Sunday's win could change Duke's season
(02/24/09 9:00am)
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The following is a 100 percent true story (if shortened for brevity's sake):
CAMERON WALK-UP LINE - Let me set the scene for you. I'm sitting here, on the sidewalk that only draws a line for the biggest game of the year, pretending like I'm not cold in 50-degree weather while reading Kafka by lamplight.
CLEMSON, S.C. - One week after speaking in hushed voices of the disappointment of a last-second loss at Wake Forest, the Blue Devils' mood at Littlejohn Coliseum Wednesday night was decidedly different-and decidedly worse.
WINSTON-SALEM - In the locker room after the game, amid the uncharacteristically hushed voices and despondent faces following Duke's first loss in 2009, Dave McClure turned to Lance Thomas.
WINSTON-SALEM - With 2.6 seconds left Wednesday night at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, No. 1 Duke looked ready to exhale. A 20-7 run over 8:46, culminated by a Gerald Henderson pull-up jumper, had brought the Blue Devils back from a 13-point deficit and into a 68-68 tie, with overtime looming on the horizon.
Duke is No. 1.
It's a simple syllogism.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer had 20 points apiece as No. 4 Duke easily handled ninth-ranked Purdue, 76-60, in its first road game of the season Tuesday night at Mackey Arena.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - After consecutive seasons fielding two of the most inexperienced teams in school history, Duke showcased its experience Tuesday night in the Blue Devils' 76-60 disposal of No. 9 Purdue at Mackey Arena.
Football, you did good.
It was a subtle change for the Blue-White game. Each 15-minute half would start with the score tied at 45, simulating an end-of-game situation.
Jan. 5, 1986. Soldier Field in Chicago. It's the NFC Divisional Playoff game between the Bears and the New York Giants. Since it's January, it's cold and windy when New York's Sean Landeta lines up in his own end zone, 15 yards behind the line of scrimmage, to punt the ball away. Landeta had made, and would continue to make during a 21-year NFL career, the same catch, drop and kick motion thousands of times.
Let's roll out every English major's favorite essay conceit: compare/contrast.
Before the 2008-2009 season even begins, Duke's future is looking bright, largely because its recent past is golden.
The Blue Devils let a golden opportunity for an upset slip through their hands Saturday, blowing a 10-point second-half lead in a 49-31 loss to Miami at Wallace Wade Stadium.
There's an old saying in sportswriting: "There's no better way to frame an argument than a bad pun."
It jumps off the small print of the local newspaper.
It was a banner moment for Duke Fencing. In fact, you could say it was the banner moment for one of the University's most anonymous programs. Rebecca Ward, an incoming Duke freshman, stepping up to an Olympic podium twice in Beijing, a bronze medal her newest necklace.
It's good to be in on something from the ground floor," Tony narrated in the series premiere of The Sopranos all those years ago.