Excerpt from To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever

Posted Mar 8, 2006

The rain started right after Duke won, as if God were directing a cheesy TV movie of the whole affair for the Lifetime Network. My ears were still ringing as I drove home. The din inside Cameron after Carolina failed to get that shot off had been terrible. The most poignant sight of the evening came as I left the dingy little visitor's locker room and climbed the dark stairs. Alone on a step sat Roy Williams, head in his hand, slumped in abject desolation. (Independent Weekly)

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