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(04/08/97 4:00am)
Why do some people hate sports?
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Why do some people hate sports?
As I sat in front of my television-thanks to the help of a friend's VCR-to watch the Baltimore Orioles take on the Cleveland Indians in the first round of the playoffs last week, I could not help but have conflicting emotions.
The men's track and field team scored 21 points at the Atlantic Coast Conference meet in College Park, Md., this weekend.
There are plenty of great topics for sports columnists to write about these days. Unfortunately, this is my last column for The Chronicle, so I will not have the opportunity to write about them. Instead, I will talk briefly about several unrelated things, utilizing subtle transitions to try to create a semi-cohesive column. People who know me are probably laughing right now, because they know that I tend to be verbose. I could not write "briefly" about anything, even if someone paid me millions of dollars to do it...
This is the second installment of a two-part series exploring the playing facilities for the Duke men's and women's varsity tennis teams.
This is the first installment of a two-part series exploring the playing facilities for the Duke men's and women's varsity tennis teams. Wednesday's story will look at the possibility for the construction of a new indoor tennis facility.
Most of the attention at this weekend's Duke Invitational was focused on the national caliber runners who had come to perform at Wallace Wade Stadium, but a few members of the Duke men's track team were also able to provide some highlights on their home track.
The Olympics are coming to Duke this weekend. Well, not exactly.
The combination of a muddy field, poor shooting and some pesky Spiders was too much for the women's lacrosse team to overcome on Tuesday.
Led by the strong performances of junior Matt Haywood and senior Miles Hall, the men's track team had one of its most successful meets ever at the Raleigh Relays this weekend.
A year ago, the immediate future did not look bright for the Duke men's basketball program. Not only had the Blue Devils struggled to a 13-19 record, but Cherokee Parks and Erik Meek, Duke's only experienced post players, were both graduating, leaving the team with a gaping hole in its frontcourt.
INDIANAPOLIS-Four months ago, it seemed that one of the men's basketball team's greatest strengths in the 1995-96 season would be its deep and talented backcourt.
As the seventh of 10 children in his family, Doug Kling needed some way to stand out among his four brothers and five sisters.
Strange things usually happen when the Duke and North Carolina men's basketball teams face off at Cameron Indoor Stadium, and there were certainly many strange occurrences when the rivals matched up Sunday afternoon.
With the men's basketball team preparing to face UCLA in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday, there were plenty of reasons for Duke fans to be excited about the game.
GREENSBORO-Despite some strong showings by several of its distance and middle distance runners, the men's track team had only four points to show for its efforts at the Atlantic Coast Championships going into the 800 meter finals on Saturday afternoon.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-Early in the first half of its 93-87 victory over Florida State, the men's basketball team realized that it was having difficulty stopping the Seminoles from scoring.
Over the past year, Clemson and North Carolina have developed one of the Atlantic Coast Conference's biggest men's basketball rivalries. Unlike the Duke-UNC basketball rivalry, which has been built upon the mutual respect which the two programs have for one another, the recent battles between the Tigers and the Tar Heels have been fueled by accusations of unsportsmanlike behavior by both teams' head coaches. But the participant in this rivalry who should have the greatest appreciation for the importance of sportsmanship and fair play-North Carolina head coach Dean Smith-is guilty of inciting much of the animosity which has developed between his Tar Heels and Rick Barnes' Tigers.
Only three members of this year's Duke women's tennis team were on the squad last May when Georgia knocked off Duke, 5-4, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. But this season's young Blue Devil squad still had some extra motivation when it headed to Athens, Ga., on Saturday for a chance at a bit of revenge against the fourth-ranked Bulldogs.
On Monday night, ESPN held its fourth annual sports awards ceremony. The network named its awards the ESPYs by simply replacing the "N" at the end of its name with a "Y." Since my name also ends with "n", I am going to use the ESPN award-naming technique and call my awards the Heineys.