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February 18th, 2008
Through the Lens: Wake Forest
By on February 18th, 2008
With all five Duke starters fouled out, I was pretty sure the Devils were done. When the fans in the first row started warning the photographers to hide their gear and get out of the way, I knew Wake had pulled off their upset.
As a Chronicle photographer, I watched the game from a strange place, and I don’t just mean the baseline. Sure, I love it when Duke wins, but in the final moments of the game, I was too absorbed in shoving my extra camera gear under a table to protect it from the black and gold onslaught to care.
February 8th, 2008
A history of bench-burning regulations
By on February 8th, 2008
In a comment posted on The Chronicle’s Web site Thursday, an alum mentioned that fire permits were once acquired for both home and away games against the Tar Heels, which lead me to do a little digging in our archives. And here’s what I found:
- March 1994, a student was injured during a bonfire celebration, which sparked conversation about bonfire safety and future regulations
- February 1998, a foam party was apparently organized in place of bonfires. Needless to say, students were not pleased
- September 1998, administrators started talking about bonfire regulations. This is where our current stipulations that bonfires are allowed after certain victories and at certain spots around campus came from
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February 7th, 2008
For some fans, a difficult choice between Duke and UNC
By on February 7th, 2008
It’s March 4, 2007 – the Duke-UNC basketball game at the Dean Smith Center. With 14.5 seconds on the clock, Duke player Gerald Henderson elbows UNC player Tyler Hansbrough during a layup, giving Hansbrough a bloody nose. A Carolina fan at the time, I was appalled. Henderson’s ejection from the game and suspension from the following one still didn’t seem like enough. Regardless, I was ecstatic that “we” went on to win the game 86-72.
Fast forward a year to Feb. 6, 2008 – another Duke-UNC game at the Dean Dome. Henderson goes up to block another Hansbrough layup and does so successfully. The scene was almost identical to that of last year, sans a bloody nose. This time, however, I’m watching from Cameron Indoor Stadium cheering with the Cameron Crazies, rather, cheering as a Cameron Crazie. This time, we win 89-78.
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February 5th, 2008
This week in Duke sports
By on February 5th, 2008
It’s the week you’ve been waiting for, as both Blue Devil basketball teams square off with their rivals down Tobacco Road. The No. 11 women host the third-ranked Tar Heels Monday night at Cameron while the second-ranked men travel to the Smith Center Wednesday night to battle No. 3 UNC.
This weekend, don’t miss the fencing team’s lone home meet of the season Friday and Saturday, or the wrestling team’s home meet against Virginia Sunday night.
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February 1st, 2008
In K-ville, anything goes
By on February 1st, 2008
At this time last year, if someone had told us that we would be in college paying $48,000 for tuition and sleeping in a tent in 25-degree weather with seven other people for a two-hour basketball game, we would have called them crazy. But here we are, one year later, doing exact that; so call us Cameron Crazy.
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January 23rd, 2008
This week in Duke sports
By on January 23rd, 2008
A bunch of the Blue Devil teams hit the road this week, headlined by the men’s
and women’s basketball teams playing at Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech
Thursday night, respectively. The men continue on the road this weekend in
College Park to take on the Terrapins while the women come home to Cameron for
a showdown with Tennessee next Monday.
The wrestling team will also be in College Park this weekend, grappling with
Maryland Saturday afternoon. The fencing and track and field teams, meanwhile
head north this week. The fencers travel to Penn State to battle a group of
teams including the Nittany Lions while the track and field team goes to Boston
for the Terrier Classic. The men’s tennis team is home Saturday night for a
tussle with the Elon Phoenix.
January 15th, 2008
For Maryland, a “special” win over Duke
By on January 15th, 2008
I doubt anyone who has ever chanted, “Not our rivals!” at a Duke/Maryland game would continue to sing the same tune if he or she had been in the media room following Duke’s 85-70 loss at the Comcast Center Monday night.
Even if such a skeptic had been completely oblivious to the in-game effects of the fifth-largest crowd in ACC women’s basketball history—which seemed to congregate as much to cheer for its fourth-ranked team as against the much-hated Duke—the gravity of this game was palpable when contrasting the two postgame press conferences.
January 14th, 2008
This week in Duke Sports 1/14
By on January 14th, 2008
Revenge is the theme of the week, as the Blue Devils basketball teams look to get back at some familiar conference foes. The women will try for their third straight win against Maryland Monday night after losing to the Terrapins in the national championship game in 2006 before taking on North Carolina State, the only ACC team to beat Duke a season ago.
The men, meanwhile, will attempt to end their two-game losing streak against Florida State when they travel to Tallahassee Wednesday night for their first conference road contest. The Blue Devils are back home Saturday to host Clemson.
December 10th, 2007
Should Paulus and Smith share more time on the floor?
By on December 10th, 2007
Duke’s two point guards, junior Greg Paulus and freshman Nolan Smith, played significant minutes together for the first time all season in the Blue Devils’ 95-67 romp over Michigan Saturday, satisfying the desire of fans that wanted to see the floor leaders run together and prompting whispers that such a small, but speedy, lineup could be effective for Duke as it rounds out its non-conference schedule.
Smith re-entered the game at the 7:22 mark of the first half with Duke nursing a 21-14 lead, but, for one of the only times all season, he didn’t replace Paulus on the floor. The Blue Devils quickly embarked on a 11-0 run to take a commanding lead that proved insurmountable, and, in that run, Smith scored nine of those points. Paulus did not directly factor into any of those buckets, but the guard combination seemed too potent for the Wolverines, especially given the outcome in that span.
December 8th, 2007
Should race influence the coaching search?
By on December 8th, 2007
My story from Thursday’s newspaper, “Leveling the Playing Field,” tries to examine how Duke’s lack of a black head coach will impact the school’s ongoing search for its next head football coach.
Even though Duke seems to be behind in the times, the rest of Division I-A college football is not much better: there have been only 22 black head football coaches, in stark contrast to the sport whose student-athletes are more than 50 percent black.
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