Inept offense fails to score TD for 2nd straight week
Two games and more than 120 minutes into Duke's season, the question Carl Franks never dreamed he'd ever have to answer just jolted him like a raging free safety.
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Two games and more than 120 minutes into Duke's season, the question Carl Franks never dreamed he'd ever have to answer just jolted him like a raging free safety.
The way the things have gone for the women's soccer team, you'd think coach Bill Hempen would be floored if his team played an entire game without having to deal with an injury.
For two guys who love college football, the world is looking very good these days.
Airborne may not have arrived at real-life fields yet, but its virtual counterpart is now available at a toy store near you.
GREENVILLE, N.C. - Decorated by plenty of pomp and hype, a sun-drenched stage was in place Saturday for Carl Franks' much-anticipated debut as Duke's head coach. Franks exuded confidence and quarterback Spencer Romine was comfortably strapped into the pilot's seat, itching at the thought of taking the perennially-suffering program airborne.
GREENVILLE, N.C. - On the game's first four plays, East Carolina quarterback David Garrard directed an offense that resembled a swarm of beheaded chickens.
CHAPEL HILL - Coming off a 4-1 loss to Notre Dame, questions lingered about whether the women's soccer team could bounce back against Penn State, another top-five team, in its very next game.
Shortly after gaining national prominence and notoriety with her team's Final Four run last season, women's basketball coach Gail Goestenkors dug back into her roots in Michigan to land her first recruit for the class of 2004.
"Memories, pressed between the pages of our mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine."
CHAPEL HILL - After a poor start to the season, the baseball team had seemingly righted its ship of late, improving its play and coming away with victories against ACC powers Georgia Tech and Clemson.
She found the campus picturesque, the weather spectacular, the coaching staff driven and the players receptive. In a word-Duke seemed almost perfect.
In a season full of headaches, injuries and slumps, Ed Conrey's bat has been one of the constants in keeping the baseball team's ship afloat.
For four innings, North Carolina A&T pitcher Steve McLeod cruised through the Duke order without giving up a hit.
Her debut in a Duke uniform was dazzling. Her first ACC game was sensational.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Three years ago, Nicole Erickson and Michele VanGorp thought life at Purdue couldn't have been better. The then-sophomores had helped the Boilermakers to an Elite Eight appearance in the NCAAs and looked forward to a couple of more championship runs with Purdue.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - One brazen reporter felt compelled to mention to Duke coach Gail Goestenkors after Duke's win against Georgia that her team probably has the least talented team at the Final Four, and asked her to explain the Blue Devils' success.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Since the women's basketball team entered the season's final stretch, it has lived and died by its execution, its poise and its ability to play its style.
A day before the women's basketball team stunned Tennessee, forward Georgia Schweitzer was hounded by questions of 'How do you stop Chamique Holdsclaw?'
After 132 days, 34 games and one historic upset, the women's basketball team has found itself right back where it began the season-in San Jose.
GREENSBORO - While the rest of women's basketball may have been shellshocked by Duke's stirring upset of Tennessee last night, no one in the Duke locker room expressed even a bit of surprise.