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Carolina NewsStand: Jan. 29-Feb. 2
February 5, 2001 | General
Welcome to "Carolina NewsStand," a daily listing with links to stories from around the country on the Tar Heels. While we'll try to have most stories to you early each morning, be sure to check back throughout the day as we add links at all hours when we find them.
We hope you enjoy the links to some of today's top stories below,
and let us know at tarheelblue@uncaa.unc.edu if there are any other stories you think we should feature.
Friday, February 2, 2001
MBB: Haywood Sheds 'Soft' Label Just in Time
MBB: Heels Walking Tall
MBB: Haywood A Hero At The Foul Line
MBB: Now It's Two For the Show
MBB: Heels Now Second to None
MBB: Heels Play Like They're In First Place
MBB: For Duke, Game Was On The Line
MBB: Tar Heels Trip Devils
MBB: Duke-Carolina mesmerizes Even an Unbiased Ball
MBB: A Game Destined For OT Ends With a Twist
MBB: A Bad Night For battier Drops Duke Into Second
MBB: Carolina Slips Past Duke
MBB: It's Timing: UNC Supporters Pick Right Time to 'Stomp' Duke
MBB: UNC's Win Showdown With Duke
MBB: Devils Can't Corral Lightning Bolt This Time
MBB: UNC Kicks Up Its Heels
WBB: Hatchell Wins 300th Game at UNC
Thursday, February 1, 2001
MBB: Two Flavors of Basketball With A Capital B
MBB: UNC vs. Duke Preview
MBB: Teams Try To Deal With Waves of Anticipation
MBB: Doherty Knows There Will Be No Smooth Sailing Tonight
MBB: Duke's Success Rests In Its Own Hands
MBB: Ground Zero For Rivalry Trash Talking
MBB: Dunleavy Had a Devil of a Decision
MBB: Keys To The Game
MBB: Ultimate Growth Chart
MBB: Tar Heels, Blue Devils Set For Key ACC Clash
MBB: James Set to Put 'D' On Forte
MBB: Tar Heels Tall Order For Duke
MBB: Heels, Devils To Duke It Out
MBB: Ten Terrific Tobacco Road Tussles
Wednesday, January 31, 2001
MBB: His Next Shot at Duke Will Come From Bench
MBB: Five To Remember
MBB: Off-target Heels Puzzled
MBB: Rival Game Provides Opportunity
MBB: James Prepares for One-on-One with Forte
MBB: Doherty Won't 'Poke' Fun This Time
MBB: Dangerous? Doherty Knows the Meaning of the Word
MBB: Lang to Crazies: Abuse Me
MBB: Dunleavy Just Warming Up Exciting Act for Blue Devils
MBB: Curry Will Face a Double Whammy at Duke
BB: Nixon, Brennaman, Godwin Among Hot Stove Honorees
NBA: All-Star Selection An Honor To Stack
Tuesday, January 30, 2001
MBB: Alumni Battle: UNC vs. Duke
MBB: Heels Will Need Theft Protection
MBB: Five To Remember
MBB: Buzz About UNC-Duke Breaks Out
MBB: Doherty's Heels Showing Composure
MBB: Hype Swirls For Main Event
MBB: UNC Will Resume Rivalry With Lead On Line
Monday, January 29, 2001
MBB: Tar Heels Survive Pack Run
MBB: Balance Not Heels' Forte
MBB: Wolfpack In Over Its Head
MBB: Super Struggle: UNC Holds On To Top Pack
MBB: Haywood's Big Shots Taken Standing Still
MBB: Tar Heels Get Ugly Victory
MBB: Haywood Center of Storm
MBB: Haywood Helps Heels Turn Aside Wolfpack
MBB: Ugly Bowl: Nothing Super About Pack, Heels
MBB: Carolina Finds Ways To Win
MBB: North Carolina Beats Wolfpack at Its Own Game
The Sporting News/By Mike DeCourcy
DURHAM, N.C. - As the first free throw settled softly in
the net, breaking the tie that seemed certain to turn this
North Carolina-Duke game into another overtime classic,
senior center Brendan Haywood did not think about what a
Heels hero he'd just become. He thought about missing the
second shot, on purpose...
