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The Havre Northstars, one of the top teams in the state this season and undefeated in conference play, took to the field for two games Thursday afternoon against the newest team in the league Tri-County.
Both games only lasted five innings as the Northstars pounded the Tri-County team, which committed a combined 20 errors in the two games.
For the Havre fans who traveled to Conrad to see the two teams play, the first inning in each game looked a lot like Sunday's second game with Fort MacLeod. In the first game, the Northstars scored seven runs in the first inning en route to a whopping 26-2 win. The second game was not much better as Havre scored nine runs in the first inning en route to a 13-2 win.
After jumping out to a 7-0 lead in the first inning of game one, the Northstars continued to take advantage of Tri-County's miscues, scoring nine runs in the second inning. Havre had only four hits but capitalized on five Tri-County errors.
The Northstars scored four runs in the third inning, two in the fourth and four more in the fifth to continue the rout.
Every Northstar player scored at least twice in the game, with most scoring three or four times. The Northstars had 13 hits in the game and Tri-County committed 13 errors.
Tri-County's two runs came in the fourth inning on one hit and two Havre errors.
Dusty Heath led all batters with a 4-for-5 game with four runs scored, four RBI, and three doubles. Designated hitter Cory Junck followed with a 3-for-4 game with four runs scored and three RBI.
Ian Spencer pitched all five innings for the win. Spencer allowed three hits and walked two. He struck out five. Both runs given up by Spencer were unearned.
In the second game, Havre scored in only two innings, but it was enough for another big win.
The Northstars scored nine runs in the first inning on five hits. Tri-County committed two errors. Tyler VanderMars racked up three RBI in the inning and scored once. VanderMars was hit by a pitch on his first at bat and then drove home two with a single his second time up. Heath and Eric Lipp each also had RBI singles.
Five Tri-County errors in the second inning allowed the Northstars to score four more runs on only one hit.
Tri-County scored one run in both the second and third innings.
Heath once again led the way for Havre with a 2-for-2 game with two singles, two runs scored and one RBI.
Junck pitched five innings for the Northstars and allowed only one hit and walked just one. He struck out seven. Both Tri-County runs allowed by Junck were unearned.
The Northstars' next games are Sunday at home against Lethbridge. They will play two seven-inning games, beginning at 6 p.m. | http://www.havredailynews.com/cms/news/story-98185.html | 628 |
Iowa 85, #13 Ohio State 75
Feb. 12, 2009
Iowa snapped a 10-game losing skid to the Buckeyes with tonight's 10-point victory (85-75). The series is now tied 25-25 after 50 meetings. Iowa has now recorded two victories over ranked opponents this season (#22 Iowa State and #13 Ohio State).
Iowa has now won 18 of its last 19 contests in Carver-Hawkeye Arena, dating back to last season. Iowa boasts an 11-1 home record this year.
Iowa's win coupled with Indiana's loss moves the Hawkeyes into fifth place in the Big Ten standings.
Iowa trailed 34-28 with 5:32 left in the first half, but closed the half on a 19-0 run to lead 47-34 at intermission. The 47 points, in the first half, match a season high for the Hawkeyes in a half (Texas State).
The Hawkeyes dominated the Buckeyes from the free throw line. Iowa attempted 23 more free throws than Ohio State tonight. Iowa was 26-32 (.813), while Ohio State was only 3-9 (.333). Iowa's Kachine Alexander was 14-18 (.778) from the charity stripe, which is a Carver-Hawkeye Arena record by an Iowa player. Also, Kristi Smith was perfect from the foul line (10-10, 1.000).
After missing the last five games due to an injured ankle, JoAnn Hamlin returned to action playing 18 minutes off the bench. She missed her five field goal attempts, but did grab three rebounds and had an assist and a block.
Wahlin's 19 points is a personal best. She also dished out a team-high five assists.
Smith has now topped the 20-point plateau four times this season, including twice in the last four games.
Iowa out-rebounded Ohio State by seven tonight (42-35).
Iowa shot 56.7 percent (17-30) from the field in the first half and 45 percent (27-60) for the game. The Hawkeyes' field goal percentage was bolstered by 5-11 (.455) shooting from distance.
Ohio State was led by Jantel Lavender, who netted a game-high 32 points tonight. She also corralled 10 rebounds. Star Allen contributed 11 rebounds and six points, while Samantha Prahalis collected a game-high six assists and had nine points for the Buckeyes.
Iowa returns to action Sunday when it travels to Penn State. Tip-off is scheduled for 2:05 p.m. (CST) at the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park, PA. | http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/w-baskbl/recaps/021209aac.html | 550 |
Mikhail Prokhorov is a crazy Russian oligarch with billions of dollars and a professional basketball organization. He spent an absurd amount of money on a personal jet ski video (see above), lost his 200-foot yacht that makes him seasick, and doesn't use a computer. Now he's quitting business in order to focus on politics.
Most people in America know Prokhorov as the owner of the Brooklyn Nets (although, many probably believe Jay-Z to be the owner despite his owning about 1/15th of 1 percent of the team). But before he bought them he had already made billions in Russia.
His interest in politics is rather recent, but that didn't stop him from running against Vladamir Putin in this year's presidential election. He just announced that he will be joining his political party (that he founded), The Civil Platform Party, full-time and leaving his business interests to his partners. | http://www.heavy.com/news/2012/10/mikhail-prokhorov-brooklyn-nets-owner-quits-business-enters-politics/ | 190 |
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Five bus services for United fans to be axed
9:30am Friday 9th November 2012 in News
OXFORD United fans are being warned that five bus services from towns across Oxfordshire to the Kassam Stadium are being axed.
At the start of the season, RH Coaches agreed to run the football specials from six towns to the stadium on matchdays, and to take over the existing service which starts at Kidlington.
However, when RH Coaches went into administration United and coach company Tappins began a trial to see which services would be financially viable.
After reviewing passenger numbers, services from Banbury, Chipping Norton, Wantage, Henley and Thame will now not run.
The U’s business development manager Owen Clark said: “We would have loved to keep all of the services going, but sadly it just doesn’t make sense.
“When you look at the figures over seven coaches and a whole season the losses would have been substantial. However, on a more positive note we are very pleased that Tappins has agreed to run the Carterton and Kidlington buses and we hope will grow in numbers. With military personnel able to buy discounted tickets for Saturday’s game, and the Carterton bus close to Brize Norton, we hope that we will be even busier this weekend.”
The U’s play Torquay United at home at 3pm tomorrow. | http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/10036888.Five_bus_services_for_United_fans_to_be_axed/?ref=rss | 332 |
HERSHEY, Pa. – Despite a 3-2 setback to the St. John’s IceCaps on Saturday night at GIANT Center, the HERSHEY BEARS have clinched a berth in the 2012 Calder Cup Playoffs with help from around the Eastern Conference.
The BEARS were able to advance thanks to the Portland Pirates’ overtime loss at Bridgeport coupled with the Adirondack Phantoms’ regulation loss at Connecticut. The BEARS’ 85 points keeps the club in fifth place in the Eastern Conference.
HERSHEY hosts the Binghamton Senators tomorrow at 5:00 PM.
Individual tickets for the opening round of the 2012 Calder Cup Playoffs will go on sale beginning Tuesday, April 3 at 9:00 am. | http://www.hersheybears.com/news/detail.php?bp=archives.php&id=3781 | 159 |
Mar 9 2013
Ireland's substitute scrum-half Eoin Reddan has been ruled out for three months after suffering a broken leg in the 13-13 RBS 6 Nations draw with France.
Reddan fell awkwardly beneath a tackle in the final minute of a compelling match at the Aviva Stadium and was administered oxygen before being carried off.
Ireland's injury-depleted ranks were swelled even further by a number of other casualties with lock Donnacha Ryan damaging his shoulder and centre Luke Marshall sustaining concussion.
Both are doubts to face Italy next Saturday, while flanker Peter O'Mahony, scrum-half Conor Murray, centre Brian O'Driscoll and wing Fergus McFadden also picked up a variety of knocks.
Already missing were lock Paul O'Connell, wings Tommy Bowe and Craig Gilroy, centre Gordon D'Arcy, flanker Stephen Ferris and fly-half Jonathan Sexton.
Head coach Declan Kidney, however, refused to complain about Ireland's misfortune.
"We took a conscious decision that we wouldn't complain about things. Other people are worse off than we are, plus it's such an insult to the lads coming on and having a huge go," Kidney said.
"We're frustrated, but there are lads coming in who have no experience at this level under their belts and are doing such a good job for us.
"On any given day Paul O'Connell, Tommy Bowe, Stephen Ferris and Jonathan Sexton would be in the running for a Lions spot.
"I've never experienced an injury run like this, but you work your way through and I spoke to (captain) Jamie Heaslip about it and we agreed not complain." | http://www.hinckleytimes.net/hinckley-sport/uk-sports/2013/03/09/reddan-blow-for-ireland-105367-32957859/ | 357 |
BLACKSBURG, Va. – On Thursday night, Virginia Tech faced the second of three straight ranked opponents to finish the regular season in No. 19 Wake Forest. Despite the Hokies jumping out to a 1-0 lead, the Demon Deacons came back with two unanswered goals to claim the 2-1 victory. Wake moves to 11-7-0 on the year and 4-5-0 in the ACC, while Tech slips to 3-4-2 in conference play and 9-7-2 overall.
The Hokies got on the board first early in the opening frame. Junior Emily Jukich added to her already impressive season with her 14th goal of the year. The Clifton, Va., native received the ball at the top of the Wake Forest box and chipped a shot over the oncoming goalkeeper at the 9:31 mark, giving her team the 1-0 lead.
Virginia Tech looked to add to its lead four minutes later. Jukich got a good look at the goal and fired a shot into the upper right corner, but the score was negated by an offsides call.
Wake Forest would answer 10 minutes later on a goal by senior Amy Smerdzinski. Amanda Howell led Smerdzinski through the defense and the senior midfielder drilled home the tying score in the 19th minute.
The first 45 minutes proved to be a defensive battle between the two squads as they combined for seven shots in the first half with Wake barely edging Tech 4-3.
The Demon Deacons threatened early in the second half, when a loose ball off a corner rolled around in the Tech box before being deflected out of bounds. However, at the 51:38 mark, Wake leading scorer Jill Hutchinson tallied the game-winner. Hutchinson dribbled the ball up the middle and cut back to the left to shake off her defender for the shot from the top of the box. The goal was her ninth of the season.
Despite being outshot 11-7 for the match, the Hokies had their opportunities to tie the score in the waning minutes. In the 79th minute, senior Laurie Beth Puglisi headed a cross towards the upper corner of the Wake goal, but Demon Deacon starting keeper Laura Morse made a diving save to punch the ball over the crossbar.
Sophomore Jennifer Harvey also came close to tying the score with under two minutes remaining, but her shot sailed just high of the net.
The Wake Forest defense held on for the win in a physical game which saw the two teams combine for four yellow cards. Kristin Carden started in goal for Tech and made three saves. Morse tallied two saves during the contest for her eighth win.
Tech ends its regular season schedule on Sunday, Nov. 2 against No. 11 Duke. The Blue Devils will travel to Blacksburg for a 2 p.m. kickoff.
For updates on Virginia Tech women's soccer, follow the Hokies on Twitter (@VT_WSoccer). | http://www.hokiesports.com/wsoccer/recaps/20081030aab.html | 615 |
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NBA: Garnett reportedly gets three-year deal
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Kevin Garnett will return to the Boston Celtics after agreeing to a three-year contract Saturday, according to multiple reports.
The Celtics star will earn $34 million with the new deal, Yahoo!Sports and the Boston Herald reported.
“The decision came down to whether KG wanted to keep playing,” a source closed to the negotiations told the Herald. “And once he decided that he did, it was going to be Boston. He wasn’t going to leave Doc (Rivers) and those guys and play anywhere else.”
Garnett, 36, earned $21 million last season with the Celtics as he averaged 15.8 points and 8.2 rebounds in helping them reach the Eastern Conference finals. He averaged 19.2 points and 10.3 rebounds in the playoffs.
The 17-year veteran was considering retirement after this season. However, he seemed rejuvenated this season when coach Doc Rivers moved him from power forward to center.
With the free-agent negotiating period beginning Sunday, the Celtics’ next pressing need is deciding whether to bring back guard Ray Allan and forward Brandon Bass.
–The Oklahoma City Thunder and coach Scott Brooks are close to agreeing on a new deal, according to multiple reports.
Brooks, whose contract expires Saturday, received an offer of four years for $16 million, The Daily Oklahoman and ESPN.com reported.
Contract talks had moved slowly this month after Brooks, who was paid about $4 million combined the past two seasons, had guided the Thunder to the NBA Finals, which it lost in five games to the Miami Heat.
“They are getting close,” one source briefed on the negotiations told ESPN.com.
Brooks took over as coach of the Thunder 2008-09 — its first season since moving from Seattle — after the team started with a 1-12 record under coach PJ Carlesimo. One season later, the Thunder made its first playoff appearance in Oklahoma City, followed by trips to the Western Conference finals and the NBA Finals.
He has a 174-125 coaching record and was the Western Conference coach for the 2012 All-Star Game.
–The Miami Heat reportedly has made shooting guard Ray Allen their top priority in free agency.
The club will offer the free agent, who has played the last four seasons with the Boston Celtics, its $3 million mid-level exception, according to ESPN.com.
The NBA free-agent negotiating period begins at 12:01 a.m. Sunday. Players cannot sign contracts until July 11.
“We’ve got five or six guys earmarked (in free agency) so we’ll see how it goes,” Heat president Pat Riley said. “We want to find as much space as we can on the floor for Dwyane, LeBron and for Chris (Bosh) to be able to operate.”
Allen, 36, averaged 10.7 points and 4.1 rebounds last season, when he missed 16 games because of injuries. He has averaged 20 points a game in 18 seasons and is one of the game’s premier three-point shooters.
The Heat is hoping that the lure of helping the team win a second consecutive NBA championship with convince him to play for a contract that is below market value. Allen made $10 million last season with the Boston Celtics, who could use Larry Bird rights to re-sign him at a larger contract. And Yahoo! Sports reported the Phoenix Suns are also interested in signing Allen.
The Celtics already have agreed to a new contract with center Kevin Garnett to a three-year $34 million contract.
The Heat may already have lost center Ronny Turiaf, decided not to pick up his $1.1 million player option for next season and become an unrestricted free agent. His agent said he was interested in returning to Miami, but not at that salary.
–All-Star point guard Steve Nash said it is very likely he will play with a different team than the Phoenix Suns next season.
“I couldn’t list a favorite,” Nash said in a story published Saturday by ESPN.com. “But I do know that for the first time I realize that it might not be Phoenix. I would have said even in the middle of (last) season or last year that I would have thought I probably would have stayed in Phoenix forever. But it’s come to a point now where I’m facing the reality that’s not (the case).”
Nash’s contract with the Suns has expired and the NBA free agency period begins at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
The 16-year veteran said believes the Suns are ready to move in a different direction after missing the playoffs the past two seasons.
“I don’t necessarily feel like they’re determined to keep me,” he said. “I think there’s a lot of factors. So, one, I’m not sure they’re determined to keep me. Two, there’s other opportunities that are exciting. So I think I have to be open-minded … but at the same time be able to forecast where I’ll be most successful and happiest.”
Even at 36, Nash reportedly has interest from at least four teams. ESPN reported Toronto, Dallas, New York and Brooklyn are interested as Nash will receive offers Sunday in New York.
