It would’ve been rare to find a preseason prognostication that placed any importance on the matchup between Duke and Virginia this weekend.
Last Wednesday, 20-year-old Notre Dame student Declan Sullivan crashed to his death upon the collapse of the 50-foot hydraulic scissor lift on which he filmed football practices for the team.
Duke’s defense had to make one last stop. Quarterback Ricky Dobbs pitched the ball to Andre Byrd. It looked like the running back had room to pick up big yardage. Matt Daniels had other plans.
Entering Saturday’s game at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, the Duke coaching staff made it clear that they had a precise game plan for the offense.
It is do-or-die time for the Blue Devils. After nine wins in the first two seasons of the David Cutcliffe era, many people, including the team, thought this could be the year that Duke reached its...
Unfortunately for Cutcliffe and his squad, the Midshipmen of Navy—riding a three-game winning streak—are rolling.
![Will Snyderwine [pictured] and Alex King make up a formidable kicking duo.](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/dtc/c7db9a29-f47e-41e0-b932-93d4228204cf.sized-1000x1000.jpg?w=220&ar=4%3A3&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format&dpr=1.5)
As the 2010 football season opened, a follower of Duke football would not have expected to see redshirt-junior kicker Will Synderwine and junior punter Alex King atop the special teams depth chart.
Shocking. That was about the only way Duke could describe its 44-7 shellacking this weekend at the hands of No. 21 Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Safety Matt Daniels used the word several times in a...
BLACKSBURG, Va. — David Cutcliffe stared straight ahead as he sat with his hands on his temples and his elbows on the table in the postgame press conference.
While Duke has become mired in a five-game losing streak, its opponent Saturday has seen a different reversal of fortune.
Quarterback guru David Cutcliffe, who groomed both Peyton and Eli Manning, knows how important the man under center is to his team.
