SPORTS
Williams' return to ACC will bolster conference
By Mike Corey - Commen | April 15, 2003CHAPEL HILL - He's not in Kansas anymore.
CHAPEL HILL - He's not in Kansas anymore.
In sports, teamwork and individual accomplishment are often set in opposition to one another.
Kevin Cassese could not find enough peace and quiet.
With a pair of road victories over top-25 teams this weekend, the women's tennis team (23-2, 8-0 in the ACC) clinched the ACC regular season title and the No. 1 seed for next weekend's ACC tournament.
No. 11 Ohio State set the pace in the morning session, sweeping Duke in all four varsity events.
Kate Kaiser is not a member of the All-ACC 50th Anniversary team for nothing.
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.
After suffering a femoral stress fracture last year and sitting out the 2002 spring season, women's pole vaulter Laura Chen returned to top form this weekend at the Charlotte Invitational.
Down 7-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning of the final game in a series where little had gone right for the unranked Blue Devils (13-22, 0-11 ACC), about the only suspense left for Duke fans was...
In its final regular season contest, the ninth-ranked men's tennis team (17-5) convincingly defeated No.
Saturday is Senior Day for the Blue Devils. Their opponent is a familiar one: ACC rival and frequent Senior Day foe Virginia. Two years ago Duke defeated the No.
Jack Coombs Field was virtually silent this week, with steady rain relegating the baseball team indoors and forcing Wednesday's game against East Carolina to be postponed.
The fifth-ranked women's tennis team beat a depleted Wake Forest squad in Winston-Salem 7-0 Wednesday night, claiming the doubles point and sweeping all six singles matches in convincing fashion.
CHAPEL HILL - Sophomore Peter Shults is becoming accustomed to deja vu when squaring off against North Carolina.
Come on, Roy Williams, and do us all a favor. Accept the job as head coach at North Carolina, and do what needs to be done: Restore Duke-UNC as the most intense rivalry in college basketball.
It seems the men's tennis team just likes close calls.
Unfortunately for the men's golf team, an exciting finish at this weekend's ASU Invitational was not something in which they were included.
At a time of the year when most duffers are dusting off their clubs and starting to think about tee times, the women's golf team had pulled down two victories already going into this past weekend.
Opening day in the major leagues is a time when hope springs eternal, and all teams can, at least for a short while, dream.
ATLANTA -- One year removed from an NCAA semifinal loss to Oklahoma, the Duke women's basketball team worked all year to climb the next rung in the ladder of national prominence.