‘Kings of Tobacco Road’ to meet at NC Central
Kyrie Irving will get his chance to take on North Carolina on the hardwood this season—just not as a current member of the Duke men’s basketball team.
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Kyrie Irving will get his chance to take on North Carolina on the hardwood this season—just not as a current member of the Duke men’s basketball team.
When I first met David Cutcliffe, he almost hit me in the face. We were out on the practice field behind Wallace Wade Stadium where he was quarterbacking an open Duke football tryout.
Mike Krzyzewski cannot remember a season when the Blue Devils have not had at least one player on the Wooden Award watch list.
In the midst of an unstable college landscape, the Atlantic Coast Conference made significant steps towards long-term stability last weekend.
When Mike Krzyzewski heard he was going to be inducted into the Duke Athletics Hall of Fame, he was not sure how to react.
It was déjà vu all over again... all over again.
Former Duke forward Joy Cheek will return to the program as an assistant coach, the team announced on Saturday.
Last time Mike Krzyzewski was in China, he was vying for a gold medal in the Olympic Games as head coach of the United States national basketball team. This month, Krzyzewski instead leads Duke in a different—perhaps friendlier—kind of contest.
For the third consecutive summer, Mike Krzyzewski will lead a basketball team in competition abroad—but for the first time, it won’t be the United States national team.
School was in session for more than just students on Wednesday.
Blue Devil fans will support more than just the athletes starting this Fall.
It must feel good to be back on top.
Read Chris Cusack's follow-up to this letter at The Blue Zone, The Chronicle sports blog.
Learning to play without Kyrie Irving was like beginning a whole new season.
It all started with the Dougie.
Nine.
Late in Duke’s ACC quarterfinal matchup, Nolan Smith hopped across the court, grimacing in pain before finally collapsing on the floor beside press row. As he fell, so did the hopes of Blue Devil fans who had pinned all of their postseason aspirations on the charismatic senior.
His name may not be “a noun, an adverb, and an adjective, all wrapped into one,” as Verne Lundquist exclaimed about Jimmer Fredette, but Nolan Smith is every bit the Naismith Trophy candidate that the Jimmer is. For once, though, Duke’s overexposure may be what’s costing Smith’s campaign for National Player of the Year.
Great players make great plays on the biggest stage, or so goes the old adage.
“I’m living in the future so the present is my past.”