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 have a Billy Packer story that most people have never heard. While the (social) media is filled with memorial tributes to the Hall […]

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 NFL playoffs are down to the Final Four quarterbacks. What a doubleheader Sunday for the right to reach Super Bowl LVII. And the […]

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 never-ending New York Times story had a few flaws. UNC athletics and Armando Bacot got a ton of publicity from the Times treatise […]

The Tar Heels were tough enough with their manhood on the line. Despite blowing big leads in both halves, Carolina made the plays and shots to somehow survive at Syracuse when it looked bleak. It was a must-game the Heels had to have before a week off with Pitt, Duke, Wake Forest, Clemson, Miami and […]

The college basketball rankings show there is one dominant conference. Have you looked at the latest AP college basketball poll? Notice anything wacky? Like the Big 12, which everyone wants to blow up because of football, has six teams from Kansas State to Baylor. And the Big Ten, which had 9 in the NCAA tournament […]

For Tar Heel loyalists, time really flies. You have to be at least 50 years old to have any meaningful memories of the fabled 1982 national championship, Dean Smith’s first, in New Orleans. Heck, the 19-year-old kid whose shot beat Georgetown said after the final buzzer he wasn’t even sure that was his team’s last […]

Expect a barnburner at the Dean Dome Saturday afternoon. Sure, Carolina has had N.C. State’s number in the Roy Williams era and, so far, the Hubert Davis tenure. Ol’ Roy used to talk about State being HIS archrival because he grew up outside of Asheville before the David Thompson days, and that only fired up […]

It’s clear that Hubert Davis has figured out how recruiting has changed. How many of you are surprised that Carolina Basketball has the top recruiting haul from the high school class of 2024? It includes four-star prospects Drake Powell, a 6-5 small forward from nearby Pittsboro-Northwood, and James Brown, a 6-9 center from Chicago; and […]

Do you Love Caleb or do you not Love Caleb? Rarely has Carolina basketball had a lightning rod like the junior who wears No. 2. He is a streak shooter with a marksman’s mentality; he can miss 11 straight 3-pointers and fire off the 12th with confidence. Caleb was all of that you may love, […]

It was substance over style at Carmichael Arena Sunday afternoon. Courtney Banghart said it best after her No. 22 Tar Heels knocked off 11th-ranked and archrival N.C. State, 56-47, in a game when neither team could find the basket consistently “We don’t really care how the game goes, as long as we have one more […]