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The Butch Davis Experiment

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 5, 2011 | Uncategorized

For the accomplished chemist, Holden Thorp, the first phase of the “Butch Davis Experiment” went off like another everyday application of E = mc2. With mass, energy and velocity, Carolina sent James Madison hurtling...

New Paradigm Needed

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized

The pressure is immense on Holden Thorp to make the right hire for Carolina’s next Director of Athletics. Thorp remains under heavy criticism for firing Butch Davis a week before football practice began, and that scrutiny comes...

Roy's New Digs

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 22, 2011 | Uncategorized

Roy Williams’ “lamp story” best illuminates how much in need the UNC basketball offices were of expanding and upgrading. “When we moved into the Smith Center,” Williams said of his days as an assistant in 1986, “I carried a...

"Carolina Firsters"?

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 15, 2011 | Uncategorized

This notion of “Football First” or “Basketball First” fans at Carolina amuses me. Having graduated from UNC and been around for four decades, I am hard-pressed to think of a Carolina alumnus or rabid fan who roots passionately...

Re-Emphasizing Football

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 6, 2011 | Uncategorized

Maybe his timing shocked people and maybe he did not do it with the polish of a senior statesman (inadvertently committing a minor NCAA violation, himself), but it astounds me how Holden Thorp has become the villain in the...

A Way Out

Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 29, 2011 | Uncategorized

You remember the classic Kevin Costner movie in which he seemingly had No Way Out of his pickle as a double secret agent? Carolina avoided that dilemma in the first phase of a path to restore its reputation and integrity. It...

Davis Should Go — Now

Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 18, 2011 | Uncategorized

UNC can still begin moving beyond its regrettable football scandal of the last year, regardless of its final fate from the NCAA. Ohio State has conveniently provided Carolina with the model it should use in order to separate a...

You Can Call Him Jones

Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized

A few things you may not know about the new radio Voice of the Tar Heels: His proper name is Monrovie Jones Angell, IV. That’s on par with Forest Orion Mixon, III, which is Mick’s official moniker, and a lot more eccentric than...

Carolinas Connections

Posted by Art Chansky | Jun 17, 2011 | Uncategorized

A gala wedding party was thrown at Litchfield Plantation in South Carolina last weekend, and among other things it was a great example of why people who live in both Carolinas argue and joke over which is the REAL Carolina. Each...

You Da Boy!

Posted by Art Chansky | Jun 10, 2011 | Uncategorized

Chapel Hill’s Ben Griffin is 5-foot-7 and 125 pounds soaking sweat from a summer afternoon on the golf course. He turned 15 last month and is a freshman at East Chapel Hill High.He is also the state high school 4A golf champion...

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