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The 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...

Abuzz About Basketball?

Posted by Art Chansky | Nov 30, 2012 | Uncategorized

It’s not unusual for Chapel Hill to be abuzz this time of year over several local sports teams. It is, however, weird that Carolina Basketball is not one of them. UNC field hockey played for yet another national championship two...

Heels Good Bet, Sort Of

Posted by Art Chansky | Nov 25, 2012 | Art's Angle

LAS VEGAS – Well, when in Vegas . . . where gambling is legal. After finishing our final Good Sports show on WCHL before the Maryland-Carolina game, I was intending to go to the hotel sports book and bet on the Tar Heels to...

Huddle Up, As Season Ends

Posted by Art Chansky | Nov 22, 2012 | Uncategorized

With the 2012 Carolina football season drawing to a close, this is the last week of Chapelboro’s Huddle Up With The Heels. It has been a pleasure to contribute to this diverse special sports section, which was invented to...

You Left Us Defenseless

Posted by Art Chansky | Nov 11, 2012 | Art's Angle

Carolina had no defense for what Georgia Tech did Saturday. The Tar Heels, in fact, gave up nine more points than their basketball brethren did in THAT season opener Friday night (a 76-59 win over Gardner Webb). In losing to the...

Smoldering Ruins III

Posted by Art Chansky | Nov 9, 2012 | Uncategorized

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...

A Banner Year?

Posted by Art Chansky | Nov 4, 2012 | Uncategorized

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...

Trending Blue

Posted by Art Chansky | Nov 4, 2012 | Art's Angle

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...

Creating An Awful State

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 28, 2012 | Art's Angle

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...

Finding Local Creeps

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 26, 2012 | Uncategorized

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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