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Calling last year's women's soccer team "streaky" doesn't do the season justice. "Striking" might be a little better. But one way or another, the Blue Devils were nothing more than a talented .500 team.
In Jerry Maguire, a staple of the college DVD collection, Tom Cruise sweats through the night writing a mission statement--25 pages of coffee-filled B.S., a statement for the future, a Duke public policy memo, what have you. It was called "The Things We Think and Do Not Say," Jerry's honest vision for his fellow sports agents.
The second half wasn't even a minute old, and the women's soccer team was already tightening the lasso on the unsuspecting Texas Longhorns.
For years, the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers had the league's most frightening backfield. six-foot-one, 250-pound Mike Alstott and 5-foot-9, 180-pound Warrick Dunn were tabbed the ultimate, unstoppable one-two punch--anticipation and cliché abounded. The dynamic duo played together for five years, but ended up less than dynamic; it wasn't until last year, when the Bucs traded the oft-injured Dunn that the team really was unstoppable, and won the Super Bowl.
Field hockey falls 2-1 to defending champs in exhibition matchup
NEW YORK - At this point, Duke head men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski could probably cut down the nets blindfolded. And back in the day, Jerry West could flick up his jumper with such a quick release that it just became second nature. But the individual trademarks of two of basketball's elder statesmen aside, it's what they have in common that really sticks out: the stare. It's that barely-squinting, much-holier-than-thou glare they both love to shoot that makes them unquestioned, makes them revered, makes them legends.
Dwight Howard 6-foot-10, 225 pounds. 18.5 PPG
Nestled away at 2324 Huffman Drive in Mobile, Ala., a hop, skip and a jump from Irongate Way, a quick trip from Dukes Avenue and about 20 minutes from the site of the annual college football Senior Bowl, lives a very happy old couple.
RALEIGH - When Duke lost the doubles point to fall behind early against North Carolina at the ACC Championship final yesterday, a hush came over the women's tennis team.
Jack Coombs Field was virtually silent this week, with steady rain relegating the baseball team indoors and forcing Wednesday's game against East Carolina to be postponed. But come tonight there ought to be plenty of "ping" in the air as No. 5 Georgia Tech buzzes into town.
When the then-No. 5 Florida Gators chomped the women's tennis team down the national rankings from the top spot in a bitingly close 4-3 loss March 26, Duke sunk to No. 4, losing its roaring confidence - and with a good seven weeks remaining in its season.
A rough spring continued for the men's golf team this weekend as the E-Z-GO Invitational wasn't so easy-going, seeing the Blue Devils finish 14th among 15 of the nation's elite teams--a group Duke has threatened to fall from based on play in the spring months.
In the first week of the fall last year, the reigning national champion women's golf team visited reigning worldwide terrorist-cleanser George W. Bush at the White House, though neither seemed to make its promised dramatic push to defend themselves the rest of the season. But spring has sprung, and just as the President pushes to war, Duke has likewise begun to protect its status as No. 1 in the land.
The last time the women's tennis team traveled to the Midwest, they were riding high, taking the National Indoor Championships in Madison, Wis., and subsequently their first ever No. 1 ranking two weeks ago. But after dismantling No. 19 Notre Dame 5-2 in South Bend, Ind., it was all downhill
The regular season for the women's basketball season is winding down--and the Blue Devils are picking up momentum as they fly downhill. Even formidable opponents have been thrown by the wayside since a loss to Connecticut at mid-season, with North Carolina the last victim after a 34-point blowout Thursday.
This week's snow storms left a damper on much of the Atlantic coast and even on the Atlantic Coast Conference's schedule, but for Duke and Maryland's men's basketball teams, the conditions left them much the same as they've been all season: a bit weathered, but never too cooled off.
After losing much of its offensive pop from last year, the Duke baseball team was supposed to be all about pitching in 2003. And with Kevin Thompson returning to the hill after a shoulder injury forced the 2001 staff ace to sit out last season, the climb up to the top of the imposing ACC was supposed to be a bit less grueling.
The Clemson Tigers prance into town Sunday at 6:30 p.m. to take on the No. 9 men's basketball team, but after a rapacious triumph over North Carolina Wednesday night, it's the Blue Devils prowling around the ACC with plenty of growl back in their sluggish-gone-tigerish season.
The last time we saw Chris Duhon, he slipped away a Duke lead to Florida State with six seconds remaining and fell to the court almost as hard as the Blue Devils dropped in the ACC standings and the polls the next day. When Raymond Felton was last in action, he bricked a three-pointer with nine ticks on the clock that would have brought North Carolina within a point in an eventual loss to Wake Forest.
Geno Auriemma doesn't like to lose. And though he rarely does, the Connecticut head coach likes to stick to his cynical sense of humor to keep his cool, no matter how much flack he gets for it.
