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RALEIGH, N.C. — And Happy First Anniversary to college athletics’ NIL era. Roses, chocolates, maybe a Cameo message from your favorite college athlete all make for an appropriate celebratory gift. A year ago Friday, on July 1, 2021, the NCAA granted college athletes the right to profit off of their…

This week’s announcement was understandable given the state of college football TV contracts and the SEC’s own bold move last summer.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Maria Isabel Cipple Leon, a cancer patient at UNC Hospitals, was supposed to get married in a wedding at her church earlier this month.

Trailing by two with seconds left in the district championship game, Pete Nance dribbled up the floor, anticipated the double team coming, and whipped a pass to his Revere High School teammate for the game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Bacot’s draft stock spiked at the NCAA tournament, but for this business major, riding the NIL bubble and sticking around Chapel Hill is a “no-brainer.”

Psychologists call the feeling that people commonly exaggerate the presence of certain groups “symbolic threat”

Lennie Rosenbluth played an integral part in establishing the famed New York to North Carolina pipeline started by former coach Frank McGuire and continued under Dean Smith that helped UNC basketball cement itself as a national brand.

The three-time All-ACC talent led the Tar Heels to an undefeated season and the program’s first NCAA title in 1957.

Former Northwestern forward Pete Nance committed to North Carolina on Saturday as a graduate transfer, potentially giving coach Hubert Davis a key piece for another Final Four run.