CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The Duke Blue Devils -- nowhere more loved or reviled than here in their home state -- gained a big new fan this year in North Carolina's own Richard Petty, but not for any athletic accomplishments.
Since early February, Petty and his wife, Lynda, have been traveling back and forth from their home in Level Cross to the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, where Lynda has been receiving chemotherapy treatments for a brain tumor at the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center.
"If I was never a Duke fan before, I'm a Duke fan now," Petty said at the NASCAR Hall of Fame Tuesday when asked about how his wife was doing. "Not that I wasn't, but it's brought me that much closer to Duke, that's for sure."
Meanwhile, Lynda Petty spoke out for the first time, telling WGHP Fox 8 News in an interview aired Thursday night, "I thought, 'Lord, give me the strength to get through this,' because I knew it was going to be the battle of my life."
Lynda told reporter Bob Buckley of the High Point, N.C., station that she first began having problems while the family was on vacation at their Wyoming ranch home.
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