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Overcoming firm greens and swirling winds, the Blue Devils closed out the ACC Championships in style Sunday, capturing the conference title for the 18th time in school history.
For just the second time in his career, former Blue Devil Kevin Streelman will be teeing it up Thursday at The Masters Invitational in Augusta, Ga. Streelman earned an automatic invitation to Augusta National with his first career victory at the Tampa Bay Championship last month.
High winds and a slow start kept senior Lindy Duncan from making the weekend of the LPGA’s first major of the season.
Coming off a month-long break from competition, the Blue Devils will need to outlast both the elements and a strong tournament field this weekend to pick up their first victory since the fall.
The two hottest topics leading into Saturday’s game against Miami were the return date of Ryan Kelly and Duke’s chance at revenge against the Hurricanes.
After hovering near the top of the leaderboard for the past few days, the Blue Devils came up short Tuesday in the conclusion of their trip down to a water-logged Louisiana.
Sunday’s game at Cameron Indoor Stadium got off to a slow start. Both Duke and Boston College were sloppy with the ball, committing a couple turnovers each, and players on both sides seemed to have trouble securing loose balls. After more than three minutes of play, the Blue Devils trailed the Eagles 5-3, but neither team really looked like it was winning.
Feeding off of a healthy home crowd and facing some of fencing’s best, Duke pulled off two major upsets as both the men’s and women’s teams won four out of their five bouts.
In November 2008, Walt Canty gave a verbal commitment to a football team that had won just eight of its last 55 games. In three weeks, he will play his final game as a Blue Devil, concluding the best season for Duke football in nearly two decades.
By quickly putting a large lead in between themselves and their opponent, the Blue Devils made Saturday’s game more about themselves than Delaware.
It began to look a lot like winter in Krzyzewskiville this week.
BLACKSBURG, Va.—For Duke football, things usually go from bad to worse. But Saturday, in the biggest game for the Blue Devils in recent memory, things went from great to the absolute worst.
One play from Ross Cockrell’s freshman season sticks out in his mind. In his second start, a 54-48 loss to Wake Forest, he got burned—badly—by wide receiver Chris Givens. It certainly was not the first time a receiver beat him, and it would not be the last, but after the play Givens turned to Cockrell and said something he remembers to this day.
One week after losing big across the country in California, the Blue Devils (1-1) will have a great opportunity to bounce back this weekend when they welcome N.C. Central (1-1) to Wallace Wade Stadium.
If there was ever a game for Duke to employ a little trickery on offense, Saturday’s matchup against heavily favored No. 25 Stanford was it. Instead, unimaginative play calling doomed the Blue Devils in their 50-13 loss to the Cardinal.
Even on the PGA Tour, the Blue Devil connection brings people together.
