It's All Greek
(10/01/09 8:00am)
Last year in this space, I preached about Gossip Girl, that delicious cocktail of morality thrown right out the window.
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Last year in this space, I preached about Gossip Girl, that delicious cocktail of morality thrown right out the window.
As the 2009-2010 season gets ever closer, head coach Mike Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils hope to lock up a top recruit for the following season—ideally this weekend.
Duke Basketball is used to picking up the best recruits in the country.
Head coach David Cutcliffe gets most of the attention for Duke Football's improvement last year, but offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Kurt Roper is the man actually calling the plays for Thaddeus Lewis and the offense. The Chronicle's Gabe Starosta chatted with Roper after Duke's intrasquad scrimmage Tuesday to talk about the Blue Devils' offensive prospects.
N.C. Central's McClendon-McDougald Gymnasium, capacity 3,056, looks like a big high school gym. And for most of the summer, that's exactly what it is. If you walk in between 6 and 8 p.m., you might see some low-level college players, but the evening's opening act is made up mostly of high schoolers.
I will never forget the first basketball game I covered at Cameron Indoor Stadium, a 60-point Duke victory against Barton College in an exhibition game in November 2007.
Head coach Ramsey Smith had one roster spot to fill after senior Kiril Dimitrov's graduation, and he looks to have replaced Dimitrov with one of the best junior players in the world.
Despite missing out on an NCAA tournament bid in 2009, four Blue Devils were rewarded for stellar seasons by having their names called on Day 2 of the Major League Baseball Draft Wednesday afternoon.
Though few graduated seniors remain on campus in early June, four Blue Devil athletes will be in Durham until next week, preparing for the season-ending NCAA Outdoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. June 10-13.
Duke saved its best performance on the links for the last day of competition at the NCAA championships in Owings Mills, Md. But just like a year ago, that performance wasn't good enough to challenge for the national title.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - With 9:55 left in the fourth quarter of Sunday's NCAA tournament quarterfinal, the No. 3 Blue Devils led No. 6 North Carolina, 12-8, and had an opportunity to all but seal the win. Mike Catalino rushed the ball upfield and found Max Quinzani, whose shot struck the crossbar and bounced high into the air.
Neither a 25-minute rain delay nor Navy's typically stingy defense could slow down Duke Saturday night.
The last two years, Duke's bus rides home from the ACC tournament have been unhappy ones.
Saturday afternoon against Army, No. 8 Duke struggled to get into the game early, and was shut out entirely in the fourth quarter.
By the time he finished high school, Marcus Jones knew he was better at baseball than football. His high school baseball coach knew it, and Major League Baseball scouts did, too.
Louisville, Connecticut, Pittsburgh and North Carolina are probably the four best teams in the country.
CHAPEL HILL - Ty Lawson has had more impressive showings against Duke in his North Carolina career than he did Sunday. But the standout junior came through in the clutch yet again to lead the Tar Heels to a season sweep over the Blue Devils.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - In its sixth ACC road game of the season, No. 7 Duke yet again struggled out of the blocks, trailing Maryland for most of the first half. And yet again, Gerald Henderson kept the Blue Devils in the game with high-flying dunks, tough jump shots and strong defense.
Jamie Green's office in the Karcher-Ingram Golf Center is unadorned, save for a "19th Hole" flag from a certain Bushwood Country Club.
CLEMSON, S.C. - With 10:48 left in No. 4 Duke's crushing loss at No. 10 Clemson Wednesday, head coach Mike Krzyzewski made a radical substitution-five guys in, five guys out.