The preseason is over. How did we look? The Panthers concluded their preseason with a 39–24 loss at the Pittsburgh Steelers last night, in a game that saw the majority of their marquee starts sit out, as is the custom with the final dress rehearsal. In what was a difficult night for the team all […]
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Seven Things We Love About Bull Durham
The real love story is between Crash and Nuke, and other things to love about the 1988 classic.
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The Durham Sports Commission Helped Bring the ACC Baseball Tournament Back to Town, and It’s Just Getting Started
Established in August 2016, the nonprofit Durham Sports Commission was designed to attract and promote athletic events within the Bull City. Funded by the city and corporate sponsors, the organization has made a major splash during its initial two-year run, culminating in its role in bringing the ACC baseball championship tournament back to Durham last […]
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Daniel Snyder and the Redskins’ Culture of Exploitation and Incompetence
Once upon a time, in the days before Daniel Snyder, the Washington Redskins were big box office in the Carolinas. Sometimes I meet people from here who are still Skins fans. They remember the good old days, with Sonny Jurgenson, Billy Kilmer, Joe Gibbs, Darrell Green, and The Posse. That was a long time ago, […]
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Deep Rough: Notes on Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian’s Shoddy, Mean-Spirited New Biography of Tiger Woods
As details beginto emerge from the earth-scorching new biography of Tiger Woods, cowritten by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian, the inevitable push and pull over the facts has begun in earnest. The newly published Tiger Woods advertises itself as an unflinching look at one of the world’s most famous athletes, and indeed it spares little […]
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That’s a Wrap: Duke Bows to Kansas in the Elite Eight
Well, that was unpleasant. Following forty-five minutes of back-and-forth play between two remarkably well-matched adversaries, Duke’s season ended with a run to the Elite Eight and an overtime loss to a number-one seeded Kansas team that stayed neck and neck with the Blue Devils’ surfeit of thoroughbred talent. The Jayhawks were saved when Grayson Allen’s […]
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How Duke Will Triumph Tonight: Four Scenarios
First off, let’s try to be reasonable. Anyone who watched Duke annihilate their opponents in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, while countless fellow tourney favorites including UNC and Virginia were resoundingly trounced by lower-seeded teams, can be forgiven for racing to the conclusion that the Blue Devils are fated and indeed honor […]
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I’ve Seen Enough and I’m Back on Duke’s Lunatic Bandwagon
Has there ever been a Duke team thatis harder to get a handle on? Ten days after a veryshaky loss to UNC in the ACC Tournament semifinals, the Blue Devils ran roughshod over their first two opponents in the Big Dance, laying waste to an overmatched Iona team on Thursday and appearing even more dominant […]
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Duke Has Played Thirty-Three Games, and I’ve Learned Nothing
It is the Tuesday before the NCAAtournament, two days before their first-round game, and I know nothing about Duke basketball. Following a stretch during which Iconvinced myself that I finally understood this team and their perverse andwrong-footed ways, I am now fully confused again. Friday’s 74–69 loss to UNC in the ACCtournament semifinals was so […]
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After the Blue Devils’ Dominating Win Against the Irish, Is There Any Way UNC Stops Them?
The quarterfinals of the 2018 ACC Tournament have concluded and a heavyweight title fight between Duke and UVA in the championship game looms auspiciously in the offing. While neither team is guaranteed a spot in the finals, both behemoths made statements against formidablecompetition on Thursday, giving their collision course an intractable feel. After watching the […]