Ranking the Food Sponsored Bowl Games
Bowl games with food sponsors? Which bowl makes you hungry?
Miscellany
Merry Christmas!
From all of us here at Tar Heel Blog, a huge thanks to you our readers for your continued support of this site. Here is hoping each of you have a Merry Christmas.
The Breakfast of Champions
The latest in American ingenuity. The UNC Pop Tart.
We're Here!
It looks like the move is complete. Save for some lingering domain name issues, everything appears to be in order. First of all let me say we are excited to join T.H. and the SB Nation community. B...
A Brief History of the UNC Athletics Web Presence
UNC announced today that the athletic department's website Tar Heel Blue was transitioning over to GoHeels.com as of July 1st. It may appear to be a distinction without a difference, as the latter...
Gumby's Pizza Abandons Chapel Hill
Yet another of the restaurants that helped destroy my svelte figure in college has closed, as Gumby's Pizza, the dependable late night delivery joint, has closed after 18 years on Franklin Street....
Desperately Seeking Opinions on Beans and/or George Wendt
(I made that same headline joke the last time we did one of these, and no one got it. It's like y'all had lives in the early nineties or something.) Anyway, the SB Nation Mothership would like your...
Also, Newspapers: You're Still Doing It Wrong
How the News & Observer business model is burying their journalism.
Men's Lacrosse a Four Seed in the NCAA Tournament
UNC's men's lacrosse team was named the fourth seed in the sixteen-team tournament yesterday, with an opening round matchup against Delaware on the 16th. Provided they win that, they'll meet...
"Everyone who cheered for me was a total effing moron."
A little background on this: the spring recreational running season on the East Coast pretty much ends in early May. After that, the weather gets to hot for putting together a great race, so...
How UNC (Almost) Won the Directors' Cup
You may have heard that the Tar Heels took second in the annual season-long, cross-sport, intercollegiate competition that is the Directors' Cup. It's their fourth time taking second, following...
Your Weekend NCAA News
Lacrosse, tennis and softball, oh my.
North Carolina Makes the NCAA's in Lacrosse
An entire year's worth of lacrosse news.
George Tomasic Passes Away
George Tomasic, owner and proprietor of the Tar Heel Barber Shop and Chapel Hill institution for sixty years passed away from colon cancer at 72 this weekend. In addition to being my barber for...
One Post-Election Observation
The mood in Washington D.C. over the last twelve hours has been a rising tide of jubilation cresting to a general demeanor of cheerfulness. People are greeting each other on the Metro with a...
The ACC Controls Your World
Living in Washington, D.C., I'm subjected to an endless torrent of election speculation, armchair politicking and unceasing punditry on a daily basis, all of which I let pass by unheeded so I can...
David Foster Wallace Dead at 46
It's not UNC related, or even college-athletics related, but I feel compelled to mention it anyway. David Foster Wallace was found dead tonight. I associate my graduation from Carolina in some...
UNC Gets Its Hands Out of Women's Underwear
If you really want underwear with an interlocking NC on it, act fast because Carolina is dropping out of the Victoria's Secret Pink Collegiate Collection. I don't really care one way or the other...
Happy Fourth
Go grill something.
It's Carolina Blue, Thank You Very Much
But the important thing is that kids are being exposed to such positive messages at an early age.
The ACC Gets It's First National Champion of 2008
As was to be expected, given the conference's long, storied tradition in the sport, ACC member Boston College is this year's NCAA Ice Hockey national champions. I'm assured by Yankees of my...
Venerable Venable Vanquished
As my campus visits have been infrequent - this weekend will be the first time since 2006 I've set foot on North Campus - I was totally unaware that Venable Hall had been demolished. I owe my...
What Kind of Blog Is This Anyway?
(Look! Filler that should have been posted two weeks ago!)Still no sports news in the long, dark teatime of exam week, unless you want to talk about steriods (I don't) or the random games I come...
Graduation Day
Chad Orzel pokes around the NCAA's horrible website to take a look at the graduation rates of scholarship athletes. For the most part, he finds that athletes are graduating at the same or slightly...
UNC Third in the Director's Cup
Is there anything that can compete with the excitement of the NBA Draft? How about a thrity-six sport year-long competition nobody cares about? Because those results were also released today, and...
We Be Haute Couture, Y'all
Occasionally, I'm reminded I live in California. You'd think I wouldn't need these reminders, what with the never-changing weather, Pacific Ocean, and all those California license plates I see in...
