Tough to earn, even tougher to lose
By Brody Greenwald | July 19, 2000One-year renewable scholarships. For scholarship athletes at Duke, they are a concept that must have seemed more like an urban legend or a myth than a reality.
One-year renewable scholarships. For scholarship athletes at Duke, they are a concept that must have seemed more like an urban legend or a myth than a reality.
After all the phone calls, all the letters and all the glossy print brochures, it was what she had always known that made the difference.
When Carl Franks arrived on campus as the head football coach more than a year ago, the promise of a multi-receiver, aerial offense straight from the pages of Florida Gators coach Steve Spurrier's...
CHAPEL HILL - Once upon a time, it was a job you waited 30 years as an assistant to get a crack at. It was, as has been said, the greatest coaching opportunity in the world.
He has yet to play a single game in a Duke uniform, but already Chris Duhon is making people take notice.
When Chris Carrawell last stepped off a basketball court, he had tears streaming down his cheeks as he exchanged a nationally televised embrace with his coach and friend, Mike Krzyzewski.
In the summer of 1997, they weren't even in the same sphere as coaches.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Chicago Bulls had Michael Jordan and the Los Angeles Lakers have Shaquille O'Neal.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - At a makeshift press conference in a football weight room, men's lacrosse coach Mike Pressler sat steaming mad and soaking wet.
After a great beginning, the spring has not turned out the way the men's golf team had hoped.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - With just over 19 minutes left to play in Saturday's first semifinal game, it looked as if the women's lacrosse team was on its way to its first ACC tournament win ever.
A little home cooking was good for the track programs this weekend.
Two weeks ago, the tennis team at the other end of 15-501 thought it had proven it was only one small step behind archrival Duke.
There were a couple of things the baseball team had to acknowledge going into the weekend.
Duke football kicked off its 2000 season Saturday afternoon at a wet Wallace Wade Stadium with its annual spring scrimmage.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - For the first 23 minutes Saturday night, the Duke-Virginia lacrosse was looking like, well, the Duke-Virginia series.
It was high noon and the sun was shining brightly over the West Campus Turf Fields. It was a beautiful day for a lacrosse match.
RALEIGH - Despite dropping a double-header to N.C.
RALEIGH - It wasn't a mad scientist who came up with Arena League Football-it was a mad mathematician.
For the lone senior on the women's tennis team, yesterday's tennis match marked the last time she would play at Duke Tennis Stadium.