By the way, in case you missed it, there’s a recent Duke grad playing in the World Championships:

Danny Ferry is back in San Antonio: after resigning as Cleveland’s G.M., and missing on Portland and New Jersey, he’s been rehired by the Spurs.

Bobby Hurley’s racing dreams are over, at least for now:

Here’s an interesting story: Luol Deng, who left the Sudan with his family as a small child, went back for the first time recently.

Although former Devil Vince Taylor was a candidate for the UIC job, he didn’t get it.  It went to Wisconsin assistant Howard Moore.   As his boss Tubby Smith said, Vince is ready.  The right job will come along soon.

This is nice to see: former Devil Vince Taylor, who was a long-time Louisville assistant before moving to Minnesota, is a candidate for the UIC job.

The Miami Heat are wasting no time going international with their new troika: they’ll be hosting Euroleague power CSK Moscow, featuring former Duke great Trajan Langdon, on October 12th.

As it turns out, Jon Scheyer’s eye injury was quite severe: he injured the optic nerve in his right eye and the recovery period, uncertain as it is, is three to six months. Tough break to say the least.

Mike Maniscalco spoke to Greg Paulus on Dave Glenn’s radio show about his life since he left Duke: his football year Syracuse in his move to the Navy coaching staff.

Here’s more on  Grant Hill’s weekend trip to DC.