Sports Commentary: Keep the applause comin' for Duhon
(01/26/04 5:00am)
Chris Duhon's explosive offensive performance on Saturday would have been astounding to anyone familiar with the senior point guard's college career.
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Chris Duhon's explosive offensive performance on Saturday would have been astounding to anyone familiar with the senior point guard's college career.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- J.J. Redick was unfazed by the derision of nearly 18,000 screaming Maryland fans, and his shooting touch and tenacity helped the men's basketball team fend off a late second-half surge by Maryland en route to a 68-60 win last night.
If your local record store ever opens up a section situated between "Folk" and "Rap/R&B" called "Sounds a lot like the Strokes," Phantom Planet will be one of the first albums that they stock.
The No. 6 men's basketball team, having failed an unofficial ACC/Big Ten Challenge less than a week ago, will try to make good in the real thing tonight at 9 p.m. in East Lansing, Mich. against fifth-ranked Michigan State (3-1). The Blue Devils (3-1) are coming off of a loss to then-unranked Purdue, now ranked 21st in the country, while the Spartans recently claimed the Coca-Cola Spartan Classic title in a narrow victory over DePaul.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Maybe Alana Beard should get in foul trouble every game. Generally speaking, when your All-American and primary scorer has four personals against her early in the second half of a close game, you're in trouble. It's time to bench her, and hope your team can hang in without its stud until crunch time. And when your go-to player returns, she should play gingerly and try not to pick up that ultimate violation.
A lot has changed for Detroit and Duke since the last time the Titans and Blue Devils squared off. The first and only time that the two schools competed was during head coach Mike Krzyzewski's initial campaign at Duke in 1980. For the Blue Devils, names like Dawkins, Laettner and Battier have gone from recruiting notebooks to the rafters at Cameron. For Detroit, the Tigers have gone from mediocre to World Series champs to the most abysmal team in a generation. The Jackson 5 has been replaced by Eminem as the Motor City's most famous musical export.
It's a pretty good bet that David Foster Wallace got good grades in English and math when he was in school.
CLEMSON, S.C. -- Nine minutes into Duke's 40-7 bloodletting at the hands of a motivated Clemson team, neither squad had an advantage.
People expecting artistic maturity from Ryan Adams should know better by now. Anyone describing the one-time Whiskeytown frontman constantly brings up his precocity; his fans invoke the theory that, if Adams is this good at his young age, he will one day be even better.
The women's tennis team closed out its fall season with an encouraging but ultimately unsuccessful run at a Grand Slam title by senior All-American Amanda Johnson. But the real encouragement for both the Blue Devils' spring season and for the years to come should come from a freshman whose win at the Arizona State University Thunderbird Invitational bodes well for Duke's future.
The seniors taking the floor this year are all shooting at one goal. Alana Beard, Iciss Tillis and Vicki Krapohl are all trying to close out their careers as Blue Devils by bringing an NCAA championship home to Durham.
aHead Coach: Herb Sendek: @ N.C. State: 127-98, 8th season; Overall: 190-124, 11th year. National Championships: 0; Final Fours: 0
Stuart Murdoch evidently had two forces pulling at him when he wrote Dear Catastrophe Waitress. The Belle & Sebastian mastermind, best known for his world-weary outlook, was involved in a tug-of-war between brilliantly slick pop tunes about heartbreak and less-brilliant, silly ditties full of pop-culture references and sha-la-la back-up vocals. Dear Catastrophe Waitress, the fifth B&S album, represents a huge victory for the better angels of Murdoch's nature, and happens to be some of the best music of the last few years.
Some cities have very specific associations for all of us. Chicago evokes visions of eating deep dish while riding the El; Seattle compels images of lattes and the Space Needle; Tokyo might suggest sushi and a bullet train.
The women's volleyball team (5-11, 1-3) showed consistent toughness in Friday's match when it withstood multiple surges by Florida State (9-6, 1-3). The squad's ability to hang tough late in games allowed it to log its first ACC win of the year in straight games, defeating the Seminoles .
The Franklin Street Partners Invitational title has belonged to the Duke women's golf team for so long, it has more in common with Ninth Street than with Chapel Hill's famous thoroughfare.
This fall, the Duke University Union's presentation of Oktoberfest will be closer to the real thing.
The men's golf team experienced lots of bad luck this weekend, so perhaps it is fitting that the Blue Devils finished 13th at the Inverness Invitational, a collegiate golf tournament held at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Oh.
For those who don't know her, Lucinda Williams is the godmother of a generation of guitar-playing and world-weary songstresses. Ani DiFranco, Aimee Mann and Tift Merritt each owe Williams a debt of gratitude. Williams' self-titled 1988 album produced "The Night's Too Long" and the Grammy-winning "Passionate Kisses," each of which became a modern country standard. Williams' next masterpiece, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road netted her another Grammy in 1998. Next Thursday, Williams will showcase many of these songs and others from her newest album, the critic's darling World Without Tears at the Lost Highway Records show. The newest album, released in April, is a genre-blending kaleidoscope: "Sweet Side" features rap-spoken word lyricism, while "Minneapolis" and "Ventura" are intricately orchestrated and mellow break-up songs. But ultimately, Williams knows enough to dance with the one that brung her: the best tunes on World Without Tears are typical Lucinda. "Fingers/Strings" proves the highlight of Williams' recent oeuvre, providing a foot-stomping rocker reminiscent of Joan Jett.
The play might be the thing, but the Theater Studies Studio will be the place.