Art Chansky's Notebook

Those Cheating Ways

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 19, 2012 | Uncategorized

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...

Art's Angle: Little Big Man

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 14, 2012 | Art's Angle

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...

Butch Davis' Job Interview

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 12, 2012 | Art's Angle

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...

Of Kidneys And Kane

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 11, 2012 | Uncategorized

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...

Art's Angle: All White Is All Right

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 7, 2012 | Art's Angle

Hey, Coach, can we wear all white the next two weeks in Dade County and Durham? White was sure right Saturday, as Carolina kicked old nemesis Virginia Tech around antiseptic Kenan Stadium for a signature win that pretty much...

A Coach's Choice

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 3, 2012 | Uncategorized

Duke’s Hall of Fame Coach Mike Krzyzewski is very likely one of only two people on the planet who knows what happened with his former player Lance Thomas during the 2009-10 season. The other person is Thomas. Krzyzewski has to...

Art's Angle: From The Couch

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 30, 2012 | Art's Angle

Once it started raining heavily Saturday afternoon, my angle for the football game against Idaho was from my couch, clicker in hand, to watch Carolina’s record-breaking 66-0 win and a few other things tangential to the Tar...

Art's Angle: A Win For Losing

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 23, 2012 | Art's Angle

A lot has happened since Carolina last won a football game before Saturday’s 27-6 victory over East Carolina. UNC lost its chief fund-raiser, a former star quarterback who flew the coop with the mother of the school’s most...

Thorp's True Legacy

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 17, 2012 | Uncategorized

For a change, Holden Thorp made a decision that left everyone happy. His detractors who grew since the firing of Butch Davis 14 months ago are happy, and some may be demented enough to think that score has been settled. ...

'Go, Romar, Go!'

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 16, 2012 | Art's Angle

Let’s discuss what happened in the first half Saturday at the Papa John’s Pizza Palace in Louisville. Either the Tar Heels were still hung over from their disappointing loss last week at Wake Forest (which by the way got waxed...

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