Chansky’s Notebook: Needs to Go...Now

Posted Jul 30, 2026
This story is about Steve Newmark, and what he must do in his first year as AD at UNC. Mike Lombardi has grifted his way through college and pro football wearing fake championship rings and sharing inappropriate stuff on social media. Whatever he did to run afoul of UNC’s HR department is more than enough to lose a job he never should have had. (Chapelboro.com)

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