A Tar Heel Gives the Devils His Boo

As the 2006 NCAA Basketball Tournament gets underway today, grown men and women from coast to coast will be reduced to catatonic states as teams representing colleges and universities from which they graduated centuries ago advance -- or fail to advance -- toward the new American Paradise, the Final Four. Having gone through 12-step recovery more than a decade ago, I am no longer afflicted with this strange condition but certainly can sympathize with those under its spell -- for I am an alumnus of the basketball school to beat all basketball schools, the University of North Carolina. (Washington Post)