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Decade In Review

Part VI: Duke Stories of the Decade (5-1)

by Andy Moore on December 28, 2009

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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Men's Lacrosse

Pressler Gets Green Light to Sue Duke

by Gabe Starosta on September 1, 2009

A North Carolina appeals court has cleared Duke’s former lacrosse coach, Mike Pressler, to pursue a slander lawsuit against the University, according to The (Raleigh) News & Observer.
Pressler had been set to go to arbitration over his lawsuit, which alleges slander in comments made by John Burness, formerly the school’s senior vice president for public [...]

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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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Zack Greer, the NCAA’s all-time leading goal scorer, has decided to use his NCAA-granted fifth year of eligibility with former Duke head coach Mike Pressler at Bryant, sources told Inside Lacrosse’s Quint Kessenich Monday.
Pressler was forced to resign from his Duke position in 2006 in light of rape allegations that later proved false. He became [...]

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HBO has acquired the rights to former Duke lacrosse head coach Mike Pressler and Don Yaeger’s book, It’s Not About the Truth. The book chronicles the Duke Lacrosse allegations, from the initial indictments in March 2006 all the way until their pronounced innocence in April 2007. If produced, the film will be the first movie [...]

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