Inside Carolina

*Inside Carolina*
Editor	Ben Sherman
Categories	Sports magazine
Year founded	1994
Country	United States
Based in	Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Language	English
Website	insidecarolina.com

Inside Carolina is an independent web site devoted to the University of North Carolina athletics. The site covers North Carolina football, men's basketball, baseball and recruiting. Its staff is composed of professional journalists who provide its readers with coverage of Tar Heel sports and recruiting. It features game reports, commentary, news, photography, and video clips. All content is original to the Inside Carolina staff of journalists or the Scout.com network.

Best known for its internet site, "IC," as it is popularly called, is the busiest site on the 247Sports web network, which is owned by CBS Interactive. IC is the most popular independent college team site on the Internet. It attracts nearly 400,000 visits per day from over 21,000 members. Its famous message boards get almost 6,000 posts each day, including some from national sports journalists.

IC has been cited by Sports Illustrated (May 19, 2003) as the leading source for independent, insider information on Tar Heel sports. Inside Carolina was also prominently featured in the New York Times bestselling book To Hate Like This Is To Be Happy Forever by Will Blythe (HarperCollins, 2006).^[1]

Inside Carolina magazine was founded by David Eckoff in early 1994 as a monthly magazine. Later that year, Eckoff added a web site to go along with the print publication. Some of the early writers for IC included Darcy Miller, Bob Heymann, Darrell Lucus, Adam Lucas, Thad Williamson, Andrew Jones and Michelle Donahue Hillison. Eckoff sold the publication to TheTarPit owner Buck Sanders in late 2000, and Sanders merged it with UNCBasketball.com (named by the November 27, 2000 edition of ESPN Magazine as the top college hoops site) in 2001. Ben Sherman, creator of UNCBasketball.com, now serves as editor in chief of the website. The editorial staff includes J.B. Cissell, Tommy Ashley, Michelle Hillison and Greg Barnes as well as photographer Jim Hawkins. The publication is fully credentialed by UNC, the ACC and the NCAA.

Message boards

Inside Carolina is nationally famous among sports fans and journalists for its message boards. On these boards, Carolina fans discuss the various college teams, and also shoot the breeze.

The message boards provide a public forum for discussion of controversies surrounding UNC sports. Most notably, rumors of widespread discontent with former head coach Matt Doherty were disseminated on the message boards throughout much of 2002 and 2003, long before such reports hit the mainstream media. Doherty resigned under pressure after the 2002-03 season.

The boards have also had a host of athletes, their parents, coaches and other figures in the world of high school recruiting posting on them.

Each message board branch has a respective Premium version, available to paid subscribers of the IC/Scout.com website. The various message boards include UNC Basketball, UNC Baseball and other UNC Sports, and the UNC Ticket Exchange. In addition to this is The Tar Pit, designated for UNC Football discussion, and the ZiggaZoomba Lounge, an off-topic board for discussions not relating to UNC Sports. The message boards themselves are moderated by staff and volunteers.

References

↑ Sports Illustrated (January 30, 2006)

External links

Official web site

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[1] Sports Illustrated (January 30, 2006)

North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball
Venues	Bynum Gymnasium (1920–1924) Tin Can (1924–1938) Woollen Gymnasium (1938–1965) Carmichael Auditorium (1965–1986) Dean Smith Center (1986–present)
Rivalries	Duke (Carlyle Cup) Kentucky NC State
Culture & lore	Rameses The Marching Tar Heels Junior varsity team Inside Carolina Four corners offense Dixie Classic/Big Four Tobacco Road Scandal
People	Head coaches Honorees Honored players NBA draftees
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Helms and Premo-Porretta national championships in bold; NCAA Final Four appearances in italics; NCAA championships in bolded italics

North Carolina Tar Heels football
Venues	Emerson Field (1916–26) Kenan Memorial Stadium (1927–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Duke: (Victory Bell) NC State South Carolina Virginia: South's Oldest Rivalry Wake Forest
Culture & lore	First forward pass Rameses The Marching Tar Heels Statistical leaders
People	Head coaches All-Americans NFL draftees
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