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First Grant Hill led the basketball program to its only two national championships; now he is helping the team take the first step to fulfilling its dream of fully endowing every scholarship on the team.
To her coach, she's one of the program's most driven athletes; to the athletic department, she was, until recently, a high school junior whose recruitment needed to be handled delicately in order to avoid accusations of impropriety; and to her parents, she's their 16-year-old darling miles and miles from home, the place she deserted one year early.
With the biggest weekend of the fall portion of Carlyle Cup competition now just one day away, the sterling silver trophy that was supposed to elevate the greatest rivalry in college sports to a new feverish pitch is apparently relying on a rusty advertising campaign.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>NASHVILLE, Tenn. - It was another frustrating Saturday evening for coach Carl Franks and the football team, as the Blue Devils suffered through another lopsided loss, this time to Vanderbilt by a score of 26-7. Duke couldn't stop-or even contain-Commodores quarterback Greg Zolman oMr wide receiver Dan Stricker. Stricker set career highs with 10 catches for 147 yards. Zolman completed a career-high 23 passes, despite at least six drops by his receivers. Neither player played in the fourth quarter after the game was out of Duke's reach. "It's not that [Zolman] was looking for me, I was just wide open out there," Stricker said. "I can play a lot better than I did today." Franks said his team has improved, and he stressed that significant learning has taken place. "We need to keep getting better at all the positions we have and keep getting excited to come play," Franks said. "It's not much fun if you can't come out and practice and you can't come out to the games and play hard, see where you're getting better, see where you're making improvements and know that there is some hope there. I really believe this team has a chance to be pretty good by the end of the year." On offense, it was the same old story for the Blue Devils. Starting quarterback Spencer Romine was knocked out in the second quarter after complaining of dizziness. He watched the second half from the sidelines in street clothes. Additional evaluations will be made this week. Backup quarterback Bobby Campbell came in for two ineffective drives before giving way to third-stringer D. Bryant, who played most of the second half. The Blue Devils took the opening kickoff and marched down the field on a brilliant 15-play, 68-yard drive. On third-and-four on the Vanderbilt 12-yard line, Romine dropped back and tried to hit wide receiver Kyle Moore on a fade route in the corner of the endzone. However, Vanderbilt cornerback Jimmy Williams made a good read on the play to pick the ball off-and intercept any momentum the Blue Devils had amassed with their positive start. "We need to not pass up the opportunities that we get," Franks said. "We moved the ball right down the field and threw the ball a little late and a little short. Instead of coming out with a field goal or a touchdown, they get an interception.... I think it could have made some kind of difference if we could have scored on that first drive." The interception was the last time Duke threatened to score for the better part of three quarters. Duke's second touchdown of the season was set up by the team's first interception. Outside linebacker Ryan Fowler stepped in front of an errant pass by Vanderbilt backup Benji Walker and raced 37 yards to the Commodores' 38-yard line. Seven plays later, Bryant found senior Nic Hartofilis wide open in the back of the endzone for the score with 6:34 to play. But Vanderbilt had scored 26 points already, and the game was out of reach. Vanderbilt had two touchdown throws from Zolman-12 yards to Stricker and 13 yards to McGrath-and four field goals from kicker John Markham, who hit from 29, 30, 35 and 52 yards. Duke's defense failed to challenge the Vanderbilt offense all day. The Commodores didn't have a play longer than 29 yards all day, but the Blue Devils couldn't stop the Vanderbilt running backs, while the Commodores' receivers had a 10-yard cushion on every play. This led to a seemingly endless string of 10- to 20-yard plays as Vanderbilt moved the ball up and down the field almost at will. "We were very confident coming in," Stricker said. "We took three weeks of frustration out on Duke." Vanderbilt also rushed for a season-high 174 yards. The Commodores have struggled to run the ball all year, but Saturday they split the workload between three tailbacks-senior Jared McGrath, junior Rodney Williams and freshman Ray Perkins. All three stayed fresh through the game and each had at least 35 yards rushing, led by McGrath with 63. Going into the game, it appeared the Blue Devils could exploit a weak Vanderbilt rush defense-the Commodores gave up 500 rushing yards in their two previous games. Even so, Duke starter Duane Epperson could only muster 41 yards on 11 carries, while backup Chris Douglas fumbled away the ball on his first carry. Despite another discouraging loss and a game against undefeated Clemson, ranked seventh in the nation, looming on the weekend horizon, Franks remains optimistic that this weekend can be turned into something positive down the road. "This is going to be a very valuable learning experience for those guys," Franks said. "Playing those number of true freshmen certainly makes it tough, we made a lot of mental mistakes. But we might as well make them now because if they're going to be out there playing next year they'll be making them next year. So hopefully we'll eliminate [those mistakes] in the future."
Expectations were high the last time the women's golf team challenged the talent-laden teams from the West coast. In late May, without having played head-to-head against Pacific-10 foes like Arizona, Southern California and Stanford since early in the season, it was only mere statistics and paper comparisons that led the nation's then-No. 2 team to believe that it could stand its ground at the NCAA Championships.
The volleyball team cranked up the heat at last weekend's Duke Classic in Cameron Indoor Stadium, and tonight the Blue Devils have to play in a new home gym while engineers attempt to cool the historic facility down.
Duke's home opener against Virginia Commonwealth still looms four days away, but the field hockey team just might feel like it's playing at home tonight.
N.Y. Times News Service and The Chronicle
Mired in a three-game slide following a string of strenuous road games, the Blue Devils couldn't have picked a less friendly destination than Norfolk, Va.
It's Monday night and you're sitting down to watch the game and have a Bud. In comes the blare of the trumpets guitars and drums... Dun, dun, dun, dun! The digitized helmets of the Rams and Broncos smash together, along with ABC's standard on-screen pyrotechnics.
Surprise, surprise.
Try as I might, there's no kind way to spin what took place Saturday evening at Wallace Wade Stadium.
Standing out on the Astroturf practice field behind Wallace Wade Stadium as second-year coach Carl Franks runs his offense while Bob Trott drills the defense, there are two ways to approach the season that's set to dawn tomorrow. Depending on who you ask, it's either a glass that's half-empty or it's a glass that's half-full.
The same spunk, the same swagger and, yes, the same relentless running drills were all present yesterday afternoon when the men's soccer team held its first practice since returning home from a weekend trip to Fort Wayne, Ind.
Nearly two weeks since Corey Maggette apologized publicly about his involvement with Myron Piggie and nearly two months since he first admitted accepting money, nothing new has emerged from NCAA headquarters in Bloomington, Ind.
He is one of the elite shooting guards in the high school class of 2001, he has a 3.8 GPA and he has been a Duke fan since his high school coach can remember, but Daniel Ewing's verbal commitment nearly wound up in Lawrence, Kan., instead of the sixth floor of the Schwartz-Butters Athletic Center.
Instead of moving back to campus with the rest of her Blue Devil teammates, Beth Bauer is trying to move herself into the LPGA.
Correction: The picture associated with this article was incorrectly labeled. The picture is of senior Kathy Sell, not junior Erica Biro.
Correction: A page-one story in the July 19 Chronicle incorrectly represented the basketball program's history. It has been sanctioned by the NCAA before.
In the summer of 1997, they weren't even in the same sphere as coaches.
