Blue Devil women rally to beat Florida State
With five minutes left in Sunday's game against Florida State, women's basketball coach Gail Goestenkors found herself in an uncomfortably familiar position.
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With five minutes left in Sunday's game against Florida State, women's basketball coach Gail Goestenkors found herself in an uncomfortably familiar position.
Joining only a small handful of black, male administrators at Duke, Milton Blackmon left his position as an academic adviser at the University of Akron last semester to become an assistant director of Duke's Pre-Major Advising Center.
Following up on the spirit of Race Day, the Inter-Community Council is planning a series of retreats designed to improve race relations among University students.
Oh, what the wrestling team wouldn't give to turn the clock back to last week.
It was a sight more common to the Super Bowl or an NCAA Championship than to the gym at Boston College for a regular season fencing meet.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The women's basketball team has lost games this season because of lack of talent or lack of height. It hadn't lost a game because of lack of effort-until Friday night against the Maryland Terrapins.
Four technical fouls aren't that much of a surprise from a school where one basketball player broke a teammate's nose with a punch in the locker room.
To call the upcoming season for the men's fencing team a rebuilding year would be an understatement at best.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Two weeks after the end of final exams, men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski had one crucial question left to answer. Could the Blue Devils still dominate ranked teams after the loss of leading scorer and rebounder Elton Brand?
Separated only by the paved area between Cameron Indoor Stadium and the Duke Aquatic Center, the men's swimming and men's basketball teams simultaneously worked their way to identical 103 point scores Saturday afternoon.
When a team plays at the same level of intensity against an unranked in-state school as it does while upsetting the defending national champion, that unranked school might feel some pain.
Last weekend, I could have been covering, or at least paying five dollars to watch, the NCAA men's soccer championships. Instead I was checking out the new Cracker Barrel. Why? Because Duke wasn't selected to go to the tournament. After careful contemplation, I have no clue why the Blue Devils weren't in the field.
To wrap up its season, the men's soccer team found a pot of dirt where it expected gold.
It was a tale of two halves.
"An unbelievable talent... one of those Grant Hill type of guys... has a chance to be a special defensive player... one of those people you might see on a Wheaties box someday."
A valiant effort by seniors David Green and Corey Thomas turned out to be too little, too late for the football team on Saturday as the Blue Devils (2-8, 0-7 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) failed in their quest for a conference victory, losing 41-38 to Georgia Tech (5-4, 4-3 in the ACC).
CHAPEL HILL - On paper, the field hockey team performed as expected in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament this weekend. Duke beat Wake Forest 3-2 on Friday but lost to Virginia (18-2) Saturday in Chapel Hill.
The year 1994 seems like a long way away for the football team.
Kicking off her 21st birthday celebration, senior Andi Melde assisted on all three of Duke's goals as the women's soccer team defeated Wake Forest, 3-1, Sunday afternoon at Duke Soccer Stadium.
The field hockey team may be down to their last out.