Duke Basketball

Duke fans just listen to Frankie and Relax, don’t do it. When you want to go to the Duke message boards on your favorite websites (hopefully this one) and opine …

Earlier in the week, I broke down what should be the original starting five for next season. While we all know the starting five is as concrete as a bowl …

The 2011-2012 season ended with an astounding thud.  Losing in a “sky is falling manner” was not the way Duke hopefuls predicted the year to end. As the curtain closed …

We finally get a closer look at Rodney Hood’s diverse skill set. Here he is getting it done at the 2012 NC Pro-Am. I think I’m going to like Rodney …

ESPN recently wrapped up its series on the top 50 men’s college basketball programs since 1962 and well, it certainly was a way to draw in readers for a few …

With the exception of last week’s Olympic Gold Medal performance it has been a relatively quiet end of the summer for the Duke Basketball program and that, as I’ve written …

Mike Krzyzewski brushed off questions about if he really had to do any coaching with Team USA with a joke about rolling the ball out about going out and getting drunk. …

For a chance to win a ticket to Countdown to Craziness on Oct. 19, while watching the game with me, Mike Kline of DukeSportsBlog.com  and the infamous Ken Lang of TobaccoRdMayor.com, all …

I offer this disclaimer as the following is both a bit tongue and cheek and part honest opinion; but if you are the type that gets livid over criticism of …

I love this video. The season can’t come soon enough.

I became interested in Duke Football back in 1936 when I was only eight years old, and a fanatical baseball and football fan. In those years, Duke was a national …

Five-Star Basketball just alerted me to this video of Alex Murphy. If he is consistently able to take it the hoop like that, Duke is in good shape this coming …

It has been unusually quiet this summer for Duke Basketball Fans, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of action going on behind the scenes. The offseason began in a …

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When Duke and Kentucky meet up in the coming season’s Championship Classic in Atlanta a lot will be made about the history and tradition of these two programs in what …

Less than six months ago the sky was falling around the Duke Blue Devils.Suddenly vulnerable, everyone kept saying Duke was done. While true Blue Devils never thought the program was …

Last night Rodney Hood, a 6-foot-8, 204-pound, left-handed wing  who played one season at Mississippi State, averaging 10.3 points, 4.8 rebounds and 2.0 assists as a freshman made it official, he is …

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One of the most controversial players for Duke last season was Andre Dawkins.  As one of his loudest critics, I all but begged the sniper to step up his play. …

My last two columns on the post Mike Krzyzewski era have received quite a number of responses and most of those have been extremely mixed. The criticisms range from the …

A recent column I wrote regarding whether or not Duke Basketball can survive in the post Mike Krzyzewski era sparked a good amount of debate as the question often does. …

It is a question that has always been batted around by Duke fans and media types alike for years: Can the Duke Basketball program continue to excel once Mike Krzyzewski walks away? …

If you don’t know anything about the annual Coach K Academy then you probably aren’t really a Duke fan or you just don’t pay much attention to anything Duke related …

So Amile Jefferson will be a Blue Devil after all and thus I owe a bit of a Mea Culpa. If you read any of my columns, even the last …

The Wolfpack faithful always wait for that one upset. Continuously making their hand signal and howling in the air like a rabid dog, they salivate at the chance to defeat …

Anybody who knows anything about music heard about Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys  passing away on Friday after a battle with cancer. As far as I know there was …

I’ve been thinking of ways to involve you, the reader, more on my site and I think I’ve found a way. It’s called Fan Take. I’m looking for fans who want …

According to OregonLive.com, Duke is set to play the Western Washington Vikings in a scrimmage on October 27 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. WWU is the defending Division II Champions, which marks …

It was just recently announced that recent Duke transfer, Michael Gbinije, has picked Syracuse as his new home. Due to Coach K’s friendship with Coach Boeheim, you would imagine that Krzyzewski gave …

According to GoDuke.com, Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee have been named the team captains for the 2012-2013 season. Kelly returns as team captain and Plumlee is a first timer. Of …