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Blue Devils’ Running Game Fits In With ACC

by Ben Cohen on February 24, 2009

Photo by Chase Olivieri/Chronicle File Photo
On her ESPN blog yesterday, ACC blogger Heather Dinich anointed Georgia Tech’s backfield as the conference’s best, but not without mentioning that “the running game appears to be an early strength of the ACC—Duke included.”
We know Duke’s opening game against Richmond Sept. 5—mark it on your calendar!—is still more than [...]

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Duke’s FCS Mess Of 2009

by Ben Cohen on January 29, 2009

The Duke message boards have been abuzz for the past few weeks about the Blue Devils filling their schedule with N.C. Central, a Division I-AA FCS squad. The only problem with Duke hosting its cross-town rival? The Eagles are the second FCS opponent on the schedule (Richmond is the other), which means that Duke would [...]

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We’ve made Duke linebacker Michael Tauiliili’s case for All-American, argued he should have been higher on the All-ACC team and finally ceded the argument when Boston College linebacker Mark Herzlich was named ACC Defensive Player of the Year.
And then another ACC linebacker won a national award, so we felt obliged to pipe up again. On [...]

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Cutcliffe Garners More Praise

by Ben Cohen on August 6, 2008

As we said yesterday, expect a decent amount of linking to Heather Dinich, ESPN’s ACC blogger whose posts tend to fill our inboxes with Google Alerts and keeps our Google Reader on alert. (Hint: Embrace Google products, thank us later.) Today, she ranks the ACC’s coaches, putting David Cutcliffe fourth of 12 coaches. Not bad [...]

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ESPN’s Dinich Answers Duke Questions

by Ben Cohen on August 4, 2008

Heather Dinich is ESPN’s ACC correspondent, part of the Worldwide Leader’s new college football blog network, consisting of seven bloggers to cover every major conference. In just a few weeks, Dinich’s blog has become a go-to source for any ACC football fan, and the sheer bulk of posts usually guarantees at least a quip about [...]

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As seemingly every national media outlet is starting its college football coverage, it’s no surprise that ESPN came out with its ACC preview Wednesday. College football writer Heather Dinich broke down the Blue Devils, presenting three “Spring Answers” and “Fall Questions.”
In addition to question marks behind Eron Riley at wide receiver and in Duke’s woeful [...]

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