Brendan Marks
Duke and UNC Beat Writer at The Athletic
College basketball @TheAthletic. 2023 NC Sportswriter of the Year. Airplane-jumper-outer. Reigning fantasy football loser. Hate mail to [email protected]
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6 days ago |
nytimes.com | Lauren Merola |Brendan Marks
After committing to Arizona in January, Bryce James, the youngest son of LeBron James and younger brother of Bronny James, officially signed with the Wildcats on Thursday. "What's going on Wildcat nation, can't wait to get there and start working. Bear down," Bryce said in a post on X.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Brendan Marks
SAN ANTONIO - All things considered, cutting the net would've been easier. But if this NCAA Tournament has made anything abundantly clear, it's this: There is no Venn diagram, ever, in which "easy" and Walter Clayton Jr.'s name overlap. How else do you explain a former zero-star recruit winning most outstanding player honors in the toughest Final Four of all time?
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Brendan Marks
SAN ANTONIO - Two minutes before midnight, the steady purr of a golf cart grew louder and louder, sound materializing before any sight. Then, from around a bend in a back hallway of the Alamodome, it appeared: a four-wheeled white chariot, taking Duke coach Jon Scheyer on one final ride back to his locker room. How agonizingly long - and also painstakingly short - it must have felt.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Brendan Marks
SAN ANTONIO - From their seats seven rows behind Duke's bench, Ralph and Kelly Flagg had the perfect vantage point of the moment everything turned to dust. With eight seconds left in Saturday's national semifinal against No. 1 Houston, their son Cooper rose up for the turnaround jumper that legacies are made of. Sink it, and Duke's in the national championship game for the first time in a decade. But miss it? Everything, over. Immediately.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Brendan Marks
SAN ANTONIO - The first day Sion James arrived on Duke's campus last summer - fresh off a 12-plus hour drive from New Orleans in a U-Haul that contained all his worldly possessions - the former Tulane guard was, understandably, exhausted. Then his phone pinged. A text message from new Duke teammate Tyrese Proctor: "Yo, we're having dinner at coach Scheyer's house.
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Oh no... What awful news. Jon was always so kind and helpful, one of the best people I met in motorsports. Glad we remained friends even once I left Charlotte. Thinking of him and his family in what must be a nightmarish time. RIP
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