Duke puts improved D to test at home tourney
By Alex Fanaroff | September 9, 2005After losing to Rice at the Crowne Plaza Rice Invitational last weekend in Houston, volleyball coach Jolene Nagel implored the Blue Devils to improve their defense.
After losing to Rice at the Crowne Plaza Rice Invitational last weekend in Houston, volleyball coach Jolene Nagel implored the Blue Devils to improve their defense.
With last Saturday’s mistake-filled 24-21 loss at East Carolina, the Blue Devils (0-1) learned a helpful, if not painful lesson: they have little margin for sloppy play.
The field hockey team has reached the national championship game in each of the last two seasons. Unfortunately, Wake Forest defeated them both times.
The cross country team triumphed in a dual meet against North Carolina Central Sept. 7, 42-34.
The list of two-sport collegiate athletes ranges from hall-of-fame lacrosse and football player Jim Brown to Pro Bowler Julius Peppers, who played both football and basketball at North Carolina, to...
Build a foundation, and they will come.
Corruption in sports exists at every college to some degree, whether or not we choose to ignore it as fans.
Opening the season with a new starting goalkeeper and two freshman backs, one would think that the Blue Devils’ defense must be a weakness.
Duke football did not amass a lowly 2-9 record last season. In fact, at 7-3 the Blue Devils finished in a tie for the eighth-best record in all of Division I-A.
Both Duke and East Carolina entered last Saturday’s season opener looking to reverse long strings of defeat.
Former Duke golfer Maria Garcia-Estrada lost her eight-month battle with cancer and passed away Saturday at her home in Tenerife, Spain. She was 24.
Often sport leaves us shaking our heads and wondering what certain athletes were thinking or how they accomplished a specific feat.
Things were looking good for the Blue Devils at the beginning of the second half.
It was time for the volleyball team to get down to business.
CHAPEL HILL — Allison Lipsher enjoyed a relaxing weekend at the Nike Carolina Classic in Chapel Hill.
The field hockey team rolled through the Blue Hen Classic in Newark, Del.
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Even after playing three quarters highlighted by red-zone turnovers and porous third down defense, Duke still found itself down only three points to East Carolina with more than 10 minutes...
When practice ends on a Wednesday afternoon, the quarterbacks file off the field.