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(03/25/14 10:25am)
For hours, I would stand in my driveway alone on the cobblestone except for an old, rickety hockey net in front of me, pounding tennis balls into the goal from every angle until my wrists went numb. The net was ripped and torn in three places, and the posts were worn down by repeated blows. It held within its frame an anthology of my early years—my childhood and that net were forever intertwined. The garage door behind it was dented with body-size impressions from when I would jump into it, pretending to be celebrating a game-winning goal.
(02/25/14 9:34am)
Feb. 22 had been circled on every Duke fan’s calendar as soon as the 2013-14 regular season schedule was released. The thought of watching Syracuse, led by head coach Jim Boeheim, go head-to-head with the Blue Devils in a raucous environment like Cameron Indoor Stadium provided the kind of hype typically reserved only for the annual visit from the rival Tar Heels. Not only would it be the Orange’s first trip to Cameron, it also would feature the heavyweight battle between two of college basketball’s greatest programs and winningest coaches. The tradition of both teams alone rendered a matchup of colossal proportions, filled with numerous story lines as well as ACC title implications. Even the most casual college basketball fan was left drooling thinking about the magnitude of this game.
(02/11/14 7:57am)
Against in-conference rival Texas Tech University, Oklahoma State University Basketball’s point guard, Marcus Smart, displayed the fire and intensity that can drive a team to a title. Instead of directing his energy toward what was happening on the court, however, Smart went haywire and physically confronted a fan in the waning seconds of his team’s loss.
(01/28/14 11:13am)
With less than two weeks until the Opening Ceremonies of the Sochi Winter Olympics, it’s odd that politics still have a stranglehold on the chatter surrounding the 22nd Winter Olympiad.
(01/14/14 12:01pm)
The difference between being ranked 23rd and 123rd, for most teams, is astronomically large. But for Duke basketball, sitting on the edge of the rankings is about the same as teetering over the edge of the Empire State Building—the expectations are high and the room for error very little. This is uncharted territory for a team accustomed to being a power house, and the feeling of perhaps falling out of the rankings altogether is a living nightmare to any Blue Devil fan.
(11/15/13 9:27am)
“A sound body does not mean a Teflon mind.”
(11/01/13 6:40am)
As we approach the one-year anniversary of Alex Smith being demoted by San Francisco 49ers head coach, Jim Harbaugh, in favor of the upstart, fleet-footed Colin Kaepernick, I believe it is important to look back on this decision and give it some perspective. Since being demoted, Smith has watched from the sidelines as Kaepernick went on a record-breaking run to the Super Bowl, had his life in California uprooted as he was transported to Kansas City and became the backbone of the lone remaining undefeated team in the NFL.
(10/18/13 12:16pm)
We are spoiled here at Duke, and not just by the amenities, the academic opportunities or the status granted us by attending this University. Rather, we are spoiled because while we all drag ourselves out of bed and stumble to the bus stop bleary eyed each morning, we are indirectly in the presence of a public figure that has rewritten record books and influenced thousands through his actions and words. Looming over us ubiquitously here at Duke is the presence of legendary basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, and on the eve of a new basketball season it is only fitting to pay respects to the man who has turned Duke into a premier college basketball program.
(10/04/13 8:37am)
When I moved into my dorm this past August, the first thing I did was begin setting up my Bay Area sports shrine, in order to pay respects to my hometown and favorite teams. Doing anything else prior to this ritual would have felt wrong, as it was only when a San Francisco 49ers flag, a San Jose Sharks rally towel and a San Francisco Giants t-shirt were all proudly hung above my bed that I could finally call my new, dimly lit living space a home.
(09/20/13 9:00am)
News headlines over the past week have been strewn with claims from Sports Illustrated writers George Dohrmann and Thayer Evans that Oklahoma State University must join the ranks as yet another university to go rogue, reportedly paying their student athletes, turning a blind eye to star players’ drug use and committing academic fraud all in the name of becoming a dominant college football program.
(09/06/13 7:47am)
If it weren’t for Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance, Texas A&M University quarterback Johnny Manziel would still be the most talked-about 20-year-old in the country. Since Miley’s raunchy display on stage with Robin Thicke, however, the drama surrounding Manziel has faded away, with twerking replacing Johnny Football as the new trending topic on a range of media platforms.
