Lost one of the best and my favorite baseball players today, Rickey Henderson. His book Cofessions of a Theif is a good read. My high school graduation gift from my uncle was a Rickey Henderson rookie card.

"You don't have enough fingers or toes to count out Rickey Henderson." Rickey Henderson

📍 cameron
📺 ACCN
⏰ 12:00

GT is not very good.. which isn’t a surprise, however they played Carolina very tough(if that matters) and beat us last year (also if it matters) I expect a hard fought game and have no indication our first half struggles will resolve. we are favored by 14.5 and it would be nice to get a quick 2-0 in the ACC before Christmas

Duke- 77
GT- 65

so two huge things today. austin parker our punter/field goal kicker dismissed for academic reasons and OL coach marcus johnson hired to miss state. ouch!!!!!!!!!

Just a silly post game observations thread I am starting, with 10 bullet points. Sometimes serious, sometimes not. No Coors or hot dogs tonight. As the Joker says "and here we go."
1. Incarnate Word. Good Lord. Somewhere Jim Boeheim is saying "damn even I never played these guys."
2. Our offense seems to consist of 2 guys standing in each corner, unmoving. My junior high coach ran this play.
3. Mal must have heard my Casey Sanders comment, because he's taking over. Nice job Mal.
4. I like Sion but he might lead the nation in being burned on backdoor cuts.
5. Wow Sion must have read my #4 and gotten mad. 2 beautiful drives.
6. Nice to see Big Pat in there. Foster seems to love exceedingly difficult drives that sometimes goes in.
7. Evans heating up. He is key to us this year. He's Dynomite! (You have to be old to get that)
Ehhh I can't even come up with 10 points. It's Incarnate Word. We won, but looked kind of ho-hum. It's finals week coming off 2 big games. We don't always seem like a cohesive unit. 34% from 3 for the year needs to improve for us to make a deep run. Get Brown back ASAP. George Mason in a week. I commented before the ACC seems so boring this year. Where are the stars? I can hardly name any other ACC players other than UNC and our transfers. Other than Duke the ACC needs to up its recruiting, NIL, and portal transfer game. The SEC challenge painfully drove that point home; that football money is helping those schools. Now get off my lawn you crazy kids. Good night from the beautiful(but cold and dark at 4:30) Pacific Northwest.

Strong rumors (not shockingly) that Cadeau and Trimble aren’t happy with the amount of shots and type of shots Davis has taken this season. Daddy Laurence Trimble especially has been vocal.

Apparently going 4-4 and Davis taking a gazzilion shots isnt going over well. Such a shame!

Yall remember this clown when he said the eventually 2010 ncaa champion duke blue devils were alarmingly unathletic?

Well some moron school gave him a coaching job in Green Bay. Who knew greenbay had a d1 program but… it’s going about as well as you’d think Clown coach

Preview for tomorrow's game in Atlanta can be found here.

Programming note: I'll be there with full coverage (and am literally packing up within 5 minutes of writing this).

Predictions:

- Kon Knueppel makes at least two 3s.

- Maliq Brown plays more minutes than Khaman Maluach.

- Duke keeps Nait George under 5 assists.

- At least 45% of Duke's shots are 3s.

Firing this up now so that I'm not caught off guard when portal announcements start flying after Saturday's finale at Wake Forest.

This is where we'll track everybody leaving Duke's football team -- aside from the ones running out of eligibility -- and then the newcomers Duke will bring in. Given the timing of how the portal works, we'll obviously have a lot more departures to track in the first week or two, then it'll calm down, and then we'll have additions to talk about.

So, we're starting on a weird, tea-leaf reading attempt ... Jaquez Moore was said to redshirting this season with the intent of returning to Duke next season. But he made a post on Instagram that had the song, "Movin On" and had some seemingly sentimental messaging.

This part of the "job" sucks, trying to read messages from 20-something-year-old kids and know their meaning. It seems like Moore will be out of Durham and playing his final season of eligibility elsewhere; but that's not announced or finalized.

I don't know if Burr is guilty of insider trading or not, nor do I care. However, the wearing of a mask with UNC on it is unpardonable. That alone ought to get him some time in jail. Sorry Richard, hope you wind up in a cell somewhere with a bunch of NCSt and Duke fans...Hey mods , if this is too political , just delete it.

Seems like an interesting topic that other boards have. What are you currently watching? Recommendations? Recently I saw Wicked and really enjoyed it. I am also binging American Horror Story and am on season 5; Hotel. I also like British cop shows like Prime Suspect, Cracker, and the Level. Also Inspector Lewis is a good British cop show. Inspector Morse is the original. I liked Yellowstone and 1923 as well.

Have learned a few things today on the basketball recruiting front:

-- J.P. Estrella is going to visit in the next month, dates just haven't been finalized. Duke wants to find a big in the 2023 class to pair with Sean Stewart and it feels like it'll either be Xavier Booker or Estrella.

-- The top priority in 2024 class is Tre Johnson.

