Duke - Carolina Volume 4: The Blue Blood Rivalry

By Art Chansky

Famed sportswriter and Tobacco Road basketball historian Art Chansky is releasing a digital version of his award-winning book, Blue Blood, for all tablet devices. Blue Blood details one of sport's greatest rivalries, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and details the emergence, growth and fierce competition that has existed between these two schools, which are located only eight miles apart on Tobacco Road.

Blue Blood -- The Digital Edition provides new and updated commentary and photos, and is specifically formatted for all tablet and e-reader devices. Users can flip through the pages of the eBook and enjoy a "coffee-table style eBook" version of Blue Blood through the brilliance of tablet and mobile computing.

Blue Blood -- The Digital Edition will be released over the course of the 2010-2012 college basketball season, with the first chapter "Volume 1: Introduction and Earliest Years" scheduled for release in November 2010. Thereafter, culminating with the final volume being released during Midnight Madness 2012, a new volume will be released that will detail the history of the rivalry -- chronologically. The final volume will detail the last two seasons; where UNC and Duke won back-to-back NCAA National Championships, which has only added to the greatness of the rivalry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781456610227

Art Chansky

Art Chansky is a veteran sportswriter and author of several books on UNC basketball, including Light Blue Reign and Blue Blood.

Book preview

Volume 4: Final Four Regulars

Many college basketball fans under 40 believe the Duke-Carolina rivalry began in the 1980s, when Mike Krzyzewski arrived in Durham and built a powerhouse program to rival what Dean Smith had been doing at Carolina for almost 20 years.

The 1980s were, however, the years the rivalry moved off Tobacco Road and across the nation, thanks to television. Since 1986, every Duke-Carolina game has been on national TV, whether ESPN, CBS or ABC. In fact, ESPN2 was launched on the power of Duke-Carolina, as fans outside of the ACC had to subscribe to The Deuce to get the first Duke-Carolina game in 1994.

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Since 1986, every Duke-Carolina game has been on national TV; Duke was the opponent when Carolina’s opened the $32 million Dean Smith Center, and former coach-turned-broadcaster Al McGuire named the Cameron Crazies during the second game of the 1986 season (Robert Crawford)

But true historians of the rivalry know it dated back to before the ACC was formed in 1953, when Duke All-American Dick Groat set season and career scoring records against the Tar Heels in the final games of the 1951 and ’52 seasons. In fact, it was Duke reacting to the hiring of Frank McGuire by UNC (which had reacted to the hiring of Everett Case by N.C. State) that brought young Vic Bubas to