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(04/02/10 8:00am)
Brody Greenwald was The Chronicle’s sports editor in 2001, and he covered both of Duke’s Final Four victories that season. Below, he recounts the 2001 Blue Devils’ run to the national championship, the program’s most recent title.
(03/27/07 4:00am)
The women's basketball team's loss to Rutgers Saturday was heart-breaking, but no single loss could possibly hurt as much as losing head coach Gail Goestenkors to another university.
(07/18/01 4:00am)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Player of the year front-runners Alana Beard and Diana Taurasi command top billing on the United States junior national team, but on July 8 a cast of coaching celebrities flocked to the Capitol to watch a high school senior.
(05/24/01 7:00am)
ATHENS, Ga. -- Overshadowed by the unfortunate ankle sprain to Joel Spicher Monday were the three points that Duke did pick up--all three-set victories by the three seniors who have been the team's heart and soul for four years.
(05/24/01 7:00am)
ATHENS, Ga. -- One of the greatest comebacks in the history of college tennis was derailed early Monday evening when third-seeded Georgia escaped the NCAA quarterfinals with a nail-biting 4-3 victory following an ankle sprain to Duke's Joel Spicher.
(05/24/01 4:00am)
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. -- Women's tennis coach Jamie Ashworth set his postseason lineup a month ago looking ahead to the teams he thought Duke would have to beat to win a national championship.
(04/30/01 4:00am)
With a bid to the NCAA tournament hanging in the balance Saturday for two men's lacrosse teams, the ninth-ranked Blue Devils were unable to move off the tournament bubble as they dropped a disheartening 15-10 contest to underdog Hofstra in Hempstead, N.Y.
(04/30/01 4:00am)
After returning home from a fourth consecutive week on the road in a four-overtime victory Thursday over James Madison, the second-ranked women's lacrosse team fended off exhaustion and a hard-charging Dartmouth squad for a 9-8 triumph yesterday afternoon at Koskinen Stadium.
(04/30/01 4:00am)
Three members of Gail Goestenkors' recruiting coup of 1999 have told Duke's women's basketball coach they will not return to the Blue Devils next season, while men's basketball freshman Andre Sweet is considering transferring to St. John's University.
(04/25/01 4:00am)
I wrote my first sports story Sept. 24, 1997 on the men's golf team at Tufts University.
(04/24/01 4:00am)
After parading through Washington, D.C. "like royalty," Mike Krzyzewski and his national championship men's basketball team returned home last night to a crowd of several hundred fans gathered outside the Durham Civic Center Plaza.
(04/23/01 4:00am)
The duo that led Duke's women's basketball team to the national championship game two years ago was reunited Friday afternoon.
(04/19/01 4:00am)
The three-time defending ACC champion Blue Devils were untested at last year's conference tournament, and it is difficult to imagine them facing a formidable challenge this weekend either.
(04/13/01 4:00am)
More than 1,000 students will eagerly greet him at random hours of the early morning. They will follow him around campus, trying to figure out some sort of pattern to his daily routine.
(04/09/01 4:00am)
Duke women's lacrosse snatched its third victory over top-20 opponents, in two weeks, but this one meant a little more.
(04/09/01 4:00am)
In three years, Megan Miller and Kathy Sell worked their way to the top two slots on the team. Then came two potential All-America freshmen, and both seniors slid down the team's ladder.
(04/05/01 4:00am)
The men's tennis team continued its decade-long blitz through the ACC.
(04/03/01 4:00am)
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Most games, he crouches on the sidelines, his chin resting softly in his hand, every little animation, the definition of the word composure.
(04/03/01 4:00am)
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Three months removed from the drawn-out death of his wife Bobbi, the same question continues to trail Arizona coach Lute Olson.
(04/03/01 4:00am)
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Duke's starting five made itself a perfect 10 last night, again finding a way to win in an unusual fashion.