Florida State used four pitchers to hold the Blue Devils to five hits – including two over the first eight innings – in a 5-1 victory for the Seminoles on Saturday, May 27, 2017 at Louisville Slugger Field in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Blue Devils won Pool D with a 4-3 victory over Virginia on Thursday afternoon. Duke beat Clemson in its other pool game on Tuesday at Louisville Slugger Field.
Duke baseball’s Nick Hendrix had suffered a fractured skull and a concussion and would end up having to sit out the rest of the season after getting hit in the head by a line drive.That game against Columbia on March 18, 2015 at Durham Bulls Athletic Park was the beginning of a lengthy recovery for Hendrix, who is now a graduate student and team captain on a ninth-seeded Duke club that upset No. 5 Clemson, 3-1, in the ACC tournament on Tuesday. The Blue Devils face No. 4 Virginia Thursday at 11 a.m.
The Blue Devils' pitcher lost some of his hearing after a foul ball careened into the dugout and fractured his temporal bone giving him a severe concussion. He was completely sidelined for months but returned and is now a team captain in his senior year.
After making the NCAA tournament for first time since 1961 a year ago, the Duke Blue Devils baseball team faces long odds for a return trip this spring. Duke plays Clemson and Virginia in ACC tournament pool play, starting May 23, 2017.
Along with Duke, UNC and NC State, we graded how the top 5 schools in the country fared with their 2017 recruiting classes that include players like Kevin Knox, Mohamed Bamba, Trevon Duval and Lavar Batts.
The Ohio State Buckeyes eliminated the Duke men’s lacrosse team in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament on Saturday, May 20, 2017 in Hempstead, N.Y.
Having won three NCAA titles this decade, No. 6 Duke must beat No. 3 Ohio State on Saturday on Long Island for first national semifinal appearance since 2014
Duke and NC State signed a few players before the signing period ended. North Carolina and Duke missed out on Kevin Knox. The Blue Devils did sign Jordan Tucker, Jordan Goldwire and Trevon Duval, and the Wolfpack signed Sam Hunt. But there are still some prospects our there -- including recruits Mohamed Bamba and Brian Bowen.
Duke Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski says he embraces the changing college basketball world and that if you’re yearning for the good old days, “you should be out of this.”
Duke golfer Leona Maguire is the No. 1-ranked women’s amateur in the world and 2017 ACC player of the year, and her goal is an NCAA championship for the Blue Devils. The LPGA Tour can wait.
The Duke men’s lacrosse team used a fast-paced offense to defeat Johns Hopkins 19-6 in an NCAA tournament first-round game on Saturday, May 13 in Baltimore.
Bringing teams to the White House, a practice sporadically embraced since the end of the Civil War, has become so commonplace that champions in pro leagues and many college sports can anticipate being celebrated eventually at the president’s official residence in Washington, D.C. Until recently there was little downside to presidents associating with winners from the sports world. But the once-innocuous tradition of White House sports salutes is increasingly fraught with political drama. Now that Donald Trump is in the White House, there’s intensified talk of entire teams shunning an invitation and, conversely, of pre-emptive efforts to reduce the risk of snubs, including eliminating the ritual entirely.
University of North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams talks with reporters about the decision-making process for Tar Heel players staying for another season or departing for the NBA.
After off-season departures of eight players, Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has restocked his Blue Devils with talented youngsters, including Trevon Duval, Jordan Tucker and Jordan Goldwire. Frank Jackson decided last week to hire an agent and stay in the NBA draft. Duval announced his decision Monday; Tucker announced his decision Saturday.
Duke's Leona Maguire, the 2017 ACC women's golfer of the year, offers up some fun facts May 12, 2017, on teammates Virginia Elena Carta, Ana Belac, Sandy Choi, sister Lisa and herself as the Blue Devils prepared for the 2017 NCAA Championship.
