Follow Adam Sobsey’s Duke basketball reports on Triangle Offense @IndyweekSports and @sobsey. Mike Krzyzewski is Prospero. That’s what I decided a few days after the Duke men’s basketball head coach was celebrated by a full and famous house at Cameron Indoor Stadium last week, following his 904th career win, an 82-69 triumph over Davidson. Krzyzewski […]
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Duke men’s basketball downs Davidson, celebrates Krzyzewski milestone
www.goduke.com CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—With about five seconds left in the first half last night, and Duke leading Davidson by one point, the Blue Devils ran a little set play in which a driving Austin Rivers was either supposed to lob the ball to Ryan Kelly cutting along the baseline to the basket, or perhaps […]
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Duke men’s basketball routs Presbyterian, Krzyzewski ties Knight’s all-time wins record
Photo by Al DragoDuke men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski in action against Presbyterian, Cameron Indoor Stadium, November 12, 2011. CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—After watching Duke beat the belief out of Presbyterian College, 96-55 last night, I crashed a party—The Birthday Party, that is, the 1958 play that put Nobelist Harold Pinter on the map, […]
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Duke men’s basketball squeaks by Belmont in season opener
Photo by Al DragoDuke’s Austin Rivers drives the lane against Belmont, November 11, 2011 CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—With nine minutes left in the first half of Duke’s 77-76 season-opening win over Belmont last night, one of the kids in the student section behind me—and I mean Right. Be. Hind. Me—took a brief, thoughtful pause between […]
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On Cloud Wine: Book signing and Burgundy tasting Tuesday
Photo: Vintage ’59 Imports Who knew that the genre Memoirs By American Wine Importers would vie for its own Dewey Decimal point? Following in the footsteps, physically and literarily, of trailblazer Kermit Lynch‘s Adventures on the Wine Route (1988), and then, much later, Neal Rosenthal‘s Reflections of a Wine Merchant (2008)—Lynch and Rosenthal were onetime […]
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In Memoriam: Joe Dressner
Where to buy Louis/Dressner wines You may never have heard of Joe Dressner. But if you live in the Triangle and care at all about wine, or eat in the area’s better restaurants, you almost surely know Dressner in a peculiarly intimate way. You’ve virtually swallowed him, in fact. Dressner, who died last month at […]
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Wilmington’s John Jeremiah Sullivan roughs it in Pulphead
Pulphead By John Jeremiah Sullivan Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 384 pp. Sullivan appears Tuesday, Oct. 25, at the Regulator Bookshop and Wednesday, Oct. 26, at Flyleaf Books. Both events begin at 7 p.m. In “Lahwineski: Career of an Eccentric Naturalist,” one of the magazine essays collected in his new book, Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan writes […]
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Tampa Bay Rays beat odds, make the playoffs, and the Durham Bulls’ Dan Johnson is the extra 2%
Photo by Al DragoThe Bulls’ Dan Johnson is congratulated after hitting a homer at the DBAP earlier this season. ESPN—The Tampa Bay Rays made the playoffs last night. You wouldn’t have imagined that outcome for most of the season, especially not when it started. The Rays lost their first six games of the year. They […]
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Durham Bulls Tampa Bay Rays cap extraordinary monthlong comeback, are playoff-bound
ESPN—If you’re reading this, you probably already know that the Tampa Bay Rays rallied from a 7-0, eighth-inning deficit and came back to beat the New York Yankees
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In his new novel, Nightwoods, Charles Frazier returns to the Appalachians for inspiration
Nightwoods By Charles Frazier Random House, 259 pages Charles Frazier appears at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh on Friday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 p.m. There is something admirable about Charles Frazier’s steadfastness and commitment. He was 45 years old when his debut novel, Cold Mountain, was published. The book sold millions of copies, beat out […]