CHAPEL HILL
About the only things Tom Sheldon knew about North Carolina were that Michael Jordan played basketball there and that in football the Tar Heels, in his words, “had a good season last year.” That was it.
“I couldn’t have told you whereabouts in America it was or anything,” Sheldon, an Australian native who has been in America for a little more than one month, said earlier this week. “I had to jump on Google and learn a bit about it pretty quickly.”
Sheldon had just finished another UNC football practice. He was days removed from his first college football game, his debut as the Tar Heels’ 27-year-old freshman starting punter.