The Blue Devils kick off a new season on Saturday, seeking to recover from last year's 1-10 record with no ACC wins. Click for The Chronicle's Complete Coverage of Duke and its ACC Football rivals.
This weekend two high school seniors-Kelly Cain and Karima Christmas-will make official visits to Duke as they try to sift through a number of scholarship offers and decide where to lend their...
Although the 14th-ranked Blue Devils (2-0) put on an offensive show in victories over Hartford and St. Francis last weekend, Rennie still has concerns about the inconsistency of his defense as Duke...
Last November, Duke's season came to an abrupt end when Yale's Laurel Kames scored a last-second goal to pull out a win for the Bulldogs, 2-1, in the second round of the NCAA College Cup.
"I am never going to change my expectations for this great school, this football program that we are building," Amato said. "I am not going to change my enthusiasm about the game, about this...
Every team has a motivator. This type of player is frequently portrayed as a loud and enthusiastic screaming lunatic. On a football team, this player often comes from the offensive line.
Sometime during the 13 years Virginia head coach Al Groh spent working under Bill Parcells at several NFL stops, the now-Dallas Cowboys' coach gave Groh a piece of advice he still has not forgotten.
But on a team that returns 15 starters from last year's talented but inconsistent squad, the junior All-American wideout is hardly the only playmaker.
For years the Triangle has been known for its men's basketball. Mike Krzyzewski, Dean Smith, Jim Valvano and others have made the area one of the nation's most famous for men's competition on any...
Joe Germanese, a junior, decided to transfer to Duke after Vanderbilt disbanded its men's soccer program after the 2005 season as a result of Title IX equity concerns at the school. And he hasn't...
Player-coach may seem an antiquated term in most sports, but for Kevin Cassese this summer, it was very much a reality. Actually, Cassese was more of a player-coach-camp director-recruiter-national...
Moros, one of the women's soccer team's tri-captains, spent the past summer playing for the Under-21 U.S. Women's National Team. Her experience, which began when she trained with the team in the...
Beard, a Blue Devil from 2001 to 2004, is a member of the USA Women's Senior National Team that began practicing Tuesday and will continue until Sept. 6 in preparation for the FIBA World...
Duke will enter this season ranked No. 9 in the Country by Golf Digest. But perhaps an e-mail sent recently to head coach Rod Myers by a former player will prove to be even more telling about his...
When Duke takes the field Saturday evening against Richmond in its season opener, it will finally have a chance to begin to erase the memory of last season.
The first time it was a surprise. The second time it was anticipated. By their third consecutive appearance in the NCAA championship game last fall, the No. 3 Blue Devils had firmly established the...
The 2005 IC4A champions are not content to end their season in the same way this year.
Riding high on a No. 1 ranking for the majority of the season in 2005, Duke's seven seniors thought the team's last race together-the 2005 NCAA Championships-would also result in its first national...
The Blue Devils outmatched Western Carolina en route to a 1-0 victory Sunday. Their energy and focus, however, drained under the sweltering heat of the afternoon sun in their second game of a...
If Duke hopes to advance further in the NCAA tournament and win its first national title in 20 years, it will have to become more consistent defensively. Although the Blue Devils gave up just 1.15...
