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To play or not to play: The Coach K conundrum
This is a column about Duke basketball and Coach K. Most of you despise the two, while I, on the other hand, cheer for them harder than any team I’ve ever rooted for....
Duke’s women’s team wasn’t the only basketball program to suspend its season last week
When you’re 0-9, people tend to ignore you even when your acts are newsworthy....
At Duke, it's women doing the right thing while Coach K mouths empty words
If the federal government isn’t going to do anything to stop sports from being played in the middle of a pandemic, it’s up to local officials to step in and take the steps necessary to prevent COVID-19 from spreading just so that games can be played....
Remembering 'Bowl Durham' & Pearl Harbor: Last time Rose Bowl was held outside Pasadena
Back in March, the NCAA Tournament was just days away from tipping off when COVID-19 took hold in America and turned 2020 upside down, taking with it, among other things, college basketball’s championship....
Coach K is still a weasel
As college basketball continues to be the live-action version of the cartoon dog sitting at his breakfast nook amongst an inferno, it is screaming for someone, anyone, to act like an actual adult. For a group of people that claim to be leaders and shapers of men, no one seems to be acting like eithe...
The Champions Classic proved that this college basketball season will be a quiet one
College basketball is going to be weird....
Kelly Loeffler’s endorsement from QAnon supporter shows how far America has fallen
In a different America, Kelly Loeffler and her financial transactions — that sure as hell look like she was trading on privileged information — would be the political scandal of the year, if not the decade....
Just When You Thought Duke Couldn’t Be Any More Insufferable …
Have you ever worked for a boss that did something so stupid that it made you wonder how they got that job in the first place?...
Hate In The Time Of Coronavirus: A Guide to Despising Duke — Even When All The Games Have Been Cancelled.
The world is burning. The coronavirus has shut down everything from office buildings to conferences about the coronavirus. Meanwhile, there’s not a package of toilet paper to be found on shelves in 34 states....
Founder Of The Invictus Games Supports Injured War Veterans Of His Nation's Team
Last week, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, spent time talking to the adaptive athletes competing for the UK national team in this year’s Invictus Games. According to the Game’s site, the Duke “saw how the power of sport could help physically, psychologically and socially”....
Righteous Baseball Dude Kumar Rocker Saves Vanderbilt's Season With 19-Strikeout No-Hitter
Vanderbilt found themselves down 1-0 in the best-of-three Nashville Super Regional against Duke, and so they sent stud pitcher Kumar Rocker to the mound to start Game 2 yesterday and asked him to save the season. Rocker responded with 19 strikeouts and a no-hitter, leading Vandy to a 3-0 win....
This Is The Most Awkward 20 Seconds Of A Softball Broadcast I've Ever Heard
It brings me no pleasure to report this, but I am compelled to share with you an absolutely brutal exchange between play-by-play man Mark Neely and color commentator Danielle Lawrie that occurred during Michigan and James Madison’s NCAA Softball Tournament game this afternoon. ...
Did Michael Avenatti Fall For A Hoax Invoice Claiming That Nike Paid Zion Williamson's Mom?
Two weeks ago, before he was indicted in United States District Court for a wide variety of crimes, lawyer Michael Avenatti intimated that he had proof of Nike paying Zion Williamson to attend Duke, and doing so by paying Williamson’s mother for bogus consulting services. His threats were quite spe...
Duke Is Out. What Will You Do With Your Hate Now?
At the exact moment Duke lost to Michigan State on Sunday, our sporting Borg collective went through the following thoughts, in this order and all within a second:...
The Glance That Put Michigan State In The Final Four
It is one of those historical ironies of the sport that Duke is heading home because the refs didn’t call many fouls on them. Usually, the free-throw disparity—the Blue Devils took 13 to Michigan State’s six—and perceived favoritism works in Duke’s favor. But not on Sunday, not in the closing second...
Coach K's Trust In R.J. Barrett Ruins Duke's Final Four Dreams
With two-and-a-half minutes remaining in regulation, Zion Williamson attracted a double-team in the post and found an open RJ Barrett at the top of the three-point arc so that his Canadian teammate could give Duke a 64-63 lead. No one knew it at the time, but that shot would wind up being the last p...
Tre Jones Spat In The Face Of His Doubters
The way to beat Duke is to make Tre Jones take threes, or so the thinking went until the Blue Devils’ 75-73 win over Virginia Tech on Friday night. The freshman point guard, who is now shooting 26.5 percent from long range after last night, was left to do whatever he wanted at the arc when UCF almos...
Zion Williamson Puts On Another Show And Duke Wins Thanks To Another Blown Buzzer-Beater
With Cam Reddish out nursing an injury, Duke needed Zion Williamson to do it all tonight against Virginia Tech, and boy did he deliver. The Blue Devils skated past the Hokies, 75-73, and Williamson led all scorers with 23 points. That was somehow his most meager scoring output of his NCAA Tournament...
How To Beat Duke
Duke is technically 31-5 so far on the year. But everyone knows that 60 percent of those losses don’t count. The top-seeded Blue Devils are a completely different and much worse team without Zion Williamson, and when he’s in the lineup, they’re 28-2, with zero losses since Jan. 14. That’s a really ...
UCF Could Not Have Come Any Closer To Upsetting Duke
The UCF Knights gave the Duke Blue Devils way more of a fight than anyone dared hope they could, but ultimately they came just short of what would have been a bonkers second-round upset. Riding a 32-point performance from Zion Williamson, Duke escaped to the Sweet 16 with a 77-76 win....