Art Chansky's Notebook

Art’s Angle: What Good Programs Do

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 19, 2015 | Featured

The North Carolina football team did not pummel Wake Forest Saturday night. The North Carolina program did, with players of all ages, shapes and sizes getting into the game. And that is an important distinction in Larry Fedora’s...

Art’s Angle: Save The Date

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 4, 2015 | Featured

Write down the date October 3, 2015. It may mark the official turnaround for Carolina Football, not only in the Larry Fedora era but possibly all time. Remember, Florida State was once a women’s college before it went coed and...

Chansky’s Notebook: Larry Brown Does It Again

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 30, 2015 | Featured, National

Thank you, Larry Brown, for showing us what academic fraud really is. Some people are waiting for me to blast my old friend Larry Brown after his third NCAA probation was announced Tuesday. And I won’t disappoint them. Larry...

Chansky’s notebook: Well-Played Argyle

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 17, 2015 | Featured, UNC Sports

The argyle look. Do we like it in football? Until the last few years, argyle was synonymous with Carolina Basketball because Chapel Hill native and fashion designer Alexander Julian made it part of Tar Heel hoops when he...

Chansky’s Notebook: Cathartic Saturday

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 14, 2015 | Featured, UNC Sports

The Tar Heels had no choice . . . but to kick some butt. It was going to be a long nine days, in fact a long 29 days before Carolina had a chance to prove it’s a better football team than it showed in Charlotte while losing to...

Chansky’s Notebook: Charter Member

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 10, 2015 | Featured, UNC Sports

Perfect. John Thompson is the first Dean Smith Award winner. Dean Smith’s relationship went back to John Thompson’s days as a high school coach at St. Anthony’s in the nation’s capital. Thompson sent his adopted son, Donald...

Art’s Angle: BIG PLAYS, BAD PLAYS

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 4, 2015 | Featured

CHARLOTTE – You think Carolina may someday go out and just play football up to its full capabilities? Not that the Tar Heels are world beaters, clearly they are not, but the performance Thursday night considering the...

Chansky’s Notebook: From Good to GREAT?

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 2, 2015 | Featured, UNC Sports

The Tar Heels can make a good season GREAT by beating South Carolina. Of course it’s a 12-game schedule and of course it’s too early to say one game can make or break Carolina’s 2015 team. But the opener against South Carolina...

Chansky’s Notebook: Love Affair at the Wyndham

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 24, 2015 | Featured, Sports

The Wyndham championship still had a perfect ending. The first appearance of Tiger Woods at the Wyndham championship had record crowds showing up at Sedgefield Country Club since Thursday. And Woods had them at hello when he...

Chansky’s Notebook: Vicious Cycle Continues

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 17, 2015 | Featured, UNC

Will the Wainstein Report ever go away? Not looking like it. For the media and all those ABC fans, the Wainstein Report is the gift that keeps on giving. That one last independent probe into the academic scandal, which the Board...

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