Duke gets set to move forward, prepare for FSU
When a team has spent so much time preparing for one game, often the hardest part is moving on and getting ready for the next one.
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When a team has spent so much time preparing for one game, often the hardest part is moving on and getting ready for the next one.
When Lamar Grant lines up in the secondary this Saturday against Northwestern, the cornerback must stare down D'Wayne Bates, the Wildcats' All-American receiver.
Imagine this scenario. Two local college football teams are both playing their season openers at home.
Less than a month ago, true freshman B.J. Hill arrived at training camp intent on playing strong safety at Duke.
If everything goes as planned, Fred Goldsmith and the football team will some day look back on this season as the beginning.
While the football team hopes to improve the state of its program on the field this year, the athletic department is looking to lend a helping hand off it.
Recruiting rumors swirling over the past few weeks had suggested that the men's basketball team was a likely favorite to gain the services of playmaker Jason Williams. The early timing of his commitment, however, was a bit unexpected.
The season got off to a bit of a rough start for the field hockey team as the 18th-ranked Blue Devils (0-1) were handed a 7-0 shutout by No. 2 Old Dominion (1-0) in Virginia yesterday afternoon.
After a few weeks of running through the same drills in practice, not being able to hit at full speed and having to answer the same questions about its prospects for the season, the football team can finally look ahead to a real, tangible reward.
Some people will do anything in search of a challenge.
The calendar still says August, but the men's basketball team already has two freshmen for the Class of 2003.
When nightfall descends upon the practice fields adjacent to Wallace Wade Stadium this evening, Fred Goldsmith and his team can breathe a sigh of relief.
Joe Alleva, Duke's director of athletics, announced Tuesday that the entire athletic department will undertake a comprehensive study of current facilities and operations with the intention of creating a "master plan for future success."
Men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski returned his team to the top of the college basketball world last season, with Duke winning 15 of 16 regular-season ACC games and coming within a few minutes of the Final Four. Expectations are as high as ever as the Blue Devils look ahead to next year. For now, though, Krzyzewski is just as focused on the future of the athletic department, and more specifically the state of Cameron Indoor Stadium (see story, p. 16). But in his annual summer interview with The Chronicle, Krzyzewski also discussed his new job title and, of course, Duke basketball. Interview conducted by Joel Israel and Nick Tylwalk.
Vision is one of those words that can mean so much and so little at the same time. Any dynamic leader must have it, and any successful leader must turn it into something tangible. It is a buzzword and a cliche, sometimes full of ideas and other times hollow.
In some ways, Fred Goldsmith is not all that different from many of the college football experts in the country. They all know that Duke is in a tough situation and that it desperately needs more than a few wins this year to keep pushing its program in the right direction and further away from a winless 1996.
Following the third round of the U.S. Women's Open a few weeks ago, most reporters and TV announcers in Kohler, Wisc., focused on familiar names such as Liselotte Neumann and Se Ri Pak. Largely ignored, just four strokes back from Pak, lurked a 20-year-old amateur whose name was familiar to college fans but certainly not the professional golfing world.
Robyn Horner is understandably excited about making the jump from Division III to coach the inaugural edition of Duke's new women's rowing program.
About a year ago, both Jamie Ashworth and Kristin Sanderson used the term 'rebuilding' to characterize the plight of the women's tennis team as it prepared to enter the 1997-98 season.
Chronicle staff writer