Role players key to NCAA title hopes
By Gregory Beaton | November 9, 2005At the end of a season, basketball coaches often tell their squads that while teams are made during the season, players are made during the off-season.
At the end of a season, basketball coaches often tell their squads that while teams are made during the season, players are made during the off-season.
This basketball season has begun like a fairy tale. J.J.
I was walking behind Cameron when I saw it.
George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Bill Bennett-.
When Mike Krzyzewski turned down the Los Angeles Lakers job more than fifteen months ago, he said he chose to remain at Duke because it had "taken up my whole heart.".
Dear Shavlik Randolph,.
The college basketball recruiting world is up in arms because an 18-year-old pulled a fast one on it.
Saturday's instant classic between USC and Notre Dame was one of the greatest games I have ever seen, and I only saw the highlights.
For most college football coaches, winning is their paramount concern, no matter how the result is achieved.
"Hey Dave," I whispered into my cell. "I need you for a second.".
Rabid surfers of the Duke Basketball Report website will notice a curious quote from an even stranger source. The quote is taken from a football player discussing why he considered playing for Duke.
I have hated them with every breath, every step, every move, and every Tim McCarver butt-kissing comment. They are the scum between a caveman's toes. They even make me vomit sometimes.
Ted Roof isn't getting any love. Two straight top-notch recruiting classes, but only one Division I-A win since being named full-time head coach at the beginning of 2004.
The first thing my eyes came to rest on when I first entered the Chronicle Sports office freshman year was a framed copy of the headline that appeared on the front page of The Chronicle the...
For all of us who consider ourselves Duke Football fans (and I know it's an increasingly dwindling number, but bear with me), it's really sad to see how awful they've looked this season.
Corruption in sports exists at every college to some degree, whether or not we choose to ignore it as fans.
Often sport leaves us shaking our heads and wondering what certain athletes were thinking or how they accomplished a specific feat.
August 16, 2005 will go down in Duke lore as the day the football program finally turned itself around.
If I was the coach of the Duke football squad, I would have a hard time accepting the fact that the best freshman quarterback in the country decided to attend my school to play basketball.
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