Two-sided Roof takes the reins
(10/21/03 4:00am)
While he may not bring more wins than former head football coach Carl Franks, interim head football coach Ted Roof has already brought more intensity.
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While he may not bring more wins than former head football coach Carl Franks, interim head football coach Ted Roof has already brought more intensity.
Duke University fired head football coach Carl Franks Sunday and named defensive coordinator Ted Roof interim head coach for the remaining five games of the season.
While some were confused as to whether to call it "A.M. Mayhem" or "Midnight Madness," Cameron was certainly crazy again for the first men's basketball practice of the season at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.
The only thing questionable about the decision to fire Duke football head coach Carl Franks Sunday is the timing.
Devils and Demons have always thrived in the month of October, but Saturday at 12 p.m. inside Wallace Wade Stadium only one will prevail as the Blue Devils of Duke University (2-4, 0-3 in the ACC) take on the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest (3-3, 1-2) in a crucial ACC football matchup.
"The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned," Dwight Eisenhower once said. "When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy."
When analyzing the 2003 Major League Baseball playoffs, one cannot help but wonder if the baseball gods are smiling down upon us, granting wishes that many fans have desired for nearly a century. Some of baseball's greatest memories are instantly recalled with just the listing of the stadiums of the four remaining teams: Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Yankee Stadium and....Pro Player Stadium.
In what can be interpreted as either a great strength or a debilitating weakness, the football team had its most intense week of practice during its bye week. After losing 56-7 against Florida State Saturday Sept. 27, the Blue Devils split their practice time in their off week between fundamentals and preparation for the Maryland matchup this Saturday. Drills went as scheduled last Tuesday and Wednesday, but the team practiced at 6 a.m. Thursday before enjoying a weekend without either practice or a game.
There is little doubt among NBA analysts that Lebron James will be one of the greatest players to ever play in the league. But there is also great uncertainty about how long it will take the 6-foot-9 phenom to become dominant, and more specifically, how good will he be as an 18 year-old rookie?
By admissions standards alone, it can be reasonably assumed that the Duke football team far better understands Newton's Laws of Motion than the players at Florida State. But Saturday it was the Seminoles who far better used momentum in their 56-7 trampling of the Blue Devils.
Not too many superlatives slip under the Coach K radar screen. Through no small effort by Dick Vitale, everyone knows that Krzyzewski: Wins nearly every basketball game he coaches, gives significant amounts of time and money to charity, and is perceived publicly for being a nice guy about it all.
At the football team's weekly press conference, junior cornerback Kenneth Stanford and head coach Carl Franks expressed bafflement at Duke's wretched first-quarter performances this season that have led to the Blue Devils disappointing 2-2 record.
While much of the Triangle area will blame Hurricane Isabel for tardiness and absences in the work force, the Duke football team (2-1) lost no practice time in its preparations for its game against Northwestern (1-2) Saturday at 2 p.m. in Wallace Wade Stadium.
Attention head football coach Carl Franks: Publicly announce and promise to your team that you will shave your ever-present mustache if the team wins six games this season.
Head football coach Carl Franks displayed an upbeat, yet unsatisfied mood towards his 2-1 team in his weekly press conference Monday. Franks said he hoped his team would have its first 3-1 record since the 1994 Hall of Fame Bowl season, but that it still had many improvements to make.
When Duke's 10-point lead collapsed in Saturday's 27-24 overtime win over Rice, many sports-writers inside the press box made many benign statements that implicitly translated to, "Great, I have to write another Duke blows a lead and loses by five points or less story." Human nature cannot prevent those thoughts from formulating, and after the game, players said the same cognition was going through their minds, as well.
Normalcy in the college football world seems to mutate when Rice (0-1) and Duke (1-1) face each other.
For the first time since Shane Battier committed to Duke University in 1996, the Battier family will have an excuse to root against the Blue Devils. Battier's cousin Marcus Battle will take the field at the wide receiver position for the Rice Owls when they battle Duke Saturday at 6 p.m. inside Wallace Wade Stadium.
WASHINGTON and LANDOVER, Md. -- How awesome is NFL kick-off week?
At his weekly press conference, football head coach Carl Franks praised his assistant coaches' and player's performance's in the 29-3 win over Western Carolina Saturday, but noted that maintaining the high-level of play is still a question for the Blue Devils.