Parting shots
(04/21/08 4:00am)
In my year as a sports columnist for The Chronicle, I learned that the less I wrote about sports, the more people came up to me on the quad or on the town to tell me they liked my column.
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In my year as a sports columnist for The Chronicle, I learned that the less I wrote about sports, the more people came up to me on the quad or on the town to tell me they liked my column.
But time is short / and the road is long / in the blinking of an eye / ah that moment's gone!
There's been a lot of discussion about the future of Duke Basketball since the team's loss to West Virginia March 22.
Growing up in the New York City area, two of the strongest influences in my sports upbringing were Mike Francesa and Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, the afternoon drive-time hosts on the sports talk radio station WFAN.
The roar of Senior Night introductions in 2006 reverberated through the plaza outside Schwartz-Butters. Through the doors of Cameron I could see the blue faces waving their hands at the hated opposition players. Thirty yards in front of me lay the entrance to the Duke-North Carolina game. And it looked as if that's as close as I was going to get to the action.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- It was all kinds of bad.
Dear Ms. Summitt,
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - For a few moments, No. 7 Duke looked as if it were about to relive another nightmare against Florida State.
Over break, I was flipping through channels when I stumbled upon a replay of the Ricky Hatton-Floyd Mayweather Jr. boxing match on HBO.
Let's play a quick memory game:
Saturday is as big a rivalry day as it gets in college football. Miami plays at Virginia Tech. Undefeated Harvard takes on undefeated Yale in The Game. Plus, there's that matchup known as Ohio State-Michigan for a trip to the Rose Bowl.
After spending much of last season struggling to score, the Blue Devils did their best to put any lingering offensive woes behind them Friday night.
Duke might struggle against top-tier centers
I have a confession to make.
Last week, sports blogs were abuzz about some interesting changes that Miami's Department of Athletics is planning for the BankUnited Center.
I know what you're thinking. I've overheard some variation of the same conversation taking place all over campus the last two days, at least among those of us that aren't VIPs or part of the "family":
Tonight is the start of Rosh Hashanah, the day the three Jewish tribes of Long Island, Scarsdale and the Upper East Side converge upon the Rubenstein-Silvers Hillel to eat apples and honey, debate whether Cameron Goldberg will play on Yom Kippur and see if Jon Scheyer will go to the reform or conservative service.
Two weeks ago, I received the 2007 edition of Sports Illustrated's annual college football preview in the mail. Besides being the only time of year that anything associated with West Virginia can be featured on a magazine cover-and reminding me it's time to start thinking of a good tailgate costume-the college football issue is my favorite because of its ratings chart.
Not even the unseasonably cold weather could put a chill on Duke's attack combo of Matt Danowski and Zach Greer.
Almost exactly one year ago, Duke walked off the West Campus turf fields on a snowy Tuesday afternoon looking lost.