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`Terrible' conditions play to Seminoles' advantage

(09/06/93 4:00am)

It was only fitting that the last Bulls game in the Durham Athletic Park would be a rain-out. At one point in the 1988 movie "Bull Durham"-which made the DAP an American sports icon-Kevin Costner's character, Crash Davis, and his fellow minor leaguers really need a day off. So in the Boston Braves tradition of "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain," Davis and company sneak into the stadium on a road trip and turn on the sprinkler system, ruining the field and achieving their desired end.






Miami nice for men's tennis

(04/03/93 5:00am)

Freshman Peter Ayers got set in the ad court to deliver a thunderous serve. He and his partner, fellow freshman Rob Chess, were struggling to rally back to win their doubles match against the Miami Hurricanes on Saturday afternoon at the Duke Tennis Stadium. Winning at least two of the three doubles matches -- which are played before the singles matches this year as part of a new format -- would have give Duke a 1-0 cushion going into singles play.