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AARON BEARD Sports Writer.

North Carolina coach Bill Belichick speaks with a group of reporters during the Atlantic Coast Conference's NCAA college football media days, Thursday, July 24, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Aaron Beard)

Bill Belichick’s arrival at North Carolina headlines the NFL’s sideline influence in the ACC

July 24, 2025

The Atlantic Coast Conference has three former NFL head coaches leading its football programs this fall for the most of any league. That includes the headliner of Bill Belichick at North Carolina. Belichick coached the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl titles. He’s a 73-year-old first-timer as a college coach with the Tar Heels. Boston College’s Bill O’Brien is in his second season after a previous stint with the Houston Texans. Stanford has also hired former Indianapolis and Carolina coach Frank Reich as its interim coach for the 2025 season.

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Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney, with ACC commissioner Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Jim Phillips by his sides, looks on after winning the ACC championship NCAA college football game between Clemson and SMU, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Jacob Kupferman, File)

The ACC has moved past lawsuits and uncertainty. Commissioner Jim Phillips sees stable years ahead

July 22, 2025

The Atlantic Coast Conference is entering the 2025-26 sports season having moved past uncertainty from its legal fight with member schools Clemson and Florida State. Earlier this year, the league reached a settlement in those cases that reshaped the league’s revenue-sharing model. The league also saw ESPN pick up the option to extend its base-rights media deal with the league. That’s why commissioner Jim Phillips described recent months as “the restabilization of a great league” in an interview with The Associated Press. Phillips spoke at the opening of the league’s preseason football media days.

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FILE - North Carolina coach Bill Belichick watches his team during an NCAA college football practice, in Chapel Hill, N.C., March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)

Tar Heels players embrace new world as part of coach Bill Belichick’s first college team

June 10, 2025

North Carolina’s football players are working in a new world since the arrival of NFL coaching great Bill Belichick to take over the Tar Heels program. Belichick won six Super Bowls as coach of the New England Patriots. UNC receiver Jordan Shipp described his first reaction to Belichick’s hiring as realizing the man he called the “greatest coach of all time” was about to be his coach. Shipp and defensive back Will Hardy said Belichick’s sense of humor caught them off guard amid his all-business demeanor.

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Florida Panthers' Aleksander Barkov, right, celebrates his goal with Florida Panthers' Matthew Tkachuk (19) as Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Pyotr Kochetkov (52) looks on during the third period of Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker)

Hurricanes’ Game 2 loss to Panthers offers an unwelcome repeat of conference-final history from ’23

May 23, 2025

The Carolina Hurricanes have found themselves in the same dire position in the conference-final rematch against the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. Carolina lost 5-0 on Thursday night to drop the second straight home game to open this series. It’s a rematch of the 2023 series won by Florida by four one-goal margins. But Carolina is struggling to consistently get to its game against a tested and deep roster. Carolina has lost 14 straight conference-final games going back to sweeps in 2009, 2019 and 2023. The past six have come against the Panthers, who host Game 3 on Saturday.

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The Florida Panthers celebrate a goal by Gustav Forsling (42) during the first period of Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals against the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker)

Bennett, Verhaeghe help Panthers roll past Hurricanes 5-0, take 2-0 lead in Eastern final

May 22, 2025

Sam Bennett scored one of his two goals in Florida’s three-goal first period, Sergei Bobrovsky made 17 saves and the Panthers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-0 on Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference final. Gustav Forsling and Matthew Tkachuk also scored in another tone-setting opening 20 minutes for the reigning Stanley Cup champions, while Carter Verhaeghe had three assists. Bennett scored a second time by skating in to clean up an attempt at the right post in the final minute of the second period to make it 4-0, ending a long shift in Carolina’s end prolonged by Hurricanes defenseman Brent Burns being stuck on the ice after breaking his stick. Aleksander Barkov scored midway through the third as punctuation.

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Florida Panthers' Carter Verhaeghe (23) celebrates his goal against the Carolina Hurricanes during first period of Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker)

Panthers look every bit like reigning Stanley Cup champs in routing Hurricanes to open Eastern final

May 20, 2025

The Florida Panthers showed their championship mettle from last year’s run to the Stanley Cup by taking control early in their 5-2 win against the Carolina Hurricanes to open the Eastern Conference final Tuesday night. Florida scored two tone-setting goals in the first period and never trailed. They also got goals from five different players. That came roughly 48 hours after they had to win a Game 7 on the road to advance here. They beat a Hurricanes team that had won all five of their home games in the playoffs so far.

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Carolina Hurricanes' Sebastian Aho (20) has his shot frozen by Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) during the third period of Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Eastern Conference finals in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker)

Reigning Stanley Cup champ Florida Panthers beat Carolina Hurricanes 5-2 in Eastern final opener

May 20, 2025

Carter Verhaeghe and Aaron Ekblad scored two tone-setting first-period goals while Sergei Bobrovsky remained strong in net as the reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-2 in Tuesday night’s opener of their Eastern Conference final series. A.J. Greer added a goal by finishing off a perfect 2-on-1 transition chance in the second period for Florida. Sam Bennett and Eetu Luostarinen scored in the third period. Sebastian Aho and Jackson Blake scored Carolina’s lone goals in the opener of a series that is a rematch of the 2023 Eastern final. Game 2 is Thursday night at Carolina.

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