From the category archives:
Duke 16, Miami 34 (Final) Heartbreaking loss today, as Cutcliffe talked about how proud of the team he was in the press conference. Cutcliffe reiterated the point that the final score doesn’t do justice to how close the game actual was.
With the loss, the Blue Devils are eliminated from bowl eligibility but still can finish [...]
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Looking at some of the stories being written in the aftermath of Duke’s 85-44 thrashing of Maryland Saturday afternoon at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Ken Tysiac at the News & Observer wins “Lede of the Day”:
With 90 seconds remaining, Duke’s students announced their team’s return to territory that’s historically familiar yet has been famously elusive over the [...]
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Photo by Melissa Krebs and Randall Erb/Special To The Chronicle
The Chronicle received an e-mail this week from Randy Erb, a Duke employee who spotted something in the sky while driving from Durham to Raleigh on I-40 and decided to send it in. Perhaps it’s a sign of things to come for the football teams’ bowl [...]
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Over at Inside Lacrosse, Jon Brand has a Q&A with Duke head coach John Danowski about Zack Greer’s decision to play his fifth year at Bryant, in which Danowski says Greer decided not to use his extra year at Duke last fall and looked at graduate school opportunities throughout the year. Greer considered playing hockey [...]
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David Cutcliffe was happy with his team’s energy and effort in its first preseason scrimmage Saturday night. One more story emanating from the 80-play intrasquad could not have pleased him.
Re’quan Boyette, Duke’s top returning running back, left the game with a leg injury early in the scrimmage. The extent to the injury is not yet [...]
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As we said yesterday, expect a decent amount of linking to Heather Dinich, ESPN’s ACC blogger whose posts tend to fill our inboxes with Google Alerts and keeps our Google Reader on alert. (Hint: Embrace Google products, thank us later.) Today, she ranks the ACC’s coaches, putting David Cutcliffe fourth of 12 coaches. Not bad [...]
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Heather Dinich is ESPN’s ACC correspondent, part of the Worldwide Leader’s new college football blog network, consisting of seven bloggers to cover every major conference. In just a few weeks, Dinich’s blog has become a go-to source for any ACC football fan, and the sheer bulk of posts usually guarantees at least a quip about [...]
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Aaron McFarling of The Roanoke Times has a light column up, ranking ACC teams’ media guides and using the appearance of the yearbooks to foreshadow that team’s season (Duke’s 2008 media guide isn’t online yet). His take:
A “D” in the middle and “2008 DUKE FOOTBALL” in small print on the bottom. That’s it. Oh, wait. [...]
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