Duke

  • The Sports Inquirer attended the presser of Duke football player Shaka Heyward during the ACC Kickoff festivities in July. Topics included playing for new head coach Mike Elko and defensive coordinator Robb Smith, preparing for the upcoming season, Heyward’s experience as a prep football player in Dacula, Georgia and coming from a football family including

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  • Release from the ACC: Led by No. 1 regional seed North Carolina and No. 2 seeds Duke and Louisville, the Atlantic Coast Conference placed a league-record nine teams among the 2017 NCAA Basketball Tournament field announced Sunday. The Tar Heels, Blue Devils and Cardinals are joined by Florida State, Miami, Notre Dame, Virginia, Virginia Tech

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  • Release from the ACC: North Carolina will enter the 2015-16 season as the Atlantic Coast Conference favorite, according to a vote of media in attendance at the league’s  annual “Operation Basketball.” The Tar Heels, who return four starters from last year’s team that reached the finals of the ACC Tournament and the “Sweet 16” of

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  • Release from Georgia Tech Athletics: Kaela Davis scored 24 points, Zaire O’Neil and Aaliyah Whiteside added 12 points apiece and Georgia Tech snapped a 37-game series losing streak to Duke, beating the No. 16 Blue Devils 71-62 on Thursday night. “Obviously I’m very happy, excited and proud of my team,” head coach MaChelle Joseph said. “I thought that we battled and competed

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  • Release from the ACC: Duke senior linebacker David Helton (Chattanooga, Tenn.), who was named the winner of the Campbell Trophy as the nation’s top football scholar-athlete by the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame and also earned the ACC’s Jim Tatum Award as its top scholar-athlete, heads the 65-person 2014 All-ACC Academic

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  • Release from the ACC: Louisville sophomore guard Terry Rozier has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Player of the Week, while Duke freshman center Jahlil Okafor was selected the ACC Rookie of the Week for the fourth time this season in a vote by a select media panel. Rozier scored a career-high 32 points

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