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DEL.ICIO.USHe’s a Tar Heel, she’s a Dookie
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Local fabsters have no doubt spotted the glamorous Elizabeth Schulte Roth and her sweet husband Thomas at swank events around town.
Did you know their shocking secret? They hail from opposite sides of college basketball’s biggest rivalry. She’s a Duke grad, he went to Carolina.
Theirs is a house divided going into the Saturday night Tobacco Road showdown, when his top-ranked Heels meet her No. 5 Blue Devils at Duke. ESPN is airing the 9 p.m. game.
“She’s a better sport than I am [during games],” said Thomas Roth, an AthenaHealth sales exec who graduated from UNC in 1986. “We try to keep it civil as much as possible. Typically it ends up with one person having to leave the room.”
Elizabeth, the Atlanta Peach mag publisher, is quick to point out her “wife of the year” story. Once, when the Blue Devils were walloping the Heels, Thomas couldn’t take it so he decided to walk the dog. While he was gone, Carolina came back and won. Tempted though she was to let Thomas wallow in sorrow thinking Duke had prevailed, she Tivo’d the game so he could relish the Heels’ triumph.
Thomas admitted he probably would not have done the same.
“He thinks Coach K is evil,” Elizabeth said.
Married seven years, they displayed warring loyalties with their fox terrier Spencer’s Carolina collar and Duke leash until Spencer (who is not named for UNC benefactress Cornelia Phillips Spencer, 1825-1908) mussed up the collar.
“We have a smart dog, and I assume he just couldn’t deal with such a heinous accessory,” said Elizabeth Roth.
The Roths now dress baby Caroline (named for Elizabeth’s sister) in alternating sports gear. (She’s in her UNC get-up below only because her Duke onesie was in the wash.) Since life with a 6-week-old doesn’t involve sports bars, the Roths watch the game at home. It might not be the best time to drop in unannounced.
“Our neighbors know this is a bad time of year,” Elizabeth Roth said.
Local UNC and Duke alumni groups plan game-watching parties Saturday night.
Duke fans are meeting in the Veranda Room at Fox Sports Grill in Atlantic Station. The Duke Club provides appetizers. At halftime a basketball autographed by Shelden Williams, Luol Deng and Chris Duhon will be raffled to benefit the Jimmy V Foundation.
Tar Heels are watching the game at Stats, 300 Marietta St. Admission to the party, hosted by the Carolina Club and the Atlanta Young Alumni Council, costs $5 and includes bar food and beer specials in “He’s Not Here” blue cups. An autographed 2008 team ball will be raffled to benefit scholarships.
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