He arrived on a scooter. He left a legend. Now, the question isn’t whether Caleb Foster belongs but whether anyone’s paying enough attention. The doctors were clear and the surgery was done; the season, to anyone watching from the outside, was over.
Once again, the Duke Blue Devils failed to have any players chosen in the first round of the MLB Draft. While the university’s basketball and football programs are usually full of first-round draft talent, the baseball program has continued to lag behind.
Former Blue Devil Maliq Brown was in action Saturday night for the San Antonio Spurs in Summer League play, and the Spurs gave him 24 minutes, and he produced: Brown got 8 points and 8 rebounds, 4 of them offensive, and also had 2 steals and 1 block.
It was a bit surprising, at least to us, when Amile Jefferson left Duke for the Boston Celtics, but it’s clearly worked out well for him. Currently, the Celtics have him coaching their Summer League team in Las Vegas, and that’s just a chance to learn more.
For a program that rarely lures in big-time recruits, the Duke Blue Devils have always found a way in recent years to combat that issue and secure back-to-back nine-win seasons with a chance for a historic third in 2026.
Today, Grayson Allen is a valuable asset in the NBA, a strong, athletic guard who shoots threes as well as anyone in the league. When he came to Duke, though, he was a bit of an afterthought.
Good news for Gary Trent Jr., as the former Blue Devil signed a huge contract to stay with the Milwaukee Bucks. By NBA standards, Trent was not really making very much the last few years.
As the tweet says, Strong Man Fridays are back! And while there is no Cameron Boozer in this group, nonetheless, there’s some pretty serious power on Duke’s roster.
Duke is going to have a very deep team this year, not least of all in the frontcourt. We’ve talked about this a few times already, but this article focuses on Drew Scharnowski, and he’s worth a closer look.
The 2026 ACC Football Kickoff will get underway later this month, and this will be the first time we will hear from head coach Manny Diaz and several of the players ahead of the 2026 season.
Duke fans probably feel like they know Maliq Brown pretty well, and, well, yes, they do. He was a brilliant and dominant defender during his two years as a Blue Devil, and emerged as something of a folk hero for Duke fans.
The transfer portal is one of the most volatile aspects of college athletics, creating chaos for many programs across the country. For the Duke Blue Devils, the loss of key starters to the portal left them stunned at the time and forced them to make 11th-hour moves.
The Duke football program dealt with quite a dilemma at the quarterback position this offseason. It has resulted in vastly deflated expectations for the team heading into the 2026 season.
Wilt Chamberlain is still all over the NBA record book, with about 72 records, including 68 he holds alone. For a couple of easy examples, in 1961-62, he averaged 48.5 minutes per game, due in part to overtimes.
Head coach Jon Scheyer and his staff have built arguably the deepest rotation in all of college basketball heading into the 2026-27 season. It's a pretty good problem for the Duke Blue Devils to have.
After his star turn with Team USA in the FIBA U17 tournament in Istanbul, the opinions on Duke freshman Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje have skyrocketed. Most recent example: our SB Nation colleague Ricky O’Donnell, who has some rather lavish praise for the Duke freshman, republished here on DBR.
Brian Scalabrine has an interesting history with Duke Basketball. When he was at USC, the Trojans lost to Duke in the 2001 Elite Eight, 79-69. That Duke team went on to win the national championship.
The Duke football program has many new faces in the program for the 2026 season. Some are expected to be big-time contributors, while others will have to make a name for themselves.
Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje is on campus at Duke after a very successful run in Istanbul with the U17 Team USA. The U.S. won gold, and Boumtje Boumtje, who was already moving up in virtually everyone’s estimations, just made a huge impression.
It seems like we have been on a hot streak with the defensive players on our Duke football 2026 top 30 countdown, but here we are with another member of the defensive side of the ball.
The Duke Blue Devils are in the mix for one of the top prospects in the 2027 recruiting class, and his pro player comparisons may come as a bit of a surprise. Lewis Uvwo, a 5-star prospect in the 2027 recruiting class per 247Sports, has been gaining interest from the Duke Blue Devils.
The NBA has begun sending out green room invitations for the 2026 draft. According to ESPN’s Jeremy Woo, the league has invited 14 draft prospects to attend the event so far, with additional invitations expected to be issued in the coming days.