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Poor Hubert Davis on ESPN College GameDay today. The Carolina grad and former NBA player, now a part of the GameDay team with Rece Davis, Digger Phelps, Bobby Knight and Jay Bilas, took quite a verbal beating from his colleagues on the show (which was broadcast live from Cameron Indoor Stadium this morning).
In case you [...]
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I wrote a story for today’s paper about the Duke baseball program’s decision to move the vast majority of its home games off campus. In total, the Blue Devils will play seven games at Jack Coombs Field on West Campus, six at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, and the remaining 18 at [...]
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The awards keep piling up for Duke.
The ACC regular season champions were represented by Jasmine Thomas and Joy Cheek on the All-ACC teams, Allison Vernerey on the freshman team and Keturah Jackson as an all-Defensive selection. To top all that, head coach Joanne P. McCallie was named ACC Coach of the Year in her third [...]
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After Maryland’s upset of Duke Wednesday night, guard Greivis Vasquez had a number of interesting and colorful things to say. While a few of his quotes were snapped up in the articles written about the game, several of them were not. Below are some of the more interesting tidbits, including Vasquez’s true feelings about Duke [...]
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In her third season as head coach of the women’s basketball team, Joanne McCallie has finally led Duke to a regular-season conference title–and for that, she has been named the ACC Coach of the Year by the Blue Ribbon Panel, commissioner John Swofford announced today.
McCallie has guided the Blue Devils to a 24-5 record with [...]
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Riot police were on hand in downtown College Park, Wednesday night, after Maryland’s 79-72 win over Duke. After storming the court, Maryland fans continued celebrating on Baltimore Street (for more read the Washington Post coverage here), and this photographer was caught in the middle of it. Here’s a photo of the mounted police officers [...]
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A surprising number of ESPN staff members were on hand to watch Maryland’s upset of Duke.
Scott Van Pelt, a featured SportsCenter anchor, was in the crowd (he graduated from Maryland) and was displayed on the screen fully decked out in Terrapin attire. The sight of Van Pelt really fired up the crowd, which had a [...]
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With College GameDay coming to Cameron Indoor Stadium this weekend, the folks at ESPN asked The Chronicle to give a little local color to explain why the Duke-UNC game matters so much, especially this season, since Duke and North Carolina are at opposite ends of the ACC standings. Here’s what we came up with:
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Michael Jordan has promised to make his mark as the new majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, and His Airness went as far as joining in in the team’s shootaround this morning in Charlotte. After the workout, Jordan challenged former Duke guard Gerald Henderson to a friendly game of H-O-R-S-E. But despite what would seem [...]
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Check out photos by Chronicle photographers Courtney Douglas and Melissa Yeo from Duke Men’s Basketball win over Virginia Tech 67-55.
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