From the monthly archives:
The five must-read stories of this week from The Chronicle and the Sports Blog (in no particular order):
Soulja Roy’s night shames Duke’s Blue-White—and, for a special treat, video proof of Late Night’s superiority.
Athletics feels economic impact and, consequently, seeks “transformational” gifts to compensate—plus a Q&A with Kevin White.
David Cutcliffe welcomes his team to November.
Five-star recruit [...]
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We were sidelined with technical difficulties for a few weeks, but we’re glad to be back on camera to preview Duke’s Saturday game at Wake Forest. The predictions? Well, watch the video to find out.
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Tyler Hansbrough, the reigning National Player of the Year and leader of the newly crowned No. 1 Tar Heels, will be sidelined indefinitely with a stress reaction in his right shin, North Carolina head coach Roy Williams announced in a statement. A stress reaction typically leads to a stress fracture, leading UNC to be overly [...]
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Junior cornerback Leon Wright will miss Duke’s last five games of the season with a re-aggravation of a left hamstring injury sustained in the Blue Devils’ win over Vanderbilt Saturday, head coach David Cutcliffe announced Thursday.
Wright has started 18 of 29 contests in his career while recording five interceptions, including one this year. He also [...]
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Kenny Boynton, scout.com’s No. 2 shooting guard in the Class of 2009, committed to Florida Thursday, spurning an offer from Duke before he was scheduled to visit next weekend.
The five-star prospect considered Duke, Texas, Florida and Georgia Tech, but visited head coach Billy Donovan’s program in Gainesville, Fla. last weekend and announced his intentions on [...]
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“Unrivaled Ambition,” the athletic department’s first strategic plan approved by the Board of Trustees in May, proposed a potential $325 million capital campaign for the athletic department. In 2006, the largest ongoing development campaign in the country was the University of Washington’s $300 million goal, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. And while Duke’s [...]
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For those inveterate Sports Blog readers—and, well, for everyone else, too—a piece of good news: The Chronicle’s blog network is officially open for business.Want to subscribe to the RSS feeds for all of The Chronicle’s newest blogs? Check out chronicleblogs.com—in the meantime, descriptions of your favorite student newspaper’s new blog projects:
Election 2008: Your daily insight [...]
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Last Tuesday, I sat down with Kevin White, Duke’s first-year athletic director, to discuss how the Department of Athletics was planning to respond to the national economic downturn. White is in a unique position to answer any questions pertaining to the economics of college athletics—he has taught a business school class called “Business of Sport” [...]
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Multiple choice: Which two former Blue Devils are starters on their NBA teams?
A) J.J. Redick (Orlando)
B) Shelden Williams (Sacramento)
C) Chris Duhon (New York)
D) DeMarcus Nelson (Golden State)
Two years ago, the obvious answers would have been A) and B). Not the case Wednesday, when Duhon and Nelson—and not Duke’s pair of All-Americans from [...]
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Senior Re’quan Boyette will have another year with that class designation.
The running back will miss the remainder of Duke’s season after he underwent knee surgery Aug. 9, head coach David Cutcliffe announced Wednesday. On Oct. 21, Cutcliffe said Boyette would likely be redshirted, and he finally made the official announcement today. Boyette has one season [...]
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