Truly, A "Rich Man"
All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...
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Smith By The Numbers
Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Dean Smith will be 82 on Thursday, which is February 28 and a neat juxtaposition of numbers wouldn’t you say? Wait, there is more irony here. Smith won his first NCAA championship as a coach in ’82,...
Read MoreBourbon Street Agenda
Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...
Read MoreSchool of Rock
Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Big-time basketball” made another stop in Chapel Hill Saturday, and though it isn’t always this way the shaking Smith Center gave nothing up to crazy Cameron, maniacal Maryland and the Wild West venues...
Read MoreJersey War Clinches Final Four
Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...
Read More'93 Heels Head For Big Dance
Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...
Read MoreHeels Loose On, Off Court. Part II
Posted by Art Chansky | Feb 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...
Read MoreHeels Loose On, Off Court. Part I
Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
All season long Chapelboro.com’s “Hoop It Up” will be republishing select excerpts from Return To The Top on the 20th Anniversary of Dean Smith’s 2nd NCAA title season in 1993. Check back on Monday of...
Read MoreLampley Said 'See Ya!'
Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
In the early 1970s, I worked for the Atlanta Constitution and heard a sportscaster named Beau Bock do commentaries on the radio and host what might have been the first sports talk show in America. Bock was very informative and...
Read MoreThe Rap On Roy
Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
There’s an old story about Roy Williams from a coaches’ clinic just after he returned to UNC. Williams was speaking to a couple of hundred of his peers, and the subject was the Carolina fast break. “Our break is pretty...
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