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UNC-TV adopts state magazine
Program to show
new side ofN.C.
BY JACKY BRAMMER
STAFF WRITER
At 500 miles long and 150 miles
wide, covering 48,843 square miles
of land and 5,103 square miles of
water, North Carolina is massive.
But it has many features with
which even natives might not be
familiar.
“Our State,” a monthly series
on UNC-TV that begins tonight,
could fix all that.
The show takes an in-depth
look at events pertaining to
North Carolina’s people, places
and culture.
The program is based on the
magazine of the same title, which
is centered in Greensboro.
Our State magazine was found
ed in 1933 by Carl Goerch with the
goal of making North Carolinians
more knowledgeable about their
state and celebrating all things
North Carolina.
Despite being relocated to
another part of the state and
changing ownership in 1996, the
publication stays true to Goerch’s
Tar Heels overcome sluggish start
BY MARY DUBY
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
RALEIGH During the North
Carolina volleyball team’s first
two games against N.C. State on
TViesday, the Tar Heels seemed to
hit the ball aimlessly.
Coach Joe Sagula told his team
during the
intermission to
play with more
of a purpose.
The perfor-
VOLLEYBALL
UNC 3
N.C. State 0
mance was surprising, given that
N.C. State has not won an ACC
game in almost three years.
“After game two, Coach told us in
the locker room, ‘Calm down, every
one, and relax. Play high intensity,
but you need to calm down out
there,’” said sophomore outside
hitter Meg Eckert. “Everyone was
kind of like go, go, play, play, play
—a little too energetic.”
UNC settled down and finally
UNC set to challenge stingy Wolfpack defense
Bunting lauds NCSU’s skill players
BY DANIEL BUNK
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
The North Carolina offense
proved its resiliency Saturday,
showing that it can move the ball
against a dominant defense a week
after being shut out.
The Tar Heels racked up 363
yards against Florida State’s fourth
ranked defense, driving into the
red zone four times.
This week, UNC faces an even
more difficult challenge statisti
cally.
N.C. State enters this Saturday’s
contest with the top-ranked
defense in the nation in total yard
age as well as against the pass.
Through four games, the
Wolfpack is allowing just 193.8
yards a game with only 92.2 of
those coming through the air.
“They’re very aggressive with
some of the blitzes,” said UNC
coach John Bunting. “They’ve got
some very fine cover people in the
back end, so they’re able to take
some risks in coverages, and they’re
doing a great job. They’re very dis
ruptive.”
The N.C. State secondary only
has two interceptions this season,
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vision. His name is still on the
masthead.
“UNC-TV has successfully
brought the beautiful pages and
stories of Our State magazine to
life,” stated Ron Denny, advertis
ing and public relations manager,
in a press release.
Denny works for BB&T Corp.,
one of the show’s primary financial
contributors.
The corporation helps make
possible the joint venture between
UNC-TV and the magazine, which
takes advantage of a common
audience. “We have very similar
audiences in terms of interests
and demographic information,”
said Steve Volstad, communica
tions director for UNC-TV.
“It became apparent a lot of the
topics they cover in the magazine
would really appeal to the audi
ence that watches UNC-TV.”
Amy Wood, marketing director
for Our State, noted the wide out
reach her magazine will achieve
through the TV program.
“UNC-TV has about 2 million
viewers a week versus 500,000
readers for our magazine per
month,” she said. “(This venture)
will be an additional treat for both
of our audiences.”
broke the Wolfpack’s spirit, deci
sively winning the match in three
games, 30-22,30-27,30-15.
The Tar Heel defense domi
nated the floor. Defensive special
ists Caroline deßoeck and Taylor
Rayfield continually dove to the
floor and made huge saves for
UNC (9-7,4-1 in the ACC) on cru
cial points.
“They’re the only two people
whom I congratulated,” Sagula
said. “If you have to give a game
ball, those two deserve it tonight,
without question.”
Deßoeck finished with 12
digs, including 11 of UNC’s 29
digs through the first two games.
Rayfield took charge in game three,
recording eight in that game alone
to finish the match with 11.
