By Pat James, GoHeels.com
Around 2:20 p.m. last Saturday, just under two hours before North Carolina's showdown with Duke, Beau Corrales started walking down the home tunnel to the Kenan Stadium field.
Before every game, the junior receiver begins warming up about 90 minutes before kickoff. But on this day, he exited the locker room even earlier than usual, not for any reason related to the rivalry game or trying to stay alive in the ACC Coastal Division race, but for something – someone – even more important.
Corrales barely took two steps out of the tunnel and onto the turf before a pair of arms wrapped around his waist.