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Duke basketball owns Tobacco Road as Tar Heels borrow Wolfpack motto

Ironically, an apt description of the good stuff running through this Duke basketball junkie's veins comes from the first paragraph of UNC diehard Will Blythe's 2006 best-seller — 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 — which has on the cover a photoshopped-into-ratface image of Mike Krzyzewski.

"I am a sick, sick man," Blythe wrote. "Not only am I consumed by hatred [for Duke], I am delighted by it. I have done some checking into the matter and have discovered that the world's great religions and wisdom traditions tend to frown upon this.