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We all know the day is coming. As the accolades, successes and trophies continue to pour into the coffers of Duke basketball, it’s easy to ignore the day.
It must feel good to be back on top. The ACC lacrosse tournament begins on Friday, and unexpectedly, Duke is the No. 1 seed in the four-team bracket.
The spring semester is coming to an end. The sun is out, the birds are chirping and preparations for LDOC are finally beginning in earnest.
The end of basketball season can sometimes be bittersweet on Duke’s campus, where hoops is king. But it’s nice to know there’s something to look forward to in the seven months between games in...
Dear Kyrie, Go pro. Seriously. Declare for the NBA draft, hire an agent, pick out a nice suit and start practicing to look surprised when your name is one of the first to be called by Commissioner...
When it comes to sports, I’m painfully and naively optimistic.
There are lots of ways to blow a lead in a basketball game. Sometimes your shooters go cold and the shots stop falling. Sometimes the opponent catches fire and can’t miss. And sometimes, like Duke...
Nine. That’s the number of Big East teams that lost in the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. The result? A national uproar.
Its hard to make the BCS look like a well-oiled machine. But with the release of the field of 68 Sunday night, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee certainly came close.
If you’re good at something, people are always eager to notice when you don’t meet your usual standards.
His name may not be “a noun, an adverb, and an adjective, all wrapped into one,” as Verne Lundquist exclaimed about Jimmer Fredette, but Nolan Smith is every bit the Naismith Trophy candidate that...
Last Wednesday on the main quad, benches burned in commemoration of another important victory for Mike Krzyzewski and his team.
If William Shakespeare were to give Mike Krzyzewski coaching advice, he might warn Coach K to beware the ides of March. But if history is any guide, he’d be off by a month.
One full weekend student ticket to the 2010 NCAA Tournament Final Four: $25. One full weekend student ticket to the 2011 ACC Tournament: $396?
The beginning of 2011 hasn’t been especially kind to Mike Krzyzewski and his team. The Blue Devils won a dogfight against Maryland in Cameron, then lost to Florida State on the road, and looked...
Well, that’s a relief. No, Coach K and the Blue Devils won’t match Bob Knight’s 1976 Hoosiers, but I’d like to propose that it’s for the best.
Despite all the preseason hype, everyone knew this Duke team wasn’t going to be perfect. It was bound to have an Achilles’ heel. Well, make that toe.
What a difference a year makes. 14 months ago, an official visit to campus by prized recruit Harrison Barnes overshadowed the commitment of another, Kyrie Irving.
The first time that I put pen to paper this year was to opine that the 2010 football season was a make-or-break season for head coach David Cutcliffe and his Duke football program.
Let’s get this out of the way now: I hate Michigan State. It may be illogical, irrational, and even immoral, but nothing anyone says can change that.