Toronto is expected to make the richest offer to the Canadian with about $12 million a year, according to ESPN. He made $11.689 million last season with the Suns. The Knicks are expected to make a healthy pitch as well.
Nash, who will receive offers beginning Sunday in New York, said he is expected to make a decision on his next contract quickly — and he hasn’t ruled out returning to the Suns.
“It’s just a different free agency for me and I have to be open-minded to everything,” he said. “I definitely could go back to Phoenix, but just that opportunity that I may be moving has definitely got me feeling the nerves, anxiety and excitement to see what happens.”
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Dynamo acquire forward Omar Cummings from Colorado Rapids
The Houston Dynamo have acquired forward Omar Cummings from the Colorado Rapids in exchange for defender Nathan Sturgis and allocation money, it was announced today. Per club and league policy, terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Cummings made 28 appearances for Colorado in 2012, tallying six goals and two assists. The Jamaican international totaled 39 goals and 27 assists in his six-year career with the Rapids. Cummings was named to the 2011 MLS All-Star team and scored a career-high 14 goals in 2010.
"I have always like Omar," Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear said. "He is a good player with good pace. He is someone who knows the league well. We were in an unfortunate situation with Calen Carr's injury, but Omar is a player who can come in and help us stretch the field."
The 30-year-old striker has also been a staple of the Jamaican national team, making 28 appearances for the Reggae Boyz with seven goals scored. Cummings was part of the squad that advanced to the final round of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying.
"This is an exciting acquisition for our club," said Dynamo president Chris Canetti. "Simply put, Omar makes us better. Dom has tremendous respect for him as a player and believes he will be a valuable addition to the club.
"I'd also like to thank Nathan for his contributions to the club. It is sad to see him go, but I think Colorado presents a good career opportunity for him."
The Dynamo acquired Sturgis in December 2011 from Toronto FC. The 25-year-old defender made five regular season appearances and three CONCACAF Champions League appearances for Houston.
In addition to the acquisition of Cummings, the Dynamo announced that it has waived forward Colin Rolfe. Houston’s first round draft pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft, Rolfe did not feature for the Dynamo last season.
2013 single-game tickets are not yet on sale, but tickets for all matches can be purchased through full or partial season ticket packages. Full season ticket packages are on sale for as low as $400, with partial season ticket packages starting at $115. To purchase your package or for more information on 2013 season tickets call (713) 276-GOAL. | http://www.houstondynamo.com/news/2012/12/dynamo-acquire-forward-omar-cummings-colorado-rapids?quicktabs_news_blog_qt=1 | 478 |
A tweet is just a tweet until it's newsworthy, Heisman trophy winner Johnny Manziel learned this week. Sending out a photo of yourself partying at a club or with a wad of cash at a casino might seem like no big deal, because it's technically legal.
But when you're 20 years old, the face of college football and broadcasting it to 250,000 people, it creates headlines.
"It's tough knowing that everything you do is watched pretty closely because I'm doing the same stuff I've always done," Manziel said Sunday. "It's just now people actually care what I do.
"It's hard to watch some of the stuff that people say to you when you take a picture or you do some stuff or you're at these games or whatever. It's tough to sit back, and you can't really defend yourself."
Some may argue that Manziel brought the criticism upon himself by voluntarily posting the photos. But he's not the only student-athlete hearing the chirps of negativity â?? whether it's related to casinos, something they've said or even a poor performance in a game. And they keep hearing about it, over and over again, thanks to Twitter and the kind of power anonymity and distance give to fans in the social media landscape.
Kentucky men's basketball players learned that lesson the hard way last month. They knew they'd lost two games in a row, and they were certainly aware that they'd fallen out of the top 25 polls. But college basketball fans kept hounding them about it.
All the negativity prompted freshman Willie Cauley-Stein to delete his Twitter account entirely.
"It happens, I guess, but I don't want to look at it no more," Cauley-Stein said after Kentucky lost to Baylor in early December. "Nothing good comes out of it, really, if you really think about it. You can't say what you want to say on it anyways, because it's all monitored, so you might as well not even have it."
Though he has since reactivated his account, the way Cauley-Stein reacted to criticism on Twitter isn't unusual, according to research published this winter in the International Journal of Sport Communication.
Assistant professors Blair Browning of Baylor and Jimmy Sanderson of Clemson found that student-athletes dealt with critical tweets in one or more of the following ways: 1) Ignoring it; 2) Using it as motivation; 3) Blocking users sending nasty tweets; or 4) Responding to critics or tweeting a general response about working harder (or "subtweeting" â?? not directly responding to a Twitter user but responding to the subject matter in general).
Since rejoining Twitter, Cauley-Stein has retweeted supportive messages from fans and answered others criticizing his missed free throws by explaining the pressure of playing in front of more than 20,000 fans.
"Of course, the (Kentucky players) were attentive to what (negative things) were being said," Browning said. "Though hate mail has always been around, it was a lot harder to get it to people in the past. Now with the immediacy of Twitter, it's immediately in front of their eyeballs."
Browning and Sanderson began their research after they observed that when high-profile athletes at their schools performed poorly, they still rushed to check Twitter and see what people were saying about them during and after games.
"It made me realize these guys are drawn to it, and it's become so ingrained in them to want to know what people say," Browning said. "These guys now have the avenue to look up directly what people are saying. What Twitter has opened up is what people saying to them.
"People spew some pretty vitriolic things to these players."
Browning interviewed 20 athletes (10 football players, five men's basketball players, three women's basketball players and two baseball players) to collect qualitative information for the study. Only two of the 20 kept their accounts private, which prevented them from the onslaught of positive and/or negative fan tweets.
The researchers said they weren't surprised with the coping techniques student-athletes told them they employed when dealing with criticism.
"What did surprise me was the fact that they said, 'It didn't bother me,' yet they acknowledged that they would still check Twitter to see what was being said about them," Sanderson said. "For many of them, they put on this front that it doesn't bother them but it clearly does.
"They are the conversation. People are actually talking about them, and as an 18-, 19-, 20-year-old kid, you're very invested in what people are saying about you."
Not everyone. Georgetown forwards Otto Porter and Nate Lubick say they have Twitter accounts but aren't very active. Porter keeps his account private; he has 2,880 followers and only tweets a couple of times a week.
"A lot of kids are searching their names and get caught up in stuff, like whenever there's an article written about them," Lubick said. "I never, ever read any of that stuff. Did I at the beginning (of my career)? Yeah, absolutely. But as you go on, you learn to stop."
Besides avoiding game coverage and social media, is there a solution for student-athletes dealing with nasty, hyper-critical tweets after poor performances?
Browning and Sanderson say yes: Education. They believe major universities should teach student-athletes how to manage messages they send and receive before they start tweeting as college athletes. Most schools are not proactive, and they monitor social media use as it happens, according to the researchers.
"(Twitter) can be a really constructive, positive tool but we need to train and educate our student-athletes instead of putting all this money toward being watchdogs," Browning said. "Just train on the front-end, instead of being reactionary."
Virginia Commonwealth's Ed McLaughlin and Florida Atlantic's Patrick Chun are two athletic directors who understand that. Both said they meet with individual teams prior to the season to discuss the dangers of careless social media use. McLaughlin said that topic is even covered in VCU's student-athlete code of conduct. VCU also brings in a consultant to talk to teams that meet with media often to talk about branding.
"Everyone's watching you all the time, and things you put and say on social media is all part of your personal brand," McLaughlin said. "Johnny Manziel is going through that right now, isn't he?"
McLaughlin and his staff are mostly worried about obvious no-nos, like photos of underage athletes drinking. With more minor transgressions â?? such as tweeting something they probably shouldn't have in the heat of the moment after a game â?? McLaughlin said VCU deals with them on a case-by-case basis to hopefully catch the mistake quickly and not let it turn into something bigger. If administrators and coaches follow their athletes on Twitter, they're able to find these "teachable moments," as McLaughlin calls them, faster.
"We tell them all the time when you put something on the Internet, it is forever," McLaughlin said. "Our athletics communications folks work with them, and we also ask our coaches to make sure they monitor it, too.
"We try to stress the things that could be inappropriate, things that could be harmful or embarrassing for you, your family or your team. We try to stress those things and teach them about them so when they get in the working world â?? whether it's work as a professional athlete or work as a doctor or whatever â?? they don't make a tragic mistake that's really, really going to hurt them."
Chun's message to athletes at FAU is the same; he said he and his staff stress social media's risks and rewards with "constant reaffirmation and constant re-education."
"It's what's called a virtual tattoo," Chun said. "You tweet something or Facebook something, and it could be there forever. You have to be smart about it."
Even when a player is receiving negative comments or someone is trying to provoke him or her into saying something.
"We haven't had an incident like that per se on our campus yet, but it could happen," Chun said. "We've got to keep reminding our kids to take the high road and be real vigilant about the things you say or sometimes you don't say, which could be more important. â?¦ You don't know what's going to trigger a negative thing, but you just have to remind kids that everything (they) say does have an impact."
Even handled strategically with smarts and some restraint, social media tends not to be a place for sympathy in sports, regardless of an athlete's age or experience level. When his players were being berated by Wildcat fans for losing, Kentucky coach John Calipari hit that point home.
"I told our fans: If you want to be angry at somebody, be angry at me," Calipari said. "If you want to Twitter something -- or whatever we want to call it -- to me, do it. If you want to hit my Facebook and say I'm the worst coach in the world, do it. But let these kids grow. They're young kids."
Some fans don't have that kind of patience. They draft 140 characters and press send, not knowing or caring how it will make the recipient feel.
Kyle Tucker of the Louisville Courier-Journal contributed to this report.
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PARIS (AP) -- Striker Karim Benzema insists he is not feeling the pressure ahead of World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and Spain, despite not scoring in his past 10 games for France and regularly finding himself on the Real Madrid bench.
Benzema was in good form last season for both club and country, but has not scored for France since his brace against Estonia last June in a warmup match before the European Championship.
"No, it doesn't weigh on me, of course I want to score but I can't start thinking 'I must score, I must score' because it will affect my game," Benzema said Sunday on French television show Telefoot. "Even if I don't score and we win, I will be happy. People don't look at the effort I make on the field. But the No. 1 striker must score goals and I hope they will come soon. We'll see after these two games."
Benzema has scored 15 goals in 55 games for France, a modest return for a forward of his stature.
"I am criticized every time in France, but that is part of my status now and you have to accept it with a smile," he said. "There are always difficult moments in a career, now I am coming back well and I feel really good."
France coach Didier Deschamps has backed Benzema to come good, adding that France needs him back to his best against Georgia and reigning European and world champion Spain.
After securing a 1-1 draw away to Spain, France is level on points at the top of Group I, and two wins will put France into top spot with only one team qualifying automatically for the 2014 World Cup.
Benzema has struggled to hold down a regular place for Real Madrid this season, starting only 12 of 22 league games, and scoring eight goals. Last year, Benzema finished the season with 21 league goals, only to see his confidence dip at Euro 2012, where he had a poor tournament.
"It's a bit harder for him because he's playing a bit less and it's difficult to get into a rhythm when you're coming on at the end of games," Deschamps said. "No one's irreplaceable, but I have enormous confidence in Karim with respect to his ability. He just needs that little spark to get going again. I think a goal would do him some good.
"He could be more efficient and he's looking to be. But he is doing other things in the game as well," Deschamps added. "The longer it goes on and he doesn't score, people will mention his statistics. But I repeat: I have faith in him."
Meanwhile, Deschamps is hopeful winger Franck Ribery will shake off an ankle ligament problem in time to play against Georgia.
"Franck wants to play, there's a problem with his ankle but it shouldn't prove to be a major problem," Deschamps said. | http://www.hudsonhubtimes.com/ap%20sports/2013/03/17/benzema-confident-despite-france-scoring-slump | 610 |
MLB 2K5 Loses ESPN
Take-Two drops the four letters a little early.
Though its agreement with ESPN does not end until 2006, IGN learned today that Take-Two will publish its upcoming baseball title as just Major League Baseball 2K5 (or MLB 2K5), rather than the previous ESPN MLB 2K5.
A Visual Concepts representative confirmed that the change is in name only -- the title will still include the series' signature cut scenes, wipes, and overlays, and Jon Miller and Joe Morgan are still in the game.
The name change comes months before Take-Two technically loses the rights to the ESPN brand, which was picked up recently by Electronic Arts as a long-term exclusive.
Take-Two will publish MLB 2K5 under its newly-formed 2K Sports label, created after the company purchased Visual Concepts and sub-brand Kush Games from SEGA last month. Take-Two has also secured exclusive third-party rights to games based on MLB properties.
MLB 2K5 is scheduled for release on PlayStation 2 and Xbox in March. | http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/02/02/mlb-2k5-loses-espn | 223 |
UFA – If players have trouble gearing up for the bronze-medal game, imagine how difficult it is to get mentally focused for a game to decide 5th and 6th places.
Such was the task facing the Czechs and Swiss today, and the former proved more resilient, winning 4-3 to earn the superior ranking.
The Czechs got goals from four different players while Tomas Hyka had a goal and two assists.
Luca Boltshauser started in goal for the Swiss, and Sven Andrighetto got two of the Swiss goals.
Like all other games the Swiss have played, this was close and could have gone in their favour. They took a 1-0 lead early in the first period when Lukas Sieber scored short-handed at 4:30.
The lead lasted until early in the middle period when Dmitrij Jaskin scored at 1:42 with Tanner Richard in the penalty box for tripping. The rest of the period was marred by a lengthy series of minor penalties. Of the ten minors, the Czechs incurred six, but it was Hyka who scored the go-ahead goal later for the Czechs.
Andrighetto got his first of the night at 18:39 to make it a 2-2 game, but the Czechs went ahead for good just 14 seconds later when Martin Frk beat Boltshauser with a shot.
Tomas Hertl made it a two-goal lead midway through the final period, and Andrighetto scored with just 62 seconds remaining in a 6-on-4 situation created by a penalty and Boltshauser on the bench. They couldn’t tie it in the final minute, and the Swiss lost in regulation for the first time all tournament.
Shots on goal favoured the Czechs 37-23. | http://www.iihf.com/fi/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/browse/3/recap/7467.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=181&cHash=219db49c6f | 375 |
A group of up to 50 masked thugs attacked a bar packed with English football fans in Lyon on Wednesday night.
Tottenham Hotspur supporters were in the Smoking Dog pub before their team's game in the French city.
Witnesses said three Tottenham fans were taken to hospital, one with a head injury, and claimed the attack had an anti-Semitic motive.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) said it was aware of reports of an attack and was offering assistance.
Tottenham fans said the attackers, some making Nazi salutes, smashed doors and threw cast iron chairs, wooden objects, and a flare into the pub, where up to 150 supporters were drinking. They said the attack on the bar, which is popular among ex-pats, happened at 10.18pm. The thugs returned shortly afterwards to launch another assault on the pub, which was damaged extensively as a result.
Landlord, Dave Eales from Retford, Nottinghamshire, said: "At 10.18 the pub was rammed with Tottenham fans watching the Champions League on the television. The front of the pub, which is made up of reinforced glass, was attacked by 20-25 people. They threw projectiles through the windows. There was a stand off. They didn't get into the bar. Then it calmed down. Then they came back a second time and it all started again. There were three injured Tottenham fans taken away by ambulance. One of them had a head injury. I'm not sure how bad it was."
