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1 week ago | tarheelblog.com | Matt Ferenchick

After being a member of the 2005 North Carolina Tar Heels national championship-winning men’s basketball team, Jawad Williams had a playing career that took him around the world, but did include some time in the NBA. He didn’t end his time on the court until 2022, and since then has stayed in the game on the coaching side of things. Now earlier this week, that led him to a new job in the NBA, and back to where he grew up.

1 week ago | tarheelblog.com | Matt Ferenchick

Stephen Lew-Imagn Images While we’re still over two months away from the start of college football season, we are starting to get into preparation season. One of the events of the summers months that has gained increasing prominence in recent years is the Manning Passing Academy, and this year, the North Carolina Tar Heels will be represented. Quarterbacks Max Johnson and Gio Lopez will both get to show their stuff at the annual gathering of some of the best QBs in the college game.

1 week ago | tarheelblog.com | Brandon Anderson

Photo by Tyler Schank/NCAA Photos via Getty Images I’ll be honest: I love chirping in sports. I know that chirping isn’t the most fun when it isn’t your team doing it, but I do enjoy some good ol’ fashioned trash talking. It seems like NC State head coach Will Wade doesn’t shy away from the smoke from what I’ve learned about him so far. In fact, he very much welcomes it, and I actually respect it.

1 week ago | tarheelblog.com | Matt Ferenchick

Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images Not long after the news came out that the North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball team would be facing Kentucky in this year’s ACC-SEC Challenge, we got the news of who the UNC women would be taking on. On December 4th, the Tar Heels will be hitting the road to take on 2025 Final Four team Texas in a clash in Austin. Bring on the .

2 weeks ago | tarheelblog.com | Matt Ferenchick

Photo by C. Morgan Engel/NCAA Photos via Getty Images A couple weeks ago, we here at Tar Heel Blog wrote about North Carolina Tar Heels’ golfer David Ford, and how he won the right to go straight from the college ranks to the PGA Tour. He did that by topping the PGA Tour University rankings that the organization runs for up and coming college players. As it turned out, that would be far from the only accolade Ford came away with for this past season.