Art Chansky's Notebook

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...

Analyze This: Duke Was Better

Posted by Art Chansky | Oct 21, 2012 | Art's Angle

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...

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...

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