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	Carolina Basketball. The very words evoke a passionate response among the countless thousands of fans who follow the Tar Heels. For serious North Carolina basketball fans, following the team is more than just another recreational activity - it's a fundamental, even irreplaceable part of who they are. Every winter, Carolina fans habitually schedule their lives around the Tar Heels during the season - and many say that following the team is one of the most lasting and valuable attachments in their lives.





Is this a good thing? What are the implications, both personally and collectively, of being in love with Carolina basketball? Are there better and worse ways, more healthy and less healthy ways to be a fan? And why exactly does North Carolina basketball have such a hold on its loyal followers? Thad Williamson, a lifelong fan who has also covered North Carolina basketball as a journalist, probes his own fan history and those of hundreds of others to offer a unique perspective on those questions. A powerful blend of autobiography, journalism, and social science, More Than a Game is a book certain to stir the hearts and challenge the minds of North Carolina basketball fans everywhere. Thad Williamson is a doctoral student in political theory at Harvard University and a consultant to the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives in Washington, DC. A graduate of Chapel Hill High School, he received an A.B. in Religious Studies and History from Brown University in 1992 and an M.A. in Christian Ethics in 1998 from Union Theological Seminary, New York. Williamson has written on issues ranging from economic policy to disarmament for over a dozen publications, including The Nation, Tikkun, and Dollars and Sense, and has completed two other books, What Comes Next? Proposals for a Different Society (National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives,1998), and Making a Place for Community: A Policy Primer for the 21st Century (Routledge Press, 2002), co-authored with David Imbroscio and Gar Alperovitz. Williamson, who has written about North Carolina basketball since 1995, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Adria Scharf. Both Thad and Adria are members of the editorial collective of Dollars and Sense.
More Than a Game: Why North Carolina Basketball Means So Much To So Many. 336 pages, $18.00 paperback. Publication Date: December 1, 2001. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Part One I. The Socialization and Education of a North Carolina Basketball Fan, 1976-1988 II. College and All That, 1988-1994 III. Covering the Team, 1995-2000 Interlude IV. Critical Reflections on Being a North Carolina Fan Part Two V. The North Carolina Fan Diaries Project VI. The North Carolina Basketball Fan Survey, Part One VII. A Few Words (Including Some Nice Ones) About Duke University VIII. The North Carolina Basketball Fan Survey, Part Two Conclusion Appendices

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