“Taylor was just coming into the
holes, digging everything,” deßoeck
said. “She did an outstanding job.”
En route to recording a career
but its opponents are completing
just 45.7 percent of its passes.
To beat such a formidable unit,
the UNC receivers will have to
make big catches something they
couldn’t do once the team reached
the red zone against Florida State.
“You’ve got a number of very
good coverage skill players play
ing in their secondary, similar to
Florida State, and you’ve got to
make some plays,” Bunting said.
“The playmakers have to step up
and beat their playmakers.”
To take pressure off quarterback
Darian Durant and the receiving
corps, the Tar Heels will have to
establish their run game.
But Bunting said power running
back Ronnie McGill is question
able for Saturday as he continues to
rehab a sprained ankle he suffered
Sept. 18 against Georgia Tech.
“The three-back rotation ... has
been effective for us because those
guys do different things,” said
Bunting of McGill, Chad Scott and
Jacque Lewis, who has become the
team’s primary back since McGill’s
injury. “Right now, we’re missing
one of those guys we’d love to
have him, but we don’t, and there’s
“ UNC-TV has successfully brought the
beautiful pages and stories of Our State
magazine to life.”
RON DENNY, BB&T ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER
Wood said the idea for the show
evolved from a vision of bringing
the magazine to life.
Both have an affinity for spec
tacular visuals. The show specifi
cally will be looking to incorpo
rate as much stunning digital
videography into the stories as
possible to match the magazine’s
photography.
They also will be covering
similar areas of interest to North
Carolina, such as nature, art and
history. The first show will fea
ture Asheville’s Arboretum, the
National Hot Air Balloon Rally in
Statesville and the Cupola House
in Edenton.
Our State in both guises will
be more than mere complements.
Wood said, “We’re not trying to
line up story for story, theme for
theme.”
The show will strive for geo
graphic diversity, featuring stories
from all over the state and drawing
high hitting percentage of .423,
Eckert totaled 14 kills in the
match.
“Meg was in a good rhythm,”
Sagula said. “She struggled a little
bit defensively early, and I talked
to her about it... and she used this
opportunity to pick up her game,
and she had some great kills going
off the block.”
Senior Molly Pyles also had 14
kills, and Katie Wright made a
major contribution to the offensive
effort with 11 kills.
Freshman Christie Clark took
the floor for the first time in her
collegiate career. In the third game,
she recorded her first kill to give
the Tar Heels a 13-8 lead.
The Tar Heels’ anxious play in
game one contributed to 12 ties as
North Carolina opened the game
point for point with the Wolfpack.
Sagula took advantage of an
NCSU timeout to lay into his team.
no certainty that we’ll have him
this week.”
But when the Wolfpack is on
offense, there’s no doubt which run
ning back will be getting the ball.
T.A. McLendon, who missed
the team’s season-opener with a
strained hamstring, is the ACC’s
top running back, averaging 108.7
yards per game.
Last week, the Tar Heels, who
have the worst rush defense in the
conference, held the Seminoles to
less than 60 rushing yards in the
first half.
But Florida State finished with
249 yards on the ground, almost
in line with the Tar Heels’ season
average of 235 yards per game.
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attention to lesser-known events.
This is something Wood termed
the “I’ll be darned” factor. “(It’s)
that little extra twist people don’t
know about,” she said.
Right now the hardest part for
the entire venture is finding time.
“The real problem is not finding
topics but limiting it to a manage
able number per program,” Volstad
said. “We have more ideas than we
have time.”
Things are going well right now,
Wood said. The show has been
picked up for nine episodes —one
per month this year.
BB&T has expressed interest in
extending the series through a sec
ond season, according to Volstad.
The show’s first episode airs at 8
p.m. tonight on UNC-TV. Encore
showings will air throughout the
month.
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After that, the Tkr Heels took control
of the scoring and went up 22-15 to
stave off the Wolfpack (10-7, O^t).
The Tar Heels returned from
the locker room and immediately
seized control of the match.
“People just kind of woke up and
realized we need to get out of here,”
Wright said. “People just decided
they’re going to get things done.”
Pyles secured the match by serv
ing the team’s final 10 points and
had two aces in the run.
