From the monthly archives:
DukeBluePlanet.com
No. 1 Duke is a shoo-in for the NCAA Tournament, and it’s time for Duke’s players to start designing their sneakers for the Big Dance–which is why Nike consultants visited the Blue Devils before practice recently and helped them tailor their customized kicks for the Tournament.
The players split up into two groups and let natural [...]
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Duke rose to No. 1 in the nation by shellacking Maryland Saturday. But then the Blue Devils lost in their first game atop the polls. (And The Chronicle got some props in the process. If only this blog had noticed our Twitterati wrapup.)
Joanne P. McCallie’s team’s week wasn’t much better, either, as Duke blew a [...]
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For its paltry recent football tradition, Duke has sent a surprisingly respectable contingent to the Super Bowl in recent years. 2008 graduate Patrick Bailey will line up on special teams for the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday—so, too, will the Arizona Cardinals’ Ben Patrick, who started at Duke and finished his career at Delaware—while Chicago Bears long-snapper [...]
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For more of Larsa Al-Omaishi’s photos from Duke’s overtime loss to Florida State Thursday, check out a photo slideshow by following this link.
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DUKE 75, FSU 82 , FINAL FSU scores 14 points in overtime to upset No.3 Duke. The Seminoles are classy in their victory.
DUKE 73, FSU 78 , :33.4 OT Thomas attempts another difficult three from the top of the key. It barely rims out and the Seminoles go back to the charity stripe.
DUKE 73, FSU [...]
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The Duke message boards have been abuzz for the past few weeks about the Blue Devils filling their schedule with N.C. Central, a Division I-AA FCS squad. The only problem with Duke hosting its cross-town rival? The Eagles are the second FCS opponent on the schedule (Richmond is the other), which means that Duke would [...]
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Photo by Lawson Kurtz/The Chronicle
The title of this post might look like a veiled reference to Duke’s No. 1 ranking entering last night’s game against Wake Forest, but it actually refers to my view from Section 238, Row S, Seat 3 at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
On a whim, several Duke students and I [...]
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How long would you run for a dozen Krispy Kremes? (We’d rather just go out, buy a box and avoid the exercise, but that’s besides the point.) N.C. State organizers are expecting more than 5,000 participants in this year’s Krispy Kreme Challenge to be held Feb. 7 in Raleigh. The point of the Challenge, at [...]
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Following the lead of Gawker, we’re introduce a new feature: Twitterati. After every game, we’ll compile a selection of our favorite Duke-related Tweets and post them here. So here’s your chance to make a cameo on The Sports Blog! Sign up for Twitter and follow us: @chroniclesports. And then you, too, can be famous.
The Twitterati [...]
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