Plan B: New QB?
(09/04/03 4:00am)
Junior Adam Smith is accustomed to quarterback controversy.
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Junior Adam Smith is accustomed to quarterback controversy.
George Washington once told Congress, "Men are very apt to run into extremes," in an attempt to alleviate America's desire to ally itself with its revolutionary side-kick France in its war against much-hated England.
Head football coach Carl Franks described Saturday's 27-0 loss to Virginia as "unacceptable" at a press conference yesterday. Franks went on to say that there is a strong chance there will be line up changes before Saturday's game against Western Carolina, including at the quarterback position. Franks was unsure why his team lacked enthusiasm, and felt complacency from having 22 returning starters could have been part of the problem.
Despite the football team's genuine optimism for the 2003 season and its opening game against No. 18 Virginia, there are two facts that it cannot deny: Duke has the longest ACC losing streak in the league's history and Cavalier fans feel their team is germinating into one of its greatest eras under third-year head coach Al Groh.
The football team does not want a winter break this year. After ending its season well in advance of exam week for the past nine years, the Blue Devils have for the first time in recent memory publicly stated their goal of a bowl berth for this holiday season.
The ACC will be the No. 1 football conference in the country for the 21st century.
In a business-as-usual tone at his weekly press conference, head football coach Carl Franks expressed his desire to end the unknowns of the preseason by starting what looks to be Duke's most...
Normally when one talks about the Duke football team "going bowling," it refers to a recreational activity in which an individual throws a heavy ball down an alley at ten pins. But for the 2003 football season, the normally woeful Blue Devils have a legitimate shot of going to a bowl game.
Dwight Howard 6-foot-10, 225 pounds. 18.5 PPG
NBA teams do not know how to draft role players. Exhibit A: The
Pulitzer Prize winning author Norman Mailer made an interesting point in comparing the economics of literature and professional sports in a New York Times interview this past winter.
I guess March was not mad enough for the ACC.
Are you tired of Lebron James yet?
Things just don't seem the same in the NBA's Western Conference Finals without the Los Angeles Lakers. This is to take no credit away from the San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks; those two teams surely earned their spot and the Lakers did not. But when one looks at the 1999-2000 Laker team, it is hard to believe that the 2002-03 Laker squad achieved less than that youthful group.
The men's golf team qualified for the NCAA Championships with its fifth place, 866 stroke finish at the NCAA East Regional held at the par-72, 7207-yard Auburn University Club in Auburn, Ala, last week.
While the film Matrix: Reloaded seems destined for both critical and commercial success this week, the ACC: Reloaded will inevitably have a more perilous future.
Junior first-team all-ACC defensive end Shawn Johnson said he never committed to transfer to Fordham University, as a March press release indicated. Controversy surrounded the alleged decision when Patriot League officials informed Johnson that the league did not accept fifth-year players unless one of their four seasons was a medical red shirt - which Johnson's was not.
It is very difficult to make an assessment of a football team while watching a squad scrimmage itself, as Duke did in its annual Blue-White Game Saturday. The challenge in evaluation is prescient because every win is a loss.
"This is horses--t."
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - There's Batman and Robin. There's Snoop and Dre. There's Kobe and Shaq. And now after qualifying for their second consecutive Final Four, there's Alana and Iciss.