By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – For eight innings Sunday evening, North Carolina’s season appeared to be slipping toward the same hard edge that had cut short its previous June. Southern California had the lead, the ball…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC — North Carolina needed poise after a painful Friday. It needed length from its starting pitcher after a bullpen-draining NCAA Tournament. It needed enough offense to quiet a Southern California team that…
By Gene Galin Chapel Hill, NC — Hours before North Carolina and Southern California met Friday in an NCAA Baseball Super Regional at Boshamer Stadium, some of the most important work of the afternoon was taking place away from the…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC — North Carolina had the crowd, the lead, the starter and the early command Friday afternoon at Bryson Field at Boshamer Stadium. What the Tar Heels did not have, when the game…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC — North Carolina did not leave the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional final to drama, doubt or Monday. The Tar Heels scored early, defended cleanly and leaned on a bullpen that turned East…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC — North Carolina opened NCAA Tournament play with the kind of performance built for June: clean defense, early offense, a dominant start and just enough late pressure to turn a tense regional…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – Foundations and Early Legacy (1927–1980) From its 1927 inception, Kenan Stadium was designed not as a mere athletic utility but as a picturesque landmark of the university’s vernacular landscape. Nestled within…
Chapel Hill, NC – Kevin Thomas, a 6-7 wing from Chester, Pa., has signed to play for the University of North Carolina men’s basketball team. Thomas played for head coach David Roe at Sagemont Prep in Weston, Fla., where he helped…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – The North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s spring Board of Directors meeting delivered one of the most consequential weeks in recent memory for high school athletics in the state, adding girls’…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Chapel Hill, NC – Navigating the current college basketball landscape is less like traditional recruiting and more like covering the dating scene at a local middle school—it is fluid, chaotic, and governed by a strange…