Book Excerpt: Light Blue Reign
Posted Oct 13, 2009
The 1968 season began just after Pat McGuire lost her battle to cancer in September, and Dean Smith was among the hundreds attending her funeral in New York. It was also a time of more upheaval in America, with much of the country growing concerned over President Lyndon Johnson's handling of the escalating war in Vietnam. On the court, the Tar Heels again led wire to wire
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