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Art Chansky\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Preparation is more important than the games. That\u2019s the Bill Belichick way.<\/p>\n \u201cNutrition matters,\u201d Belichick says. \u201cYour strength matters. Your playbook matters. Everything matters or we wouldn\u2019t do it. But the most important thing we do is practice, to get the most out of practice. We want to be prepared. We want to be in condition. We want you to know what we\u2019re doing. We want to be ready to go, and we want to go out here and do our best to compete at the highest level so we can get better as a team. Everything matters. But practice is the most important thing we do.\u201d<\/p>\n Strength coach Moses Cabrera puts it this way:<\/p>\n \u201cYou can be anything you wanna be this year, but it ain\u2019t going to be if it\u2019s not in here,\u201d he said, tapping next to his heart. \u201cIf you like what you\u2019re doing, if you like playing this game, you\u2019ll do all the little things that it takes to get it done. Anybody looking for a shortcut in this game has just screwed you. He screwed you and screwed himself because there are no shortcuts and no chance if you don\u2019t love it together.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you try to find the quickest way in and out of everything you do, you cut everybody off; your abilities and what you could be and what you could do to succeed somewhere along the line. You\u2019re gonna make that big mistake in the game that\u2019s gonna cost you if you do. We don\u2019t have to. We don\u2019t have to worry about you being at the meeting on time. We don\u2019t have to worry about what you\u2019re doing and how you\u2019re preparing to get ready to play the game. Most of all, I know you on game day as a partner. I can depend on you to be ready.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been with Bill for 10 years. He went to nine Super Bowls in 20 years, six times he won. That is not all. There are a lot of players in that class. Most groups that had it here.\u201d<\/p>\n One more heart tap.<\/p>\n Andrew Jones from Tar Heel 247 put it this way:<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you look at the remaining players, the ones who are still in the program from a year ago, they survived it. Belichick\u2019s way\u2019s a little bit different. And it requires a lot of weeding out. But the way they weed it out is you\u2019re either a Belichick guy or you\u2019re not. And they do that with recruiting. The recruiting director has been in recruiting offices at Michigan, Georgia Tech and Carolina. He knows exactly what it\u2019s like on that side of things.<\/p>\n \u201cSo he\u2019s gonna offer a very unique perspective to this, that he understands if he has a certain kind of guy. And it\u2019s something that you just can\u2019t flip a switch on. It has to slowly accrue over time and become the norm and the DNA of the building.\u201d<\/p>\n https:\/\/chapelboroaudio.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/2025\/08%20-%20August\/15\/Art%27s%20Notebook%20081525%20-%20FINAL.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Featured image via Associated Press\/Chris Seward<\/p>\n Chapelboro.com<\/a>\u00a0does not charge subscription fees, and you can\u00a0directly support our efforts in local journalism\u00a0here<\/a>. Want more of what you see on Chapelboro? Let us bring free local news and community information to you by\u00a0signing up for our newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n Related Stories<\/p>\n \u2039<\/p>\n Former UNC star running back Giovani Bernard agreed Tuesday to sign a two-year contract extension with the Cincinnati Bengals, the team he has spent his entire seven-year NFL career with. The deal raises Bernard\u2019s salary this year from $3.4 million to $5.9 million, and is worth a total of $10.3 million. This includes a $600,000 [\u2026]<\/p>\n <\/a> But what is Gio authoring as an encore on this anniversary of ‘ The Return ‘ ?<\/p>\n <\/a> The defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers are signing former UNC and Cincinnati Bengals running back Giovani Bernard to a one-year contract. Bernard\u2013a second round pick (37th overall) by the Bengals in 2013\u2013played each of his first nine NFL seasons in Cincinnati before being released by the team last week. Throughout his career, Bernard [\u2026]<\/p>\n <\/a> The Cincinnati Bengals announced Wednesday morning that they have released former UNC star running back Giovani Bernard, who spent the first eight seasons of his NFL career with the team. Bernard was the No. 37 overall pick of the 2013 NFL Draft and has been a mainstay in the Cincinnati backfield since that time. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n <\/a> The Carolina Panthers announced Thursday that they have nominated former UNC star Julius Peppers as the team\u2019s representative for this year\u2019s Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, which is the NFL\u2019s only honor that recognizes excellence both on and off the field. Each of the league\u2019s 32 teams select one nominee for the award, [\u2026]<\/p>\n <\/a> The Buffalo Bills agreed Monday to a two-year, $5 million contract with former UNC center Russell Bodine, who spent the first four years of his NFL career with the Cincinnati Bengals. Bodine was a fourth-round pick in 2014 and has started all 64 games since then for the Bengals\u2013a start streak that ranks second in [\u2026]<\/p>\n <\/a> Former UNC running back Giovani Bernard\u2013perhaps best known in Chapel Hill for his game-winning punt return against NC State in 2012\u2013has quietly put together three straight seasons with over 1,000 total yards for the NFL\u2019s Cincinnati Bengals. Not wanting to lose out on that production, the Bengals went ahead and inked Bernard to a three-year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n <\/a> In 2013, Switzer led the NCAA with five punt return touchdowns and set the single-season school record with a 20.9 punt return average.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Casual-Pint-updated-728.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nArt Chansky is a veteran journalist who has written ten books, including best-sellers\u00a0\u201cGame Changers,\u201d \u201cBlue Bloods,\u201d and \u201cThe Dean\u2019s List.\u201d He has contributed to WCHL for decades, having made his first appearance as a student in 1971. His\u00a0\u201cSports Notebook\u201d commentary airs daily on the 97.9 The Hill WCHL and his \u201cArt\u2019s Angle\u201d opinion column runs weekly on Chapelboro.<\/p>\nTampa Bay Buccaneers Sign Former UNC RB Giovani Bernard to One-Year Deal<\/p>\nFormer UNC Star Giovani Bernard Released by Cincinnati Bengals<\/p>\nBuffalo Bills Sign Former UNC Center Russell Bodine<\/p>\n