Finding Local Creeps
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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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...
Read MoreThose 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...
Read MoreArt'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...
Read MoreButch 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...
Read MoreOf 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...
Read MoreArt'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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreArt'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...
Read MoreArt'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...
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