The true power of Carolina basketball

Posted Jan 11, 2018
My uncle Dan looks weighed down by the blankets on the hospital bed. His chemotherapy has left him with fuzz coating his head where there was once thick, dark, curly hair. Despite his exhausted body, his gaze and energy directed at the television are as intense as they were in health. He is watching the Tar Heels play in the Elite 8 in 2016. (Daily Tar Heel)

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