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It feels as though Reidsville High School (N.C.) dual-sport junior sensation Kendre Harrison has been at about half of the UNC football program's home games since he landed an offer from Mack Brown and his staff well over a year ago. Perhaps that's a bit of a stretch. Nevertheless, it's more than obvious by now that the 6-foot-7, 245-pound bruiser enjoys spending time in Chapel Hill.
On Saturday morning, Harrison posted the latest version of his now-routine message: "At UNC today! GDTBATH." He's in Kenan Stadium watching the Tar Heels (3-2, 0-1 ACC) host the Pitt Panthers (4-0, 0-0 ACC).
At UNC today! GDTBATH
— k̷e̷n̷d̷r̷e̷’̷ ̷h̷a̷r̷r̷i̷s̷o̷n̷ (@SupremeDre8) October 5, 2024
UNC hopes to get back on the right track following back-to-back losses to James Madison and rival Duke.
Harrison ranks No. 9 overall and No. 1 among tight ends on the 247Sports 2026 Football Composite.
The site lists the chiseled backboard-destroyer as a center on the hardwood, as Harrison appears at No. 47 overall and No. 5 among big men on the 247Sports 2026 Basketball Composite.
UNC basketball head coach Hubert Davis and his crew formally entered the Kendre Harrison sweepstakes with an offer of their own back in June.
He's currently down to a top six of UNC, Miami, Tennessee, Penn State, Florida State, and Oregon.
At the time of this article's publishing, the UNC football team is locked in a 17-17 tie against Pitt at the half.
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There are questions surrounding Bill Belichick as the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels. Yes, he's a six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach, but the 73-year-old has never coached at the college level before. North Carolina is in an interesting position. In Belichick, the Tar Heels have a head coach who is well-versed in the business side of football as well as the Xs and Os. “Dealing with the revenue share the NIL packages, agents, if you will, representatives of players, all those kind of things — that’s the life we’ve lived,” Belichick said on Wednesday, according to Barkley Truax of On3. “We’re very comfortable with that.” College players are getting paid not just through NIL deals, but from the school directly via revenue sharing. NIL is one thing, but revenue sharing has essentially created a salary cap. Being able to pay student-athletes has allowed programs to recruit players and keep them out of the transfer portal. Each school at the Power Four level can now distribute $20.5 million a season to its student-athletes. At most schools, a majority of that will go to the football program. That essentially makes every offseason a bit like NFL free agency, and that's where Belichick's many years in professional football will pay off for North Carolina. He has qualified help as well: Michael Lombardi, who spent more than three decades in the NFL, first as a scout and then as a front-office member. He was the general manager of the New England Patriots from 2014 to 2016, and now he's Belichick's GM at North Carolina. It's a newer position cropping up in college football, but it's become essential. Coaches like Belichick focus on the football side of things, while the GMs have become responsible for team building, NIL, some recruiting and, now, revenue sharing. The NFL has a salary cap, and as Belichick explains it, college football programs will essentially have to operate in the same manner. “We don’t have an unlimited amount of money,” Belichick explained. “Which, we didn’t have in the NFL either. So, you have to figure out how to distribute it and how to, let’s say, negotiate, and also manage the assets and the resources that you have — which are good here at Carolina. But again, it’s not like we have a blank checkbook, nor does any other team. “So management of the team, the players, the salaries — or the payments that they get and so forth — are, again, something that we’ve we’ve dealt with for a long time. You have to value certain players in certain positions in order to afford to put together a good team.” When it comes to winning, few coaches have been better than Belichick. Throw in his ability to run a team, and the help he's getting from people like Lombardi, and North Carolina seems poised to thrive in this new era of college football.
Padres already demoting one of their trade-deadline acquisitions
The Padres announced they’ve optioned JP Sears to Triple-A El Paso. They recalled reliever Sean Reynolds and will go with a nine-man bullpen in the short term. Sears will spend at least 15 days in the minors unless he’s brought up to replace a player going on the injured list. San Diego acquired Sears alongside Mason Miller in last week’s massive deadline deal. The 29-year-old southpaw made his team debut Monday night. He allowed five runs in as many innings on 10 hits and a walk against the Diamondbacks. Sears took the loss in a 6-2 defeat. He’d carried a 4.95 earned run average over 22 starts with the A’s. Monday's performance pushed his ERA to 5.12 across 116 innings. It’s a bottom-10 mark among pitchers to log at least 100 frames. Sears had the highest home run rate among that group, offsetting his nearly league-average 20.3% strikeout rate and solid 6% walk percentage. This is the first time in two-and-a-half years that Sears heads to the minors. He broke camp with the A’s in 2023 and has been in the majors since then. Sears has also avoided the injured list for that entire time. As a result, he’s tied for fifth in MLB with 87 starts since the beginning of the ’23 season. The durability is the big selling point, as his production (4.62 ERA/4.56 SIERA) over that stretch is that of a fifth or sixth starter. The demotion shouldn’t have any impact on Sears’ service trajectory. He has already surpassed the three-year mark and will qualify for arbitration next winter. He’s under team control for three seasons beyond this one. While he’ll probably be back up at some point this year, it may require an injury elsewhere in the rotation. San Diego optioned Randy Vásquez over the weekend. They have a four-man rotation of Dylan Cease, Nick Pivetta, Yu Darvish and deadline acquisition Nestor Cortes. Darvish and Cortes will get the ball for the next two outings. San Diego is off Thursday and could turn back to Pivetta and Cease on extra rest for their first two games of the weekend series against the Red Sox. That’d point to the series finale on Aug. 10 as Michael King’s return date. King threw 61 pitches in what is expected to be his final rehab start on Sunday, via the MLB.com injury tracker. He’d be on six days' rest for his first MLB appearance since he went on the injured list in late May with a nerve problem in his throwing shoulder.
Jerry Jones takes another jab at Micah Parsons over contract stalemate
The Dallas Cowboys have a big problem on their hands right now. Micah Parsons has formally requested to be traded, and he took to social media to vent his concerns and frustration with his contract extension situation. However, team owner Jerry Jones isn't ready to budge. If anything, the controversial business mogul doesn't sound too worried about that. Talking to the media, he implied that he had already shaken hands on an extension with Parsons, so he just has to wait now: "I bought the Dallas Cowboys with a handshake," Jones said, per The Athletic's Jon Machota. "It took about 30 seconds. I gave the number, shook hands, the details we worked out later." Jones, one of the most successful businessmen of his generation, pretty much stated that he wouldn't change the way he does business. "Just so you understand the way that I communicate with people that I negotiate with. Let's leave it at that," Jones continued. "There's is no question that in the case of a player contract, you have to have it in writing. All parties do. We have a contract in writing, yet we're still talking about renegotiating, so so much for that." Parsons has every right to feel frustrated. He's one of the best pass-rushers in the game, and he's the youngest in the short list of superstars at the position. The Cowboys have a long history of dragging out negotiations for as long as they can, and that's usually rubbed their players the wrong way. Parsons is still under contract, and the Cowboys can technically wait to give him an extension because the market isn't likely to go any higher after T.J. Watt already got a deal done. But sometimes, it's not just about money, and these power struggles are terrible for team morale.
Yankees Pitchers Inching Toward Their Last Weeks in Pinstripes
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