The Bulls open the season at the DBAP against the Gwinnett Braves on Thursday, April 5, at 7:05 p.m., with home games continuing every day through April 11. Visit the Bulls’ website or call 919-956-BULL for tickets. Follow the Bulls’ season on Triangle Offense, our sports blog. It’s hard to root for the Durham Bulls. […]
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March Madness: on Marshall and the Media, Lehigh and Loss, Elton and the Boss
Photo by Al DragoKendall Marshall, before the fall. GREENSBORO COLISEUM/ GREENSBORO, N.C.—The thing is, North Carolina was really looking like the real deal. John Henson, back from his sprained wrist, brought energy and attitude back to the Tar Heels, a generally cool-customer team. He got into a little flap with Creighton’s Grant Gibbs after he […]
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North Carolina men’s basketball wins game, loses Kendall Marshall to wrist injury
Photo by Al DragoKendall Marshall tells reporters about his wrist injury after UNC’s win over Creighton in the NCAA Tournament, March 18, 2012 GREENSBORO COLISEUM/ GREENSBORO, N.C.—The North Carolina Tar Heels took care of Creighton with relative ease tonight, 87-73, sparked by the high-energy return of John Henson to action after missing three games with […]
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NCAA Split Ticket: UNC men advance past Vermont; Duke shocked by Lehigh (bonus season postmortem)
GREENSBORO COLISEUM/ GREENSBORO, N.C.—Let me take the second part first, and via this very convenient (though unfortunate) metaphor. I was just getting to my truck to drive home to Durham from Greensboro last night, around 11:30 p.m., when I got a text from my fiancée. There had been a huge crash in the house, and […]
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Devil down, Heels up: Of dominance, Duke and Dulkys on ACC Championship Sunday
File photo by George A. Hoffman Jr.These friendly fellows officiated at an N.C. State preseason event, not yesterday in Atlanta. The most annoying thing about poor officiating is that it shoves basketball talk almost completely out of the picture. Some very dubious ref work in yesterday’s semifinal between North Carolina and N.C. State has dominated […]
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North Carolina hammers Duke, wins ACC regular season title: Lifes Rich Pageant
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—Perhaps the last game of the regular season, yesterday’s hotly awaited rematch with North Carolina, showered in hype, celebrity and decibels, is the appropriate moment to recall that the very first time I walked into Cameron Indoor Stadium, a long low time ago, was not for a Duke basketball game but rather […]
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Duke men’s basketball survives Virginia Tech in overtime: The will to win
Photo by Al DragoDuke guard Tyler Thornton in action at Cameron Indoor Stadium earlier this season. CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—On ESPN at approximately 10:53 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, last night—about 8 1/2 hours after Duke sealed its 70-65, overtime win against Virginia Tech—Syracuse finished fending off a second-half comeback by the hungry but overmatched Connecticut […]
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Dock to Door Seafood brings the bounty of the N.C. coast to the Triangle
Dock to Door Seafood co-sponsors the inaugural Seafood & Wine Festival Sunday, Feb. 26, 2–5 p.m. at Sip… A Wine Store, 1059 Darrington Drive, in Cary. Shooting Point Oyster Company owner Tom Gallivan will discuss his Virginia oysters, which have appeared on Lantern’s menu. Mary Margaret McCamic, owner of The Clever Vine, a newly launched […]
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Duke men’s basketball overcomes 20-point second-half deficit, beats N.C. State
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—One of two things is the case: either there is so much to say about last night’s game between Duke and N.C. State that it is almost impossible to know where to begin, or on the contrary there is little that needs to be said at all. I assume that the vast […]
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“We don’t sit!”: Duke men’s basketball beats Maryland
“PRICE AS PROSPERO” (2010) by Mark Redfield CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—Duke shot 32 percent in the first half against Maryland yesterday, turned the ball over eight times, and missed almost half of its free throws. Maryland’s Terrell Stoglin put up 11 points, halfway to his Atlantic Coast Conference-leading average (22), shot five free throws and […]