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As anyone who has experienced the heat and thunderstorms of the past two weeks can attest, summer is in full swing. Of course, summer in Durham brings with it a long-standing tradition: Bulls baseball.
Not many sports give athletes a second chance to win a championship in the same season. So it's good to be a high-ranking NCAA tennis player, waking up a day or two after your team is eliminated from contention and realizing the individual titles are still up for grabs.
Every now and then, the specter of professional sports luring away one of Duke's coaches arises and creates a panic among the University's fans. Usually it's Mike Krzyzewski at the center of speculation when an NBA coaching vacancy opens up, forcing him to come forward in public to put any fears to rest.
After Arizona State shot a school-record 277 in the opening round of the NCAA Division I women's golf championship last Wednesday, Duke coach Dan Brooks suggested that it was unlikely that the Sun Devils would post another score that good.
There is a well-known cliche that says only two things in life are certain.
The baseball team is 1998 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament experience started with a scare.
DJ Honda-HII (Relativity)
The baseball team got a one-game breather Wednesday night between series against Atlantic Coast Conference foes Clemson and North Carolina, and it was just enough time to hand the Campbell Camels a 10-2 loss.
Gang Starr-Moment of Truth (Noo Trybe)
Das EFX-Generation EFX (Elektra)
OAKLAND, Calif. - On Sunday, the Final Four dreams of the men's basketball team came to an end in the Regional finals at the hands of Southeastern Conference power Kentucky. Monday night, another SEC team sent Duke's women to a similar fate.
OAKLAND - After removing a King Kong-sized monkey from their backs by advancing to the Sweet 16 for the first time in Duke women's basketball history, the Blue Devils faced a new question Saturday: Could they take another step into the unknown playing 3,000 miles from home against a team that beat them earlier this season?
The way Rhode Island coach Jim Harrick puts it, conference tournaments sound like the worst scheme ever devised by man.
CHARLOTTE - Round three goes to the Tar Heels.
CLEMSON, S.C. - If you take clutch play from a few veterans, timely contributions from a deep bench, tenacious defense and an enthusiastic home crowd, you just might have the ingredients for a Duke basketball home win.
For American action movie fans, a refrain has been echoing for months in anticipation of the arrival of one of Hong Kong's cinematic superstars: Chow Yun-Fat is coming.
ATLANTA - It wasn't pretty, but they'll take it.
Saafir-Trigonometry (label)
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Sometimes all the confidence in the world isn't enough.
RALEIGH - Heading into Monday night's game with No. 24 Duke, N.C. State's women's basketball team was ranked eighth in the nation and looking to add to its undefeated record in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Add to that the fact that Duke coach Gail Goestenkors had never won at Reynolds Coliseum and the tendency of Wolfpack star Chasity Melvin to have big games against the Blue Devils, and conditions didn't exactly appear ripe for an upset.
