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Tar Heel Rundown: September 26
September 25, 2013 | General
Reminder: there will be lots of basketball content today, with interviews starting around 3 p.m. That's also the same time Marcus Paige will be conducting his live chat. We hope you'll stop by the chat, and then check back on the site throughout the afternoon, evening and in the morning for more content.
Football
In honor of Military Appreciation Day, Carolina is looking for photos of military personnel stationed abroad and wearing UNC gear or otherwise supporting the Tar Heels. Email them and they'll find a good home this weekend...Check back on the site later today for an Adam Lucas column on a very unique part of UNC-ECU history...The defensive challenge is very different this week against ECU's pass-happy attack...Norkeithus Otis is stealing the show for the Tar Heel defense, perhaps because he's back wearing his favorite jersey...Wouldn't you kind of expect the ECU student paper to know that "Tar Heels" is two words?...Good look at why Saturday's game is so important from ECU's historical perspective...
O-line issues could be central to some early offensive struggles. "I think we're improving, but we're improving too slowly," says James Hurst...Weather for Saturday's game against ECU is looking tremendous...WSJ: "Declining student attendance is an illness that has been spreading for years nationwide." The story focuses on Georgia, but could be applicable at any major school in the country...Good look at the sweet paint job being put down for the game:
@Tar_Heels_Turf working hard to get the field ready for Military Appreciation Day. #GoHeels pic.twitter.com/BiB3XDvhCP
— Jason Freeman (@UNCFootball) September 25, 2013
Basketball
A season in review piece on James Michael McAdoo's sophomore campaign...Autographed basketballs go on sale Oct. 1. Amazing stat in that story: UNC has raised almost $1 million for charity through sale of signed basketballs...And yes, the players do take that lesson about service with them when they leave Chapel Hill. Here's two pictures from a random day (that happens to be yesterday) that show their community involvement:
Our POSSE along w/ @DGreen_14 & Jeff Ayres serving dinner yesterday to wounded warriors. Love my organization!@spurs pic.twitter.com/CjoY9EgIxO
— Lauren Sokol (@Sokesss) September 26, 2013
The @suns Kendall Marshall and PJ Tucker take part in Rebuilding Together event at US Airways Center. pic.twitter.com/ZDEUNTMl30
— Shawn Deloney (@The_Real_SD) September 25, 2013
Olympic sports
Volleyball opened the ACC season with a 3-0 sweep of NC State at Carmichael. If you think the Tar Heels have had good success against the Wolfpack lately, you're right:
Carolina has won the most recent meeting with NC State in 13 of the 15 sports in which the two schools compete head to head.
— Adam Lucas (@jadamlucas) September 26, 2013
Today's games
Women's soccer plays at Pittsburgh at 7 p.m. in a game that can be seen on ESPN3.
Tar Heels in the NFL
The NYC media was in a tizzy after some Hakeem Nicks comments, but there's no rift between Nicks and Eli Manning.
Today in Tar Heel history
Sept. 26, 1981: Dick Crum and the Tar Heels whipped Boston College, 56-14, at Kenan Stadium in the days before this was a conference game. Rather unhappy side note: the return game in this series was in 1984, when UNC went to Chestnut Hill and ran into Doug Flutie, losing 52-20.
Long read
Good Chapel Hill Magazine feature on Mama Dip--both the restaurant and the person, and how those two came to be one and the same.
