Holliday season comes early in Duke football win against N.C. Central
(09/16/12 7:55pm)
The most important moment of the Blue Devils’ weekend came four hours before they kicked off against N.C. Central.
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The most important moment of the Blue Devils’ weekend came four hours before they kicked off against N.C. Central.
The NCAA has a rare chance to look good this week—all it needs to do is let Dezmine Wells play immediately for Maryland.
For 43 seconds, it was the same old story.
This is the year for Duke basketball fans to spend their fall with Blue Devil football.
Sue Wasiolek stood behind a set of curtains at center court in Cameron Indoor Stadium, preparing to take the biggest risk of her 10-year student affairs career. Standing next to her was an undergraduate, still caught up in yanking off the final pieces of the Blue Devil costume and throwing them over the side of the curtain to the delight of the crowd. Wasiolek’s job was easy, it seemed. Just run out from behind the curtain, play it up like she had been the mascot all along, blow some kisses, take a bow, then get off the floor and let the second half begin. But she was scared by what might happen when she ran by the opponent’s bench to confront Bunch of Guys, known around campus as BOG, a group with which her stock had fallen considerably.
I still remember the conversation like it was yesterday.
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All eyes were on Matt Daniels as he took the field with nine other Blue Devils Thursday afternoon to work out for NFL scouts and coaches at the Duke pro timing day.
In a press conference last Thursday, head coach Mike Krzyzewski said the Blue Devils might have lost to the Tar Heels in February by 20 points if not for a pair of well-timed 3-pointers from Austin Rivers. Saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the freshman missed his two second-half attempts from beyond the arc, and Duke fell 88-70 to No. 6 North Carolina (27-4, 14-2 in the ACC) in a matchup that decided the regular season conference title.
The following is the first story in a two-part series that examines the relationship between Duke athletics and Title IX since 1972. Part one reflects on the history of the University’s compliance with Title IX, and part two will analyze how Title IX currently affects the athletic department.
When Duke played Florida State last month in Durham, the Seminole frontcourt combined to score 48 of the team’s 66 points in a losing effort. Sunday afternoon in Tallahassee, Fla. though, the Blue Devil post players responded, scoring 39 points while holding Florida State’s starting forwards to 6-of-17 shooting.
Back in 1984, when conference tournaments mattered, the ACC was the crown jewel of them all. Back when teenagers like Tommy Amaker headed to gym class at Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School in Fairfax, Va. to find students and teachers alike packed around a television set watching the games—the three-day, eight-team event was a March staple from Maryland to Atlanta, and everywhere in between. Back when back-to-back NCAA championships by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University turned the Research Triangle into college basketball’s Mecca, Mike Krzyzewski had yet to win a game in the fabled conference playoffs—and Duke fans were growing increasingly restless.
Once regularly an asylum for 1,200 Crazies, Section 17 at Cameron Indoor Stadium now rarely plays host to a student-only crowd.
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The Victory Bell rings from Chapel Hill yet again.
NEW YORK — When it was all over, Mike Krzyzewski pushed through the crowd of photographers surrounding him to find Bob Knight, his former coach and the man whose record he had just broken. The two embraced courtside, laughing, before Krzyzewski disappeared back into the throng.
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Bob Knight had a special message for Mike Krzyzewski when the two spoke during a prerecording of Duke head coach’s radio show earlier in the season.