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At Tuesday’s weekly press conference, head coach David Cutcliffe announced the the team’s captains for the week for the upcoming game against Virginia. Duke will face off against the Cavaliers in Charlottesville, Va. at 3:30 on Saturday:
Offensive Captains: AUSTIN KELLY and JAY HOLLINGSWORTH
Hollingsworth, a sophomore, will lead the offensive unit along with Kelly, a junior tight end. Kelly [...]
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Duke linebacker Michael Tauiliili led the ACC in tackles, but lost the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year honor to another player at his same position. Boston College’s Mark Herzlich took home the award in a close vote, earning 20 votes to beat out Florida State’s Everette Brown, who won 16 votes, and Tauiliili, who [...]
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As you may have noticed, we’ve devoted a lot of attention to Duke linebacker Michael Tauiliili over the past few days on The Sports Blog and in the pages of The Chronicle—so much, in fact, that spelling his vowel-infested name has become a matter of habit. We feel that his on-field performance, however, merited such [...]
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The day he was honored with the ACC Defensive Player of the Week award, senior Michael Tauiliili recieved another piece of good news. The linebacker was named to the All-ACC first team Monday, earning the second-most votes of any linebacker. He was the only Blue Devil named to the first team, but quarterback Thaddeus Lewis [...]
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Way back on Sept. 27, Duke stormed out of the neo-Gothic gates in Wallace Wade Stadium—”it looks more like a library entrance than a football stadium,” a friend recently commented—and outscored a receding Virginia team 28-0 in the second half to win its first ACC game since 2004 in resounding fashion. The [...]
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Duke’s Oct. 25 game at No. 22 Vanderbilt will begin at 3 p.m. and will not be televised, the Atlantic Coast Conference announced in its weekly schedule release Monday. It will be Duke’s second straight afternoon game, as the Blue Devils play Miami at 3:30 p.m. this Saturday in Wallace Wade Stadium.
The game, which falls [...]
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It was fun while it lasted.
After receiving one vote in the coaches’ poll for two consecutive weeks, Duke was nowhere to be found in the “others receiving votes” section of the rankings. Apparently, the Blue Devils dropped in the eyes of our mysterious voter simply by not playing. For the record, Duke has not received [...]
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Duke rested up in its second bye week of the year Saturday, but its ACC opponents managed to rack up a perfect 4-0 record Saturday–even if some games were uglier than they should have been.
Georgia Tech, the squad that manhandled the Blue Devils last week in a 27-0 win, squeaked past Gardner-Webb, 10-7, while Miami’s [...]
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There are the long-term surprises—Georgia Tech is 4-1! Miami has more losses than Duke! A respected columnist predicts an 11-1 record for North Carolina!—and then there are the more immediate shocks.
Virginia 31, Maryland 0 qualifies for the latter. If you had told any college football fan that Virginia, just one week after being trounded 31-3 [...]
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