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...went to Duke. And I am a Blue Devils basketball...
...said it. It's out there. I have made myself the willing target of a nation's hostility, a country full of purported fans of college basketball who entertain themselves by disparaging my team, who cringe at the sight of Duke blue. And it's not just University of North Carolina fans, for whom, at least, anti-Duke sentiment is a hallowed tradition. Instead, it's a whole lot of people who, for reasons that continue to escape me, find everything about Duke basketball to be deeply distasteful. And for a team that's never done anything but play solid...
...uniforms? Does the team send out disturbing subliminal messages ("Hi, we're the Duke basketball team. Let us delight you with the sound of our nails running down a chalkboard")? The root of this loathing remains a mystery, although I suspect it may have something to do with the team's incorrigibly clean, slightly privileged image - and its annoying tendency...
...anti-Dukies try to explain. Nobody likes a winner these days. Nobody likes a team that seems to have it too easy. We harp against the New York Yankees as we once railed against the San Francisco 49ers. And for years we've focused our negative energies on Duke...
...start with some comforting news: a lot of stocks are doing well. Despite awful headlines and a palpable fear, the average diversified stock fund has fallen a manageable 13% in the past year. Meanwhile, if you owned Philip Morris, Duke Energy and Ralston Purina in that period, you made money. Good money. Of course, those stocks killed you the two years before that, so nobody really loaded up with them. Still, it's a mistake to assume that everyone is losing his shirt in this bear market...