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(09/03/02 4:00am)
Less than nine months ago, Ted Roof stood poised to achieve a football coach's dream. The Georgia Tech defensive coordinator was traveling to Notre Dame where he could expect to be offered the same job by George O'Leary, the former Yellow Jacket head coach, who had taken the head job for the Irish just days earlier.
(09/02/02 4:00am)
As of August 30, 2002, the Duke University football team owned the nation's longest losing streak in the country. By August 31 at 9:15 p.m., the Blue Devils were in a four-way tie for first place in the ACC.
(08/31/02 4:00am)
And in the twenty-fourth game, the rain stopped falling on Duke's football program.
(08/30/02 4:00am)
With 214 tackles after his first two seasons from the outside linebacker position, Ryan Fowler's move to the more aggressive middle linebacker slot leaves him poised to become a name on everyone's short list of great defensive players in the country.
(08/30/02 4:00am)
The Duke football team will get its first chance to end its nation-leading 23-game losing streak against East Carolina Saturday at 6 p.m. in Wallace Wade Stadium. After nearly nine months off the gridiron as the butt of jokes, the Blue Devils are eager to prove their critics wrong.
(08/30/02 4:00am)
Coming off a season in which Florida State had its worst season in ten years and Maryland won its first ACC championship in sixteen years, normalcy should be set to return to the conference for 2002.
(08/27/02 4:00am)
Head coach Carl Franks announced today at a press conference that the quarterback controversy between Adam Smith and Chris Dapolito has ended. However, he said that he will not disclose who the starter is in an effort to hinder East Carolina's pregame scouting report before the two squads face off this coming weekend at Wallace Wade Stadium.
(08/22/02 4:00am)
Head football coach Carl Franks provided an optimistic, yet realistic view of his luckless team at a press conference Tuesday.
(04/24/02 4:00am)
Coming off three tough losses at the hands of top-ranked Clemson, the baseball team had high expectations entering its game against No. 18 East Carolina. But these hopes were shattered in the Pirates' 8-1 blowout victory.
(04/22/02 4:00am)
The baseball team (19-22, 1-11 in the ACC) had a chance to defeat the top-ranked Clemson Tigers (34-5, 10-2) in each of its three matchups, but eventually faltered in all of the games. The Blue Devils lost 5-3 Friday, 4-1 Saturday and 2-1 Sunday.
(04/19/02 4:00am)
The women's lacrosse team looks to avenge its ailing season against North Carolina today in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament in Koskinen Stadium at 3:30 p.m.
(04/18/02 4:00am)
The baseball team toppled Davidson in all aspects of the game en route to a 12-2 win Wednesday. The team had six players with multiple hits, and shut the Wildcats out for seven full innings in its final game before it meets the No. 1 team in the country, the Clemson Tigers.
(04/05/02 5:00am)
The Duke track and field teams will get their only chance to compete at home this weekend in the 2002 Duke Invitational. The meet is consistently one of the three largest track events on the East Coast, along with the Penn Relays and the Raleigh Relays, attracting nearly 120 teams and 2,000 athletes.
(04/01/02 5:00am)
The Duke rowing team lost all of its races against national powers Michigan and Ohio State Saturday, but the meet proved to be a moral victory.
(03/29/02 5:00am)
A 25-4 record against the most difficult schedule in the country and a No. 2 seed in the Midwest region would be a successful regular season for nearly every women's college basketball program. Every team, that is, besides the Tennessee Lady Volunteers.
(03/25/02 5:00am)
The Virginia women's rowing team triumphed over Duke in all seven of its races in a regatta at Rivatta Reservoir. Still, the Blue Devils felt it was a moral victory.
(03/25/02 5:00am)
The Duke men's golf team catapulted itself into second place going into the back nine before falling late in its round to finish sixth at the Schenkel E-Z-Go Invitational at Forest Heights Country Club in Statesboro, Georgia. The tournament featured five of the top 10 teams in the country, easily the toughest field Duke has faced so far.
(03/21/02 5:00am)
The Duke women's lacrosse team (5-2) lost its second straight game, a 13-5 decision to the Princeton Tigers (4-1), on a rain-soaked field in Princeton, N.J., Wednesday. Princeton senior Kim Smith scored five times in the first half and the Tigers built an insurmountable 8-0 halftime lead.
(03/18/02 5:00am)
In its first outdoor match at the new, state-of-the-art Ambler Tennis Stadium, the No. 4 Duke women's tennis team defeated No. 7 Texas 5-2. The solid victory for the Blue Devils was a bit surprising after its 4-3 loss to UCLA March 12, a team Texas beat on four of its six individual matches.
(03/07/02 9:00am)
Having the lead highlight on SportsCenter, hearing the roar of 1,200 classmates that have spent weeks in a cold tent and attending one of the world's most heralded--and expensive--universities in the world on someone else's tab are just some of the thoughts that come to mind when one imagines himself as a player for Duke's men's basketball team.