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It was a busy weekend for the Duke track teams, which saw athletes competing in two different states and qualifying for postseason competition.
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It was a busy weekend for the Duke track teams, which saw athletes competing in two different states and qualifying for postseason competition.
On paper, the women's basketball team should hold an advantage over Wake Forest as the two teams meet in Winston-Salem Thursday night. The Demon Deacons (10-11 overall, 2-9 Atlantic Coast Conference) fell to Duke 82-70 in Durham on Jan. 9, and haven't won since, a losing streak that has now stretched to eight games.
A win is a win is a win.
It's almost February, which means it's time for... baseball?
For a brief, euphoric moment, there was Ben Coates in the end zone, hugging a Drew Bledsoe pass, the Patriots vaulting into the lead and all of New England wondering if maybe, just maybe, its long-pathetic football team could be the champions of Super Bowl XXXI. Ah, but reality had to come crashing down, and soon there was Desmond Howard, weaving through the sea of white jerseys, sprinting toward the goal line, the hopes of a region dashed.
The women's tennis team will have its final tuneup before team competition begins as its players compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Tournament at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill this weekend.
It's that time of year again. Row upon row of tents fill Krzyzewskiville, packed with Cameron Crazies preparing their face paint and clever chants to heckle the despised opposition, pumped for one of the biggest games of the season.
While most of the Duke student body will go home and relax over Thanksgiving break, the women's basketball team will be hard at work, playing three games in five days.
Any list of the biggest college basketball states in the country would definitely have to include Indiana and North Carolina. For its Class of 2000, the women's basketball team harvested these hotbeds with the signing of Lauren Rice and Jennifer Forte.
The Duke women's basketball team gave itself a rousing send-off to the start of its regular season on Saturday with a come-from-behind victory over the Chinese National Team. A clutch three-pointer by senior guard Kira Orr with 32 seconds remaining gave the Blue Devils the lead for good, which they held on to by the slimmest of margins for a 94-93 win.
The Duke swim team enjoyed some southern hospitality this weekend as it traveled down to the College of Charleston and swept both the men's and women's meets.
Not that a Duke team ever needs any extra motivation going into a contest against North Carolina.
The volleyball team continued to rack up Atlantic Coast Conference wins as it defeated Florida State 3-1 Sunday afternoon.
October 13, 1981.
The No. 12 Duke field hockey team took to the road this weekend and earned a split of games against fifth-ranked Maryland and Virginia Commonwealth.
Over the last few weeks, very little has gone according to plan for the men's soccer team, as losses to lower-ranked opponents have plagued the once-No. 1 Blue Devils. But Wednesday night, for the first time in a while, everything did go according to plan, as Duke easily dispatched the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, 6-0.
Every day, it seems, some story about a football player getting into trouble with the law shows up in the headlines. Recent scandals involving such prominent athletes as Michael Irvin and Lawrence Phillips have done nothing to decrease the stereotype of football players as being prone to criminal behavior. Just last week, Duke sophomore linebacker Brian McCormack was charged with assault following an altercation outside a Durham restaurant.
After a sometimes disappointing first half of the season, the Duke women's soccer team could have given up.
CHAPEL HILL - For the past 15 years, Duke-UNC field hockey games have meant one thing: Tar Heel wins.
In the world of sports, no matter how heart-breaking one night's loss is, teams almost always get the chance to come back and try again.