{"id":1926879,"date":"2026-08-06T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926879"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:54:00","slug":"uncs-bill-belichick-says-son-and-defensive-coordinator-steve-belichick-is-on-medical-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1926879","title":{"rendered":"UNC&#8217;s Bill Belichick says son and defensive coordinator Steve Belichick is on medical leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina defensive coordinator Steve Belichick is on medical leave. Head coach Bill Belichick announced his son\u2019s absence Thursday morning with the Tar Heels during the second week of preseason camp. Belichick offered no details but said the team hoped to have his son back \u201cas soon as possi&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/85d2f-uncs-bill-belichick-says-son-and-defensive-coordinator-steve-belichick-is-on-medical-leave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina defensive coordinator Steve Belichick is on medical leave. Head coach Bill Belichick announced his son\u2019s absence Thursday morning with the Tar Heels during the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1926879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926880,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926879\/revisions\/1926880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}