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Rival teams battle, take game to the wire
BY KEITH PARSONS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke slowed the pace and made North Carolina play a halfcourt game. Under those circumstances, nobody plays better defense than the Blue Devils.
J. J. Redick scored 18 points, freshman DeMarcus Nelson added 16, and No.7 Duke forced 23 turnovers to hold off the second-ranked Tar Heels 71-70 last night.
North Carolina squandered a chance to win in the final seconds, never getting a shot off after inbounding with 18 seconds left. David Noel dribbled the ball out of bounds just as the buzzer sounded, and the Cameron Crazies raced onto the court to celebrate the Blue Devils' 15th victory in the past 18 games in this Tobacco Road rivalry.
Daniel Ewing finished with 15 points and helped the Blue Devils (18-2, 8-2) move into a first-play tie with North Carolina in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Wake Forest trails both teams by one-half game.
Duke finished 21-of-22 from the free throw line and nailed 10
three-pointers. All but one of the Blue Devils' baskets in the second half — a layup by Nelson with about 10 minutes left — were threes.
Sean May had 23 points and 18 rebounds for the Tar Heels (19-3, 8-2), who couldn't overcome their shoddy ball control. Point guard Raymond Felton had eight turnovers, May added five, and the top assist team in Division I finished with only 10, which was 11 below its average.
But Nelson was the better first-year player in this one. He came up big when it counted, swishing two three-pointers in a span of about 90 seconds in the second half to help Duke take a 49-42 lead. Williams helped the Tar Heels rally, powering over Shavlik Randolph for a layup that turned into a three-point play to tie it at 53 midway through the second半分.
Felton scored 13 points and freshman Marvin Williams had 12 for North Carolina.
Ewing connected on consecutive three-point shots, Nelson added four free throws and Redick drained another three-
point bomb to give the Blue Devils a nine-point lead. Still, North Carolina didn't give up.
Felton scored six quick points to offset two more free throws for Nelson, and May knocked down two free throws to bring the Tar Heels within three. Randolph increased the lead to five with Duke's final points — again coming on free throws — leaving the score 71-66 with less than 2 minutes left.
May worked inside to tip in a miss by Rashad McCants; and Williams stuffed a layup by Nelson. That set up a McCants' layup that cut the margin to one point. Redick then was forced to launch a shot from about 28 feet with the shot clock winding down, and the Tar Heels took possession with the game on the line.
Felton passed up an open shot to look down low for Williams or May, and he finally passed to Noel. But with time running out, Noel couldn't get off a shot, and Duke survived.
McCants, the leading scorer for North Carolina, was only 3-of-13 from the field and had 11 points.
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"I've noticed at photo appearances, people can be kind of cavalier," she said. "They think we don't do anything. When I tell them I'm a law student, they completely change their attitude. They're just surprised by it."
Elaine Hart, Chiefs cheerleading director, said being a Chiefs cheerleader encompasses more than waving a pair of pompoms on the sideline while Tony Gonzales dunks the ball over the crossbar.
Hart said every member of the squad makes weekly appearances at Kansas City charity events, year-round. The cheerleaders also hold clinics for more
than 1,000 children a year, she said, something White eniows.
"She's extremely talented at that," Hart said. "We try to teach them about character, integrity, fitness, confidence and performance. She's a good person to learn from."
It was as a child growing up in Wichita that White first became interested in cheerleading. She started doing it in junior high.
"I would always see the Wichita State cheerleaders practicing," she said. "I kind of got interested in it, and I've been cheering all the way through."
When she came to the University in 1995, she cheered at Kansas football and basketball games on her way to earning a bachelor's degree in sports
management.
Three years ago, after taking some graduate classes at the University of Missouri-Kansas City while working as an intern in its athletics department, she decided to take her career in a different direction.
The way she described it, she picked law school almost arbitrarily.
"I had done debate and stuff like that in high school," she said. "I figured, why not? It was on a whim, really."
So she spent a couple of months studying for the Law School Admission Test and did well enough to get in to the KU School of Law. Her first semester was tough.
"It was like a world I've never
been in," she said. But she made it through.
Webb Hecker, associate dean of the school, remembers a wideeyed White chatting him up three years ago at a faculty-student mixer, their first encounter. When he later received a Christmas card from Hart, including a picture of the Chiefs cheerleaders, he wasn't surprised.
"I think of the stereotype of a cheerleader as somebody who has a huge, white, pretty smile constantly, somebody with a lot of energy and a very upbeat outlook on life," he said. "That describes Kendra perfectly."
She's travelled a long way since then. She's a Pro Bowl cheerleader set to take the Kansas Bar Exam in July. Chatting in a comfortable chair in the Burge Union lobby, she described the rush of emotions she felt when the announcement boomed over the loudspeaker at halftime of the Chiefs-Raiders game on Christmas. She has been picked to go to the Pro Bowl.
"I was completely in shock," she said. "It's such a huge honor."
Hawaii won't be the first place White has traveled as a Chiefs cheerleader. She reached into her purse - it's one of those hip purses with the first letter of her name stitched on the side - and pulled out a small photo album.
"Let me show you some pictures," she said, leaning in to share a closer look.
She flipped through photos
taken at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
where the Chiffers cheerleaders traveled this summer to stage a two-hour Broadway variety show for American troops.
"This guy right here, Brandon, he's 19," she said, pointing to a picture in which she's standing next to a soldier. "And he's from New York, this 19-year-old kid, fighting for my safety. You take so many things for granted."
Before White left, she pulled a Chiefs cheerleaders poster out of her purse and signed it. It'd make a great gift for a younger sister.
Somewhere between pictures of Hillary Duff and Avril Lavigne, hopefully, there has to be room for the cheerleading lawyer.
Edited by John Scheirman
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