Coming in at No. 3: Duke football enters the Mike Elko era after parting ways with David Cutcliffe.
As 2021 comes to a close, The Chronicle's sports department takes a look back at the biggest stories of the year in Duke athletics. Each day, we will review a major game, event or storyline that helped shape the course of the year for the Blue Devils.
Coming in at No. 5: Duke baseball wins the ACC tournament over N.C. State, capping off an unexpected late-season rally and securing the program's first conference championship since the Kennedy administration.
On the heels of a 1-0 week for Duke, the Blue Zone is back with another installment of our thoughts on the latest AP Poll. This week, the Blue Devils remained idle in the final rankings of 2021.
Duke's next two games against Clemson and Notre Dame have been postponed due to COVID-19 concerns within the program, Vashti Hurt of Carolina Blitz first reported Monday morning.
Coming in at No. 6: Duke men's basketball forced to bow out of ACC Tournament due to positive COVID-19 test.
Duke’s season was little short of landmark, a premier season for one of the country’s premier programs.
The lead-up to Duke’s season finale—and head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s last game at Cameron Indoor Stadium—will look a little bit different this spring.
After each Duke men's basketball game this season, check back here for the Player of the Game and more. Today, the Blue Zone breaks down AJ Griffin's clutch performance in the Blue Devils' first conference game and win of the season.
When it comes to recruiting, head coach-in-waiting Jon Scheyer and the Blue Devils appear to be years ahead of the competition.
Coming in at No. 8: Duke women's golf combines youth and experience to finish in the semifinals of the NCAA Championships.
“[AJ Griffin] showed, not just me but himself something tonight that he can do that. And if he doesn’t play like that, we don’t win,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
Beau Dure u201891 was managing editor of The Chronicle in 1991 and spent a decade at USA TODAY. He has since written several books on sports. He is the editor of K: The King of Cameron.
This article is the fifth of 16 in our "Coach K's Sweet 16" series, where we will walk back through the legendary head coach's career and recap his most iconic moments.
With the regular season closing in on its exciting conclusion, the Blue Zone is back to keep you up to date on how former Blue Devils fared in another week of NFL action.
Duke faced its toughest challenge in December at Cameron Indoor Stadium against a veteran-laden Virginia Tech squad. Donning the new Brotherhood jersey, the Blue Devils resiliently fought back against several waves of Hokie pushback to earn the 76-65 win against one of the better teams in the ACC.
Duke welcomed Virginia Tech to Cameron Indoor Stadium for its first ACC game of the season. The Blue Devils came in as 9.5-point favorites, but this is conference play, and the Hokies have taken a 36-32 lead into the half.
And so it begins.
The 20-game marathon begins Wednesday.
The athletic directors of all ACC schools have voted to rescind the conference's forfeit rule, which stated that if a team is unable to play a conference game on its scheduled date due to COVID-19, the team forfeits the game and is assessed a loss, per a report from Matt Norlander of CBS Sports.
