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...SWEETHEARTS Boy bander NICK LACHEY and Daisy Duke JESSICA SIMPSON...
...quotable coach also came under fire for his silence after the Duke lacrosse scandal broke in March. Three student lacrosse players have been charged with raping a woman at a raunchy team party, costing the team its season, and the university a hit to its prestigious image. Where was Coach K, in title a special assistant to the president, the most visible man in town...
...Krzyzewski says he worked behind the scenes to help the school handle the crisis. But publicly, he stayed mum, and was criticized for it. He believed that interjecting himself into the case would inflame the anti-Duke, anti-K contingent, especially at the University of North Carolina and other Atlantic Coast Conference schools. "In [the Durham] area, I am like a lighting rod for some things, because there are a lot of Carolina fans or whatever," he says in a conference room outside his Duke office, a few hours before his first address to the "K Academy," a four...
...Krzyzewski broke his silence in June, questioning the findings of a committee that called on Duke to rethink its aggressive recruitment of athletes. He promises to be more vocal this fall...
...before helping repair Duke's prestige, he'll have to restore America's sporting pride. The first step is a gold in Japan. To that end, Krzyzewski plans to shuffle different starting lineups during the World Championship, a bit of a risk, since pros tend to want to know their roles. "You can't allow anybody to lose his ego," he says. "That would be us beating us." The world keeps getting stronger; defending Olympic gold medalist Argentina, starring Manu Ginobili of the Spurs, is back, and France, with the Spurs' Tony Parker and Boris Diaw of the Phoenix Suns...