Rethinking Wallace Wade, but not finishing the bowl
(10/08/13 8:57am)
A drop in attendance at Wallace Wade Stadium has prompted Duke’s athletic department to forego its original plan to close the stadium’s bowl.
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A drop in attendance at Wallace Wade Stadium has prompted Duke’s athletic department to forego its original plan to close the stadium’s bowl.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Class of 2014 center Goodluck Okonoboh committed to UNLV on ESPNU this week, picking the Rebels over Duke, Florida, Indiana and Ohio State. While Duke was still officially on his list, Adam Rowe of Blue Devil Lair had said earlier in the week that the Blue Devils were no longer recruiting him. That leaves Duke's big man targets in the class as Jahlil Okafor, Myles Turner, Reid Travis and Kevon Looney. All of them hold offers from Duke with Travis and Looney visiting separately in September. Rowe hears that Travis is down to Duke and Stanford, pitting former Duke player and assistant Johnny Dawkins against his former coach and boss. Okafor, the consensus No. 1 player in the class, is set to visit Duke on the weekend of Oct. 25, a visit he had previously scheduled with the top point guard in the class, Tyus Jones. The two are close friends and have stated on multiple occasions they will likely play college ball together. Now joining them on their official visit will be 2014 small forward Justise Winslow, according to reports, who at different points has been rumored to be a third part of an Okafor-Jones package. Although Duke has been seen as the favorites for that duo, Kansas also is rumored to be in the mix. Kansas is also on Winslow's list. Turner has yet to release all the schools he will officially visit, but Kansas, Duke and Texas are among them, he told Rowe.Meanwhile, looking ahead to the class of 2015, Duke associate head coach Steve Wojciechowski watched small forward Matt Ryan work out, according to Adam Zagoria. Though he's not rated among the top recruits in the class according to ESPN, he holds offers from a number of mid-majors and one ACC school in Boston College. Wojo has been busy on the trail, also watching 2015 recruits Tyler Dorsey and Ben Simmons, per Rowe's always info-filled Blue Devil Bites. Simmons, a power forward, and Dorsey, a shooting guard, are both ranked in ESPN's top 10. Meanwhile, he says, Duke hasn't been in touch with fellow top 2015 recruit Malik Newman in a while.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Former Duke quarterback Thad Lewis will start for the Buffalo Bills next Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals, head coach Doug Marrone said on WGR 550 radio in Buffalo (via ESPN). Starting quarterback E.J. Manuel, the only signal-caller taken in the first round of this year's NFL Draft, will be sidelined for several weeks due to a knee injury. The Bills traded for Lewis in August from the Lions after Lewis made his only career start last season for the Browns. In that start the Browns lost 24-10 to the Pittsburgh Steelers while Lewis completed 22-of-32 passes for 204 yards with one touchdown and one interception. In four seasons with Duke from 2006-2009, Lewis threw for 10,065 yards with 67 touchdowns and 40 interceptions. As a senior, he completed 274-of-449 passes for 20 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. He also ran for four touchdowns as a senior. Almost as exciting as Lewis playing will likely be his postgame press conference, as he has always been known to provide candid quotes for reporters.
The Brooklyn Nets’ training camp at Duke’s practice facilities marks a homecoming for general manager Billy King and forward Mason Plumlee.
“There isn’t much to do here,” Brooklyn Nets star point guard Deron Williams said Tuesday after the Brooklyn Nets concluded their first day of training camp at Duke’s practice facility.
A Duke football player and lacrosse player got into a physical altercation late Saturday night, early Sunday morning at a local bar.
The most exciting sporting event at Duke on Saturday wasn’t the 58-55 football shootout at Wallace Wade, which was filled with three types of moments: oh-my-god-they-just-blew-it-again, oh-my-god-Jamison-Crowder-for-president and oh-my-god-I-can’t-believe-Duke-is-still-in-this. The event was at Cameron Indoor Stadium, and basketball season hasn’t even started yet.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Take a quick break from playing Grand Theft Auto V and check out this picture that Duke basketball point guard Quinn Cook posted to Instagram of a GTA version of him, done by an illustrator: Generic Script Ok, you can go back to playing GTA V now.
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