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In sorrow, follow Woody's advice: Go where you go, and do what you do. | News & Observer

Go where you go, and do what you do.

There's no better way to honor the spirit and memory of Woody Durham than to obey, at this moment of sorrow, his most cherished commandment of North Carolina fandom.

He was, for four decades, the unifying voice of the Tar Heels, the Alamance County-tinged background sound to so many great moments in North Carolina history: Four basketball national championships, 13 Final Fours, 23 bowl games.

Durham, who died early Wednesday morning at age 76, had been silenced in his final years by aphasia, an ironically cruel affliction that robbed the figurative voice of Carolina athletics of his literal voice.