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Art's Angle: A So-So Season Going Nowhere

Posted by Staff | Jan 11, 2013 | Uncategorized

Looks like it’s another Year of Living Dangerously. In other words, expending our energy rooting against Duke. We’ve had these seasons before (i.e., 2010), although rarely. When our own basketball team is so young...

Reason For Optimism

Posted by Staff | Jan 10, 2013 | Uncategorized

With the 2012-13 season well under way, it’s safe to say there’s a lot to discuss about Carolina Basketball! I look forward to the opportunity to share my perspective on our program, as well as offer a different point of view on...

A Season For The Books

Posted by Art Chansky | Jan 7, 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...

The Skinny Boys

Posted by Art Chansky | Dec 30, 2012 | Uncategorized

During the most critical stretch of UNC’s alphabet soup win over UNLV Saturday, the Tar Heels denied the Running Rebels three chances to take back the lead they had held only once briefly earlier in the second half. Thrice the...

Preparing For The Triple Option

Posted by Staff | Nov 8, 2012 | Uncategorized

From 1992 to 1994, I was a defensive graduate assistant coach at Vanderbilt University. Our Defensive Coordinator was a wonderful coach named Carl “Bull” Reese. He taught me a lot about football and was a pleasure...

Uniformly Agreed — We Like 'Em!

Posted by Staff | Oct 8, 2012 | Uncategorized

I was in mid-matriculation when Carolina Football went from white helmets to various PMS-shades of blue helmets. I bet you don’t know the “why” they did. I bet not even Freddie Kiger knows this one! Bill Dooley replaced Jim...

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...

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...

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