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September 10, 2001 | General
Saturday, September 8, 2001
FB: Brown's Heart Still in N.C.
Raleigh News & Observer/Barry Svrluga
AUSTIN, Texas -- The rug under Mack Brown's feet once was on the back of a steer, a hide that is as Texan as rodeos and red meat. Brown leaned back in a burnt-orange chair, the omnipresent longhorn logo above his breast pocket, a huge bull's head mounted overhead, and smiled...
FB: UNC Let Curry Down, Not Other Way Around
Raleigh News & Observer/Ned Barnett
Carolina, stumbling into the season with an 0-2 start, is likely to be beaten by Texas today. The sight of 0-3 will be depressing enough, but the sadder scene will be what a bad loss will make inevitable -- the yanking of Ronald Curry as quarterback...
WSOC: Reserves Spark UNC Women in Soccer
Raleigh News & Observer/Staff Reports
Top-ranked North Carolina got three goals from reserves and two from defenders as the UNC women's soccer team defeated Charlotte 5-0 in the second game of the Carolina Nike Classic at Fetzer Field...
FB: UNC Return of the Mack
Durham Herald-Sun/Neil Amato
AUSTIN, Texas -- Kenderick Allen sat in his living room in Bogalusa, La., on Dec. 3, 1997, with two out-of-town guests, Mack Brown and Donnie Thompson. Allen was a prep All-America football player at Bogalusa High. Brown was the head coach at North Carolina, Thompson the defensive ends coach...
FB: Brown's Summit Will Have Carolina Blue Sky
Greensboro News & Record/Rob Daniels
AUSTIN, Texas -- One day, Mack Brown will retire from the University of Texas, but whether he walks off into the sunset or leaves under somewhat less glorious circumstances, the dusk will take him to Grandfather Mountain...
WSOC: North Carolina Upend Pesky Charlotte With Shutout
Charlotte Orbserver/Staff Reports
CHAPEL HILL -- Five Tar Heels scored as North Carolina's top-ranked women's soccer team shut out Charlotte 5-0 on Friday. Alyssa Ramsey and Carmen Watley each had a goal and an assist for the Tar Heels (2-0)...
Friday, September 7, 2001
FB: UNC Bracing for a Texas Blitz
Greensboro News & Record/Rob Daniels
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Texas Longhorns employ campus police and private security to protect the privacy of their football practices. But one secret isn't so secret...
Thursday, September 6, 2001
FB: Heels Banged Up Preparing For UT
Raleigh News & Observer/Staff Report
North Carolina entered this week in very good health as
it prepares to play No. 4 Texas at noon Saturday in
Austin, Texas. But the Tar Heels (0-2) have suffered
several injuries that could affect their depth against the
Longhorns (1-0)...
FB: Just Like Hoops: Peppers May Play Offense And Defense
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
John Bunting is considering using 6-6, 285-pound defensive end Julius Peppers in
goal-line situations on offense...
Wednesday, September 5, 2001
FB: Heels Trying To Believe
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- If there is one thing that particularly
bothered John Bunting over the past couple of days, as
he stewed over a troubling 23-7 loss at Maryland, it is
what one of his players muttered after the misery
Saturday in Byrd Stadium...
FB: Peppers Would Welcome New Goal
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- People know Julius Peppers as an
All-America defensive end, or perhaps a basketball
forward. Well, how about Julius Peppers, goal-line
offensive option?...
FB: Texas Trip Rotten Timing For UNC
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- John Bunting refused to call the Maryland loss a harbinger for the
rest of North Carolina's season, something the Virginia game became two years ago
in a 3-8 season.
FB: Back On Their Heels
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
CHAPEL HILL -- Anybody with a soul knew this was going to be a difficult week for
John Bunting.
FB: UNC, Brown Get Reacquainted Saturday
Chapel Hills News/By Eddy Landreth
CHAPEL HILL -- The North Carolina football team will see a familiar face this week when the Tar Heels
travel to Austin, Texas, to face the fourth-ranked Longhorns at noon Saturday on ABC television...
FB: Heels Face Tough Row To Hoe
Chapel Hills News/By Eddy Landreth
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina football fans had better brace themselves because it could get worse
before it gets better for the Tar Heels...
FB: Tar Heels Brace For Full-Speed, Bumpy Ride
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- If any North Carolina Tar Heel is discouraged by the team's 0-2 start or its
impending game at fourth-ranked Texas, he'll jump ship at his own peril. This team, coach John
Bunting said Tuesday, is a speedboat -- even if the results suggest a dingy...
FB: Texas Receivers Boast Speed, Lots of Game, Familiar Name
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina runs into its past Saturday when it plays at Texas, led by
former UNC coach Mack Brown. But it's the name of another ex-UNC coach who has
the Tar Heels most concerned...
FB: Tar Heels Prepare For Showdown in Texas
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
North Carolina's football team is reeling. On Saturday UNC will play against the man whom many connected
with the program consider responsible for starting a three-year slide
out of the national rankings and into turmoil...
Tuesday, September 4, 2001
FB: Winds Of ACC Change
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
Although it's ridiculously early, look who's on the rise in ACC football: Maryland and
Wake Forest...
Monday, September 3, 2001
FB: Heels Must Find Way To Run
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
When Willie Parker took North Carolina's first handoff
Saturday and headed left, when he bounced outside
tackle, beat a linebacker to a spot and headed upfield, it
seemed as if all might be well with the Tar Heels. Parker
romped 77 yards down the sideline, scored a
touchdown, and celebrated. A cure for UNC's running
game...
FB: Pirates, Heels Appear Ready To Lose Footing
Raleigh News & Observer/By Caulton Tudor
The beginning of football seasons can be like a round of
golf. A birdie on No. 1 doesn't guarantee you of going
on to post a great score, but an opening triple bogey
almost surely will ruin your day...
FB: Monday Morning Quarterback
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
North Carolina fell to 0-2 and 0-1 in the ACC with a 23-7 loss at Maryland. The
Terrapins won Coach Ralph Friedgen's debut, taking the lead with a safety in the
second quarter and scoring two fourth-quarter touchdowns. UNC has scored seven
points in both of its last two trips to College Park...
FB: Bunting Not Pressing Panic Button Yet
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
With 10 games to be played, coach John Bunting said, it's no time for the North Carolina Tar
Heels to freak out. But at 0-2 and with an impending game at fifth-ranked Texas, UNC's coaches
are undeniably looking for answers and open to change...
Sunday, September 2, 2001
FB: More Questions For Heels
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- When Darian Durant strode
onto the sod at Byrd Stadium with 6:04 remaining in the
third quarter on Saturday, that could have been it, some
sort of symbolic transformation...
FB: Friedgen Gets Attention Bunting Seeks
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
It is the kind of scene John Bunting would love to play
out in Chapel Hill in the coming weeks and years, singing
the North Carolina alma mater with a clan of fans clad in
school colors...
FB: One Good Play, Little Success Rest Of Way
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The Maryland offense hit its stride in the fourth quarter
Saturday. North Carolina's was one and done...
FB: This Much Is Settled: UNC Unsettled at QB
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- North Carolina senior Ronald Curry doesn't want to play
anything but quarterback, but freshman Darian Durant no longer is content to play the
dutiful backup - and UNC coach John Bunting is starting to waver, too...
FB: Terps Debut With a Bang
Washington Post/By Josh Barr
Some players screamed at the top of their lungs, their helmets raised in triumph. Others waved their arms at the fans behind their bench, urging them to cheer louder. One assistant coach gleefully jumped on another assistant's back. The head coach grabbed a microphone and led the student body in singing the fight song...
