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Last season, the Duke women's soccer team defied the odds and advanced all the way to the ACC tournament finals after surviving an overtime thriller against Virginia in the first round. This season, however, the Cavaliers (14-3-1) gained revenge on the upstart Blue Devils (8-9), winning the teams' quarterfinal matchup 2-1 at Wake Forest's Dennie Spry Stadium in the extra period.
Starting with its 82-72 national championship victory over Arizona in Minneapolis at the beginning of April, practically everything that could have gone right for the Duke men's basketball team has gone right.
Three minutes into the second half of the 2001 national championship game, Duke forward Mike Dunleavy knew he would need to step up in order to for the Blue Devils to win.
New school, new outlook, new results.
This is the fifth article in a six-part series profiling the members of the men's basketball recruiting Class of 2002.
Most women's golf teams would be quite pleased with a third-place finish at one of the season's most competitive events, but not Duke.
An emotional Mike Krzyzewski eagerly accepted his enshrinement into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Friday evening, along with his longtime peer, Temple coach John Chaney, and 19-year NBA veteran Moses Malone.
As the most heralded player from North Carolina since Danny Manning, Shavlik Randolph knows that whatever choice he makes for his college selection, he would mean many different things for whichever program he chooses.
Like most people, I have mixed emotions about the return of Michael Jordan to the NBA. In many respects, I think that the way Jordan went out--hitting the game-winning shot in his last NBA Finals--simply cannot not be replicated, and no matter how good Jordan will be upon his return, he will not be the MJ of old.
While only a few miles away in Chapel Hill fans were tearing down goalposts in celebration and witnessing the potential rebirth of a slumping program, the scene in Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday was much more gloomy.
Having started his fourth season as an integral part of the Duke football team, Mike Hart embodies the notion of a hard-working, dedicated student-athlete. In fact, the senior tight end practically eats, drinks, and sleeps the game.
As athletics director of a school that prides itself on its teams and whose athletes compete on the highest level of collegiate sports, Joe Alleva has to think about his program on a constant basis.
Due to the national tragedy that occurred Tuesday morning in New York City and Washington D.C., the Duke athletics department decided to cancel last night's planned volleyball match between the undefeated Blue Devils and intrastate rival East Carolina. In addition, all games for every Duke sports team scheduled to take place between today and Friday have been postponed with no information about rescheduling available.
To the victors go the spoils.
The Duke men's basketball team received its fifth player for the Class of 2006 when Shelden Williams, a 6-foot-9 power forward from Midwest City, Okla., verbally committed to the Blue Devils last night. Williams' coach at Midwest City High School, Rodney Dinby, confirmed Williams' commitment to Duke Monday afternooon after EliteHoopsRecruits.com reported that unnamed sources had stated Williams' intention to play at Duke.
After being one of North Carolina's most sought-after high school players, Sarah Pickens could have chosen practically any university to play college soccer. Spurning offers from several big-name schools, including ACC powers like North Carolina and Clemson, Pickens chose her life-long favorite, Duke, months before graduating from Greensboro Day School, only 60 miles down the road from her new home in Durham.
For one quarter Saturday night, fantasy set in for the Duke football team.
Despite losing Heisman trophy-winning quarterback Chris Weinke on offense and weakside linebacker Tommy Polley on defense, Florida State still figures to be the favorite for ACC champion based on its abiltity to reload its talent year after year. However, another undefeated record in the ACC could be tough to come by, as redshirt freshman quarterback Chris Rix could fall prey to the same on-the-job learning difficulties that his predecessor, Weinke, experienced in his firstyear as a starter.
As the Duke football team approaches its upcoming season, one fact is quite evident: This team does not act like the worst team in Division I-A football.
Nearly a month-and-a-half after deciding to leave Duke in search of a career on the Women's Tennis Association tour, Ansley Cargill qualified for and competed in the 2001 U.S. Open Monday.
