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Know what I do when Duke loses? I go to YouTube, and I watch Gerald Henderson dunk over people. (OK, maybe this cure was more effective when, you know, Henderson still wore No. 15 for Duke, but let’s not get nitpicky here.) So it was completely fortuitous that I recently ran across Dime’s interview with [...]
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No matter what you think of journalistic ramifications of the apparently imminent TMZSports.com — whether it will be a failure, cause a tabloid war, change the gossip game or, simply, make an icksickle — the effects will probably be more profound for athletes than journalists.
But how will it alter the athletes who don’t seem to have [...]
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Former Blue Devil Jay Heaps announced his retirement from professional soccer on Wednesday after playing 11 years in Major League Soccer, three for the Miami Fusion and eight with the New England Revolution. During his career, Heaps amassed 17 goals and 34 assists and won the MLS Rookie of the Year Award in 1999. He led the Revolution [...]
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Real Salt Lake (RSL) defeated the Los Angeles Galaxy in penalty kicks last night to win their first ever MLS Cup Trophy and three former Blue Devils took part in the celebration. RSL head coach Jason Kreis, a 1995 Duke graduate and one of the top MLS players of all-time, steered the team to the championship [...]
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In the “I think he’s joking, but I’m not completely sure” category, it appears former Blue Devil J.J. Redick is looking to release a rap album. When asked about his musical endeavor, Redick said, “We were trying to make it a little underground, viral marketing and all that stuff, but apparently its gonna get out [...]
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A large, tattooed man robbed a SunTrust bank in Raleigh Wednesday.
The criminal mastermind’s attire of choice? A No. 21 Cleveland Cavaliers Trajan Langdon jersey. No word yet on whether he decided to leave his William Avery authentic at home.
Of course, this comes on the heels of a sort of Langdon renaissance—Wale, in his interview for [...]
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Syracuse’s football opener Sept. 5 against Minnesota just became must-see TV in Durham.
That’s because Greg Paulus, the former Blue Devil point guard using a fifth year of eligibility to play football for the Orange, has won the nod as the Orange’s starting quarterback, the program announced in a statement Monday night. Paulus beat out sophomore [...]
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Last week, the nation became utterly transfixed by a phenomenon so sweeping it required just one name: Pauluspalooza. Err, scratch that. Make it Greg-A-Palooza.
That’s what the creators of the must-have-of-the-week wrote in an e-mail Sunday to those who had ordered the keepsake. Some “legal issues” with Syracuse University forced them to modify the first edition [...]
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We thought the atmosphere surrounding Greg Paulus at Syracuse was oddly circus-like. Turns out, it was more of, um, a Pauluspalooza.
After all, the Greg Paulus World Tour, hatched as parody back in May, was confined to cyberspace. But the 2009 Pauluspalooza Homecoming Tour is very much a real thing, and it’s going to cost $13.99 [...]
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