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While hundreds upon hundreds of gay and lesbian couples came out of Massachusetts city halls this week as the first same-sex Americans holding state-sanctioned marriage licenses, two Durham partners continued toward a similar goal in the South.
When the NCAA announced its sweeping academic reform package two weeks ago, President Myles Brand likened the stringent enforcement of classroom standards on college sports to an historic "sea change".
The Dude was just looking for a groovy class, man. Engineering was his bag and these big lecture halls weren't his scene, but whatever, man, the Dude, this Matt Bettis dude, needed to fill his time slot and get shaking on his history minor. And, like, American Dreams/American Realities sounded pretty far out. Hell, by the time Dean Gerald Wilson got to rapping on how everybody'd be getting a B no matter what went down, the Duke commune seemed straight down outta sight.
Sad as the end of Duke's basketball season may have been, let's put another spectacular year on the hardwood behind us. Now given that finals are never worth looking forward to and that three straight wins by the baseball team this past weekend aren't anything we're bound to see again soon, there's one altogether refreshing spring thing to excite us at year's end.
John Lucas is a business major, so he understood the number crunching Saturday night: III + 3 + THREE = Final Four. Following a lineage of basketball excellence, John Lucas III was one win away from returning home to Texas with his father, former NBA player and coach John Lucas, Jr. But following a dismal first half that saw the Oklahoma State transfer point guard loft up three air balls, it was really time to take care of business.
Duke steamrolled its way to Atlanta this weekend, playing blanketing defense and draining more than half of its shots en route to taking its first two games of the NCAA Tournament by over 30 points. But for a program heading into its seventh straight Sweet 16 tonight, too much is not enough.
South Regional
The Ivy League is usually pretty daunting, but for the No. 5 women's tennis team, it's just a stop-over between a week in Hawaii during Spring Break and a rivalry match against No. 7 North Carolina Sunday. But coming off a beach week that brought them convincing wins over Notre Dame and Tennessee, Duke (8-1) might as well ease into a three-match homestand at 4 p.m. today against No. 75 Yale (5-5).
Sure, it was the first day back from Spring Break, but the LaserJets in Duke's computer clusters were printing way too few e-reserves and English papers yesterday. I glanced at the screen next to me while sending my reading for class to the ePrint station, only to find this other student with a higher number of printed NCAA Tournament brackets than of the sunscreen he'd rubbed on in Key West last week.
As the Durham sky gets darker and darker on Thursday nights, the lights in the offices of the Wachovia mini-skyscraper off West Main Street turn off and the ones downstairs at Café PariZäde light up. At 8 p.m., those bankers and some alumni in town for the weekend and a group of well-off students dine on $26 lamb chops and $19 bouillabaisse. They sit in big leather thrones, surrounded by classy-enough surrealist paintings in a brightly lit dining room, where business chatter drowns out elevator music.
Class 608 explodes into the room with a whirlwind of mumbling, stumbling and wondering that only 12-year-olds can produce.
Luol Deng went up strong like he always does. But this time, not even four minutes into last night's game against Virginia, he fell hard on his tailbone and disappeared to the bench for a while, which he hardly ever does.
Opening what was supposed to be a monster of a season, the fourth-ranked women's tennis team began its 2004 schedule this weekend with a growl and a whispering loss. A trip to Nashville brought Duke merely a 1-1 record, with a 6-1 win over No. 32 Baylor overshadowed by a blowout 7-0 loss the next day to the home team, No. 12 Vanderbilt.
On the surface, this looks frighteningly familiar: The men's basketball team heading to College Park to take on fierce rival Maryland, with Duke ranked No. 1 and rolling. The Blue Devils have lost the top spot in the polls two years running--at Cole Field House during the 2002 National Championship run and last January at the cacophonous Comcast Center.
NEW YORK -- Mike Krzyzewski rode his sleigh into Madison Square Garden this afternoon, and his reindeers glided to their biggest day of the season, as No. 3 Duke blew away No. 11 Texas, 89-61.
When the college basketball season is barely into December, it's often too soon to conclude that a team is going to be a major disappointment from just its early results. No. 6 Duke proved that last night with a blowout win over No. 5 Michigan State, as the Blue Devils recovered from a Saturday loss to then-unranked Purdue. After missing out on a chance to be the top-ranked squad in the nation, the Blue Devils are on the upswing for their next game, a Saturday afternoon contest against St. John's at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Game 1 vs. Pacific
The men's basketball team survived a couple of breathtaking scares from unrelenting Detroit Saturday night, overcoming an early 12-0 deficit and a last-minute injury to point guard Chris Duhon to escape with a 67-56 opening night victory at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Racing and chasing with more energy than they had all season, the women's soccer team pushed for a comeback yesterday with their season on the line in College Station, TX.
The women's soccer team left for College Station, Tx. yesterday at 6 a.m., packed on the last flight they could book after a last minute change in travel plans. The Blue Devils (13-6-1) were expecting to receive home-field advantage for the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament this weekend but will instead travel to the home of Texas A&M, taking on Stephen F. Austin (15-4-2) today at 6 p.m. and potentially moving on to face the winner of the A&M-Southern Methodist game in Sunday's second round.