Raleigh News & Observer/By A.J. Carr
The clock was ticking, their hearts were pounding, and their
hopes were for another last- minute miracle. They looked for
Jason Williams. They looked for Shane Battier. But unlike at
Maryland just five nights ago, Duke's second-ranked Blue Devils
couldn't produce a second straight fairy-tale finish. Not this
Thursday night, not against No. 4 North Carolina, which faced its
archrival without trepidation and left Cameron Indoor Stadium
with a pulsating 85-83 victory...
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
DURHAM -- What hasn't Brendan Haywood gone through? Subjected
to ridicule in almost every opposing arena, he sometimes looks
awkward, unsure. But not Thursday night. Not when it mattered, in
the swelter of Cameron Indoor Stadium, with the Dukies lining the
stands, badly wanting him -- needing him -- to miss...
Raleigh News & Observer/By Caulton Tudor
It's official now. The ACC regular-season basketball championship
race will go the distance this season. And in North Carolina and
Duke, the league has a couple of teams capable of running all the
way to April...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Bryan Strickland
On the eve of the Duke-North Carolina showdown,
Duke senior Shane Battier observed that he hadn't
spent even one day of his career out of first place in
the ACC...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
You can rewind, fast-forward and slow-motion all you
want to in Thursday night's heart-pumping Duke-North
Carolina basketball game but you'll come to two simple
conclusions why the Tar Heels won 85-83: Joseph
Forte's clutch plays throughout -- 24 points, 16
rebounds (most ever by a UNC guard), 6 assists, 3
steals, 10-of-18 field goals, 2-of-3 3-pointers -- and
the Blue Devils' horrendous free throw shooting --
13-of-27...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
Accurate free-throw shooting, a Duke staple for years
under Coach Mike Krzyzewski, was absent from the
Blue Devils' arsenal on Thursday night in an 85-83 loss
to North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium...
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
DURHAM -- On the sideline, North Carolina coach Matt Doherty said a little prayer for
his 7-foot center. On the foul line, that center was thinking about Christmas day,
waking up in Greensboro and skipping the presents to go to a gym and shoot free
throws...
Charlotte Observer/By C. Jemal Horton
DURHAM -- Hi, my name is Wilson, and this is what I live for. This, Thursday night, is
why I feel I was conceived...
Greensboro News & Record/By Ed Hardin
DURHAM -- A classic game that looked like it might go on forever, ended abruptly Thursday night when Brendan Haywood ended it...
Greensboro News & Record/By Larry Keech
DURHAM -- Through four years and 55 games, Duke's Shane Battier had not experienced anything but first place in the ACC standings...
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
The weakest part of Brendan Haywood's game proved a monumental strength for North
Carolina for the second time in five days last night when he made two pressure-packed
free throws to produce an 85-83 win over Duke in shocked Cameron Indoor Stadium...
Winston-Salem Journal/By Lenox Rawlings
DURHAM -- The dark blue hair and the dark blue chests and the dark blue lips all
melted into a dark blue funk late last night...
Fayetteville Observer/By Hermann Wendorff
DURHAM -- The hand said it all...
Fayetteville Observer/By Brett Friedlander
DURHAM -- Sorry, Duke. Only one miracle per customer this season...
N.Y. Daily News/By Dick Weiss
Duke's dominance of neighborhood rival North Carolina had to end some time. But no one thought it would end this way...
Durham Herald-Sun/Staff Report
ATLANTA -- Coretta Brown and Juana Brown sparked the North Carolina women over
Georgia Tech 85-63 to give Coach Sylvia Hatchell her 300th career victory in 15
seasons at UNC...
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
Jason Williams leaned against a basket support Wednesday
afternoon at Cameron Indoor Stadium, inquiries raining down.
