Please, give Roof a raise
(12/03/03 5:00am)
Duke University's athletic department should keep Ted Roof as its permanent head coach. The case for Roof's hiring is overwhelming.
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Duke University's athletic department should keep Ted Roof as its permanent head coach. The case for Roof's hiring is overwhelming.
Traveling on The Chronicle's tab to cover Duke sporting events is probably the greatest benefit the paper gives to its volunteer writers. I've always wanted to write a column to recount some of my experiences, to tell of how a Salt Lake City Denny's turned into a eccentric dance club at 2 a.m. seemingly in between bites of my waffle, my time with the girls at Tennessee ("Wow you go to Duke and you have dimples"), the clubs at Florida State that will probably be the closest I'll ever come to being inside the Playboy mansion, or even the Santa Fe hippies who trained cats to ride dogs. The only negative experience I have ever had was my 10-hour trip from Charlottesville to Durham during a blizzard that saw me nearly get run off the road purposely by a maniacal liquid nitrogen truck driver.
I cannot decide whether I should be ecstatic or depressed about the football team's recent success. Sure, I cannot help but feel happy for all the seniors who finally won a conference game in the last home contest of their careers. I rushed the field in euphoric joy just like all of the other students, delaying the writing of my game commentary column to help bring down the goalposts.
Thankfully for the NBA, the off-season is finally over. Every summer, several youthful millionaires find themselves in trouble with the law, and as is painfully obvious, 2003 was no exception. But now that the regular season has officially begun, it's time to discuss some basketball.
I'm going to miss Carl Franks.
"The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned," Dwight Eisenhower once said. "When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."
When analyzing the 2003 Major League Baseball playoffs, one cannot help but wonder if the baseball gods are smiling down upon us, granting wishes that many fans have desired for nearly a century. Some of baseball's greatest memories are instantly recalled with just the listing of the stadiums of the four remaining teams: Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Yankee Stadium and....Pro Player Stadium.
There is little doubt among NBA analysts that Lebron James will be one of the greatest players to ever play in the league. But there is also great uncertainty about how long it will take the 6-foot-9 phenom to become dominant, and more specifically, how good will he be as an 18 year-old rookie?
Not too many superlatives slip under the Coach K radar screen. Through no small effort by Dick Vitale, everyone knows that Krzyzewski: Wins nearly every basketball game he coaches, gives significant amounts of time and money to charity, and is perceived publicly for being a nice guy about it all.
WASHINGTON and LANDOVER, Md. -- How awesome is NFL kick-off week?
George Washington once told Congress, "Men are very apt to run into extremes," in an attempt to alleviate America's desire to ally itself with its revolutionary side-kick France in its war against much-hated England.
The ACC will be the No. 1 football conference in the country for the 21st century.