When Carolina's football team kicks off Saturday night in Winston-Salem against Wake Forest, it will be 12:30 a.m. on Sunday near Manchester, England. Kurt Green will log on to his ESPN Player account in his home office north of the city, plug his earphones in and live and die with each snap. On a shelf behind him are the home and away caps he wore for the Tar Heel baseball team during the 1990 season, when he started at centerfield.
"The Duke game was a killer," he says of Carolina's 38-35 win in Durham on Oct. 15.