It is the second time that Tottenham fans have been targeted by an apparent anti-Semitic attack in the last three months. In November, fans of the club, which has a traditionally strong Jewish following, were ambushed inside a pub in Rome on the eve of their game against Lazio. Far-right thugs were blamed for that knife attack, and two witnesses claimed the assaults last night could have had an anti-Semitic motive.
One, who did not want to be named, said: "There were 50 who attacked in the first wave and 25 in the second. It's a pretty scary thing when you're confronted by people doing Nazi salutes. A lit flare was thrown through the window as well as the heavy weight, the kind that's used on terraces to hold down umbrellas. It was terrifying. I've never seen anything like it. They threw iron stools through the windows as well."
Tottenham fan James Taylor drove through the night from his home in Ilford, Essex, to attend the Europa League second round second leg clash. He had no doubt that this was not a random attack. "It was pre-meditated, pre-arranged. It was nothing to do with Spurs fans," he said.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club said they were aware of reports of the attack. | http://www.independent.ie/world-news/football-fans-attacked-in-france-29084915.html | 579 |
MIAMI, Fla. (www.incnow.tv) - As the teams gear up for the big game in Miami Monday night so are the fans. Both Notre Dame and Alabama fans have been pouring into South Beach for the highly anticipated BCS National Championship matchup.
The top-ranked Irish and No. 2 Crimson Tide held media day. It was an opportunity for the teams to see Sun Life Stadium, site of Monday's title tilt; and for the media to get final thoughts from the players and coaches.
Downtown, at South Beach, Saturday afternoon there was a pep rally for both Notre Dame and Alabama that got fans fired up.
Making this matchup so anticipating for fans is the fact that the two teams have 25 national championships between the two programs, and that it’s been over 20 years since Notre Dame has been in a position to win a national title.
Stay with INC as we continue to bring you coverage from Miami. Monday night Tommy will host a half hour pregame show previewing the national championship battle between Notre Dame and Alabama at 7:30 p.m. on 21 Alive.
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Indiana Pacers Paul George (from left) changed shoes after an early-season slump. Now the superstitious guard is playing his best basketball of the season.
Indiana Pacers center Ian Mahinmi will make the phone call prior to leaving Bankers Life Fieldhouse after the team's morning shootaround Wednesday. He'll head north on College Avenue where he'll stop at the same restaurant he's been frequenting before every home game this season.
Mahinmi will run in and grab his takeout order of Chicken Alfredo pasta and a side Caesar salad before going home to eat and take a pregame nap.
If he's on the road, the restaurant will change but the routine stays the same. ... | http://www.indystar.com/article/20121211/SPORTS04/212110336/What-some-Pacers-players-favorite-superstitions-?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CIndyStar.com%7Cs | 143 |
The fight for survival at the bottom of the Premier League has provided more excitement than a television drama week in and week out as Arrows, Hotspurs and United Stars battle it out to stay in the League. Rundu-based Stars are about to make history by becoming the first team from the north-east to survive in the NPL. For Arrows a draw will count in their favour, but for Stars anything less than an outright win will send them right back to the first division, a situation they have been in before, having been relegated twice in the past. If Arrows don’t get a point they will be relegated for the second time. That would be a big blow to the coastal football supporters, not only for fans of Arrows but also for Blue Waters’ supporters and would mean that there won’t be coastal derbies. First division hopefuls Blue Boys and Swakopmund Football Club failed to make an impact.
There won’t be much to separate Arrows and Stars as both clubs come to the game with mixed results from their last two games: Arrows won 2-0 against Tigers in the capital two weeks ago and looked like they had secured their place in the NPL only to receive a blow last weekend after they where thumped 3-1 by African Stars. For United Stars their 2-2 draw against Civics two weeks ago seems to have ended their hopes of survival, but things started to change after they collected three points at SKW last weekend. The two sides are now level on 17 points and are separated only by a -3 goal difference.
Arrows’ goal aggregate is -15 while Stars are on -18. Arrows will go into the match as favorites as they are on home ground, but Stars have been quite unpredictable since April and have lost only once in their last five league matches: that was against Blue waters and have since collected 8 points from their last five games. They have now gained more points than even Pirates who got five from their last five games while Arrows has so far picked up seven in that run.
During their last encounter in Rundu, Stars won 2-0. If Stars win the match they will be joined by Rundu Chiefs who just gained promotion to the 2012/2013 MTC/NPL after wrapping up the northern Stream first division over the past weekend, meaning that it will be the first time for Rundu to have two clubs in the NPL.
The future of their coaches also depends on the outcome of this game. “Football is football, I can’t say it will be the same (score line 2-0) that we won against them (Arrows) in Rundu, because it will not be all the same players for Arrows. They are confident and fully prepared for the game,” said Ernest Kupe coach of United Stars.
“Last week we were poor against African stars. We just had to forget about that defeat, which we did. We deserve to stay up as there has been an improvement, but it will be a big ask as they (United stars) will be prepared and boosted by their recent win. I had a briefing with my players last Saturday after the defeat and the mood in the camp is high, but they will respond to that as this will be like a cup final for us,” said Arrows coach Woody Jacobs. Jacobs also played down rumours of him stepping down if Arrows fail to beat the drop: “Yes I would like to stay, but it will all depend on the management as I am only given the job until end of the season.”
Chairman and United Stars club owner, John Paul, said his team is excited about their upcoming clash at the coast, adding that the players will be rewarded if they manage to stay in the League. “Currently they are being paid a bonus for every win,” said the former striker of Stars. | http://www.informante.web.na/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9963:battle-for-npl-survival-intensifies&catid=18:sports&Itemid=106 | 805 |
18 May, 11:09
IRFU Chief Executive Philip Browne has issued a statement following confirmation of Ronan O'Gara's decision to retire from playing professional rugby.
Cork Constitution are well used to finishing top of the pile in the final AIB League table. They have done so in each of the last four seasons, but their 2008 final win over Garryowen stands out as their only play-off success since 1999.
The play-offs can topple the best of sides, and the Leesiders will be wary of what lies in wait at Dubarry Park on Saturday afternoon.
But they have reasons to be confident too. The Athlone venue was a happy hunting ground for them in January when despite losing lock Ian Nagle to a first half red card, Constitution battled fiercely to edge out Garryowen in a bruising AIB Cup final.
Players like Darragh Lyons, former captain Frank Cogan and Munster 'A' skipper Peter O'Mahony came to the fore that day, and this weekend Brian Walsh's men certainly have plenty of potential match winners to call on.
From wily winger Cronan Healy through to joint top scorer Richie Lane and talented scrum half Duncan Williams, who has secured a senior contract with Munster, Cork Con certainly have the personnel to cause St. Mary's College some damage.
When the sides met home-and-away in the league phase, Cork Con won 16-9 at Temple Hill in December and St. Mary's emerged as 24-20 victors at Templeville Road in March.
Coached by Peter Smyth, who played at hooker in the Dublin club's 2000 league-winning side, the current Mary's crop play an attractive brand of rugby, marshalled by Australian player-coach Shaun McCarthy at out-half.
But they are well able to mix up it and have plenty of bulk and strength up front, where former underage internationals Jack McGrath and Richie Sweeney revel in the front row and pacy lock Robin Copeland has shown his scoring touch with nine league tries this season.
McGrath's duel at scrum time with the Munster-capped Stephen Archer should be an interesting one, and if it is tight and a game to be won on penalties, then the Saints boast one of the best place-kickers in the league in full-back Gavin Dunne.
He helped himself to 14 points in the 24-23 semi-final victory over Old Belvedere and look for him to play a big role if St. Mary's are to annex a long-awaited league crown.
Darragh Fanning's wing duel with Lane will be another fascinating contest, and the individual match-ups all over the pitch add great spice to what is already a hugely anticipated game.
Cork Con were impressive 31-18 winners over local rivals Dolphin in their semi-final, qualifying for their third league decider in four years.
The motivation is there for both sides, as recent and past disappointments show.
St. Mary's number 8 and captain Hugh Hogan said: "Peter has told us of how much he hoped to add to that league medal from ten years ago - he was only 22 at the time and felt fairly confident he had plenty time to get another.
"But he has now moved on to coaching and the club hasn't won a league title since, so I guess it's a pretty tough competition to win."
Reflecting on the league final loss to Garryowen in 2007 and last year's shock semi-final defeat by Clontarf, Cork Con centre and skipper Evan Ryan says his side have learned some harsh lessons from those results.
"There were a lot of disappointed people in the club after losing two titles that were up for grabs but, I suppose, it makes you fight harder and want success all the more," he said.
"It'll be tough, but we're looking forward to it. We have had two good games against Dolphin, two very tough games.
"We started quite slow into the season and lost two of our first three games. We kind of got into a run at things towards Christmas but all of those games were two and three pointers (wins), so we weren't hammering teams or anything like that.
"That's the way the league has gone recently, competition has been right up there and it's arguably the most exciting campaign I have played in.
"From the club point of view, the AIB Cup run, that was a confidence booster, but the league remains a different dynamic, even if this game is essentially a cup game rather than a league match."
Hogan's charges won the Leinster Senior Cup earlier in the season and are on a five-match winning streak in the AIB League.
The Saints of 2010 would dearly love to follow in the footsteps of their own coach, Trevor Brennan, Malcolm O'Kelly, Victor Costello, Denis Hickie and John McWeeney and bring the trophy back to Templeville Road.
Smyth said: "I've been saying since we turned our form around, that whoever is going to win the trophy is going to have to beat Cork Con somewhere. It's no surprise to me that they are in the final, they are a very good side.
"But we feel that we have earned our right to go in and give them some competition and give it our best shot against them. It's going to be a very tough task for us, but we're looking forward to it."
St. Mary's will field an unchanged team from that one-point semi-final win over 'Belvo, with try scorers Mark Sexton and Stephen Grissing combining once again at centre.
Munster commitments have taken Scott Deasy, Denis Hurley and Billy Holland out of equation for Cork Con, and Tom Gleeson is a late inclusion in the team to face the Cardiff Blues, as Keith Earls' groin strain rules him out.
Ireland Under-20 starlet Simon Zebo will start at full-back for Walsh's side, having featured on the wing for most of the season. Although Lane will more than likely switch with him at some stage.
Gleeson's absence opens the door for Alex Ryan to join his skipper in Cork Con's midfield, while O'Mahony's return from British & Irish Cup duty sees him rejoin Ed Leamy and Cogan in the back row, with Nagle partnering Merle O'Connell in the second row. Brian Hayes loses out in the reshuffle.
This is the blue riband of AIB League rugby, and we just feel the men in blue can upset the odds and end Leinster's Division 1 drought. But it will be close.
IrishRugby.ie Prediction: St. Mary's College to win by 1-5 points
CORK CONSTITUTION: Simon Zebo; Richie Lane, AN Other, Evan Ryan (capt), Cronan Healy; Darragh Lyons, Duncan Williams; Martin Gately, Robert Quinn, Stephen Archer, Merle O'Connell, Ian Nagle, Peter O'Mahony, Ed Leamy, Frank Cogan.
ST. MARY'S COLLEGE: Gavin Dunne; Ronan Doherty, Stephen Grissing, Mark Sexton, Darragh Fanning; Shaun McCarthy, Conor McPhillips; Jack McGrath, Richie Sweeney, Robert Sweeney, Gareth Logan, Robin Copeland, Damian Hall, Paul Nash, Hugh Hogan (capt).
Referee: Alain Rolland (IRFU)
Assistant Referees: Leo Colgan, Darragh McCormack (both IRFU)
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Javelin kills athletics official
A javelin thrower accidentally killed a sports official at a German athletics meeting.
Police in Dusseldorf said the 74-year-old man died in hospital after being hit in the throat.
A spokesman said they have opened an investigation into the death but that initial indications were it had been a “tragic accident.”
He said the 15-year-old athlete who threw the javelin was receiving psychological counselling.
Hundreds took part in the youth athletics event at a stadium in the Rath district of Dusseldorf. | http://www.irishtimes.com/news/javelin-kills-athletics-official-1.732907 | 123 |
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HOOVER - Indiana got a goal from Nikita Kotlov in the 64th minute and the stifling Hoosier defense made it stick Sunday. Indiana defeated Georgetown 1-0 at Regions Park to claim its eighth national championship.
The goal came after a kick from near the corner-kick spot came in to Eriq Zavaleta. Georgetown goalkeeper Tomas Gomez rushed to the right of the goal to keep Zavaleta in check. When Zavaleta's header attempt came to the center, Kotlov then had a wide-open net and didn't miss.
It was Kotlov's ninth goal of the season and one of a dozen shots the Hoosiers took in the second half.
"I think Eriq deserves a lot of credit," Kotlov said. "As you can see from the past few games, he's assisted on a cross. This was just like that. Eriq makes a great run gets to the ball, sees me there and makes it really easy for me. I just tapped it away."
Indiana is the first No. 16 seed in history to win the championship.
"You see the emotion from them. You can see it in the locker room. This is special," Indiana head coach Todd Yeagley said. "It was a really hard-fought final. I couldn't be more proud of these players.
"Words are hard to explain what we shared in the locker room and what we shared on the field," Yeagley said.
One last chance for Georgetown by Tommy Muller in the game's final minute hit the post.
Georgetown's Steve Neumann was named the tournament's offensive MOP. Neumann scored three goals in the Hoyas' semifinal win against Maryland on Friday night.
Indiana goaltender Luis Soffner was named defensive MOP.
Both teams had many chances to score, as both goaltenders were forced to lay out. Soffner made four saves in the win and Tomas Gomez had six stops in a losing effort for the Hoyas. who were stopped in their first national championship appearance.
"They were deserved winners," Georgetown head coach Brian Wiese said of Indiana. "I told the players in the locker room that we have the second-place trophy, which today is one of the sourest things you can look at, but I know that given some time it's going to be something that we really treasure as a great accomplishment for the program."
In the first half, Georgetown had the best opportunities, causing Soffner to go horizontal twice to save strikes from inside the penalty-shot area. The first came off the foot of Tyler Rudy at 16:02. The second from Brandon Allen at 35:04. Melvin Snow also launched a shot from about 12 feet that sailed wide left.
Zavaleta had three shots for the Hoosiers in the opening frame while A.J. Corrado had the other.
-- Story courtesy of NCAA.com
Soffner's Superb Swan Song
In final college game, Indiana keeper wins title, MOP honors
- Mark Spoor, NCAA.com
HOOVER, Ala. -- To look at Luis Soffner, with his full beard and steely eyes, you may think he was a UFC fighter instead of a soccer goalie. To see him on the field, particularly in Sunday's national championship game, you may think he's both.
Soffner, a fifth-year senior for the Hoosiers, made a few diving saves throughout the battle with Georgetown to preserve a national championship that had eluded him for nearly his entire collegiate career.
"I'm just so excited," Soffner said, nearly coming out of his seat. "We've come close the previous three years, but this year, especially to go out like this, to end my career at Indiana here on top is the best feeling ever."
The jubiliation did not come without a battle on Sunday. The stat sheet may only show that Soffner made two saves, but the two diving stops Soffner made in the first half were far from his only action. A last-minute shot from senior defender Tommy Mueller hit the post, nearly dashing everything for the Hoosiers.
"The guys in front of me have done great to keep the ball away from me, especially in the last few games," Soffner said. "In the second half, the ball didn't come into the box often, but when it hit the crossbar, I was so happy.
"Sometimes it takes a little luck, and we deserved it at that moment."
