Streeter LeckaWe need fewer cliches in sports discourse, not more, and maybe I'm doing a disservice to the world by even making this argument, but after watching last night's Duke vs. UNC rivalry game at the Dean Dome in Chapel Hill, I can't help but tip my cap to a cliche I've been hearing since I was a kid: “When two rivals play, you can throw the records out the window.” It's an annoying concept because it rejects the true quality of a team based on measurable data like wins and losses, and appeals to mystic qualities of universal balance based on years of enmity and shared history. On a logical planet, it shouldn't be true. By now, it should be in the trash heap of cliches that have been neutered by time and knowledge. Instead, it's stronger than ever.
First, about that game: North Carolina is having a very, very bad season…obscenely bad, by their standards. Injuries and luck have played their part, but beyond lonely superstar Cole Anthony, the ..
