ATLANTA, GEORGIA | Everyone loves rivalries. Cheers, jeers, face paint, deviled eggs and some good ol’ fashioned insults as fans invest in their school colors and bragging rights. We even give them names: the Red River Shootout (Texas–Oklahoma), the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party (Georgia–Florida) and the Moonshine Throwdown (Marshall–Western Kentucky).
We usually talk about them in football season. But if Michigan plays Ohio State in darts you can rest assured the feelings, the pressure, the enthusiasm will be the same.
That’s what made the finals of the East Lake Cup so much fun. You might not have known the names of any of the players in Atlanta this week but you knew the teams. And if you know college athletics, you knew the rivalries.
