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Injuries: they're a part of sports that afflict a growing number of today's athletes and their teams. In every sport, there's almost always that one stretch of games where playoff-caliber teams find a way to rally together in the absence of one of its players.
Finesse and grace probably aren't two words that will come to mind when the men's lacrosse team looks back on today's season opener against Butler.
While Virginia ran away with the 1999 Women's ACC Swimming and Diving Championships in College Park, Md., this weekend, Duke received an uplifting consolation when senior Amy Armond culminated her career as a Blue Devil by provisionally qualifying for the 1999 NCAA Championships.
When Georgia Tech swimmers Ed Brinkman, David Laitala and Jay Cerceo all touched deck ahead of Duke's Brendan McGill in the 100-yard freestyle event Friday at the Duke Aquatic Center, the Yellow Jackets essentially assured themselves of something their swim program had yet to accomplish in its 20-year history: an ACC victory.
You wouldn't expect the coach of a team riding its longest winning streak in school history to demand two intense practices before traveling to play an opponent her squad already crushed by 16 points earlier in the season.
The volleyball team entered the year with high expectations, but as the season wore on, an inexperienced squad with five freshmen and only one senior proved unable to fulfill any of its goals. Three losing streaks of four matches or more doused any early-season goals the Blue Devils had as they finished 8-21 (4-13 in the ACC), their worst performance since 1983. The finish resulted in the team's second straight first-round exit in the ACC Tournament.
Despite battling through a competitive match, costly errors undid the volleyball team Saturday in its quest to sweep the season series from Maryland. A four-game loss, 10-15, 16-14, 15-6, 15-13, closed out the Blue Devils' regular season and also set up a potential rematch later this week.
One year after working minor miracles with Florida State in his first year as coach, second-year man Steve Robinson once again finds himself in a first-year situation.
The schedule might say that the regular season starts tomorrow afternoon for the men's basketball team, but to the players, it really began a long time ago.
It's safe to say there were a lot of fingernails left unbitten in Cameron last night.
Two hours after handing parents Patricia and Robert Irvine a bouquet of flowers during a special Senior Day presentation, outside hitter Megan Irvine, the volleyball team's only senior, gave her teammates a much-welcomed present too: a win over ACC rival Wake Forest.
While much of the nation parades around from home to home in ghoulish costumes Saturday night, the men's soccer team will spend its Halloween trying to expel lingering phantoms from last weekend's heartbreaking loss to Virginia.
When the Blue Devil defense blocked Wolfpack star Laura Kimbrell's tip attempt at Cameron Indoor Stadium Friday night, the volleyball team achieved something it had not for 21 agonizing days: a win.
After four days of much-needed rest, the women's soccer team packed its bags for California yesterday for two West Coast games coming up this weekend. The Blue Devils (5-5) will defend their No. 25 ranking against unranked St. Mary's tonight at 6 p.m. before meeting their toughest opponent thus far this year, second-ranked Santa Clara, Sunday.
After avenging last year's first-round NCAA loss to UNC-Greensboro Wednesday, the women's soccer team returns home to host the Duke adidas Women's Soccer Classic this weekend.
After a disastrous weekend in which the women's soccer team lost its first two ACC games, the Blue Devils try to rebound tonight against a team that delivered last year's greatest disaster.
After claiming the Duke-adidas Soccer Classic this past weekend, the men's soccer team travels to the College of Charleston for its first road game of the season tonight at 7 p.m.
As Williams rejoined his wife Wanda and their two children, Scott and Kimberly, in the rural town they had called home for the past 12 years, a middle-aged sportswriter who had settled into a static position at an unheralded small-market newspaper put the finishing touches on a story that promised to put him in the limelight.
