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Get rid of the cupcakes
By Hank Tucker | September 6, 2017Duke and N.C. Central's matchup Saturday didn’t appear to make either squad better at football.
Duke and N.C. Central's matchup Saturday didn’t appear to make either squad better at football.
No matter how much the league and its affiliates attempt to sanitize its image, the NFL is becoming a hard product to enjoy.
After sitting out his first season in Durham, Brittain Brown was eager to finally show what he could do and wasted no time getting acclimated to the college game.
After preaching redemption in an attempt to rebound from last season’s 4-8 record, Duke took out some of its anger on its crosstown rival in its season opener.
For a player that arrived at Duke as a walk-on out of Charlotte Latin School, Jones has taken an unlikely path to conversations about his NFL potential.
The Blue Devils will start their quest to get back to a bowl game Saturday after failing to qualify for the postseason for the first time since 2011.
Last year, one thing was very hard for David Cutcliffe to stomach: his kicking game.
Duke's wide receivers and tight ends make up one of its deepest and most talented position groups this season.
It won't be easy for David Cutcliffe to forget the feeling of missing the postseason, because he might go through the same thing this year.
The Blue Devils cratered at the end of last season, but during that stretch, Duke showed that it is ready to return to the postseason.
“One thing that we’ve done with a lot of young guys on the defense is simplification," senior Bryon Fields said of the changes Duke made in the offseason.
If the Blue Devils expect this year to go any better, it will start up front on both sides of the ball with a renewed emphasis on controlling the line of scrimmage.
After redshirting the 2016 season, two highly-touted recruits are ready to burst onto the stage and make their mark for the Blue Devil offense.
In the same week he gave women's basketball head coach Joanne P. McCallie a contract extension through 2021, Kevin White received an extension of his own.
Duke got its first game-like action of 2017 in an intra-squad scrimmage Saturday night at Wallace Wade Stadium, with a pair of newcomers impressing on offense and a potential solution emerging in the kicking game.
Most of the star power from last year's Coastal Division is gone, but Duke still enters the 2017 season with low expectations.
Duke redshirt sophomore Daniel Jones has one ACC win under his belt as a starting quarterback, as many as all the other quarterbacks in the division combined.
After spending most of his time since graduating college bouncing around and filling in at different schools for the IMG Sports Network, David Shumate is happy to finally have a school to call his own.
Duke has named a new voice of the Blue Devils for the first time in more than 40 years.
The Chronicle’s Hank Tucker spoke with Bilas to go into detail about how the NCAA and individual schools treat transfer athletes.