Duke football quarterback Riley Leonard returns from injury, will start against No. 4 Florida State
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—First he was week-to-week. Then day-to-day. Now, he's mere minutes from starting in Duke's biggest game in recent memory.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—First he was week-to-week. Then day-to-day. Now, he's mere minutes from starting in Duke's biggest game in recent memory.
The 17th-ranked Blue Devils return to the field Saturday night against visiting N.C. State, hoping to get back in the win column after a gut-wrenching loss to Notre Dame before their bye week. The Chronicle’s beat writers are here to offer their predictions:
Students from across the Duke community gathered on Abele Quad Thursday evening for a Day of Peace, organized by Jewish and Israeli student groups for students to “enjoy music, poetry, crafts & more as we hope for peace, together.”
After a grueling loss to Notre Dame, the Blue Devils have time to rest during their bye this weekend. With almost the entirety of Duke's conference slate staring it down, The Chronicle's beat writers answer the most pressing questions about the season so far and the path forward.
Fortunately for Blue Devil fans, the early signs on quarterback Riley Leonard's injury point to a relatively speedy recovery.
Earlier this month, the Blue Devils defied odds and took down then top-10 Clemson at home. On Saturday night, No. 17 Duke faces its second major test of the month against No. 11 Notre Dame at Wallace Wade Stadium. The Chronicle's beat writers are here to offer their predictions about whether the Blue Devils can stay undefeated against a talented Fighting Irish team:
On Tuesday, the announcement of Duke's full ACC schedule seemed to be the conclusion of the months-long saga regarding who the Blue Devils would play in 2023-24, and when.
Editor's note: The original version of this article mistakenly said that Duke played Louisville Jan. 20, when it actually plays Pittsburgh. The Chronicle regrets the error.
First Duke took down Clemson. Then it took down Lafayette. Then Northwestern. Then UConn. This coming weekend, however, comes perhaps the biggest of the bunch — top-10 Notre Dame.
Duke fans ushered the country's No. 2 recruiting class onto campus this fall, but eyes are already on next season's crop of youngsters.
On Thursday afternoon, Duke men’s lacrosse head coach John Danowski and former women’s lacrosse star Katie Chrest Erbe were inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, further cementing their place in Blue Devil — and the sport’s — folklore.
Duke made a statement under the lights at Wallace Wade Stadium Monday night, downing the then-ninth-ranked Tigers in dominant fashion. With one marquee win in the bag, is this a sign of things to come for the Blue Devils? The Chronicle’s beat writers offer their input.
Apex predators are called such for a reason — challenges to their dominance are rare, and most end poorly.
The Blue Devils get their highly anticipated 2023 season off to a bang Monday night against reigning ACC champions Clemson at Wallace Wade Stadium, hoping to build on a remarkable season and take another step forward. The Chronicle's beat writers are here to forecast everything Duke football, from records to MVP predictions and more.
With the 2023 season on the horizon, the Blue Zone breaks down each of the eight major position groups for this Duke squad: Specialists, defensive line, offensive line, linebackers, defensive backs, receivers, running backs and quarterbacks:
Moments after a trio of Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters ripped their way across a crisp December sky in Annapolis, Md. — a Military Bowl staple — head coach Mike Elko charged his Duke team onto the field for the last time in 2022, looking to close the book on a Cinderella debut season. The temperature had dipped below freezing by the time he found his proverbial glass slipper: one more season-defining win.
2022 season: 9-4, 5-3 in the ACC (second in ACC Coastal division)
This time last year, Duke was teetering perilously close to laughing-stock status after a pair of seasons with one combined win in the ACC headlined by some very, very bad losses tanked the Blue Devils’ reputation near irreparability. In one particularly bad drubbing at Virginia in October 2021, our Micah Hurewitz likened Duke’s loss to getting hit by a nuclear warhead.
Transgender women and girls in North Carolina will no longer be able to compete on most middle, high school and college-level sports teams corresponding with their gender identities, under a new ban enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly.
On Wednesday, former Northwestern offensive lineman Ramon Diaz announced that he was filing a lawsuit against the university, alleging hazing and racial mistreatment while he was in the program. He implicates current Duke offensive line coach and run game coordinator Adam Cushing — the tight ends coach in Evanston, Ill., when Diaz was a player — for being aware of the incidents but not publicly acting against them.