-- Another "big one" in '24 class is Asa Newell. Obviously the Montverde pipeline to Duke has been fruitful and this would be the next snag from there.

📍 cameron
⏰ 7:00
📺 ACCN

Another snoozer after a long break.. I don’t expect much from this game. We enter as a 19.5 point favorite. GM is 7-3 with no noticeable wins. Can you tell I hate these buy games although this is probably a step above those?

Duke- 87
GM- 60

Can someone stick this thread at the top.

This thread will be used to discuss former Dukies in the NBA.

Preview for this game can be found here.

Programming: I won't be there but I've got a stringer lined up, so we'll have a complete story and all.

Predictions:

- Duke scores less than 70 points; GMU scores less than 55.

- GMU attempts at least 18 free throws.

- Maliq Brown plays.

Should've started this thread back in August with the first commit (Ayden Cain).

But here it is now after Duke got its second commit of the class, Sean Stover. The big guys tend to commit earlier than skill position guys -- Cain is a DL and Stover is an OL.

There might not be too much in here for the next month or two, but it'll be the go-to dropping spot for football recruiting news soon enough.

Very good Saturday of college hoops tomorrow (12/14). Enjoy the hoops and let's have some great conversations about the games/teams in action

11:00amET/10:00amCT – Memphis @ #16 Clemson – ESPN2

12:00pmET/11:00amCT - #17 Texas A & M vs #11 Purdue – CBS (Neutral Site Game @ Indiana Pacers Stadium)

1:00pmET/12:00pmCT – Ohio State vs #2 Auburn – ESPN2 (Neutral Site Game @ State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA)

2:00pmET/1:00pmCT – Xavier @ #22 Cincinatti – ESPN+

2:30pmET/1:30pmCT - #20 Wisconsin vs Butler – Big Ten Network (Neutral Site Game @ Indiana Pacers Stadium)

3:00pmET/2:00pmCT - #24 UCLA vs Arizona – ESPN2 (Neutral Site Game @ Phoenix Suns Stadium)

3:15pmET/2:15pmCT – NC State @ #10 Kansas – ESPN

3:30pmET/2:30pmCT – Arizona State vs #9 Florida – SEC Network (Neutral Site Game @ State Farm Arena in Atlanta, GA)

4:00pmET/3:00pmCT – Southern Miss @ #19 Ole Miss – SECN+

5:15pmET/4:15pmCT – Louisville @ #5 Kentucky – ESPN

5:30pmET/4:30pmCT - #1 Tennessee @ Illinois – FOX

6:00pmET/5:00pmCT – McNeese @ #25 Mississippi State – ESPNU

7:00pmET/6:00pmCT - #6 Marquette @ Dayton – CBS Sports Network

8:00pmET/7:00pmCT - #8 Gonzaga vs #18 Connecticut – FOX (Neutral Site Game @ Madison Square Garden)

8:00pmET/7:00pmCT – Oklahoma State vs #13 Oklahoma – ESPNU (Neutral Site Game @ Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, OK)

8:30pmET/7:30pmCT – Creighton @ #7 Alabama – SEC Network

I Love Men's College Basketball!

Going to have a smorgasbord of topics to put in here throughout the month, I think, before Duke's bowl game. First up:

Full disclosure on the All-ACC ballot that I submitted.

Shocking.

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📺 ACCN
⏰ 7:00
📍 Cameron

Not a lot to say about this one as I’m out of town and it’s a tune up game where we are currently a 33.5 point favorite!

Duke- 107
IC-52

I pray that this man can make it back to Cameron this season. This brought a few tears to my eyes, not going to lie. But I'm also a big softy.

Preview for tomorrow night's game can be found here.

Programming note: I'll be there with full coverage.

Predictions:

- Maliq Brown starts for the first time this season.

- Sion James has at least 15 points.

- Cooper Flagg flirts with a triple-double, comes up shy in assists.

Just wanted to make an appreciation post.

Damn can this kid make plays. Blocks, deflections, rebounding, defense. He’s always there to clean things up. When the whistle blows, you’ll see him with a put back or block…. Doesn’t show up but it definitely helps. And we get him for two years ? We need to develop his offense, dude can be an nba guy with his defense. I just want to see this kid succeed he deserves it.

Best defender since battier?

Duke as consistently had slow starts and I feel that they are always climbing from behind in the early minutes... first half. Thoughts?

📺 ACCN
⏰ 6:00
📍 Yum center

I know I know I’m really early on this one, better than late though!

Duke opens ACC play against the cards with first year head coach Pat Kelsey hoping to turn things around in the town of Ali.

Lville is 5-3 with 2 straight Ls.. an impressive win against IU has me kind of intrigued on how this game could go.. one things for sure this is not the card team of the last two years(poor Nolan smith)

We are favored by 9.5 and I tend to expect us to perform better then that…

Duke-88
Lville-67

Don’t know if any one had saw or brought this up yet. However after seeing his post I hope many reach out to the young man and get him help . Mental health is a real issue in today’s world .

My prayers go out to him not only as a fan but as a human being who has saw the struggles of what mental health can cause .