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With on-and-off rain interrupting matches in Knoxville, Tenn., the Blue Devils were forced to play "rain or shine." Unfortunately, the rain made for hard times for Duke (16-9) and contributed to the end of the Blue Devils' season.
Neither a 25-minute rain delay nor Navy's typically stingy defense could slow down Duke Saturday night.
According to ESPN's Andy Katz, prized point guard recruit John Wall might be leaning toward Kentucky or Miami, but other influential people in his life--particularly his club team coach and one of his advisers, Brian Clifton--would prefer he play for Mike Krzyzewski at Duke.
Former Duke point guard Greg Paulus is strongly considering playing football next season at Syracuse, his hometown school, but he looks set to consider all his options first. With Michigan out of the picture, those options now include Nebraska.
After the NFL Draft concluded Sunday, GoDuke.com reported that offensive tackle Cameron Goldberg had signed a free agent contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. By Tuesday, reports had surfaced on the Baltimore Ravens' Web site about Goldberg signing for the Ravens--not the Chiefs.
Watching North Carolina dismantle Michigan State in about three minutes and cut down the nets at Ford Field was a tough pill to swallow for Duke fans, and the local newscasts showing Franklin Street packed with excited Tar Heels didn't help much either. But for all you Blue Devils out there who couldn't stand to watch your bitter rivals celebrate, take heart in the text message I received from a friend of mine after the game. He is a junior at Indiana, which went a whopping 6-25, 1-15 in the Big Ten this year.
Louisville, Connecticut, Pittsburgh and North Carolina are probably the four best teams in the country.
Michael Videira might not have wanted to play in the MLS originally, but he looks to be settling in with his hometown team just fine.
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Duke 71, N.C. State 56, :47: At this point, the game is over, and Duke is putting on a clinic in clock management. Krzyzewski is basically directing the offense from the sideline, and the defense is impeccable: Henderson just got two straight steals, and earned an easy dunk on the second one. After an indifferent first 25 minutes, Duke clamped down on D, made some shots, and looks set to earn its fourth ACC win. We'll be back with more after the game.
Most Duke sports fans have probably forgotten about Becca Ward by now, if they even knew about her in the fist place. The Olympics ended a full semester ago, a sign congratulating her on her considerable achievements no longer hangs outside of Wilson Gymnasium and the Duke Fencing team has a pretty low profile in Durham anyway.
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Duke wins, 82-79. More to come.
After Saturday's 10-7 Duke win at Vanderbilt, head coach David Cutcliffe spoke with the traveling Triangle media as well as a couple of reporters from Nashville. One asked him if he'd ever lost to Vanderbilt before, and here is Cutcliffe's response, verbatim:
When Miami comes to Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday, Hurricanes quarterback Jacory Harris and Blue Devil signal-caller Thaddeus Lewis won't just be looking to improve their teams' ACC records. The two have a bit of shared history from their time as high school quarterbacks in Miami-Dade County, Fla.
I attended Saturday’s Duke-UVa football game in Charlottesville, Va., with a group of eight other young Duke alums, and we were dismayed to see that the Blue Devils continue to be plagued by basic football errors, namely dropped passes and missed field goals. The Chronicle’s coverage of the game highlighted missed assignments on defense as a reason for the loss to the Cavaliers, and those instances surely didn’t help the team’s cause Saturday, but Duke could have easily scored 41 points and remained in bowl contention. If not for two touchdown drops by Donovan Varner, a drop on a critical third down by Cooper Helfet, two missed field goals by Will Snyderwine and the decision not to trust Snyderwine with another kick—Duke instead got stopped in the red zone on fourth down—the Blue Devils would be 4-6. And if David Cutcliffe’s staff had addressed those issues earlier in the year, the team would be a whole lot better than that.
Every day, it gets a little harder to believe. Duke won a national championship, and I was there. I was on the court two minutes after Gordon Hayward missed that shot that no Duke fan will ever forget. As the players celebrated, I told Brian Zoubek that I was a Duke senior and asked him what this title was like for him, and as he answered, he put his arm around my shoulders and hunched down—really, he could have sat down, since he’s 17 inches taller than me—and we chummed it up as if we were just a pair of Duke students. And the day the Blue Devils beat West Virginia, two hours before the Michigan-State-Butler game, I sat on Coach K’s stool. Yes, it’s as cool as you think.
If you know the show well enough, you can compare any situation in life to something that happened on “Seinfeld.” Have you had an overbearing boss? Have you had relationship problems? Have you accidentally picked out toxic envelopes for your wedding invitations that ended up killing your fiancé? Aside from the last one, you can probably relate to everything happening on screen.
A third consecutive day of highly competitive tennis at the ACC tournament ended on a sour note for second-seeded Duke, as the Blue Devils pushed top-seeded Virginia to its limit but ultimately were dealt a 4-2 loss Sunday in the championship match in Cary, N.C.
