Mary Semans was the heart of Durham, the heart and soul of Duke (alternately, the godmother of Duke), the mother of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. A powerful force for good in Durham and the Carolinas. A woman of valor, the embodiment of unconditional love, an agent of God’s salvation. All […]
Adam Sobsey
Bio: Adam Sobsey (@sobsey) writes about wine and culture for INDY Week.Twitter: http://twitter.com/sobsey
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Contrary to appearances, Duke men’s basketball beats St. John’s: Nature
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—The players slumped off the court after the final horn sounded, faces gray with disappointment. A few minutes later, in the postgame locker room, they said things like “something has to change” and “immature” and “I’m kind of angry right now.” Then Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski conducted a gloomy press conference. […]
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Snaer, Florida State stun No. 4 Duke men’s basketball at buzzer
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—I’ve spent a good deal of time lately thinking about the way baseball works, and that’s partially because I’ve had an up-close basketball perspective for comparison while the diamonds lie dormant. Baseball has no clock, as it is often pointed out, which makes it unique among major team sports. As a consequence, […]
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Duke men’s basketball routs Wake Forest: “It’s what we do.”
Photo by Christopher BeckAustin Rivers, in action earlier this season CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—Spend any amount of time around a coach/manager, and you soon come to recognize their catchphrases. Durham Bulls manager Charlie Montoyo, whom I’ve probably interviewed 220 times, has “day to day,” and “he battled” and a few others. To reiterate the watchword […]
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Duke men’s basketball hangs on at home over Virginia Cavaliers: Boys to Men
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—Duke sweated out the final 12 seconds of last night’s taut, high-intensity 61-58 win over Virginia last night, with the Cavaliers missing two pretty good looks at 3-pointers that would have sent the game into overtime. Afterwards, both head coaches, the Blue Devils’ Mike Krzyzewski and Virginia’s Tony Bennett, made similar—and telling—telling […]
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Hill to Laettner to legend: Wojciechowski’s The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky
The Last Great Game: Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds That Changed Basketball By Gene Wojciechowski Blue Rider Press; 320 pp. Gene Wojciechowski appears at the Regulator Bookshop at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13. See Related Events below. Follow Adam Sobsey’s coverage of Duke basketball for Triangle Offense, the Indy‘s sports blog, @IndyweekSports and […]
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Philosopher-baker Ari Berenbaum puts the price of bread in his customers’ hands
Berenbaum’s online Website Blog Facebook Twitter At 4:30 a.m. on a Saturday in early winter, Downtown Durham is a dark, cold, empty place. But if you walk through certain half-deserted streets, you’ll find lights and life glowing purposefully at Rue Cler, Scratch and Daisy Cakes. At Loaf, proprietor Ron Graff is working his dough, his […]
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Duke men’s basketball [verb]s [small-time sports program]: [Exclamation]!
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—On my way out of the arena after the Duke Blue Devils whomped the University of Pennsylvania Quakers, a.k.a. Penn, 85-55, I said howdy-seeya to one of the other sportswriters I know from the Durham Bulls beat. The guys who write for the dailies are already writing their stories minutes after the […]
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Duke men’s basketball batters Colorado State Rams
File photo by Al Drago Old photo, same scene. CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/ DURHAM—With about a minute left in Duke’s 87-64 win over Colorado State last night, Rams head coach Tim Miles formally waved the white flag by putting in Chad Calcaterra, a reserve center. Calcaterra had played eight minutes all season, seeing action in two […]
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Duke men’s basketball: reading period
www.corprew.org Duke University’s undergraduate reading period before final exams doesn’t start for about another week, but the graduates begin getting their cram on tomorrow. So now is as good a time as any to get the jump on studying the early returns of the Duke men’s hoops team, especially during this weeklong lull between games. […]