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Redshirt senior Zack Asack has been dismissed from the Blue Devil program for a violation of team policy, the program announced in a press release Friday afternoon. No other details about the reason for Asack’s dismissal are available at this time.
Asack began his career for the Blue Devils at quarterback and started his freshman season, but [...]
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5 p.m. WEDNESDAY: Paulus will hold an in-person press conference and teleconference Thursday at 10 a.m., but he will not be announcing any immediate decisions, Duke spokesman Matt Plizga told The Chronicle. Instead, Paulus will discuss his post-basketball options.
4 p.m. WEDNESDAY: The language in the Associated Press’ story—which appears on ESPN.com under the headline “Cutcliffe: [...]
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With his team wearing green practice jerseys for its early morning run and himself decked out in a bright green polo shirt, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe was certainly full of St. Patrick’s Day spirit as he opened Tuesday’s press conference previewing spring practice with a little nugget Irish history:
“March 17 is supposedly, in Irish [...]
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Photo by Chase Olivieri/Chronicle File Photo
On her ESPN blog yesterday, ACC blogger Heather Dinich anointed Georgia Tech’s backfield as the conference’s best, but not without mentioning that “the running game appears to be an early strength of the ACC—Duke included.”
We know Duke’s opening game against Richmond Sept. 5—mark it on your calendar!—is still more than [...]
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Given the way he’s molded the program and shifted public perception in so little time, it’s hard to fathom that David Cutcliffe has only been at Duke for less than a year. It’s even more difficult to imagine someone else in the largest office of Yoh Football Center, but if Duke had lured its first [...]
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Duke’s offense was completely anemic in its 14-3 loss to Virginia Tech Saturday. Help may be on its way sooner than the Blue Devils expected.
Starting quarterback Thaddeus Lewis, who was sidelined against the Hokies with a foot sprain he sustained against Clemson Nov. 8, will play against North Carolina Saturday, head coach David Cutcliffe said [...]
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Exceeding expectations, one game at a time
I grew up a Michigan State basketball fan, and one thing that has always been said of head coach Tom Izzo is his uncanny ability to get the most out of his team come NCAA tournament time. After leading his team to two consecutive Elite Eights, heights thought unreachable [...]
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Virginia Tech 14, Duke 3; 1:23: That will do it. Asack’s first pass of the drive was intercepted by Virginia Tech cornerback “Macho” Harris, who returned it 23 yards for a game-sealing pick six. Duke’s bowl hopes are now officially dead and it can only hope to end a four-game losing streak next weekend against [...]
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Can Duke bounce back from a three-game losing slide? Will the Blue Devils be able to succeed if they don’t have starting quarterback Thaddeus Lewis running the offense? Does anyone care about football now that basketball season has started? We answer those questions and more in this week’s edition of Talking Football to preview the [...]
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Sean Renfree came to Duke this summer as the most highly touted recruit of David Cutcliffe’s initial recruiting haul. A four-star prospect and the No. 10 quarterback in his class, Renfree was hailed as a pro-style signal caller, but he was stuck behind Thaddeus Lewis and Zack Asack in a quarterback logjam.
Even though Lewis went [...]
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