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Redshirt senior Vince Oghobaase was honored yesterday as a third team All-American by Sporting News. Despite playing in just 8 games due to injury, the defensive tackle had 37 tackles and 2.5 sacks on the year.
GoDuke.com reports that the senior is the first Blue Devil defensive lineman to receive All-America honors in the modern era. Oghobaase ranks fifth [...]
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Duke 10, Georgia Tech 49 (4:48 4th): If the game wasn’t over before, it certainly is now. Georgia Tech’s seventh unanswered touchdown puts them up 39 on a seven yard TD run by Richard Watson. We’re going to call it a game here at the Sports Blog as the band plays Cascada, to the delight [...]
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Only two games into the season, Duke is already banged up — and the timing is particularly unfortunate, given the Blue Devils are just two days away from playing a ranked team.
Freshman wide receiver Connor Vernon is doubtful for Duke’s Saturday matchup at Kansas, while running back Jay Hollingsworth and stalwart defensive tackle Vince Oghobaase [...]
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THE CONTENTS: After their season-opening loss to Richmond, Duke travels to West Point, N.Y. to face Army in the Black Knights’ home opener. The game can be seen on CBS College Sports and can be heard on WDNC-AM 620.
THE EXPOSITION: The Blue Devils looked much more like their 2006 counterparts than last year’s team after [...]
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Cell Phone Photo by Taylor Doherty/The Chronicle
Talk about a strange week in the Gothic Wonderland.
In the same week that senior basketball player Greg Paulus worked out for the Green Bay Packers and watched a football practice at the University of Michigan, three Blue Devil football players—rising seniors Vincent Rey, Kinney Rucker and Vince Oghobaase—appeared on stage Wednesday [...]
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Vince Oghobaase, Duke’s standout defensive tackle who spurned the NFL Draft to use his fifth year of eligibility, will miss the remainder of spring practice after sustaining a stress fracture in his foot Wednesday, head coach David Cutcliffe announced in a statement Thursday. Oghobaase will not require surgery.
Oghobaase was an honorable mention All-ACC tackle last [...]
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Photo by Ian Soileau/Chronicle File Photo
Senior defensive tackle Vince Oghobaase, an All-ACC honorable mention and Duke’s most consistent lineman, will return to Duke for his final year of eligibility, the program announced Monday.
Oghobaase had submitted his name to the NFL draft advisory board for more information about his status in the upcoming draft, and after [...]
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The day he was honored with the ACC Defensive Player of the Week award, senior Michael Tauiliili recieved another piece of good news. The linebacker was named to the All-ACC first team Monday, earning the second-most votes of any linebacker. He was the only Blue Devil named to the first team, but quarterback Thaddeus Lewis [...]
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Photo by Lawson Kurtz/The Chronicle
David Cutcliffe might have had Tennessee on his mind Monday night at his bi-weekly Coke With Cut event in the Great Hall—he made two subtle references to the Volunteers in his 25-minute film session with about 75 students.
First, he noted that Clifford Harris’ second touchdown against Wake Forest came on a [...]
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Larry Coker was one disputed pass interference call away from leading Miami to back-to-back national championships in 2001 and 2002. Now, he’s the color analyst for ESPNU and has covered three of Duke’s games this year—its wins over Navy and Virginia and its loss to Georgia Tech. The Chronicle’s Ben Cohen caught up with Coker [...]
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