I bet Miami would have been happy just to beat North Carolina any way they could have. We won -- that's all it comes down to.

We were motivated by the fact that (North Carolina) had won four in a row. We know all about the reputation they have as a basketball state, but we just said they weren't going win this year.

I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it will be above my grave.

....mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from useless. dreads. In june they are walls of white rhodendron blossom. In autumn the forests set themselves afflame with color. Even winter has its icy charms.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.