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ESPN’s Andy Katz interviews Coach K and works a Duke season preview into his story. Nothing ground-breaking, but you’ll read it anyway. In related news, only this long until basketball season starts. Yes, the exhibition against Pfeiffer absolutely counts.
More from Coach K and Andy Katz after the jump.
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It’s official: Mike Krzyzewski is going for gold again.
As was reported two weeks ago, Krzyzewski has agreed to try to lead Team USA to another gold medal at the 2010 World Championships in Turkey and the 2012 Olympics in London. He guided the United States to a gold in Beijing, and after Managing Director Jerry [...]
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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who led Team USA to a gold medal in Beijing last summer, will try to do the same in London in 2012, multiple media outlets are reporting.
Multiple unnamed sources told The Boston Globe and ESPN that USA Basketball will make the official announcement at a mini-camp later this month, [...]
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After informing reporters before Game 3 of the NBA Finals that he would defer any decision on coaching the 2012 US Men’s Olympic team until July, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski appeared on the Dan Patrick radio show Thursday morning, hitting on a wide range of topics from the NBA Finals to the NBA’s one-and-done rule.
Some [...]
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Mike Krzyzewski probably wasn’t in the best mood Sunday after his team’s fourth loss in six games. But the Blue Devils’ 80-74 loss to Boston College had no bearing on a video he recorded to congratulate Team USA on its gold medal in Beijing. The message was aired at halftime of the NBA All-Star Game, [...]
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In an interview with The Chronicle today, sophomores Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler revealed that the entire team got together early Sunday morning to watch the USA take on Spain for the gold medal with a fully catered hot breakfast from Mad Hatters at 2:30 a.m. I’m pretty sure there isn’t another student group on [...]
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The New York Times’ coverage of these Olympics has been expansive and prolific, from their Olympics blog to their print edition and everything in between (I suppose that’s what happens when you have 32 reporters in Beijing). At Rings today, Team USA (and college basketball) beat writer Pete Thamel, following the lead of Yahoo! Sports [...]
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The Kansas City Star’s Joe Posnanski is perhaps the best-regarded sports columnist (and blogger!) in the country, which is why his latest column from Beijing is relevant–that, and it’s the sharpest rebuke of Team USA head coach Mike Krzyzewski yet. Posnanski’s column, “Give Coach K an F for diplomacy,” criticizes Krzyzewski for belittling a foreign [...]
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GENEVA — While many members of the working media toiled in Beijing, I watched Team USA’s 101-70 romp over China Sunday afternoon at Mr. Pickwick’s Pub here in Switzerland, a country with a decidedly sparse basketball history. I’m here for six weeks on a study abroad program, but wasn’t going to miss Mike Krzyzewski and [...]
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While her classmates shop for twin extra-long sheets and peruse potential pals on Facebook, Rebecca Ward’s college preparation has been a bit, um, unique. She took a vacation. To Beijing. To compete in the Olympics. And yesterday, the incoming freshman fencer won the bronze medal in the women’s individual saber, earning Duke’s first medal of [...]
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