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Luke DeCock
@lukedecock.bsky.social
Used to be a sports columnist.

USBWA past president | he/him | native Chicagoan returned home | COYB

Nobody knows anybody, not that well.
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Some news to share: After 25 years, today was my final day at the N&O. I moved to Chicago in October, but I was commuting and working remotely until the paper ended that agreement as of today.

I knew when we moved the end was near. That was my choice. It was time. I just wish it wasn’t so abrupt.
Well, I always believed you could win with Sam Darnold at QB.
February 9, 2026 at 3:29 AM
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Poor Drake Maye...
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
This game … is ovah
February 9, 2026 at 2:52 AM
All that attention on the UNC guy and the Wake guy is going to win MVP. A tale as old as ACC football.
February 9, 2026 at 1:52 AM
February 9, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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Lot of Sam Darnold love here.
February 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Patriots 28, Seahawks 20, Bill Belichick /sad/
February 8, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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Keep in mind Drake Maye did a hype message for UNC/Duke. Bubba Cunningham and others were wearing “I ❤️ Maye” shirts yesterday. Dude recorded a new intro video and dropped “Myers Park” for the Super Bowl. MVP levels of petty.
February 8, 2026 at 11:23 PM
(I don’t even know what happened now, nor do I care, but I feel it’s still my role to post the image as needed.)
February 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Pending something from the Ben Carnevale era…
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Bobby Jones, :01, 1974
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Six seconds to go and Ricky Price got a shot off but kinda for sure.
February 8, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Honestly drawing a blank … last UNC buzzer-beater to beat Duke?

(Walter Davis forced OT, that’s not it.)
February 8, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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February 8, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Basically, the Austin Rivers finish, but backward.
February 8, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Power move wearing the “renovate don’t relocate” T-shirts to the Duke game. Not that the booster/developers with dollar signs in their eyes will notice.
February 8, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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The Palestra pays tribute to Dan McQuade, “Defector/DP Emeritus.”

I wish the seat had been left downstairs, but I get there isn’t room.

Then again, on some days he liked sitting upstairs and taking it all in.
February 7, 2026 at 8:13 PM
The rivalry that occasionally delivers! Penn’s first win over Princeton since 2018.
February 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
February 7, 2026 at 8:24 PM
For old times’ sake…

Duke at UNC officials: Bill Covington Jr., Ron Groover, Brian O’Connell.
February 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM
The 2006 Brind’Amour/2026 Staal parallels are only getting stronger: An unexpected power-play reappearance … sparking a turn-back-the-clock season in the late 30s … for a guy who probably already should have won a Selke by now.
February 6, 2026 at 2:33 AM
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An appreciated acknowledgment from Georgetown tonight on the media info sheets at each seat.
February 5, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Simply crushed today for so many amazing and talented people at @postsports.bsky.social. Felt really fortunate to even be a part-time/occasional teammate there for the last decade.
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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I will say my guess is that Jeff Bezos is not destroying the Washington Post out of a properly ideological crusade against freedom of the press but more likely out of a combination of boredom and pique that his interventions in the paper over the last eighteen months were unappreciated
February 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM