To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever by Will Blythe
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Overview: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry.
The basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest and longest-running blood feud in college athletics, and perhaps in all of sports.
To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses athletics; it is rich against poor, locals against outsiders, even good against evil. It is thousands of grown men and women with jobs and families screaming themselves hoarse at some 18-year-old for missing a foul shot, trading conspiracy theories in online chat rooms, and weeping like babies when their teams – when they – lose.
In North Carolina, where both schools reside, it is a way of aligning oneself with larger philosophic ideals – of choosing teams in life – a tradition of partisanship that reveals the pleasures and even the necessities of hatred. What makes people invest their identities in what is elsewhere seen as “just a game”? What makes North Carolina senator John Edwards risk alienating primary voters by telling a reporter, “I hate Duke basketball”?
What makes people care so much about basketball?
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs > Sports > Basketball > Personal Memoirs
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