By Matthew E. Milliken
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June 19, 2017
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That was the championship that was
April 8, 2016By Matthew E. Milliken
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April 8, 2016
Going into Monday night, it had been an entire year since a team from the Research Triangle — the cities and surroundings of Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh — had won an NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship game. The top-seeded University of North Carolina Tar Heels hoped to end our region’s long title drought when it took on underdog Villanova, a No. 2 seed that had upset No. 1 Kansas in the Elite Eight and steamrolled fellow No. 2 Oklahoma in the Final Four with a 95-51 win Saturday evening.
Because I’ve been suffering from a low-level cold and/or mid- to high-level allergy attack for much of the past two weeks, I considered not watching any of the title game. (I don’t have a television at home, and I forgot that the game was available online.)
After some hemming and hawing, I decided that I would watch the game at a local bar. At that point, the contest had already started. Since I didn’t want to watch the end of the first half, I noodled around on my phone on a bench at one edge of Durham Central Park before strolling over to my destination: Motorco, which was showing the game for free in its main hall and which has a late-night restaurant that it calls Parts & Labor. (The building housed a car dealership for nearly two decades.)
I ordered some food and set myself up at a high table on the patio where I could watch one of the projection-screen televisions. I ate a couple of chicken sliders while the second half got under way; once that was done, I grabbed my glass of water and the remnants of my bottle of Miller High Life and walked over to the music hall. I picked out a seat on one of the tables that had been arrayed there.
Karma chamelion, college sports and cards: A short, trivial morality tale
June 5, 2015By Matthew E. Milliken
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June 5, 2015
Five years ago, mighty mighty Alabama came to Durham to play Duke’s not-all-that-impressive football team.
I had tickets to the game, and I wanted to make clear that I was not rooting for the overdog Crimson Tide. So I made my first and so far only purchase of Duke paraphernalia as an adult: A navy T-shirt with plain white letters spelling out DUKE arrayed on the front.
That sunny September 2010 afternoon may have been the only time I wore that T-shirt — until this week.
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