clemson Tigers. The Opponent All-time Record 811–478–44, 27-24 in bowl games, 6-5 in the CFP Best Former player There are three options here. William “the Refrigerator” Perry, Dwight […]
Which offense is worse: UNC 2025 or Clemson 2026?
After watching LSU destroy Clemson, we all wondered how much of that was LSU and how much of that Clemson? The following Saturday, Clemson struggled mightily with Georgia Southern, while Louisiana Tech put up a much better fight against LSU than Clemson did. As a result, the answer seems to be a bit of both. […]
Three Keys to UNC’s week 3 matchup against Clemson
North Carolina is 2-0 for the first time since 2024. If they would like to make it 3-0 for the first time since the same year, they will have to beat Clemson (something they haven’t done since 2010) and do it on the road (something they haven’t done since 2001). Here are three things to […]
Steve Belichick to resign as part of UNC investigation
Steve Belichick has resigned his position of defensive coordinator at the University of North Carolina. His resignation comes after an indefinite medical leave that was announced on August 6, at the beginning of fall camp. WRAL has previously reported that an internal investigation by UNC has been asking about possible drug use by Steve Belichick […]
Steve Belichick Resigns
Steve Belichick has resigned his position of defensive coordinator at the University of North Carolina. His resignation comes after an indefinite medical leave that was announced on August 6, at the beginning of fall camp. WRAL has previously reported that an internal investigation by UNC has been asking about possible drug use by Steve Belichick […]
Which coach needs a win more: Bill Belichick or Dabo Swinney?
UNC will travel to Clemson to play the Tigers on Saturday in a game that could potentially have huge ramifications on each team’s respective coach. We’ve covered Bill Belichick’s tenure thus far at UNC pretty thoroughly here at Tar Heel Blog; needless to say, it’s been a bumpy year-plus for the UNC headman. Belichick entered […]
Former UNC QB Gio Lopez off to hot start for Wake Forest
Former UNC starting quarterback Gio Lopez is off to a hot start in Winston-Salem. Two weeks into the 2026 season, Lopez has the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 2-0, and albeit against weaker opponents, Lopez looks like a different quarterback in black and gold. Taking the Leap in 2026 Let’s compare Lopez over the first two […]
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