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Tyler Zeller, North Carolina Upset Kentucky in 'Big' Win

An amalgamation of No. 10 Kentucky and North Carolina would make for quite a team. It was, quite literally, the Wildcats' perimeter players against North Carolina bigs in the Tar Heels' 75-73 win over Kentucky in Chapel Hill. Tyler Zeller was nearly unstoppable for UNC, fouling out Kentucky's only three legitimate post...

Studious Hakeem Nicks the Early Star of Rookie WR Class

It was the fluke catch of the week. Sunday night at the Meadowlands, Giants rookie receiver Hakeem Nicks caught a tipped pass that had been intended for Mario Manningham and carried it all the way to the end zone for a 62-yard touchdown against the Cardinals. It was a shake-your-head play -- the kind the defense can write...

Tar Heels Dominate in Detroit

This certainly wasn't the same Michigan State team we watched the past two weekends. But it was the same North Carolina team we all thought, back in November, was the best team in the country by a mile.If ever a national championship game felt like a coronation, it was 2009.There were reasons, over the past three months,...

Izzo Needs to Spark Morgan Once More

Tom Izzo has used words like "enigma" and "challenging" to describe Raymar Morgan. He has spoken of the difficulty he's had in finding the multi-talented junior forward to keep his mood up, and to play with consistency. In a year of challenges overcome at Michigan State, Morgan has represented one of Izzo's most persistent...

Do the Heels Have Any Holes?

As discussed here earlier in the week, there was a way for Villanova to beat North Carolina. They had to do it on the perimeter, where they were supposedly strong and the Tar Heels were supposedly weak. They had to do it by exploiting Carolina's suspect three-point shooting defense and driving against the Heels' weak...

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11/21/11 North Carolina Tar Heels Source: The News & Observer - Raleigh NC Wide receiver Dwight Jones continued his strong season with six catches for 105 yards.
11/07/11 North Carolina Tar Heels Source: The News & Observer - Raleigh NC After five unsuccessful appearances in the ACC championship game, Florida State took a cue from Sunday's opponent to finally break through and claim its first conference title in women's soccer.
10/31/11 North Carolina Tar Heels Source: The News & Observer - Raleigh NC The clichÃ© "a first time for everything" has been used a lot recently with the North Carolina women's soccer team.
10/24/11 North Carolina Tar Heels Source: The News & Observer - Raleigh NC The Detroit Lions kept teammate Jerome Harrison in their thoughts Sunday after the running back left the team because of a brain tumor.
10/10/11 North Carolina Tar Heels Source: The News & Observer - Raleigh NC College football writer J.P. Giglio is one of 60 voters in the AP Top 25 poll.