Why UNC is called the 'Tar Heels' and why their mascot is a ram Here's the history behind the North Carolina Tar Heels and their mascot. To stream WFMY News 2 on your phone, you need the WFMY News ...

For almost 100 years, the Hogan family of Chapel Hill has been raising a local celebrity. Rameses, a Dorset ram, serves as the live mascot at UNC football games. WUNC reporter and Tar Heel super ...

UNC may have the Tar Heel nickname, but its mascot is a ram. As is often the case with other schools, UNC's mascot can be tied to a singular player who embodied the qualities the university wanted ...

What's the story behind the North Carolina Tar Heel nickname? And why is a ram its mascot? Learn more about the team playing for the 2017 title in March Madness.

After the Tar Heels won the game, Rameses and his descendants have been fixtures at UNC football games ever since. During the 1987-1988 basketball season, a costumed ram, also named Rameses was ...

Rameses XXII — or the 22nd version of the ram — began representing the University in 2020. “It never ceases to amaze me how people, or Tar Heel fans, just love him to death,” Basnight said .

Head coach Bill Belichick is the X-factor as he makes his foray into college football this season. There are questions all ...

The Union Soldier Campaign organized a protest asking UNC Chapel Hill to change its Tar Heel mascot. The controversial name has ties North Carolina Confederate soldiers, the turpentine industry ...

Bubba Cunningham, in a letter, shares how the Tar Heels will comply with guidelines set by the House vs NCAA settlement that ...

A dozen protesters stood outside the administrative building at UNC-Chapel Hill on Tuesday afternoon arguing against the name of the university's athletic teams, "Tar Heels," because they say it ...

Yes, that looks like UNC’s ram’s head logo on Colorado State’s football helmets this weekend. No, the Rams are not infringing on a Tar Heels copyright. Here’s why.