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NEW ORLEANS—On a muggy Louisiana night, the Blue Devils found their footing and pulled away from an unlucky Green Wave squad to capture their first win of the year.
My high school football coach told us every day after practice, “You either get better or you get worse, but you don’t stay the same.” I’ve seen this turn out to be true in every sports-related instance, and this season, unfortunately, will be a step back for Duke.
Wake Forest head coach Dave Clawson’s current rebuilding project in Winston-Salem is going to take awhile. Clawson arrived in 2014 from Bowling Green, inheriting one of the youngest, teams in the nation, which was reflected in a 3-9 inaugural campaign.
Running the vaunted triple option requires a signal-caller with next-level vision, breakneck speed and elite decision-making abilities. The Yellow Jackets have found just that in Justin Thomas.
This story doesn’t have a happy ending, or an ending at all, really. But it’s one worth telling.
Head coach David Cutcliffe announced last week that redshirt freshman Nicodem Pierre would shift from quarterback to running back after three of Duke's four scholarship running backs went down with injuries early in fall camp. With the season opener a little more than two weeks away, The Chronicle's beat writers take a look at how the injuries could impact Cutcliffe's offense.
With the 2015 season right around the corner, The Chronicle's football beat writers break down each of the 10 major position groups: running backs, quarterbacks, receivers, offensive line, defensive ends, defensive tackles, linebackers, defensive backs, kicker/punter and punt/kickoff returners to prepare you for the regular season.
With fall camp on the horizon, the Chronicle's football beat writers take a look at the big questions facing the Blue Devils this summer.
NEW YORK—The NBA draft is a hectic occasion every year, but this year’s crop of Blue Devils provided all the excitement fans could have wanted—Jahlil Okafor is joining a crowded frontcourt in Philadelphia, Justise Winslow is taking his talents to South Beach and Tyus Jones is going home.
NEW YORK—It may not be the small army Kentucky is sending to the league, but come Thursday night, the defending national champions will send one of the most talented cores in the country to play in the NBA.
With the NBA draft hours away, five of The Chronicle's current and former editors in the sports department give their final predictions for tonight's draft, including the landing spots of the four former Duke players, their predicted lottery picks and their take on who will be the draft's biggest potential bust, biggest steal and Rookie of the Year.
Dear readers,
Of all the micro-storylines and interesting tidbits to come out of Duke basketball’s fifth championship run, one of the most interesting came by way of a player who didn’t see a single minute of playing time—but still managed to capture an entire fan base's attention.
Writing about change is usually stupid because it’s inevitable. But when it comes to Duke football, it’s just fun—and necessary.
After months of breakdown and anticipation, draft day is here. And for the first time in more than a decade, it is the NFL—not the NBA—commissioner that will likely be calling the name of a pair of Blue Devils this weekend.
With Duke's fifth national championship victory three weeks old, three veteran Chronicle sportswriters—V. 111 Sports Editor Ryan Hoerger, V. 110 Sports Editor Nick Martin and V. 111 Editor-in-Chief Amrith Ramkumar—reflect on the season that was and look ahead to a Blue Devil team that will look dramatically different from the squad that cut down the nets when head coach Mike Krzyzewski's team takes the floor come mid-November.
As some folks who also reside in the hallowed halls of 301 Flowers would say, I’m from the sticks, which means I am naturally slow. Everything I do happens in a deliberate manner and personally, I like it that way—what’s the rush? Needless to say, as the head of the sports department at The Chronicle, that had to change this year.
It was not the end result they were hoping for this weekend, but the Blue Devils have done everything except ease up down the stretch—and with the ACC tournament five days away, a seventh-place finish may end up helping more than hurting them.
Duke freshman Jahlil Okafor has announced his decision to forgo his remaining three years of eligibility and will enter the 2015 NBA draft, the team announced Thursday.
INDIANAPOLIS—Nobody knows crunch time like the man they call "Tyus Stones."
