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Art Chansky

Smoldering Ruins III

Posted by | Nov 9, 2012 |

Let’s compare the Carolina basketball team that opens the season tonight to the last two that followed mass NBA exoduses. Are the 2012-13 Tar Heels younger and/or weaker than the 2006 and 2010 teams?   The 2006 team that lost...

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A Banner Year?

Posted by | Nov 4, 2012 |

If the fortunes of North Carolina’s two largest football programs over the last week forecast the outcome on Election Day, the “blues” are trending upward and the “reds” are in a free fall. In other words, the North Carolina Tar...

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Trending Blue

Posted by | Nov 4, 2012 |

If the fortunes of North Carolina’s two largest football programs over the last week forecast the outcome on Election Day, the “blues” are trending upward and the “reds” are in a free fall. In other words, the North Carolina Tar...

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Creating An Awful State

Posted by | Oct 28, 2012 |

Perfect. Carolina left its arch football rival in an awful State Saturday after awakening a dead offense to score 18 points in the fourth quarter and startle the smug Wolfpack, which played most of the second half like it had...

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Finding Local Creeps

Posted by | Oct 26, 2012 |

This is a sports notebook only because the letter writer is Tod Morgan, the affable and hard-working athletic director and young men’s basketball coach at Chapel Hill High School.   It’s a cry out for help to find...

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Analyze This: Duke Was Better

Posted by | Oct 21, 2012 |

DURHAM – Carolina’s heart-pounding fourth-quarter loss to Duke Saturday night will be analyzed and picked over like an unsolved crime. Motives. Methods. Missing plays and players.   On a beautiful night in a stadium that has not...

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Those Cheating Ways

Posted by | Oct 19, 2012 |

When the Tar Heels visit Duke Saturday night, they will be playing one of only 44 major colleges that have never been placed on NCAA probation in football. It used to be 45 before UNC got hit with the three years in 2011. Those...

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Art's Angle: Little Big Man

Posted by | Oct 14, 2012 |

Gio is Gio and a win is a win. Fortunately for the Tar Heels, those two things have to go hand in hand to pull out a beautifully ugly 18-14 victory over Miami for the first road W of the Larry Fedora era. Carolina did a lot of...

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Butch Davis' Job Interview

Posted by | Oct 12, 2012 |

 Jeff Gravley’s softball interview with Butch Davis came off as just another smooth move by the former Carolina football coach. This time, at least, Davis looked and acted better than on the self-serving YouTube video he...

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Of Kidneys And Kane

Posted by | Oct 11, 2012 |

It’s safe to say Roy Williams’ annual preseason meeting with the media Thursday was the strangest of his 25-year head coaching career.   Obviously, the first question was about Williams’ health, and he revealed some details of...

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