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(10/25/05 4:00am)
With his team's chances of winning an ACC matchup slipping away each passing week, Duke head football coach Ted Roof has begun to open up the playbook to try to secure a victory in the final stretch of the 2005 campaign.
(10/18/05 4:00am)
Head coach Ted Roof shared an old football adage with the media at his weekly press luncheon: "For every freshman you play, it is going to cost you a football game."
(10/07/05 4:00am)
Of the few disappointments that the NCAA runner-up field hockey squad experienced last season, Duke's 3-2 loss to Maryland in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament was among its biggest letdowns.
(09/26/05 4:00am)
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.-Sometimes even the opening kickoff can serve as a good indication of how a football game will turn out.
(09/19/05 4:00am)
Heading into this weekend's action at Williams Field, No. 4 Duke knew it would be facing an uphill battle. With four starters playing in Chile in the Junior World Cup, the Blue Devils were faced with playing a pair of top-10 opponents on consecutive days with only two substitutes on the bench.
(09/12/05 4:00am)
After its disappointing opening game loss to East Carolina and a hard week of practice, Duke expected to see signs of progress when it took the field Saturday against then No. 7 Virginia Tech. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, their worst offensive performance in almost 10 years wasn't what they had in mind.
(09/09/05 4:00am)
With last Saturday’s mistake-filled 24-21 loss at East Carolina, the Blue Devils (0-1) learned a helpful, if not painful lesson: they have little margin for sloppy play.
(09/08/05 4:00am)
The list of two-sport collegiate athletes ranges from hall-of-fame lacrosse and football player Jim Brown to Pro Bowler Julius Peppers, who played both football and basketball at North Carolina, to former Duke football and basketball player Reggie Love.
(09/02/05 4:00am)
For the most famous sibling in college football, it’s been a long road back to the top.
(08/29/05 4:00am)
In each of the past two seasons, Duke has found itself on the brink of winning the national title. On both occasions, however, the team has come up short, losing to rival Wake Forest in the championship game.
(06/16/05 4:00am)
One face-off. One ground ball. One save. One shot. One goal.
(06/02/05 4:00am)
Slideshow: Men's Lacrosse Finals: Johns Hopkins
(06/02/05 4:00am)
PHILADELPHIA — With their gear packed up and their belongings prepped for the trip back to Durham, the Blue Devils sat pensively around the visitor’s locker room in Lincoln Financial Field. Scrawled in blue marker on the dry-erase board and printed on the back of their Final Four t-shirts was a subtle clue that conveyed the overall sentiments of the disappointed squad.
(05/31/05 4:00am)
PHILADELPHIA—Duke’s bid to win its first men’s lacrosse national championship fell short Monday as the No. 2 Blue Devils (17-3) lost to No. 1 Johns Hopkins (16-0) 9-8 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
(05/28/05 4:00am)
PHILADELPHIA — In what was billed as a grudge match of conflicting offensive styles, the No. 2 Blue Devils (17-2) exploded with a 9-0 first-half run to defeat the No. 3 Terrapins (11-6) 18–9 in the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament Saturday. The win propels Duke into its first-ever men’s lacrosse national title game, which will be held Monday at noon at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
(05/19/05 4:00am)
For Fairfield, an unlikely scenario in the game’s early moments planted a brief sense of hope that the Stags could upset No. 2 Duke to win their first NCAA tournament game.
(05/19/05 4:00am)
Competing against more than 100 teams at the nation’s oldest annual track and field meet, both the men’s and women’s track teams enjoyed success at the ECAC/IC4A Championships in Princeton, N.J. The men ended the three-day long meet in 13th while the women finished eighth.
(04/22/05 4:00am)
With their goal of winning back-to-back ACC regular season titles within reach, the No. 2 Blue Devils (11-3, 2-1 in the ACC) have only one major obstacle to overcome—a 6 p.m. matchup in Koskinen Stadium tonight against ACC-newcomer Virginia Tech (5-8, 0-3).
(04/15/05 4:00am)
When No. 2 Duke (11-3) steps on the field at noon Saturday for a show down with Loyola (3-7), the team will take in a sight it hasn’t seen in a month—a home crowd.
(04/07/05 4:00am)
As the hot afternoon sun began its slow descent behind the surrounding forest, large shadows began to cast themselves across portions of the field. Practice had officially ended 15 minutes earlier, but attacker Kristen Waagbo was still standing attentively a few yards from the net.