The Shot
My dad and I were on opposing sides during the greatest college basketball game ever played. He liked Duke and I rooted for Kentucky. At the time, I didn't really have a favorite basketball team because two years earlier my team, North Carolina State, fired Jimmy Valvano. That was the first blow to the team I grew up watching, and it was never going to recover. First it was Jimmy V, then Chris Corchiani and Rodney Monroe (Fire and Ice), and then Googs (Tom Gugliotta) was the