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The most meaningful game
By Joe Drews | September 23, 2009Technically, Duke’s Homecoming matchup with N.C. Central Saturday is meaningless. In reality, it’s a must-win.
Technically, Duke’s Homecoming matchup with N.C. Central Saturday is meaningless. In reality, it’s a must-win.
Two years ago, as I stood an arm’s length away from Tyler Hansbrough in Cameron, I wondered how much my seat would be worth at auction. The question was rhetorical, but soon, everyone might know...
If there’s ever been a time for Duke to play like David Cutcliffe says it practices, it’s got to be this weekend against No. 22 Kansas.
It’s probably too early to accurately speculate about play on the court, but there are a number of Duke Basketball subplots worth noting. Here are four stories to follow as the season nears.
David Cutcliffe knows quarterbacks. More specifically, he knows that three years of starting experience on the gridiron trumps a four-year layoff, even if you’ve been playing another Division I...
Saturday was just a gorgeous day, wasn’t it? Spotless blue sky. Optimism in the air. Fannies in Wallace Wade Stadium’s seats. That’s the first football Saturday of the year for you. Everything...
In just a year and a half, head coach David Cutcliffe has taken a school that some argued shouldn’t be playing FBS-level football and has done the improbable—by insisting this team has bowl...
It was a funny way for David Cutcliffe—the brains behind Duke’s football program—to begin preseason media day Aug. 11. “Do you guys know that 70 years ago today, the Wizard of Oz was released?”...
I had looked forward to this day for several weeks. As I walked to Wallace Wade Stadium to watch my first sporting event as a college student three years ago, I was overflowing with enthusiasm. I...
What a long, strange summer it's been. Duke Basketball died when Elliot Williams moved closer to home, then, it came back to life, all because Andre Dawkins decided to leave home. Oh, and Greg...
After a season of waiting, it finally happened. It had been said in media rooms throughout the year that for a photographer to capture a Shelden Williams smile in a picture was the equivalent of a...
My fan relationship with Duke Basketball is based (almost entirely) on four players: Redick, Shelden Williams, Sean Dockery and Lee Melchionni. And now they're leaving.
Dear Josh McRoberts: If you come back, you'll be the star of this team.
The new coach must demand realistic expectations from the Wolfpack faithful
It is about time that someone was made accountable for all of this.
Innocent or guilty of the alleged rape, it is known that lacrosse players were rowdy on the infamous night of March 13, as yelling expletives at passers-by during a stripper party would suggest. I...
Now that the players' attorneys have said that DNA results do not match any of the players, however, the topic must be discussed-how fair was the punishment President Brodhead meted out?
The allegations surrounding the men's lacrosse team have brought to the forefront many of the issues currently facing Duke, not the least of which is the school's attempt to maintain a top-tier...
So ends The Train's journey-it's time to say good-bye.
But as President Brodhead said Tuesday night, "Sports have their time and place, but when an issue of this gravity is in question, it is not the time to be playing games."