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The kickin’ hot sauce is stocked inside just about every NC refrigerator but is oddly unknown outside the Southeast.

TAR (32A: The ___ Heel State (North Carolina)) The TAR Heel State is a nickname for North Carolina, as well as the nickname of the University of North Carolina athletic teams, students ...

No foodstuff inspires greater loyalty inside Tar Heel borders than Texas Pete ... a jingle and a fleshed-out identity for its cowboy mascot. Still faceless, still wearing a hat shaped like ...

"While most of them were away boogieing wit da Hoodie, I was renting their tenting, breaking into tents to see what I could ...

Things weren’t much better at UNC. The Tar Heels’ beloved mascot, 5-year-old Ramses VIII, needed emergency surgery to repair an abdominal hernia suffered when he was kicked by a cow at Hogan ...

Five-star recruit Caleb Wilson announced his commitment to UNC basketball early Friday morning. Here's what it means for ...

NATIVE AND UNC TAR HEEL STANDOUT IS UP FOR ONE OF THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL, ONE THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SUCCESS ON THE FIELD. BUT EXCELLENCE OFF OF IT. JUST LIKE ANYBODY ...

Students from North Carolina’s Daily Tar Heel and Duke’s Chronicle newspapers play an annual basketball game of their own, ...

Trump met with Texas's Greg Abbott at the White House before later sitting down with one of his preferred political punching bags, California's Gavin Newsom.