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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...

Same Old, Same Old

Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 13, 2012 | Uncategorized

The 208-page report released by UNC this week pertaining to the football scandal revealed few new facts and fewer names – thanks to heavy redaction in almost every document. What it did underscore was the gross lack of oversight...

The Pros and Cons

Posted by Art Chansky | Jun 27, 2012 | Uncategorized

What was Larry Fedora thinking when he agreed to give one of his “preferred” walk-on slots in the UNC football program to Drew Davis? • Maybe he actually needed another quarterback, since the Tar Heels had only four on their...

The Site That Knew The Score

Posted by Art Chansky | Jun 20, 2012 | Uncategorized

UNC Athletics is re-launching its official website under the url of GoHeels.com, which is hardly a new name to Tar Heel Internet junkies. In the early days of the web, about 15 years ago, GoHeels was the website of choice for...

Remembering a Good Dad

Posted by Art Chansky | Jun 14, 2012 | Uncategorized

This Father’s Day has an extra special meaning for me. It was 40 years ago that I left home for good, and I am thinking about my dad more than usual this week. He died 13 years after I last lived with him, and I never said a...

Shot of His Life

Posted by Art Chansky | May 30, 2012 | Uncategorized

Time waits for no one, not even Pete Brennan the strappingly handsome second-banana on the undefeated 1957 UNC national championship team. Brennan has been a folk hero in North Carolina since the shot of his life saved the NCAA...

Nyang'o-Who U?

Posted by Art Chansky | May 21, 2012 | Uncategorized

Although the deposed Julius Nyang’oro had been teaching at UNC for 20 years, during which time taking Swahili had become somewhat of an inside joke among athletes, the period about to go under the microscope of the SBI is the...

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