Despite the unusual advantage of hosting an NCAA Tournament game against a higher-seeded opponent, the Duke (11-8-1) men's soccer team fell 2-1 to first-round foe William & Mary (14-7-1) Friday night.
The army's 1991 skirmish with Iraq wasn't this easy.
RALEIGH -- Currently the world's fastest woman, Marion Jones used to be better known for her talents on the hardcourt at North Carolina than in track and field.
Preseason accolades and a feature in this week's Sports Illustrated were clearly not enough to satisfy Alana Beard, who gave East Carolina a wake-up call Friday night-and it didn't even take long.
On a night when Duke unveiled a Final Four banner and four talented freshmen played their first regular season game at legendary Cameron Indoor Stadium, the swarming Duke defense was the dominating...
Dan Orner had missed field goals of 44 and 50 yards, as well as an extra point.
After two missed field goals and a botched extra point earlier in the game, North Carolina kicker Dan Orner nailed a weak, wobbly 47-yard kick as time expired to beat the football team 23-21...
Despite only two wins in the last three seasons and five during his head coaching career, head football coach Carl Franks will remain in charge of the Blue Devils next season, Director of Athletics...
RALEIGH -- What was supposed to be a hard-fought contest between the nation's premier women's basketball teams gradually evolved into simply an extended celebration Sunday afternoon, as No.
RALEIGH -- The inaugural Jimmy V Women's Basketball Classic was a clash of the nation's top two teams, No. 1 Duke versus No. 2 Tennessee.
The men's basketball team, powered by Shavlik Randolph, trampled the over-matched Army Black Knights Saturday, beating them 101-53 at Cameron Indoor Stadium in both teams' season openers.
The Army Black Knights head into Cameron Indoor Stadium Saturday evening without a win against Duke since 1939. In that game, the final score was 37-27.
Duke looks to be crowned king of collegiate men's soccer world for the first time in 16 years when it starts the NCAA tournament against No. 25 William & Mary at 6 p.m. tonight at Koskinen Stadium.
In 1989, the bowl-bound Duke football team annihilated arch-rival North Carolina 41-0.
Since 1995, the Jimmy V Men's Basketball Classic has helped raise nearly $450,000 for the V Foundation for Cancer Research in honor of the late Jim Valvano, the legendary North Carolina State...
Sports fans dream of weekends like this one.
After a rough 2001 season, the wrestling team enters this year with three returning NCAA qualifiers.
When the volleyball team makes its trip down to Atlanta today, it hopes it can disprove the old maxim that it is impossible to beat a team three times in one season.
Three months ago, I stood on a practice field behind Wallace Wade Stadium, talking to senior linebacker Jamyon Small about Duke's objectives for the upcoming football season.
Jamyon Small has been on a team with a nation-leading 23-game losing streak and an conference-record 24-game ACC losing streak, but he does not regret a minute of it.
