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This is the tenth and final post 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 [...]
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Lacrosse insiders agree: John Danowski’s squad will start the season as the team to beat in college lacrosse.
A month after Inside Lacrosse ranked Duke No. 1 in its preseason rankings, Lacrosse Magazine followed suit, putting the Blue Devils at the top of the poll. In addition to choosing Duke, which lost in last year’s Final Four [...]
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — With 9:55 left in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s NCAA tournament quarterfinal, the No. 3 Blue Devils led No. 6 North Carolina, 12-8, and had an opportunity to all but seal the win. Mike Catalino rushed the ball upfield and found Max Quinzani, whose shot struck the crossbar and bounced high into [...]
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Neither a 25-minute rain delay nor Navy’s typically stingy defense could slow down Duke Saturday night.
Under the lights in a muddy Koskinen Stadium, the No. 3 Blue Devils jumped all over the Midshipmen in the first half and never looked back. The result was a 10-0 lead at halftime, and an eventual 14-5 win for [...]
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Photo by Margie Truwit/The Chronicle
Friday afternoon provided a glimpse of the potential of the young and new Blue Devils.
That glimmer of hope, though, was quickly tempered Sunday.
No. 5 Duke fell to Harvard 9-6 at Koskinen Stadium less than 48 hours after defeating No. 15 Colgate 9-8, in large part because of a lackluster offensive effort [...]
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They’re not quite up to the level of Mike Krzyzewski’s team, but John Danowski’s Blue Devils won’t be playing in obscurity, either.
Duke, a Final Four participant last season, will play twice on ESPNU and once on ESPN2 this season. Last year, the Blue Devils played six regular season games on ESPNU, the ACC tournament championship [...]
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Over at Inside Lacrosse, Jon Brand has a Q&A with Duke head coach John Danowski about Zack Greer’s decision to play his fifth year at Bryant, in which Danowski says Greer decided not to use his extra year at Duke last fall and looked at graduate school opportunities throughout the year. Greer considered playing hockey [...]
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Audio from John Danowski
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Despite the Blue Devils’ obvious disappointment associated with coming up short of the program’s first national championship, head coach John Danowski wasn’t too outwardly upset about the loss.
“The sadness I feel–it’s not losing the game today,” Danowski said. “Listen, I’ve learned in the last two years the games aren’t [...]
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It’s the morning after Duke’s shocking 10-9 loss to Johns Hopkins in the national semifinal, a defeat that the ESPN analysts were fond of calling one of the biggest upsets in lacrosse history. And, on paper, it certainly was–this was a Blue Devil squad that absolutely dismantled Hopkins 17-6 back on April 5. So what [...]
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During a brief layover in Philadelphia before hopping a plane to Boston for this weekend’s Final Four, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye on a TV in a nearby bar.
Bob Ley was on ESPN’s Outside the Lines, which showed images of Duke lacrosse players practicing. I couldn’t hear the audio, but of [...]
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