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(04/13/10 6:22pm)
Joe Drews' column today listed some (pretty good) reasons that Kyle Singler should come back to Duke next year -- jersey retirement, the chance to win a second national championship, etc. I'm quasi-uniquely qualified to aid Singler in this decision, seeing how I actually decided to turn down NBA millions an awesome job on Wall Street traveling the world a chance to live in my old room at my parents' house and return to Durham for four years of medical school after finishing my first four years at Duke.
(03/16/10 7:07pm)
I've been pushing tempo-free stats to anyone who will listen all season long, but if you want to win the Chronicle Sports Blog's Bracket Challenge, it never hurts to have some numbers on your side. Also, I can guarantee that you're tired of listening to ESPN's crew talk about "bounce-backability," "toughness" and "athleticism" by now, if you weren't already sick of it after the first 24 hours of coverage.
(03/12/10 6:40pm)
Last night, North Carolina lost in the ACC Tournament and was semi-officially eliminated from the NCAA Tournament. It's okay if you didn't watch, since Thursday at the ACC Tournament only kind of counts.
(03/03/10 10:00pm)
In today's column, a follow-up on my last column making the statistical case that Duke''s performance declines over the course of the ACC's schedule, I tried to determine whether that decline in performance is due to fatigue. I made four separate, but related, points:
(02/24/10 9:35pm)
In his column yesterday, Ben Cohen asked Duke assistant coach Chris Collins an interesting question and got, well, a less than interesting response:
(02/18/10 9:08am)
Matt Johnson, a grad student in biology, (respectfully) takes my English-majoring, med-school-attending behind to school in a fantastic post at his blog The Immaculate Inning.
(02/17/10 12:28pm)
UPDATE: I've posted a link to Excel files with spreadsheets I used in this analysis at the bottom of this page. There's a bonus file, which has the Pomeroy rankings of each ACC team. If you're a mathematical type of person and think that what I've done here is unsophisticated (at best), please see if you can do something better. Post it in the comments and I'll give it some love in a future blog post.
(02/12/10 11:12pm)
The Interwebs are all abuzz with the latest rumor: The 4-48, on-pace-to-be-the-worst-team-ever New Jersey Nets are targeting Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski to be their coach next season.
(02/11/10 6:53am)
In honor of tonight's Duke-Carolina game in Chapel Hill, Sports Illustrated's Stewart Mandel wrote a column, touching on -- among other things -- the significance of the rivalry game in a trying season for UNC, Duke's recent travails in the series, Harrison Barnes, etc., etc., etc. Boilerplate stuff.
(02/04/10 12:17am)
Apparently, either Ed Davis or someone posing as Ed Davis (Jason Williams thinks its Ed Davis) has opened a Formspring account. For the uninitiated, Formspring is a social-networking website in which users answer anonymously-posed questions. (Just click the link at the bottom and you'll get it.) Anyway, Davis' Formspring account is a treasure trove of comedy:
(01/26/10 9:44pm)
When it came out yesterday, North Carolina was absent from this week's AP top 25. Not a single media member voted for the Tar Heels.
(01/25/10 12:32am)
Some thoughts from Duke's 60-47 win over Clemson Saturday night:
(01/24/10 5:49am)
If you can sense any residual awkward-old-man-dancing-with-a-cheerleader energy in the building while you're watching the game tonight, this is why.
(01/21/10 8:20pm)
Perhaps because of the incessant radio ads reminding me that tickets were still available for N.C. State basketball games against Duke, I decided to go to last night's game.
(01/13/10 10:23am)
With the news that Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin is bolting for USC, you had to believe that former Vols offensive coordinator (and curent Duke head coach) David Cutcliffe's name would surface in rumors.
(12/14/09 9:22am)
It's almost difficult to believe this stuff about Roy Williams tossing hecklers out of the Dean Dome isn't made up.
(12/08/09 3:06am)
Sports Business Journal reports today that the NCAA has been "meeting with broadcasters to explore the media value of expanding the men’s basketball tournament field." The report describes the talks as "preliminary."
(12/01/09 6:59am)
According to this report by WRAL's Josh Hailey, Mason Plumlee, Duke's freshman big man who has not played this season after suffering a wrist injury, practiced today and will play against Wisconsin Wednesday.
(11/19/09 10:04pm)
I ended my column today by saying that I didn’t think Harrison Barnes made the right choice when he decided to go to UNC. Here’s why:
(11/16/09 9:30am)
Quincy Miller, a 6-foot-9 power forward from Winston-Salem rated by ESPN as the 8th-best player in the class of 2011, will apparently be in attendance at the Blue Devils' game against Coastal Carolina Monday night.
