Things weren’t much better at UNC. The Tar Heels’ beloved mascot, 5-year-old Ramses VIII, needed emergency surgery to repair an abdominal hernia suffered when he was kicked by a cow at Hogan ...

The kickin’ hot sauce is stocked inside just about every NC refrigerator but is oddly unknown outside the Southeast.

“Tar Heel” was originally a derogatory term for poor laborers, but now it is a common nickname for any resident of North Carolina. Oklahoma's nickname, "The Sooner State," originates from the ...