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Blue Devils open final 2-game stretch against Maryland
By Darius Zolnor | November 13, 1998Not often in recent times has a football game against Maryland meant very much to Duke.
Not often in recent times has a football game against Maryland meant very much to Duke.
COBB COUNTY, Ga. - With a home game this week, the grid pickers finally got a chance to catch up on their sleep.
Walking across the campus of the University of Maryland, one notices a strange sight outside McKeldin Library. There is a stone statue of a turtle. But this is not just any turtle.
The men's soccer team ended its regular season Saturday in similar fashion to last year's squad-with an easy victory over the Elon Fightin' Christians at Duke Soccer Stadium.
Let the rivalry begin.
There wasn't much more recruits Kara Dawson and Carlos Boozer could have gotten out of the Duke experience.
The volleyball team traveled to Gainesville Friday with upset on its mind, but No. 6 Florida would have nothing of the sort.
Corey Maggette is a freshman. Nate James is in his third year at Duke but hasn't had much more court time than a freshman.
GREENSBORO - "Welcome back, Ali.".
NASHVILLE - Had things ended up just a little differently, Sims Lenhardt and Scottie Montgomery would have both looked back on Saturday as a remarkable day for both themselves and their team.
NASHVILLE - On a bizarre afternoon of football at Dudley Field Saturday, the football team had a chance to record one of its biggest wins of the decade.
The volleyball team played Atlantic Coast Conference leader North Carolina tightly throughout the match in Chapel Hill Friday night but lost 3-0 in the end.
This weekend, the women's soccer team saw a pair of must-win games turn into couldn't-win games.
With just over five minutes left in the first half Saturday, the field hockey team was on its way to upsetting the No. 2 team in the country and notching its first conference win.
When team history can be measured entirely by the last regatta's showing, setting a new squad record doesn't add much to a performance.
The women's soccer team's new-look defense did its job this weekend, holding the opposition scoreless for just over 180 minutes.
Some of the same Cameron Crazies that chanted "We want Corey" for freshman Corey Maggette last year during an exhibition game were present in full force on Saturday night for the annual Blue-White...
The men's basketball team did its best impression of the Big Bang Theory Saturday night in the annual Blue-White scrimmage when Chris Burgess received a pass from Nate James off the opening tip for...
"So close but yet so far away." The phrase can accurately sum up the volleyball team's season thus far.
Saturday's game against Clemson was more than a hard-fought victory-it was a statement of character for Duke: After three years in the abyss, Fred Goldsmith's squad will not settle for anything...