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Art’s Angle: Imagined Conversations

Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 8, 2014 | Uncategorized

Since the University is in shut-down mode over the ongoing athletic and academic scandal (and the NCAA won’t make its announced return to campus until the fall), somebody has got to say something. So I will. This is what I...

Art’s Angle: What Has Changed?

Posted by Art Chansky | Jun 10, 2014 | Uncategorized

If Carolina Basketball has not changed much from the era of Dean Smith to the current program of his protégé Roy Williams, someone is lying, embellishing or taking advantage of what is different. When Smith coached the Tar Heels...

Art’s Angle: Where is Wayne Walden?

Posted by Art Chansky | Jun 6, 2014 | UNC Sports

As Rashad McCants has blown the latest lid off the UNC academic scandal with his ESPN interview Friday, there remains a missing person who could shed light on why the African and Afro-American Studies major became the focal...

Chansky: Game Gone To The Dogs

Posted by Art Chansky | May 21, 2014 | Uncategorized

GREENSBORO – If N.C. State baseball coach Elliott Avent felt like kicking a dog after Tuesday’s 4-3 loss to Carolina, he didn’t have to go back to Raleigh to do it. Two “bat dogs” work the games at NewBridge Bank Park, home of...

Grass Roots Marketing

Posted by Art Chansky | May 15, 2014 | Opinion

I walk our dog pretty much every day up a nearby side street, leading to a cul-de-sac. This was once the 5-acre estate owned by an eccentric millionaire, who fled Chapel Hill for Florida after the building of Meadowmont...

Boston Marathon Winner Visits Carrboro

Posted by Art Chansky | May 5, 2014 | National

Meb Keflezighi was in Chapel Hill Friday 12 days after winning the 118th Boston Marathon with a personal best time of 2:08:37, which would have caused him to celebrate even if he didn’t lead the field of 36,000 runners. “I go...

Chansky: “A Day To Remember”

Posted by Art Chansky | Apr 22, 2014 | Opinion

BOSTON – I’ve never seen anything quite like it. On a day when everything (and I mean everything) spoke to good over evil, the 118th Boston Marathon came back stronger and more stunningly than anyone could have imagined. Seventy...

Chansky: Irresponsible Motives

Posted by Art Chansky | Apr 10, 2014 | Opinion

What are Mary Willingham’s real motives these days? Is she so deep into it now that she has to keep justifying her original actions, which seemed honorable (if not exactly accurate) at the time? Is she getting off on her...

Art’s Angle: Ten Reasons To Be Sad

Posted by Art Chansky | Mar 26, 2014 | News

If you still are saddened that Carolina won’t be taking on UConn in the Sweet Sixteen Friday night at Madison Square Garden, here are 10 reasons to make it even worse. It may have been a perfect storm of Iowa State making plays...

Art’s Angle: Playing With House Money

Posted by Art Chansky | Mar 15, 2014 | News

If you’re still going off on Carolina’s embarrassing ouster from the ACC Tournament, ask yourself this question: How the hell did this team win 23 games? In a performance that was an apt summation of this season, the Tar Heels...

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