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 long-overdue recognition finally arrived. When I showed up at UNC in the late 1960s, the name Curry Kirkpatrick was already legendary to most […]

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 looks to be prioritizing smart, tough players in its rebuild. The Tar Heels are three scholarships away from refilling the roster that lost […]

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. (I wanted to get an Artificial Intelligence — AI — comparison of Draymond Green’s foot stomp in Monday night’s playoff game to Christian Laettner’s […]

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. Another inspiring basketball movie has just come out. Michael Jordan’s name is mentioned in the first minute of Sweetwater in reference to whether any […]

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. Mack Brown let it all hang out with the national media. It is easier for big media like Sports Illustrated and Yahoo to get […]

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. Tar Heels are showing up in surprising ways in the NBA playoffs. Carolina and Duke have battled in recent years over which blueblood program […]

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. Mack Brown is nothing if not long and optimistic. The Carolina football coach owns the unofficial record for the number of off-preseason press conferences […]

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. Social media is awash with transfer speculation. Here are a few nuggets from the world of one-and-dones, transfers and NIL money. They all serve […]

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. Air Jordan without Air Jordan is absolutely terrific. One of the best decisions stars and co-directors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon made was to […]

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. Theo Pinson is like a cat with nine lives. We know it was at the end of the regular season, when his team’s playoff […]