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This has been a tough couple of weeks for me. The Tarheels lost their first two ACC games and the Panthers had a debacle of a playoff game led by the masterful turnover performance of Jake Delhomme. He can turn the ball over with the best of them. Watching Jake Delhomme is like watching a great movie that has a twist at the end which doesn’t make any sense so it ruins the whole movie.

I am convinced that women statistically live longer than men because they don’t watch sports. I feel ten years older after these last couple of weeks and I swear that after Boston College beat my beloved Tarheels my heart actually stopped beating for 30 seconds. I wasn’t even scared; it was welcome at that point; especially after BC turned around and lost to Harvard just four day later.

But the great thing about sports is that there is always another game to be played, another season to be had, another off-season to bitch about the coaches and players and how they failed us, another pre-season to convince myself that this year might be different, another jubilation or disappointment right around the corner. And although sports moments seem to be taking years off my life they are also the moments I live for.