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UPDATE: I’ve posted a link to Excel files with spreadsheets I used in this analysis at the bottom of this page. There’s a bonus file, which has the Pomeroy rankings of each ACC team. If you’re a mathematical type of person and think that what I’ve done here is unsophisticated (at best), please see if [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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This is the eighth 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 more All-Decade [...]
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This is the sixth 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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No matter what you think of journalistic ramifications of the apparently imminent TMZSports.com — whether it will be a failure, cause a tabloid war, change the gossip game or, simply, make an icksickle — the effects will probably be more profound for athletes than journalists.
But how will it alter the athletes who don’t seem to have [...]
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With the decade winding down, Sports Illustrated’s “2000s: The Decade In Sports” is intended to be “your portal to our look back at all of it — the dominant athletes, greatest games, biggest stories, fiercest rivalries, stunning upsets, spectacular flops, most brilliant minds, record-breaking performances and more.”
Below is a list of the many appearances that Duke [...]
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ESPN reports that J.J. Redick called his former college coach on Monday morning to wish him Happy Holidays. Coach K’s response? He gave his former star athlete advice on how to succeed in the NBA.
We may not know what exactly Coach K said to Redick, but it certainly boosted his confidence. That night, the old [...]
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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 [...]
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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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