Indiana did not allow a goal in its last three games of the season. In Friday's national semifinal, the Hoosiers defeated Creighton 1-0, a game in which Soffner did not have to make a single save. In the national quarterfinals, Soffner's bunch again won 1-0, with Soffner making three saves.
Five saves in three games was enough to earn Soffner defensive MOP honors, a feat that he says comes because of the team in front of him.
"I saw just pure fight for our team," Soffner said. "We always said that defense wins championships, and even when we're not having the best offensive game, our defense would come in, and every guy on the field came together and fought. We didn't let the ball into the net, and that was our mentality.
"We knew that we'd get a goal, as long as the defense held tough. Georgetown put good pressure on us [Sunday], but from front to back, we had good team defense, and it paid off."
Soffner has played every minute of this, his senior season, a total of more than 2,000 minutes. Sitting in front of the media Sunday, Soffner told anyone who would listen that each minute of the fight was worth it.
"I haven't stopped smiling since the Xavier game [a 4-1 win in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Nov. 18]. We've been on a roll. I'm proud of our whole team for just hanging in there and keeping the fight going." | http://www.iuhoosiers.com/sports/m-soccer/recaps/120912aaa.html | 1,303 |
PARKERSBURG – On a chilly, rainy night at Parkersburg's Memorial Fieldhouse, The Viking hoops squad of Ripley High were turned away with a loss to the Big Reds, 63-46 in front of a sparse crowd of basketball fans in attendance.
Memorial Fieldhouse is a local sports fan's dream. Parkersburg High does an amazing job of preserving the legacy of its athletic programs.
On this night, Ripley forward Kade Harrison was out of the lineup due to a minor foot sprain that he obtained in the Woodrow Wilson game two nights prior.
"It's nothing serious," said Harrison. "I went to the doctor and I should be back in the lineup Tuesday (versus Point Pleasant)."
Replacing the all MSAC selection in the lineup was senior Cody Sanders. Sanders in a fierce defender and brings a tremendous energy to the floor for the Vikings.
Early on, it was all Parkersburg. The Big Reds jumped out to a 25-7 lead late in the first on the strength of Viking turnovers and missed opportunities on second chances for Ripley.
Viking Coach Craig Harmon subbed some hungry sophores into the game late in the opening quarter. Justin McKown, Morgan Graves and Dylan Hall took the court and quickly made their presence known as Graves hit a beautiful 3-point bomb from the wing just in time to beat the buzzer as the quarter ended.
It was what the Vikings needed. The shot in the arm revitalized the team and they went to work chipping away at the Big Red's lead in the second quarter.
The Vikings (6-13 MSAC 2-11) got as close as 27-16 in the second period on the strength of post men Chuck Sleboda and Luke Layhew.
The quarter was highlighted by a slick no look pass inside from point guard Jacob Haynes who found Luke Layhew alone in the paint for an easy put in. Haynes has been visibly trying to do anything in his power on the floor to help his team to victory in this, his senior season.
Casy Smith has carried the scoring load for Ripley in recent games. Smith was (4-of-6) from 2-point range on this night.
It was clear that Parkersburg focused their defensive strategy to slow down the Ripley guard as Big red assistant coaches could be heard yelling, "Who has (number) three!" throughout the game.
There was a scare as Parkersburg's Trevor Britton took an accidental elbow to the face in the paint and appeared to hit his head on the floor. He was down for several minutes before being helped off of the floor. Britton was hot, scoring 10 points in the half but never returned.
Parkersburg led 38-22 at the half.
Smith began to heat up in the third and the Vikings would get as close as nine but it was not to be on this night.
Parkersburg went on a 16-11 run the final period to seal the deal.
For Ripley, Casy Smith had 13, Chuck Sleboda had 13 points and 10 boards for a double-double, Luke Layhew had a career high of nine, Jacob Haynes had five seven assists and Justin McKown and Morgan Graves netted three each.
The Vikings return to action tonight as they host Point Pleasant. The Big Blacks knocked off then AAA No.1 Greenbrier East last month and will be looking to avenge a season opening loss to Ripley on their home court. | http://www.jacksonnewspapers.com/article/20130211/SPORTS/130219981/0/ARTICLES | 726 |
CUTTING DOWN THE EXTRA YARDS
The week’s hot-button issue stayed hot Thursday.
The Jaguars’ tackling – an issue throughout the preseason and again in the regular-season opener – was unsurprisingly a key topic when assistant head coach/defensive coordinator Mel Tucker spoke to the media Thursday.
Tucker called tackling the defense’s “most glaring deal,” nothing that the Jaguars allowed more than 100 yards after contact and after the catch in a loss to the Vikings Sunday.
“That (tackling better) would do a lot for us,” Tucker said.
Tucker said while teams can work in pads only once a week in the regular season, tackling can still be improved by positioning and film work.
“We need to become a better tackling group,” Tucker said. “We had some tackling issues in the preseason, but we’ll continue to work at it.”
Tackling will be critical Sunday against the Texans, who likely will emphasize the run against the Jaguars. Houston finished last season as the league’s No. 2 running offense, but averaged just 2.6 yards per rush in a victory over the Dolphins Sunday.
“It’s very important to stop the run,” Tucker said. “These guys do a great job of running the football. All their play action passes come off the run game. That’s very, very important for us.”
NEXT CORNER UP
The status of
But while that means the Jaguars could remain without the full services of their two best cornerbacks against the Texans Sunday, cornerback
“It’s something we’ve been practicing pretty much the whole training camp, playing without those guys,” Ross said. “We’ve practiced it. We’re accustomed to it. It’s no excuse. We have to do our job out there.”
Ross started opposite Will Middleton at corner last week, with Mathis – a starter at corner for the Jaguars from 2004-2011 – playing a little more than 20 snaps in nickel.
Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder completed 20 of 27 passes for 270 yards, including 192 yards in the second half.
While Middleton started, second-year veteran
“We have a rotation that we use, and we had a rotation that we used in that game,” Tucker said. “We’ve done a couple things in the preseason as well so it’s really regardless of who’s out there we expect guys to get the job done.
“It’s the next man up mentality for us. We’ve been there before and we’ll continue to work like that. We just try to do the best we can. We have confidence in the guys that are out there, put them in a position to make plays and continue to improve, and I feel like we’ll make plays.”
TERRANCE KNIGHTON SAYS
“I hate every team we play against. They (the Texans) are supposed to be a team to win the Super Bowl and represent the AFC and all of this stuff, so I’m looking forward to seeing it and know where our team stands. I’m ready to play anybody.”
“What we do is we focus on who we do have. We try to put together a plan that emphasizes for us what our guys do best. We try to play to the collective strengths of our players and try to put those guys in the best positions possible to make plays in the game and so that’s where our focus is and it’s always next man up. Here our guys know that and it’s no excuses, no explanations. We’re going out there to get the job done.”
The Jaguars will hold a non-padded practice Friday morning in preparation for the 2012 regular-season home opener against the Houston Texans Sunday at 1 p.m.
Mike Mularkey knew Jerry Sullivan was a key hire in January. Cecil Shorts would certainly agree. Shorts, the Jaguars’ second-year wide receiver who caught two passes for 30 yards as a rookie, caught four passes for 74 yards and a touchdown in the regular-season opener. Mularkey on Wednesday said Shorts may get more snaps moving forward, and also mentioned that Shorts had benefitted from the presence of Sullivan, widely considered one of the NFL’s best receiving coaches. Shorts on Thursday agreed. “It’s a humongous impact,” Shorts said, smiling. “He’s a technician. He just knows how to coach wide receivers. He’s very, very good at it. I’m blessed.” Shorts said Sullivan’s influence can be seen beyond just his performance. “If you watch all of us, from April until now, we all have improved dramatically – getting out of our breaks, running routes,” Shorts said. “It’s definitely viewable.”
* The Jaguars will recognize Ross’s wife, four-time Olympic Gold Medalist Sanya Richards-Ross, during Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans. Ross, who joined the Jaguars in 2012 as an unrestricted free agent, was given permission by Mularkey to take a leave from training camp in August to watch his wife win the gold medal in the 400-meter dash in London. “I’m excited,” Ross said. “This will be the first time I’ve seen her in a while. First off, as a husband I’m excited to be able to spend time with my wife. Then, to have her there with me for the first home game, that tops the charts.”
* Mathis said while he played just a little more than 20 plays against the Vikings, his knee continues to progress. “The knee is good,” he said. “It’s reacting well and that’s what they want to see.” Mathis had a pass breakup against the Vikings. | http://www.jaguars.com/news/article-JaguarsNews/Inside-the-Jaguars/b3032ae0-efef-4eab-a6b6-e54dfeebabc1 | 1,303 |
BROOKLINE, Mass., May 21, 2011 - James Madison ran its scoreless innings pitched streak to 30 and wrapped up its second straight top regular season finish in the Colonial Athletic Association after a 4-2 win to sweep Northeastern on Saturday afternoon at Friedman Diamond.
JMU (37-17, 21-9 CAA) won its sixth game in a row overall and improved to 20 games over .500 for the first time since the end of the NCAA Regional in 2008 (39-19). The 10-game CAA winning streak matched the program's longest since spanning the 1994 and 1995 seasons.
The Dukes actually solidified their place as the CAA regular-season champion and tournament top seed 40 minutes before the game's completion when Hofstra rallied from a 5-3 deficit in the eighth to defeat Old Dominion 6-5 in 10 innings. The win solidified the top spot at 21-9 and gave JMU its first back-to-back first-place seasons in program history.
After consecutive 5-0 shutouts to begin the series, JMU ran its scoreless innings streak to 30 while holding a 4-0 lead until NU (18-33, 12-18 CAA) struck once each in the eighth and ninth innings.
Sophomore pitcher Nick Slogik (Strongsville, Ohio/St. Edward) earned the win (4-2) after holding the Huskies scoreless over the first four innings with four strikeouts. It was his team-best 23rd appearance of the season but just his third start. Redshirt junior Scott Mayer (Waterford, Va./Loudoun Valley) worked 2 2/3 hitless innings in relief. Freshman Trent Cundiff (Roanoke, Va./Northside) allowed a run in the ninth but held on for his first career save.
JMU had just six hits in the game, scoring its runs on a Johnny Bladel (Ashburn, Va./Stone Bridge) RBI double, a Cole McInturff (Centreville, Va./Westfield) wild pitch, an Evan Scott (Haymarket, Va./Battlefield) sacrifice fly and an Alex Foltz (Mathias, W.Va./East Hardy) RBI single.
Starter Brandon McNelis took the loss for the Huskies after allowing all four JMU runs, three earned, on five hits in seven innings with seven strikeouts. Third baseman Ricky Salvucci and right fielder Connor Lyons each had two of NU's seven hits. Second baseman Pete Castoldi hit a solo home run in the ninth.
JMU will resume action on Thursday, May 26 as the top seed in the 2011 CAA Championship at Brooks Field in Wilmington, N.C. The rest of the tournament field was set two hours after JMU's game as Georgia State defeated George Mason 2-1 in 10 innings and William and Mary rallied to beat Towson 5-4 in 10 innings. The Dukes face fourth-seeded GSU at 3 p.m. on the opening day while second-seeded Old Dominion battles third-seeded UNC Wilmington at 7 p.m.
NOTES: With 37 wins JMU tied for the 10th-most in program history... 21 CAA wins are second most in program history behind only the 2006 squad (22-8)... after having his 20-game hitting streak snapped on Friday, sophomore first baseman Matt Tenaglia (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East) hit a triple in the sixth to give the 2011 Dukes a tie for the program season triples record with 27... junior catcher Jake Lowery (Midlothian, Va./Cosby) and senior shortstop David Herbek (Haymarket, Va./Battlefield) were each prevented from reaching base in back-to-back games for the first time this season... Lowery had a 33-game streak of reaching base snapped on Friday... JMU's six hits matched the second lowest total for the team this season, though the Dukes went 4-0 in games in which they were held to six hits... after entering the series second in the nation in stolen bases, the Dukes went without a steal in all three games... JMU swept three consecutive CAA series within the same season for the first time since 1988.
2011 CAA Baseball Championship
Brooks Field - Wilmington, N.C.
Game 1 - #1 James Madison vs. #4 Georgia State - 3 p.m.
Game 2 - #2 Old Dominion vs. #3 UNC Wilmington - 7 p.m.
Game 3 - Loser of Game 1 vs. Loser of Game 2 - 12 p.m.
Game 4 - Winner of Game 1 vs. Winner of Game 2 - 3:30 p.m.
Game 5 - Winner of Game 3 vs. Loser of Game 4 - 7 p.m.
Game 6 - Winner of Game 4 vs. Winner of Game 5 - 1 p.m.
Game 7 - Same two teams (if necessary) - 30 minutes after Game 6
Tickets are available for purchase by visiting UNCWSports.com. | http://www.jmusports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPID=6823&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=14400&ATCLID=205153542 | 1,058 |
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR announced the 24 drivers to earn invitations to the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Awards Banquet in December based on their achievements in the NASCAR Finalist Program.
The program recognizes drivers who compete in support divisions at NASCAR Whelen All-American Series tracks. With Division I being each track’s top division, the NASCAR Finalist Program highlights drivers competing in each track’s Division II, III, IV and V.
“We congratulate our top drivers in the 2011 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Finalist standings,” said George Silbermann, NASCAR vice president, regional and touring series. “Their dedication and success highlight a great group of NASCAR competitors. We’re proud to recognize their achievements.”
The top drivers in each division for dirt and asphalt will be recognized at the year-end banquet at the Charlotte Convention Center at the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Friday, Dec. 9.
The top NASCAR Finalist are:
• Division II/Dirt: Jesse Sobbing, who competes in the B-Modified division at I-80 Speedway in Omaha, Neb.; Chuck Schutz Jr. who competes in the Late Model Division at Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville, Pa.; and Dennis Cook, who competes with Sobbing in I-80 B-Modifieds.
• Division III/Dirt: Brad Derry, who competes in the Pro-Am/Pro Stock division at I-80 Speedway and Adams County Speedway in Corning, Iowa; Adams County Pro Stock driver Jason Rold; and Tony Hardisty, an Adams County/I-80 driver.
• Division IV/Dirt: Matt McAtee, Pat Shiflett, and Jeremy Auton, all of the Hobby Stock division at Adams County.
• Division V/Dirt: Adams County drivers Bill Gibson, Blaine Petersen and Jerod Weston of the track’s B-Modified Division.
• Division II/Asphalt: Shawn Balluzzo, from the Modified division at Langley Speedway in Hampton, Va.; Ricky Martin, who races in the Figure Eight division at Raceway Park in Shakopee, Minn.; and Dan Gilster from the Grand National Sportsman at LaCrosse (Wis.) Fairgrounds Speedway.
• Division III/Asphalt: Shawn Murray, who races in the Pure Stock division at Barrie (Ontario) Speedway; Kingsport (Tenn.) Speedway Pure Four division driver John Ketron; and Matt Galko of the SK Light Division at Stafford (Conn.) Motor Speedway.
• Division IV/Asphalt: Jack Nugent, of the Super Stock division at Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, Colo.; Waterford (Conn.) Speedbowl Mini Stock drivers Ken Cassidy Jr. and Glenn Colvin.
• Division V/Asphalt: Danny Field, who races the Mini Stock division at Thompson (Conn.) International Speedway; Doug Schmitz, from the Mini Stock division at Raceway Park; and Jason Heitz, who competes at Raceway Park and Elko (Minn.) Speedway.
The NASCAR Finalist Program began in 2010 as a way to recognize the accomplishments throughout all of the racing divisions at NASCAR Whelen All-American Series tracks.
