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Billy Dat
03-19-2016, 10:28 AM
I feel like this was buried in the game thread and deserved its own thread so more people would read it - it's great (credit to Atlanta Duke for original post)

Atlanta Duke

This from Peter Applebome (Duke '71) in a NYT column today

"Basketball Primer for Yalies, From a Dukie: It’s a Lot Like Squash"
Like us, you know what it’s like to share a state with a big, public university that has an excellent basketball program. We would advise you on what it’s like to be overshadowed by that other program, except that we don’t know......

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/sports/ncaabasketball/basketball-primer-for-yale-from-duke-its-a-lot-like-squash.html

captmojo
03-19-2016, 10:38 AM
Et tu, Eli? :D

CameronBlue
03-19-2016, 11:29 AM
Et tu, Eli? :D

It's Elihu. Render unto Elihu, what is Elihu's.

Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
03-19-2016, 12:10 PM
It's Elihu. Render unto Elihu, what is Elihu's.

Cthulhu?

OldPhiKap
03-19-2016, 12:37 PM
Cthulhu?

You do, and you clean it up.

Mike Corey
03-19-2016, 01:37 PM
Great, fun piece from Mr. Applebome.

To those of you active on Twitter, both he and John Harwood are great reads during Duke games.