David Glenn

North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick and his general manager, Mike Lombardi, have attracted national headlines for many reasons, including their creative branding of the Tar Heels’ program as the “33rd NFL franchise.”

The first full week of National Football League preseason games, which concluded Sunday night, offered a reminder of the professional league’s heavy Atlantic Coast Conference flavor, especially at the most important position on the field.

When legendary gridiron leader Bill Belichick takes the field for the first time as North Carolina’s head coach, he almost certainly will be an underdog.

Four months after the Atlantic Coast Conference announced the settlement of its dueling lawsuits with long-standing members Clemson and Florida State, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the league assured itself of — at most — only short-term stability.

Rulings and changes in the NCAA extend well beyond names, images and likenesses. Here’s a breakdown of some other things shifting the NCAA landscape soon.

With Louisville competing in the College World Series this weekend, the Atlantic Coast Conference will be represented in that eight-team event for the 19th consecutive time.

When Scott Forbes holds the first team meeting for his North Carolina baseball players each year, he lists the national championship among the group’s most prominent goals.

Here are four key questions and answers as the Carolina Hurricanes compete in the “Final Four,” or the Eastern Conference finals of the 2025 National Hockey League playoffs, and battle the Florida Panthers in a best-of-seven clash.

Just 11 months after hosting the 2024 U.S. Open in Pinehurst, the Old North State is welcoming the golf world to the 2025 PGA Championship this week in Charlotte, and two former UNC standouts are part of the star-studded field.