A NASCAR-licensed driver’s best 14 finishes are counted toward their final point total for the year. Points are kept separately for dirt and asphalt tracks.
Under the points structure for the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series, the race winner receives two points for every car in the event up to 20 cars. Second place receives two fewer points, and so on through the field. Race winners receive an additional five bonus points. For example, if 20 cars are in the field, the winner receives 45 points, second place 38 and third, 36. If there are 15 cars, the winner receives 35 points, second 28 and third, 26. | http://www.kalamazoospeedway.com/nascar-finalist-program-honorees-named/ | 820 |
The IMS baseball team had a key conference doubleheader with 2A ninth ranked Pekin. In the first game, Jackson Brokaw was on the hill and tossed a one hitter striking out six and walking one. Meanwhile at the plate Riley Hochstedler smacked two home runs and had six rbi’s. Marshall Shrock had a couple of hits one of which was a home run. Jason Litwiller had three hits and scored twice. IMS won the first 15-0 in four innings.
However Pekin would bounce back and win big in the second game. The Panthers won 14-3 in five innings. IMS scored their runs with a Riley Hochstedler two run shot and a Harlan Gingerich homer. The loss snaps IMS’ 41 game conference winning streak. IMS is now 8-3 overall and 5-1 in the conference. | http://www.kciiradio.com/2010/06/ims-and-pekin-split-in-baseball/ | 185 |
BCHL's Warriors win final home gamePublished: March 05, 2012 1:00 PM
Updated: March 05, 2012 1:39 PM
The Westside Warriors' 2011-12 season won't end with a playoff spot, but at least the BCHL club was able to bid a positive farewell to its hometown fans.
And they played a spoiler's role in the process.
In their last game of the campaign at Royal LePage Place, the Warriors downed Vernon 3-1, pretty much ending the post-season aspirations of the defending champion Vipers.
Dru Morrison ripped a wrist shot past Kirby Halcrow from about 30 feet out five minutes into the second period for what proved to be the game winner on Saturday night as the goal broke a 1-1 tie.
Connor Dempsey, with his team leading 24th, and Brett McKinnon rounded out the scoring for Westside.
Warriors captain Max French says it was a great way to end the home portion of what has been a disappointing season.
"We've been looking forward to this one for a while. We were coming up against the Vernon Vipers who ended our playoff last year," said French. "It was definitely a big one for us. Our last home game. We've got some great players that won't be coming back next year."
French said the Warriors wanted the win particulalry for Peter McIntosh and Dwayne Rodrigue who both graduate at the end of the season.
For Rodrigue, who stopped 28 shots in the win, it was an emotional night.
"I like to play here, it's a perfect place to play," says Rodrigue who was acquired in a trade part way through the season.
"I feel like I was here for the whole year. We have a great bunch of guys and the fans were awesome. It was a nice experience for me."
The Warriors (21-28-2-7) final two games of the regular season will be on the road, Friday in Surrey and Saturday in Chilliwack.
French commits to Bentley
Max French is on his way to the NCAA.
The Westside Warriors' captain has committed to attend university and play Division I hockey at Bentley University starting in the fall of 2013.
“I’m very excited to be able to go down to Bentley in the 2013 year and join a couple of past Warriors,” says the 19 year-old forward. “It’s going to be a great opportunity.”
At Bentley, French will join former Warriors Alex Grieve and Matt Maher, who are both currently in their rookie seasons stateside, as well as Tyler Krause (now with AJHL Okotoks) who begins his freshman season this coming fall.
“They have a very prestigious business program down there” French says, “and after hearing what the guys had to say about it, I just figured that was the right fit for me and my family."
The West Kelowna native will play his 20 -year-old season in the BCHL, and says he’s still eager to lead the Warriors into the 2012-13 campaign.
“I think the number one goal is to come back here and win a championship with the Warriors,” French stresses, adding: “I think we’ve got a great team coming back and I think it’s going to be an outstanding year." | http://www.kelownacapnews.com/sports/warriors/news/141486193.html | 712 |
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The Metro Holiday Basketball Tournament is a New Year’s tradition for high school athletics.
This year marks the tournament's 51st year bringing together 17 metro teams. Papillion-La Vista’s Athletic Director Chuck Johnston said going to the games is like watching history in the making.
“For a lot of basketball people, it's sort of like a reunion. You get a chance to see people you don't get to see all the time, so it's been good for people, longtime Omaha basketball folks, to come back, see every team,” Johnston said.
Johnston has been a part of the tournament for 34 years, once as a coach and now as an athletic director.
“It's just part of the fabric of Omaha. It's just a great thing. It's a very important thing. I hope one of these years they're doing the 100-year story,” Johnston said.
The tradition holds true for the fans that come to watch the game they love.
“I come out here every year. I like watching basketball, so I come get my little program and watch them play. I'm here all day,” said Terrance Kelly.
The tournament has seen thousands of players, including some basketball greats.
“People like Mike McGee, who played with the Lakers, Andy Wolridge, Dave Hoppen, Eric Strickland, who (each) had a NBA career. There have just been so many great players,” Johnston said.
Friday and Saturday, the men play at Millard South and the women at Benson. Both will play the finals at the Civic Auditorium next week. | http://www.ketv.com/news/local-news/Tournament-marks-tradition-for-basketball-fans/-/9674510/17939252/-/t40n4x/-/index.html?absolute=true | 346 |
Hopes dashed for NHL labor deal
No imminent agreement, no further talks planned
Like watching a goal that slams the back of the net that is later called off, National Hockey League fans experienced elation followed quickly by sharp disappointment -- and, as has been the case nearly two months, none of this action happened on the ice.
NHL Players' Association executive director Donald Fehr voiced rare optimism Thursday that the the league's lockout of its players may finally end after what he described as significant progress in talks with owner representatives.
"We believe that, with the exception of the transition issues that have not been discussed, that we have a complete agreement on dollars," Fehr said.
But a few minutes later, he returned to the podium at the Westin Hotel in New York's Times Square with grimmer news.
An official from the league, Fehr said, had left a voice mail indicating the "moves the players made were not acceptable" and that there was no imminent agreement and no further talks were planned.
A short time later, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman gave a drastically different account. Shooting down Fehr's claim that the players had moved the most on issues such as contracts, pensions, the length of the collective bargaining agreement and more, he said it was the owners who had "made substantial movement."
After all the give and take, Bettman said, the two sides weren't on the verge of a deal. In fact, the NHL was walking back its offer, with the commissioner saying: "The things that we added to the table this week are off the table."
"Spinning us all into an emotional frenzy that maybe (we are) close ... is terribly unfair to our fans and it's unfair to this process," said Bettman, accusing Fehr and the player's union of injecting false hope into the process.
The league and the players association have not been able to reach a collective bargaining agreement, prompting a lockout that threatens to wipe out an entire NHL season for the second time in eight years.
The season did not begin as scheduled on October 11, and the league has canceled groups of games as the calendar progressed with no deal. Last month, the league said that the all-star game and the regular season through December 14 had been called off.
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A smuggling boat was discovered on Arroyo Quemada Beach at 8 a.m. Friday.
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Josh Tedeschi pitched six-plus innings of two-hit shutout ball as Dos Pueblos beat Laguna Hills 3-0 in a CIF Division II first round playoff game in Goleta.
Saturday's Powerball jackpot is at an estimated $600 million. Sending 43 states into the middle of a lotto frenzy.
Oxnard firefighters are one step closer to getting an eighth fire station.
Two Ventura County women signed up for an online nursing program hoping to get ahead, but it didn't turn out the way they planned.
A sold-out crab feast helped the Downtown Lions Club raise thousands of dollars.
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Raiders | Will hire a general manager
Oakland Raiders head coach Hue Jackson said the organization will hire a general manager in the offseason. "We've had conversations, but we haven't said exactly who, what, when, where and how," Jackson said. "But I do know that there's gonna be somebody that we do bring in here and talk to and do those things with. But we haven't just nailed it down or anything like that."
2012-01-03 05:55:27 | Source: ANG Newspapers - Steve Corkran
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San Diego, CA (Sports Network) - The San Diego Padres exercised the 2014 and 2015 contract options of manager Bud Black Monday.
"Buddy has a keen insight into team dynamics and creates a great environment for the players and coaching staff," Padres executive vice president and general manager Josh Byrnes said. "He is a gifted leader with a terrific mind for the game and a genuine interest and curiosity related to all areas of our organization."
Black has managed the Padres since 2007, leading the team to a 464-509 record and no playoff appearances over that span.
His best season came in 2010 when he earned the National League Manager of the Year Award after the club finished in second place of the NL West with a 90-72 mark.
San Diego finished last season with a 76-86 record, but went 49-37 over the final 86 games of the year, which was the fifth-best winning percentage in the NL from June 28 to the end of the regular season.
"I am honored and humbled by the faith Josh and our ownership team have shown in me, the coaching staff and our players," said Black. "I am extremely proud to be part of this organization, and I'm excited to continue working with ownership and our baseball operations team toward achieving our ultimate goal: bringing a championship to the great city and fans of San Diego." | http://www.kget.com/sports/mlb/San%20Diego%20Padres/story/Padres-exercise-the-contract-options-of-manager/MUOwtWDxUUu7aQgQiLxzMQ.cspx | 276 |
|Date of game: 4/22/2012
Recap: Washington vs. Miami
Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Sunday's game between the Miami Marlins and Washington Nationals was postponed because of inclement weather.
Further information for a potential makeup date has not yet been announced, although both teams have a scheduled off day on Monday.
The Nationals, though, will start a six-game west coast trip on Tuesday in San Diego. The Marlins begin a three-game series in New York against the Mets on Tuesday.
Washington won the first two games of the series, 2-0 on Friday and 3-2 in 10 innings on Saturday.Game Notes | http://www.kget.com/sports/mlb/l.mlb.com-2012-e.33914/game.aspx | 136 |
If the season started today the competition would be over and Jeff Tuel would be the starting quarterback. But it doesn't and he isn't, so the competition is still technically open, said coach Mike Leach.
But for all intents and purposes, the race is over.
Tuel got the bulk of the snaps on Saturday. Dan Gilbertson saw some action too, as did Cody Clements and Jesse Brown. But Tuel has been the one who has stepped up and shined in Leach's new spread offense.
Now a senior, Tuel went 19-of-21 for 285 yards and two touchdowns in Saturday's Crimson and Gray scrimmage in Spokane. At one point he had 15 straight completions.
"If we were to play today Jeff would be our starter," said Leach. "But the thing is, they are all going to go work and develop their skills and all that. And then we're going to stick them in the bag and shake it up and see who walks out in camp."
Leach has some great lines, doesn't he?
"I will handle it the same was as if he said ‘Jeff is the starting quarterback, there is no competition whatsoever', or if he said it's a full-on competition," said Tuel of the situation. "Either way I'm going into it – I'm going to be myself and I'm going to lead this team and get these guys ready to go no matter what because it's something we need to do. We need to continue to build this offense and get better as a football team."
The Cougars have one more practice in Pullman on Tuesday.
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Six Gonzaga University baseball players spent the morning receiving their diplomasonly to battle in the series finale against Appalachian State University.>>
Six Gonzaga University baseball players spent the morning at the Spokane Arena receiving their diplomas at the university's graduation ceremony only to battle in the series finale against Appalachian State University in the afternoon.>>
MOSCOW, Idaho - Former University of Idaho football coach Robb Akey has confirmed to SWX that he has filed a lawsuit against the university.>>
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PULLMAN, Wash. – In a game with eight errors and eight infield singles, it was one of each that ultimately decided Sunday's Pac-12 Conference baseball game between UCLA and Washington State. Collin Slaybaugh>>
In a game with eight errors and eight infield singles, it was one of each that ultimately decided Sunday's Pac-12 Conference baseball game between UCLA and Washington State.>> | http://www.khq.com/story/17660610/wsu-football-what-saturdays-scrimmage-said-about-jeff-tuel?widgetId=50822&slideshowImageId=22 | 640 |
The Los Angeles Galaxy's 3-0 domination of Sounders FC on Sunday also was a victory of star power.
Galaxy designated players figured in all of their team's scores as L.A. built a three-goal advantage heading into the series' resolution game 6 p.m. Sunday at CenturyLink Field.
Designated player Robbie Keane scored the Galaxy's first and third goals and assisted the second.
"He's been simply outstanding since his return from the European Championships," L.A. coach Bruce Arena said. "One could argue he's been the best player in the league."
On the first goal, Keane was assisted by fellow-DP Landon Donovan. Third DP David Beckham didn't figure in the scoring, but he was dangerous in the flow of the game and launching eight corner kicks.
"You're talking about guys who've got 100 caps — each of them," Sounders coach Sigi Schmid said. "You're talking about guys who have played in World Cups. You're talking about guys who have played in European Champions League games and things like that. There's a quality that they've been able to express onto the team. For us right now, we're still searching maybe a little bit for that."
Over the course of the season, Los Angeles' designated players combined for 32 goals and 32 assists while drawing a total guaranteed compensation of $9.8 million.
Seattle's three DP's — Fredy Montero, Mauro Rosales and Christian Tiffert — combined for 16 goals and 24 assists, while drawing a combined guaranteed compensation of $1.6 million.
Rosales missed the playoff series opener with a hamstring strain. Tiffert played 73 minutes at Los Angeles. Montero played 65 before being replaced by Eddie Johnson.
"We wanted (Montero) to push as hard as he could for 60-65 and then we were going to make a decision as to how to make changes," Schmid said. "... Eddie is a little more through runner than a ball-at-the-feet guy that Fredy is."
Montero led Seattle in goals over his first three seasons before finishing one behind Johnson with a career-high 13 this season.
However, he has never scored a goal in the playoffs — a run of 756 scoreless minutes in the postseason.
"Obviously there are streaks, and goal-scorers are streaky," Schmid said. "It's been over four years now, and he hasn't scored a goal in the playoffs. He's working hard, and he's trying to get the ball and he's trying to get some looks, certainly. But teams focus a little bit harder in the playoffs, and it's been harder for him to find space."
Montero steadily maintains that he isn't interested in the personal aspect of goals, only their ability to help the team. He also has never indicated that his scoreless playoff run is on his mind.
"Hopefully not — he's pretty good that way," he said. "But I'm sure at some point you start thinking about it."
Schmid on Burch
Seattle's injury-weakened back line was further depleted Sunday by the league suspension of Marc Burch for his use of a gay slur in the final game of the series at Real Salt Lake last week.
Burch apologized the next day, but MLS still fined him, ordered him to additional sensitivity training and suspended him for three games — through either MLS Cup or the first game of the 2013 regular season.
"I'm proud of the fact that Marc felt his obligation as a human being — not necessarily as a soccer player for the Sounders, but as a human being — to acknowledge that he made a mistake," Schmid said. "... (The slur) is not something in his character to do. But it is what it is." | http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/nov/12/stars-were-aligned-for-galaxy-in-opener/ | 791 |
(BaseballStL) – If Brewers starter Yovani Gallardo thought the Cards would be easier without #5 … he was wrong, wrong, wrong.
Gallardo only lasted three and two-third innings after giving up six runs on seven hits, including four home runs in Opening Day at Miller Park.
Gallardo gave up solo shots to Yadier Molina, Carlos Beltran and Matt Holliday. Beltran and Holliday went back to back on consecutive pitches in the third which was followed by a walk to Lance Berkman which was followed by a monster two-run blast by David Freese.
