Art Chansky's Notebook

What Was He Thinking?

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 13, 2012 | Uncategorized

When Matt Kupec played football for Carolina, he was one of the smartest quarterbacks ever to wear the Tar Heel uniform. In the final minute of the last regular-season game in his true freshman year, he perfectly executed the...

Heartbreak Heels

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 9, 2012 | Art's Angle

Larry Fedora got his first taste of the ACC, playing on Tobacco Road and, unfortunately, the culture that has dogged Carolina football for a long time. It may take him three cans of Red Bull to help him swallow all of it. ...

'Fast' Larry Fedora

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 6, 2012 | Uncategorized

Retired Southern Mississippi Athletic Director Richard Giannini knew he would have a hard time retaining his own football coach, Larry Fedora, late in his breakthrough season with the Golden Eagles. So when they talked about...

A Stunning Start

Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 2, 2012 | Art's Angle

The cloud of controversy hovering over Carolina Football gave way to bright blue skies Saturday, as the Tar Heels kicked off the Larry Fedora era with an air of excitement and energy that could only have come from the new head...

The Blue 'War' Zone

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 30, 2012 | Uncategorized

When UNC football lurched into trouble with the NCAA in the summer of 2010, and the probability increased of probation and that head coach Butch Davis might actually get fired, a slow panic began to grow among alumni and fans....

King Of Coaches

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 21, 2012 | Uncategorized

The “K” in Mike Krzyzewski‘s nickname could also stand for “King.” The Duke basketball coach has climbed to the top of his own personal and professional mountain as the highest-paid employee at his university and,...

Dirt Bags We Know

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 16, 2012 | Uncategorized

Gregg Doyel first got my attention when he was a punk sports writer for the Charlotte Observer, obviously trying to make a name for himself. At the time, he wrote a story claiming the problems surrounding UNC’s basketball...

Kupchak's Living Legacy

Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 10, 2012 | Uncategorized

Of all the quality kids who have come through the Carolina Basketball program over the last half century, none was any more real than Mitch Kupchak, the Tar Heels’ star center and ACC Player of the Year in 1976. Kupchak faked...

The 'New Way'

Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 31, 2012 | Uncategorized

While other athletic departments put Band-Aids on the ills of big-time college sports and some coaches and administrators may be sitting on secrets in the wake of the Penn State scandal, UNC finds itself with a golden...

Shut Up And Teach

Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 20, 2012 | Uncategorized

A few years ago, Dick Baddour returned from a national faculty meeting where he received widespread praise from other schools for how much the UNC faculty loved the affable Carolina athletic director. Some of those other...

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