Art Chansky's Notebook

Remembering a Good Dad

Posted by Art Chansky | Jun 14, 2012 | Uncategorized

This Father’s Day has an extra special meaning for me. It was 40 years ago that I left home for good, and I am thinking about my dad more than usual this week. He died 13 years after I last lived with him, and I never said a...

Shot of His Life

Posted by Art Chansky | May 30, 2012 | Uncategorized

Time waits for no one, not even Pete Brennan the strappingly handsome second-banana on the undefeated 1957 UNC national championship team. Brennan has been a folk hero in North Carolina since the shot of his life saved the NCAA...

Nyang'o-Who U?

Posted by Art Chansky | May 21, 2012 | Uncategorized

Although the deposed Julius Nyang’oro had been teaching at UNC for 20 years, during which time taking Swahili had become somewhat of an inside joke among athletes, the period about to go under the microscope of the SBI is the...

3-Point Shooting Star

Posted by Art Chansky | May 11, 2012 | Uncategorized

Hubert Davis, Carolina’s new assistant basketball coach, was a 3-point shooting star as a Tar Heel player from 1989-92. Here, Davis poses with adoring students and fans holding up his favorite number before his senior...

'Wow!' And 'Why?'

Posted by Art Chansky | May 3, 2012 | Uncategorized

My first two reactions to what is being called a home run hire of Hubert Davis joining the Carolina Basketball staff were “Wow!” and “Why?” Huuuuubert is a near-legendary figure in Tar Heel history since the nephew of former UNC...

Bubba Breaks In

Posted by Art Chansky | Apr 27, 2012 | Uncategorized

When Bubba Cunningham was hired as Carolina’s new athletic director last October, his first task was to find a football coach that would separate UNC from the scandal-plagued Butch Davis era. Cunningham did not act like it was...

On The Fast Track

Posted by Art Chansky | Apr 20, 2012 | Uncategorized

The way Larry Fedora likes to play football is the way Roy Williams wants to play basketball: Fast. For the first time in 15 years, or since Mack Brown and Dean Smith ran things, Carolina may have compatible football and...

The 'Swahili Scandal'

Posted by Art Chansky | Apr 16, 2012 | Uncategorized

One of the reasons you never want an NCAA investigation – and certainly not probation – hitting your campus is because of the residue it leaves. UNC is trying to move forward from the football mess that put it in the national...

It Would Be Hog Heaven!

Posted by Art Chansky | Apr 6, 2012 | Uncategorized

The University of Arkansas has a perfect solution to its problem with philandering football coach Bobby Petrino. Fire him and hire Butch Davis. Think about it. Davis is an Arkansas grad and former player there (until injured...

The Name Game

Posted by Art Chansky | Mar 30, 2012 | Uncategorized

Sorry, sports fans, it’s no longer about the name on the front of the uniform. It’s about the name on the back. That has been the case in professional sports since free agency began, but now it has become endemic to college...

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