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A friendly reminder to join our challenge on ESPN here. You have until noon tomorrow to fill out your bracket and join the group. Winner gets space on the blog to trash talk to his or her heart’s desire. Plus a picture, if you want.
Is your basketball knowledge greater than ours? Here’s your chance to [...]
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Carrick Felix, a 6-foot-6 wing player from the College of Southern Idaho, announced via his facebook page Tuesday that he intended to accept Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski’s scholarship offer and join the Blue Devils.
Felix is described as an extremely athletic player (a scouting report from Rivals.com described him as possessing “NBA Athleticism”) who is a tough-nosed [...]
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I’ve been pushing tempo-free stats to anyone who will listen all season long, but if you want to win the Chronicle Sports Blog’s Bracket Challenge, it never hurts to have some numbers on your side. Also, I can guarantee that you’re tired of listening to ESPN’s crew talk about “bounce-backability,” “toughness” and “athleticism” by now, [...]
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Kentucky and Duke won’t meet in this year’s NCAA Tournament unless both make it to the Final Four, but the two do have quite a history–recently, it has involved recruits John Wall and Patrick Patterson, and before that, it involved a certain foul-line jumper at the Meadowlands.
But now, the antagonistic relationship between the two bluebloods [...]
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The Chronicle’s Taylor Doherty and Andy Moore break down Duke’s path to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament.
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As Duke fans prepare for the NCAA Tournament game on Friday, foes down the road are preparing for a bit of a bit of a different event. After a season in which the Tar Heels lost as many games as they won (16), North Carolina will be heading to the NIT Tournament for the first [...]
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Ben Brostoff, a columnist for The Chronicle’s opinion section, recently got the chance to attend MIT’s Sloan Sports Conference, a one-day event focused on the increasing role of analytics (stats) in sports. At the forum, Brostoff rubbed shoulders with sports luminaries like writer Bill Simmons, Dallas Mavericks GM Mark Cuban and legendary 3-point assassin Steve Kerr, among others. [...]
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We at The Chronicle Sports Blog are pleased to announce the second year of our Bracket Challenge. It’s free and it’s hosted on ESPN–where you probably already have a bracket filled out. Most importantly, it’s open to everyone. And we mean everyone! Here’s your chance to see if you can beat the experts pontificating from [...]
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