My Take On Wake

Covering Wake Forest Sports for the Winston-Salem Journal.

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Is this thing on? Oh, hello there.

Resurrecting this account for football season (and beyond). Will occasionally have stories linked on here, but for more consistent updates on Wake Forest sports follow @ConorONeillWSJ @johndellWSJ @JournalNow

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Wake Forest's baseball team got on a bus Thursday morning thinking it'd be coming home to play Clemson this weekend.

Instead, the Deacs met Friday and were told to go home: https://t.co/OK7eRfMx1I

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Olivier Sarr went through literal growing pains before his arrival at Wake Forest, and developmental growing pains in his first 2 years at Wake.

Now there's no more pain, just a 7-footer finally comfortable in his body - and becoming dominant: https://t.co/cnx9OTtMzD

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Wake notes, including thoughts from Olivier Sarr and Chaundee Brown about professional futures, practicing at Danny Manning's high school and Torry Johnson's status: https://t.co/RCmx2HEv6G

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My All-ACC ballots and accompanying thoughts: https://t.co/ysnMv101f6

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Inside WF's cornerbacks room, where there's a new coach, a new leader finding his voice and ... not many other players.

It's a thin but talented #BermudaBoyz room: https://t.co/ydaLq9Duex

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Live from Joel Coliseum, where we're about an hour from tip between Notre Dame and Wake Forest.

Some reading materials, neatly gathered on one thread:

https://t.co/cbF9B9hI2q

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"So we’re going to be considerably younger on offense next year. We’re younger; I didn’t say we’re going to be worse."

The path for Wake Forest maintaining these high-scoring seasons starts now, though, when those young players grow: https://t.co/WeY7T52Jxt

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👇 series starts in about 10 minutes:

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Wake Forest's baseball team is 3-1 and plays in California this weekend.

5 things to know for the Deacons' series at Long Beach State: https://t.co/EGXZyVqypB

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MTOW -- 10 Deacons to keep an eye on for jumps forward during spring practices, which begin Tuesday: https://t.co/QM9l9LWNTo

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5 things to watch in Wednesday night's Georgia Tech-Wake Forest game: https://t.co/laLTUIAy9g

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ICYMI, part II: 👇

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In MTOW form, a pre-spring practice depth chart for Wake Forest: https://t.co/tPwU147eeM

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ICYMI -- the Deacs' season starts at 2 today at the Couch.

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MTOW starting 9 for Wake Forest's baseball season -- 3 reasons for optimism, 3 unknowns and 3 possible downfalls for the Deacs: https://t.co/kWLy7SfXAw

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5 things to watch in tomorrow night's UNC-Wake Forest game: https://t.co/qEM9KqRWv8

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ICYMI -- we're about 80 minutes from tip at the Dome 👇

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5 things to watch in tomorrow night's Wake Forest-Syracuse game, including a quote from last year's matchup that surely won't cause PTSD: https://t.co/KbusRXimvU

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ICYMI from yesterday 👇

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A recap of Wake Forest's Signing Day action, with 4 additions -- 2 of them grad-transfers from the Pac-12: https://t.co/ABuC27qvq1

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Wake Forest's pitching staff is primed for a bounce-back campaign in 2020 -- and not to get too hyperbolic 11 days before the opener, but the Deacs' season might depend on it: https://t.co/ZGpkdMeGLM

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5 things to watch in tomorrow night's Clemson-Wake Forest game: https://t.co/Pvl5YrqfMx

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5 things to watch in Wednesday night's Wake Forest-Notre Dame basketball game: https://t.co/YmrKBdqsuA

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Kobe Bryant was Superman to Ismael Massoud, an immortal force of nature. He was Olivier Sarr's favorite player the first jersey he ever had.

On Kobe's impact on some of the Deacs: https://t.co/iSfizyMLcT

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Jamie Newman will transfer to Georgia, as ESPN reports and I can confirm.

Accounted for 3,442 yards and 32 touchdowns for Wake Forest this past season: https://t.co/jfmFKdTZ6i