And if I suggested that I’ve seen far more coverage of Allen’s two tripping incidents on ESPN this season than mention of UNC’s 18-year academic scandal – with pending NCAA charges of five Level One violations – would that remind anybody of an earlier “double standard”?
There was a strange atmosphere in Cameron Indoor Stadium on the afternoon of January 21, 1984 when No. 1 North Carolina – an undefeated team featuring Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, Kenny Smith and Brad Daugherty – came to Duke for a non-televised game against Mike Krzyzewski’s young Blue Devils.
The Cameron Crazies showed up wearing halos fashioned of wire coat-hangers covered with foil.