An RBI single by Freese in the fourth and Gallardo was lifted and replaced by Marco Estrada.
Gallardo threw 89 pitches, 45 for strikes (44 balls) … he hits the shower with an ERA of 14.7.
Cardinals starter Jamie Garcia was a little shaky at the start, giving up two runs on two hits to the first three batters in the first inning. | http://www.kmov.com/sports/baseball/Cardinals-knock-out-Brewers-starter-in-the-fourth--146477995.html | 206 |
Brewers 1B Gamel out for season
Gamel reinjures surgically-repaired knee
Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Mat Gamel will miss the entire season after recently reinjuring his surgically-repaired right knee during batting practice.
Manager Ron Roenicke told reporters about Gamel's status on Monday.
Gamel was filling in for regular first baseman Corey Hart, who is recovering from knee surgery.
The Brewers will have to look elsewhere for a first baseman while Hart is out. He is expected to miss at least the first month of the season.
Gamel played in just 21 games before he tore his ACL in 2012. Over a five-year career, Gamel has batted .229 with six home runs in 106 games.
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There is little dispute as to what the Milwaukee Brewers' major weakness is entering spring training. The club's decision-makers have committed to filling the rotation with relatively inexperienced pitchers from their farm system, and many wonder if that calculated gamble will blow up in their faces.
By the end of camp, the Brewers hope to have five obvious choices for the rotation. It all starts with the only established pitcher returning -- right-hander Yovani Gallardo, who has a franchise-record four consecutive seasons with at least 200 strikeouts.
Manager Ron Roenicke has said that right-hander Marco Estrada also will be in the starting rotation. The former swingman did some fine work as a starter last year, with an excellent strikeout/walk ratio of 143/29.
After that, let the competition begin.
Left-hander Chris Narveson, returning from rotator-cuff surgery, will battle for one of the remaining three spots with three right-handers out of the system: Mike Fiers, Wily Peralta and Mark Rogers. Fiers pitched in the rotation for two-thirds of the 2012 season, while Peralta and Rogers were late-season call-ups who excelled in shorter trials.
The Brewers were dealt a blow before the start of camp when first baseman Corey Hart underwent knee surgery in late January, knocking him out of action until late May in all likelihood. He will be replaced by Mat Gamel, who began the 2012 season as the starter at first base before blowing out his right knee in early May.
The Brewers are giving 23-year-old Jean Segura the chance to prove he should be the everyday shortstop after a 44-game audition late last season. Should Segura flop, however, the Brewers have re-signed veteran shortstop Alex Gonzalez to serve as insurance.
Another area of interest in camp will be the bullpen, which was rebuilt after finishing last in the majors in 2012 with 29 blown saves and 33 losses. Veteran lefties Tom Gorzelanny and Michael Gonzalez have been added to provide balance, and newcomer Burke Badenhop has been a successful sinkerballer who gets hitters to pound the ball in the ground. Closer John Axford and setup man Jim Henderson are back, but there is another job or two to be won in camp.
Lots of new faces will see action in camp because the Brewers have 14 players from the system, including all-star left fielder Ryan Braun, committed to playing in the World Baseball Classic. That group has 11 players from the 40-man roster, including catchers Jonathan Lucroy and Martin Maldonado.
Otherwise, the lineup is relatively set with returning players from last season. There will be some bench jobs to be won, but that's almost always the case in spring training. | http://www.koat.com/news/sports/Three-rotation-jobs-could-be-up-for-grabs-in-Brewrers-camp/-/9153850/18462350/-/p2bxyv/-/index.html | 571 |
A stern Egyptian court ruling tied to a soccer riot spurred clashes that left at least 30 people dead on Saturday, the latest round of violence in the unsettled North African nation.
In addition to those killed, more than 300 were wounded when people in the northeastern city of Port Said clashed with authorities outside a prison where their kin were being held, the head of Port Said hospitals told state-run Nile TV.
They were angry because 21 of their relatives had just been sentenced to death for their role in a February 1 riot in a Port Said stadium.
That 2012 incident -- during a game between Cairo's prestigious Al-Ahly football club and the host Al-Masry team -- ended with 73 dead.
Two months later, Egypt's general prosecutor charged 75 people with "premeditated murder and attempted murder," while three Al-Masry officials and nine police officers were charged with "assisting the murderers."
According to the prosecutor's office, those in the latter group knew about the assault ahead of time, didn't confiscate weapons in advance, didn't stop them and -- in the case of an electricity engineer who was charged -- turned off the lights directly over the bleachers where the Al-Ahly fans were sitting right after the visiting team wrapped up its 3-1 victory.
Fans from both sides bashed each other with rocks and chairs, yet prosecutors claimed the Port Said supporters were also armed with knives and other weapons.
Many died after falling from bleachers inside the stadium, while others suffocated.
It was unclear whether intense sports rivalries or political strife sparked the riot, though witnesses said tensions had grown throughout the game with Al-Masry fans throwing bottles and rocks at the opposing players.
That violence begat more on Saturday, after some of the defendants' relatives tried to storm the Port Said prison to free their loved ones being held inside, Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Osama Ismail told Nile TV. | http://www.koco.com/news/national/30-Egyptians-die-after-verdict-on-soccer-riot/-/9844074/18290580/-/item/0/-/kj900wz/-/index.html | 395 |
Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby and Los Angeles Kings center Jeff Carter have been named the NHL's "Three Stars" for the week ending March 10. FIRST STAR – SERGEI BOBROVSKY, G, COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS Bobrovsky posted a League-high four victories to go along with a 0.77 goals-against average, .972 save percentage and one shutout as Columbus stretched its winning streak to five games. He began the week with 18 saves, plus another two in the shootout, upon relieving Steve Mason in a 4-3 triumph over the Edmonton Oilers March 5. Bobrovsky then made 34 stops, including 16 in the second period, in a 2-1 overtime victory against the Vancouver Canucks March 7. He capped his performance with a pair of weekend wins over the Detroit Red Wings, recording 30 saves for his first career shutout March 9 and another 21 stops in a 3-2 shootout victory March 10. Bobrovsky has gone 6-1-1 in his last eight games, improving his record to 8-6-3 with a 2.27 goals-against average and .919 save percentage in 17 appearances this season. In 100 career NHL games, the 24-year-old has posted a 50-29-13 record with a 2.65 goals-against average and .911 save percentage. | http://www.koco.com/sports/Bobrovsky-Crosby-and-Carter-named-Three-Stars/-/9844098/19270088/-/m4g6d9z/-/index.html | 292 |
BERKELEY, Calif. - GoldenBearReport.com is reporting that California has hired Andy Buh as their defensive coordinator.
Buh spent last season as the linebackers coach at Wisconsin. He was Nevada's defensive coordinator in 2010 and 2011.
Buh was also a two-year starter at linebacker for the Wolf Pack back in 1993 and 1994.
He began his coaching career at Cal, serving as a defensive administrative assistant in 2000 and 2001. | http://www.kolotv.com/sports/wolfpack/headlines/Report-Former-Pack-Defensive-Coordinator-Hired-by-Cal-183875051.html?site=full | 92 |
Posted: Oct 26, 2012 3:25 PM by Karl Roskamp
Updated: Oct 27, 2012 4:45 PM
COLUMBIA - Homecoming has filled hotels around Columbia with football fanatics, former Tigers and Kentucky fans.
Finding a room is not impossible though. A survey of 21 Columbia hotels showed six were completely booked as of Friday afternoon while most others had only a handful of rooms available.
For some finding a hotel was a difficult task. ""It was a little harder than we thought because we booked the room the day the schedule came out," Kentucky fan Lee Weatherly said. "We really thought it would be a little easier because we didn't Missouri would be as crazy as some other SEC towns."
Weatherly managed to book seven rooms at the Quality Inn Columbia. Some of his friends decided not to make the trip so he had to cancel two rooms. As of this afternoon, the Quality Inn Columbia has 12 rooms available because of late cancellations. General Manager Kasey Ryan said people often overbook and cancel when the event comes closer.
"This is an early game so a lot of people book two days," she said. "Then they decide they're not going to stay Saturday night." She added that the hotel doesn't usually have a problem rebooking the hotels, especially when opposing teams travel well.
Ryan said homecoming weekend is a better for business than regular football weekends. "They're not just coming for the football game, they're coming for the big celebration," she said. | http://www.komu.com/news/homecoming-hotels-harder-to-find/ | 312 |
Jul 27, 2012
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe did not show up for training camp today. As reported by Bill Williamson of ESPN.com, Bowe is a franchised player that did not sign his tender, and his absence at camp was expected.
Williamson writes why it is silly for Bowe to sit out camp: “Bowe is about to get a huge raise — and if he plays well in 2012, he will get a monster deal in 2013, whether it’s from the Chiefs or another team. He is not going to gain anything by sitting out. It is just going to alienate himself from the Chiefs brass and lessen the chances that the franchise will feel it can trust him for the long haul.”
Bowe is ranked 53rd overall on our Kramerica Sports 2012 Fantasy Football Top 200 rankings, based on the fact that he does not miss any time. We will track this story closely. | http://www.kramericasports.com/dwayne-bowe-no-show-at-training-camp-2322145/ | 194 |
But Clarke made two free throws after Fordham's Luka Zivkovic missed a tying 3-point attempt in the final seconds and Butler went on to the win.
Earlier, Smith had helped keep the Rams at Bay by hitting 4-of-4 free throws in the final minute. He said it was a challenge to return after not being active for most of the past week, but he felt good in his 30 minutes.
"Obviously, I wouldn't have been out there if I shouldn't have been," he said. "Our trainers did a great job to get me ready. I was happy to miss just the one game."
Fordham hung in with the Bulldogs in the first half, trailing 30-26 at halftime after leading 26-23 with 2:42 left when Bryan Smith made two free throws for the Rams.
But Butler, which shot only 37 percent from the field and 45.5 percent from the line in the first half, reeled off the final seven points for the four-point lead at halftime.
"Just shots not going in," Clarke, who helped limit the damage by going 4 of 6 on his 3-pointers in the first half, said of the Bulldogs' shooting struggles. "I think we executed well in our sets, got some good looks, just didn't go down."
Pecora said he tested Gaston's knee early to see how he cut. He ended up responding well and continued to build strength as the game went on.
Gaston said by the end of the game he was more focused on the lost opportunity at a huge upset than any concern about the knee.
"I was just feeling calm, just trying to get back," Gaston said. "It was a game that I felt we should have won. It was down to the wire, we had 'em on their heels and I felt we should have come out with the win."
NOTES: Butler forward Khyle Marshall was injured and on the floor for a few minutes late in the first half after being elbowed by Fordham forward Travion Leonard. Marshall eventually sat up and was helped off the court. ... Several noted broadcasters and Fordham alumni, NBA announcer Mike Breen, Yankees and ESPN announcer Michael Kay and ESPN broadcaster Ryan Ruocco, attended the game, attired in the free white T-shirts the school distributed before the game. ... The schools have little history against each other but share plenty of tradition at their respective home courts. Rose Hill Gym is the oldest on-campus venue used by an NCAA Division I basketball team. It was built in 1925, three years before Butler's Hinkle Fieldhouse. | http://www.ksbw.com/news/sports/Butler-dodges-Fordham-s-upset-bid/-/5739990/18580322/-/item/1/-/10dukx3/-/index.html | 544 |
Youngstown, OH (Sports Network) - Keifer Sykes scored 24 points to help lead
the Green Bay Phoenix to a 71-54 road victory over the Youngstown State
Penguins in Horizon League action at the Beeghly Center.
Sykes shot 7-of-11 from the field and 8-of-9 from the foul line for Green Bay
(15-12, 9-5 Horizon), which has won three straight games. Alec Brown netted 16
points and block four shots for the visitors, while Jordan Fouse tallied a
double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
For YSU (15-12, 7-7), Bobby Hain recorded 14 points and eight rebounds, while
Kendrick Perry had 13 points. Kamren Belin (12 points, three blocks) and Blake
Allen (11 points, six rebounds) were also solid, but the Penguins didn't
receive a single point from their bench on the afternoon.
Green Bay outshot YSU from the field in the first half, 53.8 percent to 34.5
percent, as it took a 33-25 advantage into intermission.
The Penguins brought their deficit to just one, 37-36, on a Brown dunk at the
14:56 mark of the second half, but they would never tie or take the lead down
the stretch, as the Phoenix continued their hot shooting in the final 20
minutes (.500) to pull away.
Green Bay held a 39-24 advantage in the rebounding battle and outscored YSU at
the foul line, 17-11.
The Sports Network | http://www.ksdk.com/sports/college/article/363683/199/NCAA-Game-Summary---Green-Bay-at-Youngstown-State | 339 |
Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Rob Ryan reacts during the second half against the Washington Redskins at FedEX Field. The Redskins won 28 - 18. Mandatory Credit: Brad Mills-USA Today Sports
(KSDK Sports) -- KSDK Sports has learned that former Dallas defensive coordinator Rob Ryan will interview with the St. Louis Rams this weekend.
The fact that Ryan would interview with Coach Jeff Fisher is not surprising considering the history between the two. When Jeff Fisher was a defensive back with the Chicago Bears in the 1980's, his defensive coordinator was the bombastic Buddy Ryan. Ryan had two twin boys who would go to practice everyday and acted as the team's ball boys.
A real bond developed between Fisher and the Ryan family. Buddy eventually gave Jeff his first coaching job in Philadelphia, and tonight Fisher is going to talk to Rob Ryan about continuing the association. The two are expected to talk again tomorrow.
The Rams need a defensive coordinator. Ryan has been one in Oakland, Cleveland and most recently Dallas, where he was just let go.
Sources close to the situation tell us that Ryan has put off another team that is interested in interviewing him, and that Ryan really would like to the Rams job.
It's a chance to work with a family friend and a chance to coach a young and potentially very good defense. Ryan has been a defensive coordinator in a 3-4 defense and Rams run a 4-3. The source tells us that it would not be a problem. Rob has coached a 4-3 as well in the past.
He is the first candidate the Rams have interviewed for the job, which was never filled after the NFL suspended Gregg Williams because of his role in the New Orleans Saints' "bounty' program. | http://www.ksdk.com/sports/pro_football/article/357646/30/Rob-Ryan-to-interview-with-Rams-for-defensive-coordinator-job | 352 |
So much for players-only meetings.
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick used the occasion of his team's three-game October nosedive to bring his teammates behind closed doors last week in an attempt to hash out their woes.
After a 28-13 loss to the New Orleans Saints on Monday night -- the Eagles' fourth consecutive defeat and fifth in six games, dropping their record to 3-5 -- Vick might be running out of time as a starting quarterback.
Drew Brees threw two touchdown passes and the Saints finally uncorked their missing rushing attack. New Orleans (3-5) gained 140 yards on 25 carries to earn its third victory in four games.
Brees completed 21 of 27 passes for 239 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.
The Eagles had five red-zone opportunities, and they wound up with just two Alex Henery field goals, an interception, a lost fumble and a fourth-down failure to show for it. The killer was a tipped Vick pass in the first quarter that cornerback Patrick Robinson intercepted and returned 99 yards for the game's first score.
Vick was sacked seven times, the most sacks the Saints have recorded in a game in 10 years. He finished 22-for-41 for 272 yards with one touchdown pass and one interception.
The Eagles turned two Saints turnovers -- a Brees fumble on a sack by Brandon Graham and a fumbled kickoff by Travaris Cadet -- into 10 points early in the third quarter to narrow a 21-3 deficit to 21-13. The touchdown came on a 77-yard connection between Vick and DeSean Jackson, who was wide open after a Vick bootleg fake.
