Are We There Yet? Part II
All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...
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Bye Bye, Big 10 Terps
Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Amidst the chaos that has become college athletics, Carolina defeated Maryland Saturday in truly a tale of two halves. The Tar Heels played perhaps their best 20 minutes of basketball to begin the game and ended with perhaps...
Read MoreThe Rap On Roy
Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
There’s an old story about Roy Williams from a coaches’ clinic just after he returned to UNC. Williams was speaking to a couple of hundred of his peers, and the subject was the Carolina fast break. “Our break is pretty...
Read MoreThe Rap On Roy
Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
There’s an old story about Roy Williams from a coaches’ clinic just after he returned to UNC. Williams was speaking to a couple of hundred of his peers, and the subject was the Carolina fast break. “Our break...
Read MoreAre We There Yet? Part I
Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...
Read MoreA Season For The Books
Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...
Read MoreThe Skinny Boys
Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
During the most critical stretch of UNC’s alphabet soup win over UNLV Saturday, the Tar Heels denied the Running Rebels three chances to take back the lead they had held only once briefly earlier in the second half. Thrice the...
Read MoreThe Martin Report
Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Former Governor Martin’s report on his independent investigation into academic fraud at UNC is due Thursday, and my educated guess is that it will confirm what we already know and reveal little that we don’t. That’s the outcome...
Read MoreJeff Lebo Then And Now
Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
If the UNC administration had been smarter during the sorry summer of 2000, Jeff Lebo very well could have been sitting on the Carolina bench Saturday instead of coaching East Carolina. Of course, it eventually turned out fine...
Read MoreThe Policy Wonk
Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
If there is one thing we have learned about Bubba Cunningham in his first year as UNC’s athletic director, it’s that he is a policy wonk. He studies and evaluates situations, comes up with a plan (like his yet-to-be-released...
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