Duke got its most impressive football win in Durham in a very long time last season in a 31-3 romp over Virginia. On Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at Scott Stadium, the homsetanding Cavaliers will come out looking for revenge. That it’s a must-win contest for the Cavaliers (3-4, 2-1 ACC) is something everyone probably knew […]
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NCCU hopes to win second straight against homecoming foe Central State
PEARSON CAFETERIA/DURHAM Mose Rison said he had no idea how big homecoming is at an Historically Black College until he joined one’s staff as a football coach. Rison was a highly touted running back during his playing days at Central Michigan, and had stints as an assistant coach at Navy, Rutgers, Stanford and Arizona before […]
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Duke’s Cutcliffe says he’d much rather deal with overconfidence than losing
WALLACE WADE STADIUM/DURHAM David Cutcliffe has already seen the first part of this movie before. But if the Duke football coach is able to get his wish, this time it will have a very different ending. The Blue Devils have exceeded just about everyone’s expectations but their own so far this season, off to a […]
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Tar Heels picked first in ACC women’s hoops, but Breland may have to redshirt
GREENSBORO COLISEUM/GREENSBORO UNC is the pick of the Blue Ribbon panel to win the regular-season championship in ACC women’s basketball. But a lot of that, of course, is predicated on the health of senior forward Jessica Breland. Breland (pictured at left), who was found in the off-season to be suffering from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, was named […]
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Mitchell pours in 24 points as Duke women take the boys to the hoop
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM Joanne P. McCallie got a little creative when three members of her Duke women’s basketball team were too banged up to play in the team’s annual Blue/White game. The coach invited some boys to play. Not just any, of course, but the crew of Duke men who oppose her team in practice […]
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Duke puts eight including three frosh in double figures in rolling Pfeiffer
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM Mike Krzyzewski said the reason he scheduled his Duke basketball team’s first exhibition so early was because it would be on Parents’ Weekend. Maybe it’s a good thing for Pfeiffer that the Blue Devils haven’t been practicing all that long. (No, I’m not going to be the Duke men’s basketball beat writer […]
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Duke stays on the winning track by winning an ugly, wet game over Terps
WALLACE WADE STADIUM/DURHAM Duke had had an open date to get ready for what may turn out to be its biggest game of the year. Maryland (2-5, 1-2 ACC) is the visitor on a day when – let’s hope – the rain has already fallen. The Blue Devils are 3-3, 1-1 in ACC play, and […]
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Duke women’s hoop team in a Battle of the Sexes on Sunday afternoon
“Battle of the Sexes,” anyone? Duke women’s basketball will hold its Blue/White game on Sunday at 1 p.m. And because three players – Keturah Jackson, Shay Selby and freshman Janee Johnson – are hurt and the Blue Devils have only nine healthy team members, instead of holding their traditional intrasquad exhibition they will square off […]
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Duke needs to beat Maryland on Saturday to keep momentum going
Duke hasn’t been involved in a “must win” football game in quite some time. Maybe since 1994, the last time the Blue Devils actually played in a bowl game. Perhaps not coincidentally, that was also the last time Duke beat Maryland at Wallace Wade Stadium. David Cutcliffe, in his second year as head coach of […]
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Sporting News preseason magazine high on Triangle college hoops
No surprise. Triangle area players are all over the honors lists in The Sporting News’ preseason college basketball magazine. On the men’s side, Duke’s Kyle Singler and UNC’s Ed Davis are both second-team All-Americans, and both are also on the preseason All-ACC team. N.C. Central’s C.J. Wilkerson is rated as the top newcomer among Division […]