Apr 29, 2008 · He died April 24 after an infection took hold of the wound where one of his spiral-shaped horns was knocked off in a head-butting bout with his son Pablo. The two were butting “quite hard” in the field on the 180-acre farm where they lived, Hogan said – not unusual behavior for two rams – but Rameses was no match for his younger and stronger son.

Dec 5, 2024 · Rameses, the ovine one, has served as Carolina’s loveable mascot for 100 years. While most of his history entails Tar Heel affection and adoration, it also involves strange, fanciful — even tragic — stories that together weave quite a baa-zarre tale.

Feb 9, 2021 · Rameses XXI died Monday afternoon. The ram was UNC’s mascot for nearly a decade and had gone to his first football game when he was less than a year old. He’d been treated for arthritis in his shoulder and hips, according to Ann Hogan Leonard, who lives on Hogan’s Magnolia View Farm. Rameses, Hogan said, was gentle and friendly from the start.

Aug 4, 2006 · Police in Chapel Hill say they have made an arrest in connection with the February slashing death of a ram that was the football mascot at the University of North Carolina. Police say it...

Rameses is the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels. The anthropomorphic version of him wears a Tar Heels jersey. Two versions of Rameses appear at UNC sporting events.

Oct 8, 2010 · Rob Hogan passed away on October 8, 2010. He was 54 years old. “Rob Hogan, the love of my life and my guiding star, passed away this morning at 7:40,” his wife Ann Leonard wrote on a CaringBridge.com page. “May he be at peace. We will miss him.”

Jun 24, 2022 · What began in the late '80s with Eric Chilton donning the very first Rameses costume has grown into a now-treasured tradition carried on by students today. Learn the story behind one of Carolina's most iconic Tar Heels.

Feb 25, 1996 · Police were trying to figure out Sunday who slaughtered Rameses the Ram, UNC-Chapel Hill's longtime mascot, although they say they don't suspect students from a rival school.

May 9, 2012 · As is the Hall of Fame custom, an artifact from each inductee is presented to the Hall for display in the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. The Wade family presented the manual typewriter that Jake Wade had used to write his long remembered poetic prose.

Jan 8, 1997 · A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 months' probation and ordered to pay more than $700 in fines and restitution for slaying the University of North Carolina's mascot.