What does your Duke team, ranked second in the nation, have
to do to beat No. 4 North Carolina? What are the keys?...
Raleigh News & Observer/By Wayne McPeters
The North Carolina Tar Heels (17-2 overall, 7-0 ACC ) take the eight mile drive up 15-501 to
Cameron Indoor Stadium to battle The Duke Blue Devils (19-1 overall, 7-0 ACC ) on Thursday
night. Game time is 9 p.m. EST on Raycom/JP Sports and ESPN2...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Bryan Strickland
DURHAM -- Duke senior Shane Battier always talks a
good game...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- You've seen this type of kid. Really, you have. If you've spent any
time at all near the world of pickup basketball -- a world with its own lingo, its own
rules, its own hierarchy -- you know exactly the kind of kid Matt Doherty was...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
DURHAM -- The Duke basketball players call it a fist. Four fingers and a thumb...
Durham Herald-Sun/Staff Report
The days leading up to this rivalry's renewal mean extra sleep and extra focus for
the players. This week also means a trip to the barber shop -- in most cases, the
same barber shop...
Greensboro News & Record/By Larry Keech
DURHAM -- As difficult as Mike Dunleavy's decision was, it could hardly be described as "agonizing" because both choices were so appealing...
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
Foul trouble: Duke never wants to see Carlos Boozer saddled with fouls, but that would be especially troublesome against North Carolina with 7-foot Brendan Haywood, 6-10 Kris Lang and powerful Julius Peppers. If North Carolina has similar difficulty, it may have to protect people by going to a zone. And Jason Williams and Shane Battier know what that means: room for the 3-pointer. Williams is flirting with 50 percent accuracy from beyond the arc...
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
CHAPEL HILL -- A book already is in the works for Matt Doherty's first season as
basketball coach at North Carolina. In time there could be more, enough books to fill
a shelf in a library, or even the library itself, and still Doherty's days in Chapel Hill
could be summed up with this two-word mandate...
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
Shane Battier said yesterday that the game Duke will play today is more meaningful for
him than most other games...
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
Nate James is ready for one of the biggest assignments of his career...
Fayetteville Observer/By Hermann Wendorff
The jerseys hanging in the rafters of the Smith Center tell many stories. This particular story can be
told by Nos. 00, 41 and 42...
N.Y. Daily News/By Dick Weiss
When Duke sophomore guard Jason Williams was a
junior at St. Joseph's High in Metuchen, N.J., he
was being pursued by both North Carolina and the
Blue Devils...
ESPN.com/By Rico Longoria
ESPN Classic looks back at 10 thrilling Duke-North Carolina games from the past...
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
Old Carmichael Auditorium was quiet for a bit that Saturday afternoon
in 1984. The clock showed seven seconds remaining. North Carolina,
the top-ranked team in the country, trailed Duke, the hated team from
just down the road, by two...
Raleigh News & Observer/By Caulton Tudor
The Duke-Carolina series has had some memorable moments. But
here are five that stand out...
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga and A.J. Carr
The shots don't always clang in practice. Really, they don't. At North
Carolina, players are required to make nine out of 10 free throws
before leaving practice...
Chapel Hill News/By Eddy Landreth
CHAPEL HILL -- Matt Doherty has been waiting on this moment since he became North Carolina's head
coach in July...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
Nate James doesn't dream of hitting the winning shot...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Bryan Strickland
When asked Tuesday about playing at Cameron Indoor Stadium, North Carolina
coach Matt Doherty praised Duke's domicile as a great environment for college
basketball...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
CHAPEL HILL -- Matt Doherty knows where he's going Thursday night. Into Cameron
Indoor Stadium, in front of the Cameron Crazies, to shake Mike Krzyzewski's hand
and to hear numerous chants of "Go to hell, Carolina, go to hell."...
