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Prominently employing and appreciating freshmen is a relatively new phenomenon in the ACC By NCAA edict freshmen couldn’t participate in varsity sports during the first 20 years the ACC was in existence. Prior to the 1972-73 season freshmen played on separate, junior varsity basketball squads such as the Blue Imps for Duke and UNC’s Tar […]
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We’ve spoken before about how much we admire Duke Basketball’s social media team. Those guys consistently operate at a very high level and do innovative and cool things. Originally they started as a way for Duke to counter the Duke Hating we all got to know during the middle of the Coach K era. From […]
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The NBA regular season starts Tuesday, so it seems like a good time to do a Duke rookie links run. Enjoy! Go to the DBR Boards to find Blue Healer Auctions | Drop us a line
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Being the son of a legendary athlete is really difficult. Your odds of being better than your father are not great and you will forever be compared to him. Look how many guys come up short: Scottie Pippen, Jr. Both of Michael Jordan’s sons. Perhaps most notoriously, Bronny James, who many feel is on the […]
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When last season started, we thought that Pat Ngongba might redshirt. He was third on the depth chart behind Khaman Maluach and Maliq Brown, and he was coming off of a high school injury. And in high school, he had to work hard to lose a significant amount of weight. Redshirting seemed like a real […]
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College basketball has changed dramatically over the last several seasons to the point where losing your entire team has become rather routine and, at times, a good thing. It does make it tough to figure a team out early on though, and that’s the case for Johnny Dawkins and his Central Florida Knights. UCF is […]
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Our SBN colleague Ricky O’ Donnell has a breakdown of his Top Seven rookies in the preseason and three of them are former Blue Devils. Here’s O’ Donnell’s list: #7 – Jeremiah Fears #6 – VJ Edgecombe #5 – Khaman Maluach #4 – Jase Richardson #3 – Kon Knueppel #2 – Ace Bailey #1 – […]
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In many ways, Bob Knight is a tragic figure. No one doubts his coaching genius, but his inability to to control his emotions ultimately cost him his job at Indiana, where he put the Hoosiers into a different orbit, and kept him from being the GOAT of college basketball. When you look at his early […]
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We are back with Episode 760 as Donald and Jason recap some football and get us ready for some basketball! Duke Football suffered a loss over the weekend to Georgia Tech, and we begin the episode with our recap of that game. It was a game where mistakes were the difference and it was a […]
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In the 1980’s Europeans and other international players began to migrate to the NBA. Guys like Detlef Schrempf, Vlade Divac and Šarūnas Marčiulionis began to leave strong impressions. Dražen Petrović and Toni Kukoč were not far behind and soon European players, along with Latin Americans, began to carve out a significant niche. Today, in many ways, […]
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Things are going pretty well for Kara Lawson lately. Last spring, her Duke team pushed South Carolina to the brink in the Elite Eight. Recently, she was named the head coach of the U.S. Women’s Olympic Basketball team. And she’s been on a recruiting tear too. In May, Lawson got commitments from 6-4 Taylor Sofilkanich […]
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When Dallas traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers last winter, fans were outraged. When Anthony Davis, who came over from LA in the trade, was injured, that was bad. Then former Duke star Kyrie Irving blew out an ACL, which was also devastating. However, Dallas got unbelievably lucky in the draft and ended […]
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Duke fell to Georgia Tech 27-18 in a game marred by mistakes and failed Red Zone execution. The Blue Devils offense clicked between the 20 yard lines to the tune of 441 yards of Total Offense but the Yellow Jackets defense stymied Duke’s run game preventing the Blue Devils from converting all those yards into […]
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Obviously Cooper Flagg is off to a great start with the Dallas Mavericks, but in Charlotte, his former Duke teammate Kon Knueppel is also doing well. He’s made an impression on his coach, Charles Lee, who said this about his progress: “I think Kon has done a great job of finding his way, learning things, […]
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We thought it might be a good idea to put together a links run for Saturday’s game against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Enjoy! Go to the DBR Boards to find Blue Healer Auctions | Drop us a line
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One of the most striking things about UNC’s chaotic football season to date is how aggressive WRAL has been about covering the issues the program is having. Typically, local TV stations just post brief stories about games, coaches and players, with maybe some human interest stories. Not this time. Here’s a partial list of recent […]
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In the earlier days of rock ‘n’ roll, some of the great stars were Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly. All of them ran into issues of one sort or another by the 1960’s. Elvis got drafted and worse, he got involved with Col. Tom Parker, who had him […]
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It didn’t take long in his first season as a Blue Devil for people to get that Maliq Brown was…unusual. Brown, who transferred in from conference rival Syracuse, immediately showed superb defensive instincts. He got in the passing lanes like no one else and was a brilliant presence off the bench. Unfortunately, injuries disrupted his […]
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Well here’s some pretty cool news: Nate James is back in the game and we’ll see him in Cameron in a few weeks! As you may remember, Nate James was let go at Austin Peay after just two seasons. Well he’s joining Kenny Blakeney’s staff at Howard, and the Bison will be in Cameron on […]
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