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In the state of North Carolina, the Duke-UNC rivalry is famous for its ability to put neighbors and friends at odds with one another, but how often does the rivalry separate a family?
It happened to the Capel family, when Jason decided to stray from older brother Jeff’s footsteps when he committed to play basketball for [...]
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This is the second 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 [...]
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Two years ago, after Pittsburgh beat Duke on a last-second 3-pointer in Madison Square Garden, The Big Lead got on his soapbox and singled out Jon Scheyer, calling him “unquestionably, an awful college basketball player…. Offensively, after last night’s dreadful 1-for-10 shooting performance, one cannot begin to imagine the thought process that Scheyer uses when [...]
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Former Duke point guard Greg Paulus has exhausted his football eligibility after a season playing for Syracuse, but the New York Daily News reports that the quarterback will make an attempt to play in the NFL:
Paulus is working out at Syracuse in preparation for the school’s March 4 pro day. Paulus, who had a workout with [...]
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Syracuse’s football opener Sept. 5 against Minnesota just became must-see TV in Durham.
That’s because Greg Paulus, the former Blue Devil point guard using a fifth year of eligibility to play football for the Orange, has won the nod as the Orange’s starting quarterback, the program announced in a statement Monday night. Paulus beat out sophomore [...]
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Last week, the nation became utterly transfixed by a phenomenon so sweeping it required just one name: Pauluspalooza. Err, scratch that. Make it Greg-A-Palooza.
That’s what the creators of the must-have-of-the-week wrote in an e-mail Sunday to those who had ordered the keepsake. Some “legal issues” with Syracuse University forced them to modify the first edition [...]
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We thought the atmosphere surrounding Greg Paulus at Syracuse was oddly circus-like. Turns out, it was more of, um, a Pauluspalooza.
After all, the Greg Paulus World Tour, hatched as parody back in May, was confined to cyberspace. But the 2009 Pauluspalooza Homecoming Tour is very much a real thing, and it’s going to cost $13.99 [...]
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He’s still a few days away from practicing in full pads, but Duke-guard-turned-Syracuse-quarterback Greg Paulus has already managed to steal the spotlight up in New York. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, either — not when there’s otherwise no buzz around Syracuse football and Paulus is, at least for now, the most intriguing storyline on [...]
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Greg Paulus will use a fifth year to play football at Syracuse, but once he’s done with his intercollegiate career, he might have a chance to remain involved in Syracuse Athletics beyond the gridiron. He doesn’t have any remaining basketball eligibility, but his hoops future with the Orange could be on the sideline.
Reports The Post-Standard:
Paulus, [...]
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