Blue Devils tip off regular season at home
A glance at the preseason polls may not reveal it, but something is different about Duke this year.
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A glance at the preseason polls may not reveal it, but something is different about Duke this year.
A team that was supposed to be winning games with its prolific offense is suddenly stifling its opponents with overpowering defense.
Technically, tonight's matchup with North Carolina is a home game for Duke.
ATLANTA - The Blue Devils continued a streak Saturday against Georgia Tech.
Ryan McFadyen's football career started in July. He has already undergone a position change, switching to tight end Sept. 7 after two months at defensive end, and the fifth-year senior has, at most, 10 games left before he'll hang up his football helmet.
Eron Riley walked over to sections 20-23 in Wallace Wade Stadium after the Blue Devils' win over Navy, the students chanting his name in the sweltering heat.
The John Kerr era hadn't quite gotten off to the start Duke had hoped.
Twenty-two years ago, John Kerr wasn't simply the best soccer player in the nation, and he wasn't just the captain of Duke's first national championship.
The Blue Devils kicked off their season this weekend with a pair of games against top-10 opponents, both of which took place in Bloomington, Ind., and both of which ended in Duke losses.
Duke's top two quarterbacks won't be platooning this season. But they'll both get a chance to pick apart opposing defenses-possibly at the same time.
Johnny Dawkins has lived in Durham since his freshman year at Duke.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - This year was supposed to be different.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - This year was supposed to be different.
It has long been acknowledged that the Blue Devils possess one of the top scoring duos in the nation. Now they have the records to back it up.
Head coach John Danowski admitted it could have been a trap game.
Half an hour before Duke and Army face off Saturday at 12 p.m., paratroopers will jump onto the Manhasset High School field to deliver the game ball.
Another week, another game played against a recent national champion, another Duke blowout.
When Duke squares off against Virginia Saturday at 6 p.m. in Charlottesville, the Blue Devils will see some of themselves in the Cavaliers in more ways than one.
Duke and Johns Hopkins began their National Championship rematch under a steady rainfall. Storms were expected, but the thunder never came from above.
It would have been a comeback for the ages, the perfect ending to a storybook season.