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(04/26/95 4:00am)
I do not profess to know more about sports than the average fan. Nor can I lay claim to any extraordinary writing skills. It is only by chance that I even write for The Chronicle; the book is still out on whether that chance is one of good or bad fortune.
(04/13/95 4:00am)
Only a year after rumors began circulating that Duke men's basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski would leave for a job in the NBA, the prospect of the Blue Devils' losing a basketball coach has become a reality.
(04/13/95 4:00am)
Matthew Christensen admitted he has always been a fan of Duke basketball. But it wasn't until Wednesday afternoon that he took the final step towards becoming part of the Blue Devil program.
(04/13/95 4:00am)
play three seasons at Northwestern (La.) State before transferring to George Washington for his final year, a season in which he was selected as the Colonials' team captain and earned the squad's most valuable player award for his performance at the point guard spot. Brey graduated from George Washington in 1982.
(04/12/95 4:00am)
As the spring season comes into full bloom, so too does that venerable institution known as playground basketball. And with the popularity of the pick-up game growing by leaps and bounds, more and more of you are no doubt flocking to the courts to be part of the action. And, no doubt, more and more of you are becoming hopelessly confused.
(03/29/95 5:00am)
The first time Duke ever played North Carolina in lacrosse, which also happened to be the first officially recorded lacrosse game in the state of North Carolina, the Blue Devils upended the Tar Heels with a narrow 2-1 victory. Later that same year--1938 if you're counting--Duke downed UNC again, this time by a 9-4 tally.
(03/28/95 5:00am)
During his first four years at Duke, Mike Pressler toiled and sweated over his duties as the Blue Devils' head lacrosse coach in what one might call a rather "cozy" atmosphere.
(03/24/95 5:00am)
Look back at the past year in Duke basketball, and you're liable to see two different sides of the same coin. You're apt to find stories of triumphs and debacles, rebirths and downfalls. You're likely to see some of the best and worst college basketball has to offer.
(02/17/95 5:00am)
Not a year goes by that I don't look forward to the NBA's annual All-Star game with the enthusiasm of a dog chasing its tail.
(02/13/95 5:00am)
With 30 seconds to go in the Duke men's basketball team's matchup with Wake Forest Saturday, the Demon Deacons got possession of the ball with one last shot at victory. And with Wake down 61-60, everyone knew where that shot would come from.
(01/31/95 5:00am)
Looks like those guys from Sports Illustrated have been back on campus again, and it looks like they're up to their old tricks.
(01/20/95 5:00am)
When Clemson head coach Rick Barnes was asked earlier this season to predict where his squad would finish in the always-tough Atlantic Coast Conference, he said he had heard people pick the Tigers to finish 10th -- in a nine-team league.
(01/18/95 5:00am)
This past fall as part of Barbara Dickinson's "Introduction to Dance" course, a few classmates and I choreographed and performed an original three to five minute dance program. The trick was the dance had to interpret an object of our choice, and the object couldn't be included in the dance. In an attempt to remain on at least remotely familiar ground, my group chose a basketball.
(12/06/94 5:00am)
Ask anyone who has followed the resurgence of Duke football to describe this season, and the two words you're most likely to hear are "fairy tale."
(04/19/94 4:00am)
Last Saturday, the Duke lacrosse team went into Charlottesville and pulled off a 9-8 upset of then second-ranked Virginia -- a victory head coach Mike Pressler called "the biggest win in the program's history."
(03/23/94 5:00am)
If there is such thing as momentum in sports, Duke's ninth-ranked lacrosse team has it now.
(03/21/94 5:00am)
The Duke lacrosse team moved one step closer to being mentioned in the same breath with the nation's elite teams Saturday, as it sank Navy on the Midshipmen's home turf, 14-9. It is the first time the Blue Devils have beaten Navy on the road in 27 years.
(02/28/94 5:00am)
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(02/28/94 5:00am)
By the time the Duke lacrosse team scored its first goal of the season Saturday against Butler, almost nine minutes had ticked off the clock.
(02/25/94 5:00am)
Looking for something to fill that void between the time the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding showdown comes to a close tonight in Lillehamer and the time the men's basketball team takes on a raging John Chaney and his Temple Owls Sunday afternoon?