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March 03, 2006
To Hate Like This is to Be Happy Forever: Slate reviews Will Blythe's book about the most heated rivalry in college basketball. Excerpts: one, two, three, four, five; audio interview.
If you can't get enough of the Duke-UNC rivalry, ESPN is launching ESPNU Full Circle: North Carolina at Duke, where every one of ESPN's collection of multimedia platforms will have programming about tomorrow night's game.
posted by kirkaracha to basketball at 02:38 PM - 20 comments
There's a copy somewhere between Amazon and me as I type. As a Duke grad I'm cautiously optimistic that I'll be able to finish it without throwing it across the room. Blythe apparently devotes some time to the online aspect of the rivalry - namely DBR and IC (can't link to that drivel). And I can hardly sit still thinking about tomorrow's game.
posted by mbd1 at 02:56 PM on March 03, 2006
Oh my, for the first time in my lifetime of watching Duke/Carolina games, I think I'm finally sick of the hype that espn is giving it this year.
posted by corpse at 03:04 PM on March 03, 2006
Yes, too much hype by far... and I say that as a Carolina basketball obsessive. All I want for Christmas is a muzzle for Dick Vitale.
posted by trox at 03:20 PM on March 03, 2006
As I will be watching the game in Cameron, I have to admit I'm not too worried about the hype. Even Hansbrough's only good offensive move, hooking, won't help Carolina tomorrow, provided the refs don't give random fouls to any Duke player who happens to be near a play close to the basket like they did against FSU. Check out the stats: around 30 free throws for Johnson and Thornton, with only 7 total shooting fouls for Duke. Thats pretty much bullcrap. Anyways, go Duke.
posted by fatfryar at 04:18 PM on March 03, 2006
Yeah, poor Duke, they never get the calls.
posted by bperk at 05:12 PM on March 03, 2006
FSU came out playing a lot harder than Duke. You can ask anyone who knows basketball and they will tell you that the more aggressive team will, more often than not, get the calls.
posted by budpatient at 05:38 PM on March 03, 2006
who honestly cares about either of the teams.yes they are consistently top raked teams. yes they are both basketball icons with the players they produce, but , seriously, its only one game!! the media is putting to much into it. its not for the national championship yet is it?
posted by canes09 at 06:52 PM on March 03, 2006
and yes, if miami paid their players like unc or duke they would have a great program as well
posted by canes09 at 06:54 PM on March 03, 2006
You mean if they paid their basketball players? (uh football???)
posted by budpatient at 06:55 PM on March 03, 2006
those are just great athletes that want to play for a great school, that can offer them diplomas to the nfl
posted by canes09 at 06:57 PM on March 03, 2006
i love the comment from trox. i couldnt wish for anything else either
posted by canes09 at 06:59 PM on March 03, 2006
All I want for Christmas is a muzzle for Dick Vitale. The annoying people live the longest.
posted by budpatient at 07:02 PM on March 03, 2006
You're shittin' me? Some guy named Blythe wrote a book about that and somebody published it? Is this the Onion, or what?
posted by Bud Lang at 10:30 PM on March 03, 2006
The annoying people live the longest. Based on this hypothesis, I hereby christen you "The New Methuselah."
posted by The_Black_Hand at 05:23 AM on March 04, 2006
and yes, if miami paid their players like unc or duke they would have a great program as well And if Miami offered their players the education that Duke or UNC does, they wouldn't turn out nearly as many idiots. See: Winslow, Kellen Jr.; Shockey, Jeremy; Irvin, Michael, et al.
posted by The_Black_Hand at 05:25 AM on March 04, 2006
Yeah, I admit it. Duke and UNC are institutions that run far dirtier programs than the University of Miami. If only the Tobacco Road teams had such a great academic track record as "the U." And since of all the 40 foul shots that FSU got in that game, only 15 came off shooting fouls, either budpatient has no clue about basketball at all, or else just didnt watch the game. In either case he is just making himself look like an idiot with expert analysis like that.
posted by fatfryar at 03:25 PM on March 04, 2006
Based on this hypothesis, I hereby christen you "The New Methuselah." ...Count it!
posted by lilnemo at 03:33 PM on March 04, 2006
Obviously you never played ball before because the fouls I was reffering to are the ones that come from getting to the ball first. (IE. Not shooting fouls!) Maybe you should watch a little more basketball before commenting on it. Or maybe you should try playing it. No, not on your PS2, outside with other people!
posted by budpatient at 12:57 PM on March 05, 2006
12 hours later I'm still pretty shocked that Duke were up 13-2 and ended up losing. Despite their record, if they don't win the ACC tournament does this mean they'll drop to a 2 seed?
posted by billsaysthis at 01:35 PM on March 05, 2006
I like UNC, but not as much as this post makes it seem. I enjoyed the full title of the book: To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry.