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 ninth 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 [...]
Over at the always-entertaining D.C. Sports Bog today, The Washington Post’s Dan Steinberg has a post about the best high school athletes he and some of the more esteemed members of his newspaper have ever seen. On the early list: Adrian Dantley, Dwight Howard, Tiger Woods, Tedy Bruschi and Delonte West. Not too shabby. We’d love to [...]
Highly-prized Greg Echenique, a 6-foot-9 center from Danny Hurley’s St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark, N.J., spurned Duke and other traditional powerhouses for in-state Rutgers. He announced his decision to verbally commit to Fred Hill’s program Monday after visiting Rutgers’ campus Thursday. Echenique was in Cameron Indoor Stadium for Duke’s March 8 loss to North Carolina.
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