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Michael Tauiliili, an All-ACC linebacker in his senior season at Duke, became the third Blue Devil this year to sign with an NFL team, inking a two-year deal with the Indianapolis Colts over the weekend, the program announced Monday.
Tauiliili was easily Duke’s best defensive player last year, racking up All-ACC and All-American honors while leading [...]
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According to Gil Brandt of NFL.com, eight NFL teams were on hand to scout some Duke seniors at their recently held Pro Day. Even though Brandt doesn’t mention the blazing 4.36 40-yard dash time that wide receiver Eron Riley apparently posted last Monday, he does make some notable commendations and predictions regarding a few Blue [...]
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The View From Above
So Duke is No.1 again. After beating Maryland Saturday—well, is beating really the right word? Dismantling? Embarrassing? How about this: You know the movie “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” in which Brad Pitt ages backward toward infancy? If there is a verb for making someone all at once feel like a [...]
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An ESPN report detailing Duke linebacker Michael Tauiliili’s weaknesses couldn’t have been the highlight of the Houston product’s week. From the pre-game story:
Tauiliili read his keys and located the ball quickly, but he got engulfed by offensive linemen at times and failed to show sideline-to-sideline range. Tauiliili doesn’t appear to be much of a leaper, [...]
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Photo courtesy HoustonTexans.com
Duke linebacker Michael Tauiliili is turning heads in his hometown as he participates in practices at the training facility for the NFL’s Houston Texans in preparation for this weekend’s East-West Shrine Game. The Walter Camp All-American is looking to become the first Duke football player selected in the NFL Draft since tackle Drew [...]
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The Wild, Wild, uh, Atlantic Coast
Nothing has put college basketball on its head more than the last week of ACC basketball. And the madness started and ended with the Tar Heels. Once the just-hand-them-the-trophy-now Tar Heels, North Carolina suddenly doesn’t appear as unbeatable. But this team is still crazy good, and even the best teams [...]
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He wasn’t the leading vote-getter at linebacker in the ACC, he didn’t win the league’s Defensive Player of the Year Award and another linebacker from his conference won the Butkus Award, but, somehow, Duke linebacker Michael Tauiliili was the ACC’s lone linebacker representative on the Walter Camp Foundation’s All-American team, released Thursday.
Tauiliili was one of [...]
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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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Duke pounds Purdue in its first test of the year, leading to media speculation that the Blue Devils could be the Kryptonite to the Supermen eight miles down the road.
David Cutcliffe, Michael Tauiliili and a group of other Blue Devils get some love from the ACC.
Speaking of Cutcliffe, this week marked the one-year anniversary of [...]
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Duke linebacker Michael Tauiliili led the ACC in tackles, but lost the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year honor to another player at his same position. Boston College’s Mark Herzlich took home the award in a close vote, earning 20 votes to beat out Florida State’s Everette Brown, who won 16 votes, and Tauiliili, who [...]
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