Things have seemed somewhat quiet lately for former Duke star and assistant coach Amile Jefferson since moving from Durham to Boston to be an assistant with the Celtics, but that’s from the outside.
As the World Cup of football (or soccer) plays out in the U.S., the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup is getting started in Istanbul, and Team USA’s first game is worth mentioning.
We’ve said for a long time that it’s probably better to be drafted later by a team with a great culture than it is to be taken earlier by a team with a lesser culture.
This is a pretty great article from The Athletic about Duke Basketball in the ’90s. Those who were around for the early part of the Krzyzewski era will remember that for a while, it was a real uphill struggle.
The Duke football program had a long offseason after several key players on both sides of the ball departed, either for the NFL Draft or the transfer portal.
The NBA hasn’t always been what it is today. In the earliest days, it was kind of cobbled together, and some guys turned down contracts because they had better offers from other employers.
You may remember that in 2025, Charlotte tried to trade Mark Williams to the Los Angeles Lakers, but they canceled the trade after a physical uncovered some problems they had not been aware of.
The finer points of soccer, or football if you must, are lost on most Americans, present company included. Give us a Eurostep, please, or maybe a step-back three.
So the draft is over, and what does it mean for the many tentacles of the Brotherhood? Let’s look at it. Well, some of them, anyway. There’s a lot of sifting and sorting to be done yet.
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Defense wins championships, a motto that has been around the sport of football for many years and rings true in so many cases across all spectrums. College football is no different, as one of the top defenses helped Indiana to its first National Championship.
It would be nice to be talented enough to be drafted by an NBA team, and it would be cool to be in the building, and even cooler to be in the Green Room.
There are a lot of uncertainties still, but Maliq Brown was taken with the #44 pick by the San Antonio Spurs, and that could be a huge break. First, the Spurs have been a model franchise in most ways, and they have always had a knack for finding talent.
After waiting out the first round without being drafted, Duke guard Isaiah Evans was taken with the third pick of the second round of the NBA Draft by Brooklyn, and apparently traded to Minnesota.
Before the NBA Draft, and after being taken by Memphis with the #3 pick, Cameron Boozer made it clear that he didn’t understand why he wasn’t seen by many as a likely #1 pick.
The Duke Blue Devils had one of the most explosive offenses in college football last season under offensive coordinator Jonathan Brewer, averaging 34.6 points per game in a unit that is expected to remain high-scoring this fall.
Duke football head coach Manny Diaz comes from a defensive-minded background. From his time at both Miami and Penn State, to now with the Blue Devils, Diaz has led elite defensive units and is looking to get Duke back to that status in 2026.
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One of the greatest endings of an NCAA championship game, and possibly the greatest, was the 2016 Villanova-UNC epic, which played out in Houston’s NRG Stadium.
Cameron Boozer was taken with the #3 pick by the Memphis Grizzlies in Monday night’s NBA Draft, after Washington took BYU’s AJ Dybantsa, and Utah chose Kansas’s Darryn Peterson second.
In one of the bigger changes in recent NCAA history, and that’s saying a lot, the cartel is set to adopt a new age policy: players will get five years of eligibility, starting when they are 19.
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.