Art Chansky

Chapel Hill

Contributor at WCHL-AM (Chapel Hill, NC)

Long-time UNC insider whose 10th book on Carolina and ACC Basketball, BLUE BLOOD II, is available on line at Amazon and in at bookstores everywhere!

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Chansky's Notebook: Signs of Strength

6 days ago | chapelboro.com | Art Chansky

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. Here are a couple of football stories that may warm your heart. Rocky Bleier played four years for Notre Dame, including the 1966 national champion Fighting Irish. He was the 417th pick in the 1968 NFL Draft by the Steelers.
Chansky's Notebook: Deja Blue?

1 week ago | chapelboro.com | Art Chansky

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. Carolina basketball is still on the bubble. When ESPN’s way-too-early top 25 came out, it was déjà blue all over again. The Tar Heels were barely holding onto the NCAA bubble when they got a controversial bid to the Big Dance with a spot in the First Four.
Chansky's Notebook: Potential or Proof

1 week ago | chapelboro.com | Art Chansky

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. My money is on Drake Powell to come back next season. In the latest NBA mock drafts for this June, Powell is only listed on two of the eight “most trusted” boards. ESPN has him at No. 32 early in the second round while at NBA.com he is No. 36.
Chansky's Notebook: Sparty Calling?

1 week ago | chapelboro.com | Art Chansky

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. Bubba Cunningham has reasons to go to Michigan State. The Carolina athletic director, in his 14 years at UNC, has been one of the most respected administrators in college sports.
Chansky's Notebook: Time to Heal?

1 week ago | chapelboro.com | Art Chansky

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. The Zayden High situation is tough for all parties involved. No official word yet, but speculation is rife that the 6-9 forward will return to the UNC basketball program this coming season. That is premature.
Chansky's Notebook: Athlete and Artist

2 weeks ago | chapelboro.com | Art Chansky

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. The ACC Player of the Year in women’s tennis is also a budding artist. Reese Brantmeier, who is 5-foot-7 and from Whitewater, Wisconsin, is completing her junior year at UNC as first-team All-ACC and honorable All-American tennis star.
Chansky's Notebook: Personal Privacy

2 weeks ago | chapelboro.com | Art Chansky

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. It’s a slightly new look for Bill Belichick. When UNC introduced Belichick, most of us knew exactly what we were getting. The so-called Hoodie is a curmudgeon of a coach, usually stoic until he celebrated another Super Bowl win. At his three press conferences so far in Chapel Hill, Belichick was just as we expected.
Chansky's Notebook: Chapel Ben

2 weeks ago | chapelboro.com | Art Chansky

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. Chapel Hill’s Ben Griffin has won his first PGA Tour championship. The former East Chapel Hill High and All-ACC golfer for the Tar Heels teamed with old friend Andrew Novak to win the PGA’s only team event in the New Orleans Zurich Classic that supports survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Chansky's Notebook: Quiet Runner

2 weeks ago | chapelboro.com | Art Chansky

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. Hollywood Hampton, here he comes. The Tar Heels’ all-star running back went almost exactly where the prognosticators had predicted. Omarion Hampton is going to Los Angeles to play for the Chargers under run-oriented head coach Jim Harbaugh.
Chansky's Notebook: Rolling the Dice

3 weeks ago | chapelboro.com | Art Chansky

Art Chansky’s Sports Notebook is presented by The Casual Pint. YOUR place for delicious pub food paired with local beer. Choose among 35 rotating taps and 200+ beers in the cooler. Drake Powell has yet to prove he is an NBA keeper. Like some Carolina players who have tinkered with the NBA Draft in recent years, Powell is far from a sure thing as a pro. Does he have the size, athletic ability and potential? Sure.