File photo by Al DragoRyan Kelly, seen during an intrasquad game last season CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM—Wake Forest Head Coach Jeff Bzdelik sang Ryan Kelly’s praises through Cameron Indoor Stadium’s roof following his Demon Deacons’ 80-62 loss against the No. 1 Blue Devils. “He’s like a point guard out there, because when he catches the basketball […]
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Commentary: The Blue Devils’ big bail-out fallacy, or why Mason Plumlee can’t save them
File photo by Al DragoSeth Curry during the 2012 ACC Tournament We don’t want to be too hard on the kid, but before we start talking about Mason Plumlee receiving national player of the year honors, we should probably build a better case of why he shouldn’t be considered for the award for the sake […]
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New Year’s Eve: Four Foreign Exchange jams to bring in 2013
Get a kiss on NYE. The New Year’s Jazzin’ Eve with Art of Cool celebration at Durham’s The Cotton Room will be Monday night’s most gratifying greeting to 2013. This will mark the first time that Phonte Coleman and Nicolay Rook have performed together, in Durham, as the globe-trotting, Grammy-nominated soul outfit The Foreign Exchange. […]
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Seth Curry’s Saturday against Santa Clara: Duke wins 90-77
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM—The biggest mistake that the Santa Clara Broncos men’s basketball team made Friday while prepping for their Saturday afternoon match against No. 1-ranked Duke? Practicing in the Dean Dome. (Hey, head coach Kerry Keating, if you want to curse your team, schedule a practice in your next opponent’s arch-rival’s gymnasium. That’s not how […]
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Not missing: a high school player to complete No. 1 Duke
In between Duke’s back-to-back blow-outs over Cornell and Elon this week, the national spotlight wasn’t focused on how the Blue Devils fantastically worked through its 11-day rust in the first game or overcame mental fatigue in the next. It barely touched on Jim Boeheim recently joining Coach Krzyzewski in the 900-win club, or the news […]
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Cornell Big Red bleeds heavy to No. 1 Duke 88-47
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM— Following the 88-47 bloodying that Duke gave Cornell’s Big Red team, my focus shifted from how Duke worked-off the 11-day rust and blew-out an unimpressive Ivy League squad, to what would happen three hours before Duke’s next game. But neither I, nor anyone else had the guts to get Coach Krzyzewski to […]
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Who’s No. 1? Zeller and the Indiana Hoosiers poll-blocking Plumlee and the Blue Devils
When this week’s Top 25 college basketball polls were released, the most baffling thing was that regardless of the 8-0, No. 2-ranked Duke Blue Devils having defeated three top-five teams in November (something that no other team has ever achieved) they still weren’t able to land the country’s No. 1 spot in either the AP […]
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Deviled eggs: Blue Hens get their eggs cracked at Club Cameron
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM—This afternoon’s brutal 88-50 whooping that the Duke Blue Devils laid on the Delaware Blue Hens came at the end of Duke’s undefeated eight-game stretch, which Coach Krzyzewski referred to as an “energy cycle” during today’s post-game press conference. He also described the second-ranked Duke team’s fatigue level as “dead” following their Nov. […]
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The Rosebuds pay tribute to Sade
Last week marked the 20-year anniversary of Sade’s classic, Love Deluxe. In tribute to the original, Raleigh-based band The Rosebuds (now living in New York) have released their own version of Sade’s Love Deluxe, recorded while frontman Ivan Howard spent some time on the North Carolina coast polishing up demos for The Rosebuds. Sade’s discography […]
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Live: Macklemore skates into the Cat’s Cradle
MacklemoreCat’s CradleFriday, Nov. 9, 2012 On Friday afternoon, several hours before Macklemore’s Friday performance at Cat’s Cradle, he and a female companion sat down across the street for a meal in a secluded corner of the patio at Carrboro gastropub, Milltown. They ate, and Macklemore washed the food down by reading a few pages of […]
