When is the N&O going to name a replacement for Keeley? Will they name a replacement? Football season is nearly upon us.
I talked to a member of the N&O Sports staff a couple of days ago.
He told me that the N&O would be hiring an outsider to be the new Duke beat writer (so no fears of Andrew Carter!). He said they actually offered the job to a great candidate a few days ago, but that person got a better job offer and moved on. He said they had several very strong candidates still lined up and he expected a new hire in a few days.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Luke DeCock @LukeDeCock
Congrats to @JessikaMorgan, our new Duke writer. And, more important, new mom, which is why she won't take over the beat until October.
"This is the best of all possible worlds."
Dr. Pangloss - Candide
Here's a little giggle: imagine Laura on a callback at Moore & Van Allen in the fall of 2019. The first interviewer: Bilas.
Good Luck to Ms Morgan. She has huge shoes to fill. If she starts to falter - we can always nominate Ozzie. And if Ozzie fails, we'll just nominate Harrison Barnes. He doesn't seem to be doing anything lately !
I just saw this on an N&O sidebar of a Duke Football story:
Duke Now is your place for Blue Devil hoops and football. Beat writer Laura Keeley has up-to-the-minute news and an
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/c...#storylink=cpy
I guess no one in their web division got the news.