However, the Eagles had to settle for a 37-yard field goal following Cadet's fumble, in large part because of Will Smith's 11-yard sack of Vick.
Brees settled down the Saints on the next series, directing a 10-play, 70-yard drive that ended with a 6-yard pass to Jimmy Graham. The touchdown gave Orleans a 28-13 lead with 1:20 left in the third quarter.
The Eagles showed they could run the ball ran down the Saints' throats in the first quarter -- ripping New Orleans' woeful run defense for 105 yards on 12 carries. For some reason, however, Philadelphia decided to throw when it got into the red zone. That strategy backfired.
After Bryce Brown rambled 40 yards to the Saints' 5-yard line, Vick's bullet on a crossing pattern hit tight end Brent Celek on the right hand and bounced directly into the hands of cornerback Patrick Robinson, who hauled it in at the 1 and raced 99 yards to give the Saints a 7-0 lead.
It was Vick's 14th turnover in eight games -- nine interceptions and five lost fumbles -- and this one essentially resulted in a 14-point swing.
The Eagles came back on their next possession, and LeSean McCoy ripped off runs of 13, 25 and 34 yards to set up a first-and-goal at the Saints' 4. However, rather than keeping pounding the ball, Eagles coach Andy Reid called for a shovel pass to McCoy, which gained nothing. On third down, Vick's laser bounced off the hand of Jackson, and Philadelphia settled for Alex Henery's 22-yard field goal to cut the deficit to 7-3.
By that time, the Eagles had run 29 plays to the Saints' six, but Philadelphia still trailed.
The Saints decided to pound their running game on the next series, capping a 76-yard, seven-play drive with a 22-yard touchdown run by Chris Ivory, playing in his first game this season due Darren Sproles' broken hand.
Brees made it 21-3 on the next series with a 1-yard strike to Marques Colston, which culminated a 74-yard drive on which Pierre Thomas got 23 yards on a delay around left end. Brees extended his NFL-record streak of throwing a scoring pass to 51 consecutive games.
NOTES: Eagles reserve defensive end Darryl Tapp missed the game to be in Philadelphia with his wife, Tiffany, for the birth of their first child. ... The Eagles lost right tackle Todd Herremans to an ankle injury in the second quarter, adding to their offensive line woes. ... After going scoreless in the first quarter, the Eagles have scored seven points in the first quarter over their eight games this year. | http://www.ktxs.com/sports/New-Orleans-hands-Eagles-4th-straight-loss/-/14769664/17281410/-/3itywxz/-/index.html | 906 |
The King and Queen cheer on the Swedish men's team during the handball match against Denmark on Saturday. In the row behind are Queen Margrethe and Crown Prince Frederik. Photo: Rex Features/IBL
This week, The King and Queen have attended the Olympic Games in London.
They have watched events including show jumping, K2 1,000 metre canoeing and the quarter-final handball match between the Swedish and Danish men's teams, at which Sweden went through to the semi-finals. | http://www.kungahuset.se/royalcourt/royalfamily/latestnews/2012/2012/thekingandqueenattendtheolympicgamesinlondon.5.292a62ce13848168ac5489.html | 104 |
Most basketball experts thought Indiana would earn the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region and perhaps get to play its regional semifinal and championship games in nearby Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium. However, the Hoosiers were tripped up by their nemesis, Wisconsin, in the Big Ten semifinals, and that was enough to send them to the East Region.
There are no shortage of challengers for Indiana in the East. Second-seeded Miami won the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season and tournament titles, and it might have deserved a No. 1 seed over Gonzaga. Below those two, Syracuse started to look like its old self in reaching the Big East championship game.
Also, sixth-seeded Butler is an intriguing case. The Bulldogs have been turnover-prone, but at their best, they have notched wins over Indiana, Gonzaga, Marquette and North Carolina.
TEAMS TO BEAT
Indiana (27-6) has been the country's top-ranked team for a reason -- its best is better than anyone else's. When the Hoosiers are making shots and taking care of the ball, they are something to watch. But if an opponent can limit Cody Zeller in the post and force the guards to cough the ball up, Indiana can be vulnerable.
Miami (27-6) offers experience and a point guard (Shane Larkin) capable of taking games over down the stretch. The Hurricanes have NBA size up front and a coach (Jim Larranaga) who knows what it takes to win in March. Question is, can the Hurricanes do it with a bull's-eye across their chest? That was a problem for a couple of weeks late in the regular season.
No. 14 Davidson vs. No. 3 Marquette: It's safe to say Golden Eagles coach Buzz Williams wasn't thrilled to see the Wildcats matched up with his squad. Davidson is a veteran squad that can shoot the 3-pointer and is coached by Bob McKillop, who takes a back seat to no one in the X and O category. While Marquette is mentally tough, it won't own an overwhelming talent advantage on the Wildcats.
8-9 winner (North Carolina State-Temple) vs. No. 1 Indiana (third round): Either foe presents a tricky matchup for the Hoosiers. The Wolfpack isn't great on defense but has excellent balance on offense and can run with Indiana, while the Owls have a senior guard in Khalif Wyatt who can go off for 35 on any night and single-handedly pull off an upset.
PLAYERS TO KNOW
Indiana F Victor Oladipo is considered a leading candidate for the Wooden Award despite modest individual stats. He is this good because he combines offensive efficiency with terrific defense. Coach Tom Crean has compared him to Dwyane Wade, whom he coached at Marquette, and that should tell you all you need to know.
UNLV F Anthony Bennett might be playing in his only NCAA Tournament. The Canadian freshman has the talent to be a No. 1 overall pick in the NBA Draft and can take over games almost any time he wants. If Bennett gets on a run, the Rebels are quite capable of getting to the tournament's second weekend.
Bucknell F Mike Muscala is a favorite of the tempo-free crowd, and for good reason. Muscala has put up terrific numbers despite getting double- and triple-teamed most nights. If Muscala has a typical game against Butler on Thursday night, the Bison can pull off an upset.
Davidson owns a 17-game winning streak, and only five of those victories were by fewer than 10 points.
Bucknell brings a seven-game winning streak into the tournament.
Montana enters the tournament with six consecutive wins since a BracketBusters defeat at Davidson.
Illinois has lost four of its past six games, beating only Nebraska and Minnesota in that span.
Colorado is just 4-4 in its past eight games, including a baffling loss on its Senior Night to a bad Oregon State team.
Since starting 18-1, Syracuse is just 8-8. In its past five games, the Orange has topped 62 points once.
NUMBERS TO NOTE
57.6 percent -- The shooting percentage from 3-point range by Syracuse's James Southerland during the Big East tournament. Southerland canned 19 of 33 in four games as the Orange reached the championship game.
2 -- Teams in this region who own wins over No. 1 seeds. Butler and Illinois each took out Gonzaga and Indiana, with the Fighting Illini earning extra credit for beating Gonzaga in Spokane.
4-2 -- Colorado's record against Top 25 teams this year. It would have been 5-1 if Pac-12 officials hadn't botched the ending of regulation at Arizona back in January, when Sabatino Chen's board-and-cord 3 to win the game before time expired was somehow waved off. | http://www.kvia.com/sports/college-tournament/NCAA-Tournament-Breaking-down-the-East-Region/-/16095346/19360094/-/9sqlt8z/-/index.html | 1,022 |
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — It doesn't matter whether Shane Larkin is passing the ball or taking it from the other team. The Miami point guard always wants to keep his teammates involved.
Larkin scored 15 of his 20 points after halftime to help the ninth-ranked Hurricanes pull away and beat Boston College 69-58 on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.
Kenny Kadji added 15 points and Trey McKinney Jones finished with 12 for the top-seeded Hurricanes (25-6), who got a serious scare from eighth-seeded BC (16-17) before advancing to a semifinal matchup Saturday with fifth-seeded North Carolina State, which beat Virginia in another quarterfinal.
Miami let an early 13-point lead disappear, then shot nearly 70 percent in the second half while making all the plays down the stretch to avoid becoming the ACC's first No. 1 seed to lose its tournament opener since 1997.
And the Hurricanes — who have won at least one ACC tournament game in eight of their 10 seasons in the league — have Larkin to thank for their latest escape.
"By adding Shane to that group (of seniors), he adds an element that allows all of them to play better," coach Jim Larannaga said. "He's so good at what he does. A lot of times you'll see (Larkin) in the first half try to get the ball to (his teammates), and then the second half starts, he starts to pick his spots to attack and score or find the open man. We absolutely needed that."
Patrick Heckmann finished with 15 points for the Eagles, and his 3-pointer with 3½ minutes left tied it at 55.
Durand Scott put Miami in front to stay with two free throws with 3:01 left, and Larkin took over a few moments later. He came up with a key steal from Olivier Hanlan, then buried a momentum-shifting 3 off an inbounds pass to make it 60-55 with 1:49 left.
"It wasn't just me who got the steal," Larkin said, adding that Kadji was in on the trap and Rion Brown made a heady play to save the ball. "It was all of us."
After Brown swished a pretty hanging jumper with 57.6 seconds left, and Kadji added a free throw to make it 63-55, BC didn't get closer than five points the rest of the way. McKinney Jones punctuated the victory with a dunk with 17.2 seconds left.
"We just had mental breakdowns" during the final 3 minutes, Hanlan said. "The little things hurt us."
Larkin also keyed the defensive effort on Hanlan, who a day earlier set an ACC tournament record for freshmen with 41 points in the first-round win over Georgia Tech.
Hanlan finished this one with 14 points on 5-of-10 shooting, missing 5 of his final 6 attempts after making 16 consecutive shots over two days. His streak ended when his 3-pointer over Larkin hit off the rim with just under 14 minutes left, and Larkin also forced him into four turnovers.
"It's very difficult to come back from that type of performance and not expect one of the best defensive teams in the country to put you on lockdown," BC coach Steve Donahue said. "I thought he handled it well, and I thought we played off it well."
Ryan Anderson also had 14 points for the Eagles, who had their ACC-best four-game winning streak snapped and were denied their first semifinal appearance since 2007.
They lost twice to Miami during the regular season in vastly differing ways: The Hurricanes romped by 32 points in Coral Gables a few weeks after holding on for a one-point win at BC.
And for a while, this one looked like a repeat of that blowout — at least until BC dug itself out of a double-digit hole for the second straight day.
After rallying from 15 points down to beat the Yellow Jackets in the first round, the Eagles spotted Miami a 21-8 lead before closing the half on a 19-4 run and took their first lead when Anderson's layup with 4 seconds left made it 27-25. That coincided with a brutally cold spell for Miami, which missed 14 of its last 16 shots of the half against a BC team that started pressing the Hurricanes and defending them with a zone.
"We got a little passive," Larranaga said. "We didn't attack the way we wanted to."
BC stretched its lead to 30-25 on Heckmann's 3-pointer 20 seconds into the half. Miami eventually countered with an 11-2 run and took a 48-44 lead on Larkin's deep 3, and things remained tight until Larkin and the Hurricanes finally pulled away.
Follow Joedy McCreary on Twitter at (at)JoedyAP | http://www.kxan.com/dpp/sports/ncaa_hoops/Larkin-leads-No-9-Miami-past-BC-6958-at-ACCs_33968650 | 1,021 |
Sandusky moves for new trial
Former coach was sentenced to no less than 30 years in prison in October
Lawyers for former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted on multiple counts of child sex abuse, argued a motion for a new trial Thursday.
Judge John Cleland, who presided over Sandusky's conviction and sentencing, heard arguments Thursday at Centre County court in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but did not rule immediately. A motion for a new trial asks the trial court to re-examine issues it already ruled on in an earlier judgment.
In October, Cleland sentenced Sandusky to no less than 30 years and no more than 60 years in prison for abusing 10 boys during a 15-year period. Sandusky, 68, had faced the possibility of up to a 400-year prison term.
Sandusky's lawyers have argued that there was insufficient evidence to convict him, and that the court didn't allow them enough time to prepare for trial after the prosecution flooded them with documentation.
Defense attorney Joe Amendola testified Thursday that he had been unprepared for the trial. But he also conceded that after reviewing the documents post-trial, he didn't see anything he would have done differently in defending Sandusky.
Sandusky's legal team has also argued that certain counts against their client were too broad and should therefore have been dismissed.
Cleland could easily rule that evidence presented at the criminal trial was so overwhelming -- the victims' testimony, for instance -- that the defense's concerns would not have changed the end result, said Karl Rominger, one of Sandusky's lawyers.
The eight victims who testified, now young men, said that they were boys when Sandusky forced them to engage in sexual acts with him. The acts occurred, they said, in showers in Penn State's athletic facilities; hotel rooms; and the basement of Sandusky's home, among other places.
Testimony was often emotional and graphic. Jurors convicted Sandusky on 45 out of 48 sexual abuse counts.
This first attempt to overturn the conviction based on ineffective counsel, a common tactic, will be tough, his lawyers acknowledged before the hearing.
They said that if the court rejects it, they may launch appeals based on other arguments.
"If you win on one of the appeal issues, everything probably falls," Amendola has said. "All we have to do is convince an appellate court that one of the issues we will raise is worthy of a reversal."
Amendola and Rominger have also filed a motion to have Sandusky's sentence reconsidered.
The lawyers had attempted to withdraw from the case before the trial, telling Cleland the day before jury selection began that they did not feel adequately prepared and that it would be "unethical" for them to move forward. Cleland denied their request.
The sex abuse scandal led to the firing of head football coach Joe Paterno and the ouster of the university's longtime president, Graham Spanier. Paterno died in 2012 of lung cancer.
The NCAA slapped Penn State with fines and sanctions over the case, but Pennsylvania's governor announced a lawsuit last week against the collegiate athletic board, saying Sandusky's actions were a criminal matter and not a violation of NCAA rules. | http://www.kxly.com/news/Sandusky-moves-for-new-trial/-/101270/18077106/-/view/print/-/o0v43oz/-/index.html | 665 |
La Canada High's boys' water polo team, having been ranked No. 1 in CIF Southern Section III, was expected to draw the top seed when the playoff pairings were released on Sunday.
Flintridge Prep, on the other hand, hadn't been ranked higher than fifth in Division V all season, but was bestowed the No. 4 seed on Sunday.
The Rebels, after finishing second in the Prep League, will host Whittier, the second-place squad from the Del Rio League on Wednesday in the first round. Should the Rebels move on, they would face either Riverside Poly or a wild-card entrant in Saturday's quarterfinals.
La Canada, after having won the Rio Hondo League title yet again, will take on either Schurr, the third-place team from the Almont League, or San Juan Hills, a Sea View League at-large entrant. Schurr and San Juan Hills are playing Tuesday, with the winner taking on the Spartans on Wednesday.
Should the Spartans win, they'd face either Corona Santiago or Peninsula in Saturday's quarterfinal.
Both matches are set for 5 p.m. starts, but Prep Coach Dan Hare said he's hopeful to move the match up to 4 p.m. on campus at Prep. La Canada is likely to play at Burbank High at a time to be determined. | http://www.lacanadaonline.com/sports/tsn-vsl-la-canada-water-polo-is-no-1-flintridge-prep-is-no-4-20121104,0,6695383.story | 282 |
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Led by four-goal performances from TJ Sanders (Orillia, Ont.) and Shane Sturgis (Downingtown, Pa.), No. 15 Penn State men’s lacrosse defeated Michigan, 11-6, at Oosterbaan Fieldhouse. In all, Sanders had a five-point afternoon in his collegiate debut, while goaltender Austin Kaut (Morton, Pa.) made 12 saves for the Nittany Lions.
