Sunday, September 16, 2007

Congrats, Dukies.....

Perhaps the greatest poetic justice in college sports is Duke. Yes, here is Duke, the academic bastion that somehow recruits the best basketball players in the world to play for a man with a strange last name and they dominate everyone. They're good in women's hoops. Lacrosse. Soccer. I'm sure they're good in tiddleywinks.

But they are baaaaaaaaaaaad in the one sport a majority of the NCAA membership relies upon to fund their athletic departments: football.

Still, the Blue Devils defeated Northwestern this past week 20-14 ON THE ROAD. The first win against a D-IA opponent in 22 games. The last major victory was against Clemson in Nov. 2005. The last time they went on the road to beat a D-I team was even longer--North Carolina in 2004.

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