SPORTS | COLUMNS
From the sports editor
By Andy Moore | June 29, 2010I’ve had a somewhat charmed tenure so far as sports editor of The Chronicle.
I’ve had a somewhat charmed tenure so far as sports editor of The Chronicle.
Duke has never won a title without strong fourtcourt players, and the Blue Devils will simply not have the size or strength this season to compete in March.
Every day, it gets a little harder to believe. Duke won a national championship, and I was there. I was on the court two minutes after Gordon Hayward missed that shot that no Duke fan will ever...
Keep going, I thought. Keep going and your heart will stop pounding. Ignore the urge to bear right and find a seat in the Chapel. Don’t keep walking past the building. And don’t you dare stop at...
When I was at a medical school interview last fall, my first interviewer asked me why I like sports.
To cut right to the point, I’m moving to Las Vegas this summer to be a professional poker player.
So this—finally—is the end. A mere three years after I graduated, this is almost definitely the last time I’ll write a regularly scheduled sports column in this newspaper.
One day—maybe sooner, but probably later—we might forget about a certain basketball game played last week. But I won't forget where I was when Duke won its fourth national championship. It’s in...
When Gordon Hayward let go of his last-second half-court heave as the Lucas Oil Stadium horn blew, I didn’t know what to think. After 40 agonizingly intense minutes of play, Duke’s national title...
Midnight. Bonfire. National champions. 61-59. It’s unbelievable, fantastic, incredible—whether or not anyone wants to admit it, this is a storybook ending.
I’m not quite sure when I started thinking Duke deserved consideration for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. It wasn’t when Villanova started its late-season slide in early February, and it...
For a short while this weekend—about as long as Baylor led on Sunday—I privately wished I had a reason to root for Cornell or Butler, the NCAA Tournament’s two pseudo-Cinderellas whose fans seemed...
Perhaps it took an outsider to really see this Duke team for what it is. In Monday’s San Francisco Chronicle, sportswriter Ray Ratto performed the autopsy on a year of California Basketball shut...
Despite being a Top 25 team, the Bears were only able to muster one home basketball sellout all season, coming in their final home contest against Texas.
After Duke beat Georgia Tech for the ACC Tournament title Sunday afternoon, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said his team was better than it was the week before.
My dad and I usually have similar brackets, and in the past three years, we both have rationalized Duke’s runs to the Final Four to ourselves. Our brackets and collective pride are not...
Objectively speaking, the decline in Duke’s defensive performance over the course of the ACC season can be attributed only to a decline in steals and improved shooting by opponents.
Flashing back to the start of the season, the picture looked bleak for Duke center Brian Zoubek as he entered his senior campaign.
I love white tenting. I like that it only lasts two weeks. I appreciate the fact that 10 out of 12 people get to sleep in their beds every night.