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“It’s not a two-quarterback system,” head coach David Cutcliffe said at his press conference Tuesday. “It’s playing your backup. There’s a difference.”
I remember my first Duke basketball game. The C-1 was filled up by about 35 remarkably-awake freshmen toting chemistry and economics textbooks, carrying backpacks full of supplies—both scholarly...
There aren’t too many question marks on this Duke team. Where the questions lie is in the post. And that is why the Plumlee brothers, and not one of Duke’s bigger stars, will determine whether the...
Outside of the locker room following Saturday’s upset win in Annapolis there was a noticeable difference in the attitudes of everyone associated with Duke football.
Basketball season has returned. But if this week’s games against Division II opponents don’t exactly whet your appetite, turn your attention to the early stages of an NBA season full of...
Apparently, Mike Krzyzewski doesn’t appreciate swearing. He could’ve fooled me.
There’s no such thing as a moral victory. It’s a tired cliché repeated time and time again by coaches and players in every sport at every level.
The importance of Rivers’ commitment cannot be over-hyped, overvalued or over-reported. Now it seems as if Duke is the hottest program in college basketball, only a year after many analysts...
Recently, Duke’s campus has begun to focus its unwavering eye on the upcoming basketball season. And while both the men’s and women’s programs have important questions to address, one thing is for...
Even though almost no one in the sellout crowd of 67,044 at the Edward Jones Dome for the St. Louis Rams opener took notice Sunday, the eyes of the Duke football community were looking down proudly.
The main purpose of the NCAA is to make money. It exists to make its schools as much revenue as possible.
It’s been long established that the South—from Texas to the east—is home to the best football in the country, from Pop Warner all the way through college.
Quick, hundreds of freshmen voraciously reading The Chronicle for the first time, name a coach of a Duke sports team. Bonus points for correct spelling.
I’ve had a somewhat charmed tenure so far as sports editor of The Chronicle.
Duke has never won a title without strong fourtcourt players, and the Blue Devils will simply not have the size or strength this season to compete in March.
Every day, it gets a little harder to believe. Duke won a national championship, and I was there. I was on the court two minutes after Gordon Hayward missed that shot that no Duke fan will ever...
Keep going, I thought. Keep going and your heart will stop pounding. Ignore the urge to bear right and find a seat in the Chapel. Don’t keep walking past the building. And don’t you dare stop at...
When I was at a medical school interview last fall, my first interviewer asked me why I like sports.