{"id":24,"date":"2009-02-12T20:35:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T01:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2011-06-08T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T00:56:07","slug":"in-my-mind-im-going-to-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/in-my-mind-im-going-to-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"In my mind I&#8217;m going to Carolina&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25\" title=\"unc\" src=\"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/unc.bmp\" alt=\"unc\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really explain it.\u00c2\u00a0 James Taylor sang about it best.\u00c2\u00a0 There is something magical about growing up in North Carolina that maybe only people in boston and new york or michigan and ohio can understand.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s often called one of the best rivalries in all of sports&#8211;the Carolina-Duke rivalry.\u00c2\u00a0 The real 8 mile (sorry Eminem).\u00c2\u00a0 The Dean.\u00c2\u00a0 Coach K.\u00c2\u00a0 Grant Hill straddling the back of a bloodied Eric Montross after a monster dunk.\u00c2\u00a0 Danny Green putting deez nuts in Paulus&#8217;s face on a one handed jam.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s Michael Jordan, Christian Laettner, Jerry Stackhouse, Elton Brand&#8230;the list of household names almost seem endless.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever your favorite player or whatever you favorite memory of the series maybe, one thing is absolutely certain.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no other basketball game that is as anticpated each year as these 2 meetings.\u00c2\u00a0 Two of the four all time winningest basketball programs in the world beating the crap out of each other no matter how many All-Americans or walkons grace the teams year in and year out.\u00c2\u00a0 The games almost always go down to the wire to determine the winner, yet in the end everyone wins because we have just witnessed 40 minutes of amazing competitiveness.\u00c2\u00a0 This is how the game is meant to be played.\u00c2\u00a0 Passion, outstanding individual performances, teamwork and defense, crazed fans and unsung heroes.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In our day and age, when steriods and scandal are running rampant through sports, it&#8217;s good to celebrate amateur athletes performing on the grandest stage of them all, fueled by the sheer desire to not lose to the team in the <em>other<\/em> shade of blue.\u00c2\u00a0 Especially if its Dookie Blue!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AWxq32f8QLE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AWxq32f8QLE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t really 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