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Showing posts with label duke university. Show all posts
Showing posts with label duke university. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Monday, April 05, 2010
Congrats Duke Blue Devils: 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Champions!
And to the team and student body of Butler University: Congratulations to you for being one of the classiest and best-playing teams that I've ever seen in the history of this tournament! Y'all made a new fan in me... and quite a lot of other people too.
NCAA Basketball Championship tonight: Butler vs. Duke
As much as I have to be cheering for Duke, I would not mind it at all to see Butler win the whole thing.
Maybe that has a bit to do with the fact that I'm feeling tonight's game is going to be eerily reminiscent of the 1983 NCAA Championship between "invincible" slam-dunk powerhouse Houston and a scrappy little team from North Carolina State coached by an Italian kid from Queens named Jim Valvano.
Saturday, March 06, 2010
Score tonight: Duke 82, UNC 50
It was like watching the old "Four Corners" play that the Tarheels were notorious for before the institution of the shot clock... but with the Tarheels losing!
Look, I'm not all that much of a sports fanatic, but something is seriously off-kilter in this state so far as basketball goes.
As one friend put it a few weeks ago, it's pretty sad when the best team in North Carolina right now is the Bobcats :-P
Friday, February 19, 2010
Remember that woman who accused the Duke lacrosse players of rape?
Crystal Mangum is now sitting in the Durham County Jail under a $1 million bond. She has been charged with attempted murder after assaulting her boyfriend, setting his clothes on fire in a bathtub and then trying to stab him.
About a week or so ago a friend brought up the Duke lacrosse case during a conversation, talking about how those players were innocent but even so the notoriety of the case would always hang over them. And he didn't shy away from expressing his disgust about how Crystal Mangum got away unpunished. "Don't worry," I told him. "I saw it happen with O.J. Simpson and too many others. Maybe in ways we'll never even see, she'll get hers eventually."
Nothing else needs to be said...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Meanwhile tonight in North Carolina...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Well played, Tarheels
Duke fan that I am, I'm man enough to admit that UNC had an excellent game tonight. 101 to 87... that might be the biggest margin between the two teams in a long time.
So to the Tarheels: congratulations!
(I just don't want to have to make a habit of saying that :-P)
Monday, March 17, 2008
No love lost between Duke and UNC on Facebook
CBS Sports has an Official NCAA Basketball Tournament Brackets application on Facebook and among other things it lets you rank who your favorite teams are... along with who you loathe the most.
I thought the current standings were pretty funny:
Right now the Tarheels of UNC-Chapel Hill are the top favorite team, followed by the Duke Blue Devils. But in the Despised category, Duke is by far the most hated followed by Carolina, and UNC has almost as many votes as it does in the Favorite chart. Hmmmm...
This might be the most scientific indicator yet of how intense the feud is between Duke and Carolina. Even though it's a routine part of life here in North Carolina, I must admit it's still quite neat to see it reflected in this way.
Oh yeah: GO DUKE!! :-)
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Mike Nifong: The dog ate my law license
Mike Nifong - the disgraced former district attorney who prosecuted the Duke lacrosse case - has turned in his law license and had to note that he never framed it... because his dog chewed it up. Courtesy of The Smoking Gun, here is Nifong's letter to the North Carolina State Bar explaining the condition of his license...
