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Duke makes Sweet 16 again

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March 20, 2006 | Dick's Stock Watch provides a fast-glance review of the past week in the world of sports, charting whose stock is up and whose is down.

STOCK UP

Duke is in the Sweet 16 for the ninth straight season. Coach Mike Krzyzewski and his program just keeps on rolling.

George Mason, Bradley and Wichita State are Cinderella stories moving into the Sweet 16.

The New Jersey Nets have a five-game win streak after beating Dallas Sunday.

Maria Sharapova and Roger Federer won singles titles at the Pacific Life Open.

Candace Parker dunked for Tennessee and became the first female player to do so in an NCAA tournament game.

STOCK DOWN

USA baseball losing to Mexico in the World Baseball Classic. A team with so much talent didn't even make the semifinals.

The Portland Trail Blazers scored only FIVE points in the fourth quarter of a game earlier this week.

The Big Ten was shutout of the Sweet 16.

Greg Owen missed an easy putt and blew a lead in the Bay Hill tournament and eventually lost the tournament to Rodney Pampling.

Hasim Rahman and James Toney had to settle for a draw in their heavyweight title fight Saturday night…that's like kissing your sister!

Dick Vitale coached the Pistons and the University of Detroit before broadcasting ESPN's first college basketball game in December 1979. Send him a question for possible use on ESPNEWS.

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