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Following the lead of Gawker, we're introduce a new feature: Twitterati. After every game, we'll compile a selection of our favorite Duke-related Tweets and post them here. So here's your chance to make a cameo on The Sports Blog! Sign up for Twitter and follow us: @chroniclesports. And then you, too, can be famous.
How long would you run for a dozen Krispy Kremes? (We'd rather just go out, buy a box and avoid the exercise, but that's besides the point.) N.C. State organizers are expecting more than 5,000 participants in this year's Krispy Kreme Challenge to be held Feb. 7 in Raleigh. The point of the Challenge, at least for the so-called "Challenger Runner": Run two miles, devour 12 Krispy Kremes, run back two miles, all in under an hour. The "Casual Runner" does not have to finish in an hour, nor does he have to eat any donuts. So basically, he runs four miles.
Abby Waner has written about basketball before, describing team trips and the life of an athlete in blog posts for GoDuke.com over the past four years. But the senior guard's eloquent tribute to late N.C. State head coach Kay Yow, who died of breast cancer Saturday, on the front page of The (Raleigh) News & Observer's sports section Tuesday puts the rest of her published writing to shame.
Editorial Cartoon by Justina Wong/The Chronicle
Less than two weeks before National Signing Day, head coach David Cutcliffe has added another commitment to his first full recruiting class.
Welcome back to the top.
For more of Michael Naclerio's photos from Duke's 60-34 win over Georgia Tech Sunday, check out a slideshow by following this link.
Bill Werber's 100th birthday in June prompted plenty of stories celebrating the oldest living Major League Baseball player, who graduated from Duke and was the schools' first All-American basketball player.
And then there were none—and now, there could be a new No. 1.
John Drescher, the executive editor of The (Raleigh) News & Observer, is probably a bigger sports fan than most of his counterparts at the top of mastheads across the country. He has tickets to N.C. State basketball games, tries to take in games in Cameron Indoor Stadium whenever he can and self-deprecatingly says that "it's probably not a good sign when you've read more John Feinstein books than books by Ernest Hemingway." It's also fortuitous that such a sports nut is the editor of the Triangle's largest and most influential newspaper, because he is far from naive about the impact of athletics on the area.
For more of Sam Sheft and Maddie Lieberberg's photos from Dukes' 73-56 win over N.C. State Tuesday, check out a photo slideshow by following this link.
Former Blue Devil and New York Knicks point guard Chris Duhon has had a very good year. He's balled with Barack Obama, who, if you haven't heard, became the 44th President of the United States today. Also, he now plays in the point-guard happy system of Mike D'Antoni! So he's got that going for him, too.
Duke forward Mike Grella skipped the MLS Player Combine, making known his intentions of playing abroad, and when he was drafted by Toronto FC with the 34th pick in the MLS SuperDraft, Grella was reportedly already in London on trial with the Leeds United reserve squad.
UPDATE, 1/20, 3 p.m.: UNC and N.C. State have canceled their classes, but Duke is still running smoothly and the Blue Devils' 8 p.m. game against the Wolfpack is still scheduled as planned, the University announced in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
For more of Max Masnick's photos from Duke's 61-58 overtime win over N.C. State Monday, check out a slideshow by following this link.
No surprise here: After Pittsburgh lost and Wake Forest beat Clemson on the road, the Demon Deacons moved to No. 1 in both polls Monday for the first time since 2004.
For more of Lawson Kurtz's photos from Duke's 76-67 win over Georgetown Saturday, check out a slideshow by following this link.
Mike Krzyzewski and John Thompson III both refused to credit the Blue Devils' 76-67 win to freshman center Greg Monroe's second-half technical foul. Krzyzewski said that the the foul, Monroe's fourth, simply "stopped the game for a while" and allowed Duke to "right the ship" after the Hoyas had cut Duke's lead to four. Thompson was understandly more terse, saying that "The technical was a key part of the game, let’s not try to run from that," after successfully dodging an initial question about the technical.
An ESPN report detailing Duke linebacker Michael Tauiliili's weaknesses couldn't have been the highlight of the Houston product's week. From the pre-game story:
