It's Good to be King
(04/29/98 4:00am)
The people of Durham might not realize they should thank their lucky stars that none of Jerry Turner's 1970s bandmates knew a spoon from a spatula.
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The people of Durham might not realize they should thank their lucky stars that none of Jerry Turner's 1970s bandmates knew a spoon from a spatula.
If Purple Heart medals were given to track athletes, Mike Park would undoubtedly receive one.
The women's track team had already had an excellent first two days at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. But it wasn't until Saturday that Duke's improvement received center-stage recognition.
Like a tall, overpaid Rip Van Winkle, the NBA has awakened from the long slumber it calls the regular season. There will be no more phoning in games, no more 2-Ball exhibitions and, mercifully, no more Denver Nuggets.
It didn't match the remarkable seventh-place finish of 1997, but the men's track team was far from disappointed with its 25-point, eighth-place showing last weekend at the Atlantic Coast Conference Championships in Orlando.
Kim Voyticky hardly needed extra motivation.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The irony was obvious when Shane Battier stepped to the baseline with 4.5 seconds left in Sunday's South Regional final at Tropicana Field. As millions of TV viewers undoubtedly noticed, the men's basketball team found itself in almost exactly the same position as in its 1992 East regional final win over Kentucky, when Christian Laettner made UK fans hate Duke's Blue Devils as though they were Bob Knight's Indiana Hoosiers.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The similarity could not be ignored.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Anyone who had watched Kentucky play in recent weeks would have been a fool to think the Wildcats were dead with 9 1/2 minutes left Sunday, when they trailed top-seeded Duke, 71-54, in the South regional final at Tropicana Field.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Anyone who had watched Kentucky play in recent weeks would have been a fool to think the Wildcats were dead with 9 1/2 minutes left Sunday, when they trailed top-seeded Duke, 71-54, in the South regional final at Tropicana Field.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Everything was in place.
Wake Forest coach Dave Odom was sitting at home last Sunday night, relaxing after his team's 71-57 victory over N.C. State. He had started figuring out which team would play which in this week's Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament, when he realized that beating State might not have been a good idea.
In his two seasons at North Carolina, Makhtar Ndiaye has hardly stood out as a quote machine. But one line he uttered in frustration Saturday spoke volumes about Duke's 77-75 victory over UNC.
Maybe it was the prodding of coach Mike Krzyzewski. Maybe it was the barking of senior guard Steve Wojciechowski. Maybe it was a collapse by North Carolina.
ATLANTA - Shortly after Georgia Tech had retired Matt Harpring's jersey in a pre-game ceremony, the men's basketball team did all it could to retire Harpring's NCAA tournament hopes. Harpring's Yellow Jackets would have all but clinched an NCAA bid with an upset win Wednesday, but rather than leading his team to victory, the senior forward was reduced to the role of spectator.
Brett Nelson, the 6-foot-3 men's basketball recruit who visited Duke last weekend, has been likened to Pete Maravich and touted as the best West Virginia hoopster since Jerry West.
The Cameron Crazies wanted to help their team in any way possible during Sunday's game against UCLA.
Neither wanted to do it. But no matter how hard they tried, recruiting analysts Clark Francis and Brick Oettinger couldn't avoid the comparison.
It's on to the next round for the men's basketball team.
While preparing for next week's Atlantic Coast Conference championships, the men's and women's track teams shattered one school record apiece and recorded several other impressive marks over the weekend at the Virginia Tech Classic in Blacksburg, Va.