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
asking in the relative warmth of a 57-degree afternoon in Krzyzewskiville on Tuesday, Duke students continued their preparations for Thursday night's basketball holy war with North Carolina. The chief target of their insults and retorts these days is Kris Lang...
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
DURHAM -- The illusion is the thing with Michael Dunleavy Jr. It has always been the
thing. So tall, so skinny, so friendly looking with that smile and that baby face. He's
good enough to play for Duke, so he must be a shooter, you think. This guy has to be
a shooter, right?...
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
These are not the greatest of times for Ronald Curry, and they could get worse on
Thursday....
Durham Herald-Sun/By Mike Potter
RALEIGH -- Trot Nixon said he was particularly proud to be honored at a jam-packed
banquet of the Raleigh Hot Stove League on Tuesday night, because he knew a lot
of people besides just himself had worked hard to get him to the major leagues...
Detroit Free Press/By Helene St. James
NEW YORK -- Jerry Stackhouse's selection as an Eastern Conference All-Star reserve
provided a burst of sunshine for the Pistons, whose recent play reflected the cold rain that fell
in Manhattan, where they practiced Tuesday...
CNNSI.com/By Jacob Luft
If Duke and North Carolina were to stage an alumni
game of active NBA players, the Blue Devils would
find themselves severely outgunned....
Raleigh News & Observer/By A.J. Carr
Teams facing Duke know they'd better sharpen their ball-handling
skills...
Raleigh News & Observer/By A.J. Carr
The Duke-UNC basketball rivalry has raged since the 1920 season,
with Carolina winning 121 times and Duke 85. Here are five of the
most significant games...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Bryan Strickland
When Duke sophomore Mike Dunleavy went to the grocery store Sunday, Dunleavy
got more than he bargained for...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
It seemed rather appropriate for the North Carolina basketball coach to mention the
word composure when discussing how his Tar Heels were able to win their 14th
consecutive game, a 60-52 verdict at N.C. State...
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
At 9 p.m. Thursday, the Triad's CBS affiliate will air a program about a group of young people battling arduous conditions with a big prize at stake. But first, it will show "Survivor."...
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
This season's first shot in the Duke-North Carolina rivalry was taken just after
Christmas, a good six weeks before they were to play...
Raleigh News & Observer/By Chip Alexander
RALEIGH -- It wasn't exactly a Super Sunday classic. It wasn't the
kind of game North Carolina fans taped, saved and will pop into the
ol' VCR time and again...
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
RALEIGH -- N.C. State had closed North Carolina's lead down to four
points in the second half Sunday afternoon. The sellout crowd at the
Entertainment and Sports Arena -- almost every last member dressed
in Wolfpack red -- sensed the Pack might be back...
Raleigh News & Observer/By Caulton Tudor
RALEIGH -- There was a period of time Saturday when N.C. State's
Anthony Grundy thought about sitting out Sunday's basketball game
against North Carolina...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
RALEIGH -- Like Super Bowl pregame programming, Sunday's North Carolina-N.C.
State meeting was the sideshow to this week's big game...
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
RALEIGH -- On Christmas Day at 10 a.m. at Greensboro Day School, the free throws
Brendan Haywood were shooting were going in. Well, most of them...
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
RALEIGH -- Purists might say it was a shame somebody had to win...
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
RALEIGH -- Maybe N.C. State freshman Scooter Sherrill's shot was on the money.
Think about that. What if it goes in, the score is tied, and North Carolina finds itself
under an ocean of sound at the Entertainment and Sports Arena? What then?...
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
RALEIGH -- Same script, same result. Except that this time, there was a different leading man for North Carolina...
Winston-Salem Journal/By Lenox Rawlings
RALEIGH -- The ACC staged its Super Bowl a day early...
Fayetteville Observer/By Brett Friedlander
RALEIGH -- Coaches are fond of telling us that their teams are never as good or as bad as they look in a particular game or series of games...
Fayetteville Observer/By Hermann Wendorff
RALEIGH -- It was a fairly typical Sunday afternoon for North Carolina and N.C. State...
