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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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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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We knew Joe Alleva must have been somewhere in the Greensboro Coliseum Saturday as his LSU Tigers played a team he’s quite familiar with: North Carolina. But until he wrote a letter to The Chronicle, we didn’t put it together that it must have been oddly surreal for him to hear Duke fans cheering for [...]
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OK, so I can’t believe I’m writing this 1) because it’s ridiculous and 2) because it’s further proof that I don’t know everything (or anything, for that matter)—which is something I’m always ashamed to admit. But I brought this up in the office the other night, and the idea was pitched that I throw this [...]
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Given the way he’s molded the program and shifted public perception in so little time, it’s hard to fathom that David Cutcliffe has only been at Duke for less than a year. It’s even more difficult to imagine someone else in the largest office of Yoh Football Center, but if Duke had lured its first [...]
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For at least a few days each year, The Sports Blog can’t resist the temptation of cliche (expect a rumination on who’s getting coal sometime in the next month). Why is this day different from all other days? Well, it’s the day before Thanksgiving, and that, as triteness dictates, calls for a list of why [...]
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Back in May, Duke planned to move its 2010 home game against Alabama down to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta for “more money and recruiting exposure,” said former athletic director Joe Alleva. A lot has changed since then—and, according to The Birmingham News, so has that decision.
Alleva has been officially replaced by Kevin White, [...]
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Director of Athletics Kevin White promoted veteran Senior Associate Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy to deputy athletic director in a statement Tuesday. Kennedy, an English professor and Duke athletic department member since 1977, served as interim athletic director after Joe Alleva left for Louisiana State University and before White was hired from Notre Dame. Kennedy [...]
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Former athletic director Joe Alleva spent 32 years at Duke, and 10 as Director of Athletics. He considered himself a Blue Devil man, loyal to Duke. But in just two months in the same job at Louisiana State University, Alleva had some choice words that likely won’t sit well with Duke supporters.
“The passion for LSU [...]
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