The momentum from the third
game might help the Tar Heels as
they head into a difficult weekend
against Virginia Tech and No. 25
Florida A&M.
“We have three wins in a row
having one on the road is even better
for us,” Eckert said. “Now we know
what we can do as a team together.
Contact the Sports Editor
at sports@unc.edu.
elusive backs such as Leon
Washington and Lorenzo Booker,
but McLendon is a bruising power
back who N.C. State often runs up
the middle.
“When he’s on the field, he
makes things happen. I’m hop
ing that he maybe gets the flu or
something like that,” Bunting said
with a smile. “He’s got a tremen
dous amount of enthusiasm for the
game when he’s on the field, and he
is a Rock’em Sock’em robots guy.
He knocks the heads off.”
Contact the Sports Editor
at sports@unc.edu.
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Media glosses
over Tarpley s
major injury
T indsay Tarpley broke her leg
last week.
A A If you didn’t know, you’re
forgiven between Lexis-Nexis
and the online archives of The
(Durham) Herald-Sun, The
(Raleigh) News & Observer and
The Charlotte Observer, there’s
a grand total of nine articles that
mentioned Tarpley’s name during
the last week.
Four of them are from The
N&O, two of which mention the
injury in passing. The other five
articles include three paragraph
long briefs, a passing mention and
the lead for a Heather O’Reilly
feature.
And just one of the nine wholly
dealt with the injury’s impact on
the team.
It’s almost as if Tarpley didn’t
lead an undefeated national
champion in scoring —a feat
that made her a consensus All-
American and earned her nation
al Player of the Year honors from
four leading soccer publications
last year.
If this was Darian Durant
key cog to the football team’s suc
cess the news would be passed
around the horn quicker than
Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.
Women’s soccer coach Anson
Dorrance didn’t have any issue
with the media coverage, saying
that the doctors at Virginia Tech
were very forward about the inju
ry and that all of the interested
media found out everything they
wanted to know.
“There’s a circle of people in
the country that are concerned
with women’s soccer,” O’Reilly
said. “And those are the people
that know about Lindsay’s
injury.”
But the question remains: why
wasn’t there more interest?
In addition to her collegiate
accolades, Thrpley is a 2004
Olympic gold medalist and scored
the first of the U.S. team’s two
goals in the gold-medal game.
This was less than two
months ago. Tarpley played
on the world stage then, but
now she is unable to break into
national news.
There’s something inherently
backward about that equation.
But Tarpley doesn’t believe that
she warrants national attention
yet.
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BEN COUCH
VIEW FROM THE COUCH
“I've got a lot to work on,” she
readily admits. “That’s the main
reason I came to UNC. Every day
I can get better and learn from
this experience.”
As of now, that experience -
won’t involve much except work
ing hard to come back. • V
“It’s time for her to be more
of a motivator and a player on
the sidelines we can look to y j
for inspiration, because she’s
that kind of player, that type
of person,” O’Reilly said. “It’s
a reminder that you can’t take
your health for granted, and .you
have to play every game fike H’s
your last. i
“That’s what she did, and
- why she’s going to be back,
in a few weeks and helping us*'
then.” ■<
That comeback is one that
Dorrance is surely anticipating,
as he acknowledged the dlfficul- ,
ties of losing a player ofThrpleyfc
caliber.
While Dorrance tries players in
new roles to compensate, liupley
is trying to downplay her impor* :
tance to the team. f >* •*'
“We’ve got a strong team with
a lot of talented players who wfll
be able to regroup," Tarpley said,.
“I don’t think that losing ariy one
player is going to make a big di£
ference.”
When asked to hypothesize '
about the reaction there would be
if Mia Hamm had suffered a simi
lar injury during her time at UNC,
Dorrance deflected the question, >
saying that Hamm was lucky
enough to avoid such an injury.
Instead, he repeatedly empha
sized that, as good as Tarpley
already is, we’re going to find out
a lot more about her while she ,
deals with the recovery process.
“I respect her even more now
than I did before,” Dorrance said
We all should.
Contact Ben Couch at
bcouch@email.unc.edu.
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