Duke - Carolina Volume 2

Art MD Chansky

Description

Famed sportswriter and Tobacco Road basketball historian Art Chansky is releasing a digital version of his award-winning book, Blue Blood, for the Apple iPad, iPhone and iTouch. Blue Blood details one of sport's greatest rivalries, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and details the emergence, growth and fierce competition that has existed between these two schools, which are located only eight miles apart on Tobacco Road.

Blue Blood – The Digital Edition provides new and updated commentary and photos, and is specifically formatted for the iPad and iPhone devices. Users can flip through the pages of the eBook and enjoy a "coffee-table book" style version of Blue Blood through the brilliance of tablet and mobile computing.

Blue Blood – The Digital Edition will be released over the course of the 2010-2011 college basketball season, with the first chapter "Volume 1: Introduction and Earliest Years" scheduled for release in November 2010. Each month thereafter, culminating with the final volume being released during March Madness, a new volume will be released that will detail the history of the rivalry – chronologically. The final volume will detail the last two seasons; where UNC and Duke won back-to-back NCAA National Championships, which has only added to the greatness of the rivalry.

Sujets

• Sport
• Sports collectifs
• Basketball
• Histoire
• Americas
• History

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781456603847
• Langue: English

Extrait

Duke - Carolina Volume 2
 
by
Art Chansky
 
Editorial Assistance, Al Featherston
Digital color photographs, Jack Morton
 
Copyright 2011, GreatestFan
All rights reserved.
http://www.Greatestfan.com
 
 
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
 
 
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-0384-7
 
 
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
 
N.C. STATE FORCES THE DUKE-CAROLINA HAND
Duke coach Eddie Cameron landed the bulk of the great Durham High teams of the 1940s – football-basketball star Bob Gantt, the Loftis brothers and (a year later) Gordon Carver. But he missed the big prize, Horace “Bones” McKinney, who got his nickname not from his spindly frame but from the part he once had in a high school play.

Eddie Cameron
 

Bob Gantt
The way Bones later told it, Cameron began leaving Duke tickets for all the Durham High players. But as a youth McKinney had made a habit of sneaking into Blue Devil games and wasn’t about to break his tradition. One night he was caught by a campus policeman, trying to climb through a narrow window into the first-floor men’s room (right beside the door where the Duke students now enter). Instead of banishing or even arresting McKinney, the policeman punished the embarrassed teenager by giving him a spanking in front of a crowd of jeering Duke students.
McKinney said that he vowed at that moment that he would not attend Duke. Instead, he landed an academic scholarship at N.C. State. In first varsity season, he almost single-handedly turned what had been a 6-9 team in 1941 into a 15-win squad in 1942. He led the Red Terrors (as the Wolfpack was known at that time) to the Southern Conference championship game, where it lost to Duke.
That would be McKinney’s last season at N.