It has just been announced that NBA Jam—also known as the greatest sports video game of all time—will be revived on the Nintendo Wii. If you don’t remember NBA Jam, then you obviously were not a child of the 90s. The original arcade version, which came out in 1993 and notched $1 billion over its incredible [...]
Over the last two weeks, we’ve had our say at The Chronicle naming Duke’s All-Decade Teams. We started with an overall men’s basketball team and went everywhere from naming the Top Villans, Top Individual Seasons, All-NBA Team, All-Disappointment Team, Duke Stories of the Decade (Part I, Part II), Top Clutch Performances, All-Shooters Team, All-Defensive Team, to [...]
This is the fourth in a series of Duke’s All-Decade teams, as named by various Chronicle writers, past and present. At the end of the series, you will be able to vote for your own All-Decade team, and your votes will determine The Sports Blog’s final choice. Stay tuned over the next two weeks for [...]
This is the third in a series of Duke’s All-Decade teams, as named by various Chronicle writers, past and present. At the end of the series, you will be able to vote for your own All-Decade team, and your votes will determine The Sports Blog’s final choice. Stay tuned over the next two weeks for [...]
Seth Davis, a Sports Illustrated writer and analyst for CBS Sports, picked Pittsburgh to win the National Championship. But the Duke graduate—and former Chronicle writer—is still impressed with the Blue Devils, and he shared his observations with The Chronicle’s Ben Cohen Wednesday. Here are excerpts from that conversation, with a full Q&A running in The [...]
2007 Duke graduate Shannon Rowbury, the fastest American in her field, took seventh place Saturday morning in the 1,500-meter final at the National Stadium in Beijing, finishing 3.58 seconds behind Kenya’s Nancy Langat, the gold medalist. Rowbury’s finish was the highest ever by an American.
Rowbury was in fifth place with 600 meters left and fourth [...]
GENEVA — While many members of the working media toiled in Beijing, I watched Team USA’s 101-70 romp over China Sunday afternoon at Mr. Pickwick’s Pub here in Switzerland, a country with a decidedly sparse basketball history. I’m here for six weeks on a study abroad program, but wasn’t going to miss Mike Krzyzewski and [...]