Penn State (1-0) ran away from Michigan (0-1) after a tied first period, holding a 5-3 lead at halftime and upping it to 10-3 in the third. The Nittany Lions outscored the Wolverines 5-0 to open the second half to open the seven-goal advantage.
Sanders tallied the lone goal in the first period assisted by Erik Myers (Del Mar, Calif.) with 8:12 remaining in the frame. U-M tied the game 1:26 into the period before the Lions ran off three straight goals. Sanders doubled his total for a 2-1 lead at 10:48 before Sturgis made it 3-1 moments later.
Tom Lacrosse (Canandaigua, N.Y.) made it 4-1 two minutes later as Jack Forster (Jenkintown, Pa.) picked up his first helper of t he year. Michigan out-scored PSU 2-1 the rest of the second period, sandwiching a Sturgis tally.
Forster scored twice in the first four minutes of the third period for an 8-3 advantage, one of the goals assisted by Tommy O’Neill (Shamong, N.Y.). Sanders scored nine seconds after the second Forster goal on a Danny Henneghan (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) faceoff win and feed.
Sturgis scored his third and fourth goals of the game off passes from Nick Dolik (Beverly Hills, Mich.) and Sanders for the 10-3 advantage with 7:27 remaining in the third period.
Michigan scored the next three goals, including two on the man-up. Sanders capped the scoring with 9:07 left in the game on an unassisted goal for the 11-6 final.
Michigan goaltender Gerald Logan allowed 11 goals and saved 19 shots, while Kaut made 12 stops for the Nittany Lions. Penn State out-shot Michigan 57-30 for the game and had an advantage in ground balls (44-27) and faceoff wins (15-5).
Penn State committed 16 turnovers and caused four Wolverine turnovers. PSU was nearly perfect on the clear, going 20-fo-22, while Michigan was 18-for-22. U-M was 2-for-3 on the man-up and Penn State was 1-for-6.
The game was a homecoming for Dolik and Henneghan, both of whom attended Brother Rice High School, a 45-minute drive from Ann Arbor. Henneghan was 15-5 in faceoffs.
Forster, Dolik, Sturgis continued their point streaks of 13, 12 and seven games, respectively.
Penn State moved to a perfect 3-0 in Creator’s Trophy games. The Nittany Lions can clinch the title on March 2 when it hosts Ohio State. Penn State won the title last season in its inaugural campaign. The Creator’s Trophy is a competition between the Big Ten schools that sponsor men’s lacrosse.
PSU flies to Jacksonville, Fla. for the Moe’s Southwest Grill Classic against No. 8 Denver. The Pioneers defeated No. 4 Duke, 14-12, on Saturday afternoon. | http://www.lacrosseplayground.com/sanders-sturgis-send-no-15-penn-state-lions-past-michigan-11-6/ | 766 |
The Grangers travel to Gainesville to take on Chestatee in the opening round of the state playoffs.
LaGrange has not won a playoff game since 2008, and head coach Donnie Branch’s crew is looking to change that.
But the Grangers have some work to do if they expect to emerge victorious.
The host War Eagles go into the game with an 8-2 season record, and they finished second in Region 8-AAAA.
LaGrange is 5-5, and it finished third in Region 5-AAAA.
Branch has a big concern preparing for Chestatee.
He said the War Eagles run the exact option-dive offense that Fayette County uses, and the Grangers had major problems adjusting to it in Fayetteville, losing that game in overtime after a furious fourth-quarter comeback.
Branch and the other LaGrange coaches got to watch Chestatee on Friday since the Grangers played their final regular-season game on Thursday.
“We got to see them,” Branch said of Chestate. “So that’s unusual that you get to see a playoff opponent. That was the advantage to playing Carrollton on Thursday. We were able to go watch them play. They’re 8-2 for a reason. They’re good, their scheme offensively and defensively is very good. They have a good plan, they play really hard. They look like they play with a lot of energy. They beat some good football teams. You don’t finish second in the region and not be quality. We’ve got our hands full.”
Branch and his staff traveled to Madison County High School, north of Athens, to see Chestatee handle the Red Raiders 48-7.
That game wrapped up the second seed for the War Eagles and guaranteed them the first home playoff game in school history.
“Offensively, they run an option attack and they run it real well,” Branch said. “Their quarterback is a smooth operator. He’s kind of a key cog in the offense. He’s their second leading rusher. When you run the option, you rely on your quarterback to make good decisions. He’s a good passer to keep you honest.”
War Eagles quarterback Jordan DeGraff hands off the most to tailback Quan Clark.
The 5-foot-10, 188-pound senior has rushed for more than 1,000 yards this season.
The 5-foot-11, 155-pound DeGraff keeps the ball on the ground most of the time, throwing for only 432 yards. Chestatee likes its ground game and prefers the dive over the pitch and will keep it that way unless forced to pitch on the option, which is what Branch is hoping will happen.
“They like to run the dive-option game,” Branch said. “We did a terrible job playing it against Fayette County. It’s not that simple. There’s a lot of scheme behind it. I’m confident we’re going to play it better. We’ve made some adjustments on how we’re going to play it. You have to give them different looks, because they’re good. You have to stop the dive, the quarterback and the pitch in that order.”
Branch said the team has made some adjustments on defense including bringing forward some of the best personnel to combat Chestatee’s type of offense, which rarely includes the pass.
The War Eagles will throw, though, so that part of the game must be respected.
“You have to do whatever it takes to stop the dive,” Branch noted. “It could loosen you up in some areas. It’s not like you don’t have things covered. It’s what gets you is when you run the option and you run the option and you run the option and it looks just like the option and all of a sudden he pops back and throws it. It’s the discipline of doing what you’re supposed to do and they wear on you. That’s why Georgia Tech has receivers wide open. It’s not because they’ve got a great passing scheme, it’s because you start creeping up and losing your discipline.”
DeGraff is the kind of quarterback, Branch said, that can burn a team with a sudden aerial if the defensive backs and linebackers are playing too close to the line of scrimmage.
Still, Branch said the primary focus will be on stopping the run up the middle.
“We don’t want to lose with the fullback beating us,” Branch said. “We want to make the quarterback keep it, then he has to pitch it. If you pitch it 20 times, you’re going to fumble five. They’ve pitched the ball six times in five games. You make them pitch it. They want to just dive it.”
Clearly, the LaGrange defensive line will have to plug the holes to prevent Clark from slipping between the guards and tackles.
“If we stop their inside running game, or control it, we’re going to be fine,” Branch said. “They don’t do a lot in the passing game. They’ll go deep, they’ll take a shot on you. You’ve got to honor it, but that’s not what they do. If we get them throwing the football a bunch, we’ve done well and not that they can’t, but that’s not what they came to do. They’ll run it even if you stop them.”
As far as injuries go for the Grangers, they have few at the moment.
Defensive lineman Dazmon Dunlap remains inactive after suffering a concussion in the second half of the Fayette County game on Oct. 19. It’s possible he could return provided LaGrange continues its playoff run with a pair of wins, but nothing is certain.
Benny Gray, a linebacker and running back, is improving after suffering a cracked bone in his ankle on the third play of the Fayette County game.
Previously, Gray was also utilized on defense, but coaches are limiting him to just offensive play until he is 100 percent able to go both ways.
Defensive lineman Joe Sanders has had a nagging hand and hamstring injury half the season, but is able to play.
“Benny (Gray) is getting better,” Branch reported. “He’s better this week than he was last. I think everybody else is okay. We’ve got your dings and things, but we’re relatively about as healthy as we’ve been. If Benny is good to go, that’s a difference maker. That was a back breaker at Fayette losing him on the third play of the game.”
The Grangers’ top receiver, Dee Smith, has a slight knee issue that has bothered him, but again, he’ll be able to play.
With Smith in the lineup, the Grangers will look to continue to put up points on offense.
The Grangers have moved the ball well on everyone they’ve played this season, and they’re averaging more than 30 points a game with junior quarterback Zach Giddens leading the spread offense.
Looking ahead, the Grangers would be on the road in Round 2 if the seeding holds up.
On the other side of the draw, a number one seed, Ridgeland, is hosting Washington.
If Ridgeland wins, LaGrange would be on the road.
If Washington wins, it would face LaGrange at Callaway Stadium.
“Hey look, if you’re playing, you’re excited,” Branch said. “Either one of those teams, they’re quality, but they’re not unbeatable. We would be really excited for the opportunity to play either one.” | http://www.lagrangenews.com/view/full_story/20848127/article-Grangers-eyeing-playoff-win | 1,714 |
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Clarets Blog: Mee will have won royal approval
So now we know; the next king of the realm won’t just have blue blood coursing through his veins, there’ll be a liberal dash of claret in there too.
Last week’s revelation that Prince Charles is a Burnley supporter won’t have pleased everybody – certainly not the anti-royalists among us.
But it definitely puts our nearest and not-so-dearest rivals in the shade, who can only wheel out the likes of Jim Bowen and Lee Mack when it comes to celebrity endorsement.
That said, the decision to despatch a VIP season-ticket to Buckingham Palace was, perhaps, a trifle optimistic.
It requires something of a leap of the imagination, for example, to picture the Prince of Wales pitching up for the Millwall game this weekend, tucking into a Holland’s meat and potato pie and leading a robust chorus of “No, Nay, Never” from the top of the James Hargreaves Stand.
Nor is it easy to visualise the future monarch nursing a post-match pint of Moorhouses in The Lounge while holding forth on the squad’s short-comings, or turning keyboard-warrior and posting messages on fan’s forums under the moniker “ClaretCharlie.”
Naturally, one wonders if Charles managed to settle down in front of the (royal) box on Friday night, to watch the Clarets take on (appropriately enough) the Royals.
If so, HRH will probably have been encouraged and frustrated in equal measure.
Encouraged, because between them, Jay Rodriguez and Charlie Austin had enough opportunities to win the game.
Frustrated, because, as has become par for the course this season, the Clarets’ wide players struggled to have much influence on the game.
Ross Wallace is the pick of the wing-men and has produced moments of genuine quality this term: but not on a consistent basis.
Keith Treacy might argue that he’s been hampered by not having a decent run in the side.
But given that when he is involved, he spends so much of the game on its periphery, there is no real incentive for the manager to include him in the starting 11.
And Messrs Stanislas and McQuoid are clearly not the answer.
It would be remiss of me to close this week’s column without applauding Ben Mee’s extraordinary act of bravery in putting his head in the way of a flying boot.
If ever there were an instance of a defender putting his body on the line, this was surely it. One instinctively feels Burnley’s latest high-profile fan would have given it royal approval.
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Burnley target Vokes to learn Wolves future
THE future of Burnley target Sam Vokes is set to become clearer with new Wolves boss Stale Solbakken deciding whether to take the striker on the club’s training trip to Ireland.
Clarets boss Eddie Howe is interested in bringing Vokes back to Turf Moor after a loan spell with the club last season but a change of management at Molineux has meant they have faced a wait to find out if Wolves will allow the Welshman to leave.
Vokes was well down the pecking order at Wolves last season, going out on loan to both Burnley and Brighton, but reported back for pre-season training with the club this week with Solbakken keen to assess the forward after taking over as boss in May.
Wolves, however, have close to 50 professionals on their books and only plan to take around 23 players when they depart for their pre-season training camp in Ireland on Monday.
Solbakken currently has a total of 11 strikers at his disposal, with the likes of Steven Fletcher, Kevin Doyle, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and new signing Bjorn Bergmann Sigudarson all pushing for a place in the side.
Burnley are keen to make at least two more additions to their squad before the start of the season, with a midfielder also on the agenda, but club sources indicated this week that no deals were on the verge of being completed.
The Clarets have been prepared to wait on Vokes, with Brighton and another club also understood to be interested, and it seems almost certain that the Wales international will be made available for transfer if he does not travel with Wolves to Ireland.
Solbakken is due to hold discussions with most of his squad in the next week to inform them where they feature in his plans.
Vokes is believed to be open to a return to Turf Moor but Wolves said this week that they have not yet received any offers for the 22-year-old.
The West Midlands side’s valuation of the player is not yet clear, with Vokes having only one year left on his deal at Molineux.
But Wolves may still want to make a profit on a player who arrived from Bournemouth for around £250,000 four years ago and has gained Championship experience during several loan periods since then – also having spells at Leeds, Bristol City, Sheffield United and Norwich.
Sources close to the player have confirmed that Latvian centre back Marcis Oss is scheduled to travel to Burnley for a trial.
The 20-year-old recently spent a period training with Spanish second division side Hercules but is nearing the end of his contract with Latvian side FK Jelgava.
Fellow centre back Nauris Bulvitis, 25, is also expected to arrive - with reports in Latvia suggesting their trials will start on July 23.
Promising Australian goalkeeper Daniel Nizic, 17, has already arrived for training after agreeing a deal to join the Clarets.
* Burnley’s development squad play their first pre-season friendly at Mossley this afternoon at 3pm.
Jason Blake has named Wes Fletcher in the squad for the game, while new youth goalkeepers Conor Mitchell and Callum Jakovlevs will also be involved.
Squad: Callum Jakovlevs, Conor Mitchell, Adam Evans, Alex Coleman, Archie Love, Aryn Williams, Jack Errington, Jason Gilchrist, Joe Jackson, Luke Conlan, Luke Gallagher, Mehdi Lazaar, Shay McCartan, Steve Hewitt, Tom Anderson, Wes Fletcher. | http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/burnley_fc/news/9817876.Burnley_target_Vokes_to_learn_Wolves_future/?ref=rss | 774 |
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The university already has said it won't renew the contract of suspended swim coach Greg Winslow based on allegations that he sexually abused a teenage girl he coached in Arizona six years ago.
Winslow has been on paid suspension since Feb. 28, when University of Utah officials were made aware of the Arizona allegations.
He has not been arrested or charged in either state. The Maricopa County attorney's office in Phoenix is reviewing a 97-page police report from Arizona State University.
Winslow commonly came to practice drunk; had outbursts of anger, including once punching an assistant coach; used racial slurs; and once forced a team member to swim underwater with his hands tied to a PVC pipe that was strapped to his back until he blacked out, parent Matt Fiascone said. Fiascone's son, Austin, swam on the University of Utah team for three seasons while Winslow was coach.
"He's a monster," Matt Fiascone said of Winslow.
Winslow did not answer phone calls for comment from told The Associated Press, and his voicemail box was full. He has denied the Arizona allegations.
Utah Athletic Director Chris Hill said he's not aware of the any of the allegations at Utah being of a sexual nature.
Matt Fiascone said he called to
"The pattern here is one of just absolute disrespect for the welfare of the student athlete," said Matt Fiascone, whose son was dismissed from the team in November for going to a weekend party after Winslow asked team members not to.
In an interview Monday, Hill said he went to University of Utah President David Pershing on Sunday and asked him to take an independent look at Winslow's tenure after new information came to light this weekend. Hill declined to elaborate on the new information but said the investigation will look at the entirety of Winslow's nearly six-year tenure running the swim team.
"We have to look both backward and forward," Hill said Monday. "It is important to have it be thorough."
Pershing said Monday he has chosen two attorneys to do the new investigation: Michael Glazier, a Kansas City, Mo.,-based attorney with experience doing college athletic investigations; and Alan Sullivan, a Salt Lake City attorney.
They will be asked to determine if any wrongdoing occurred during Winslow's tenure. The investigators also will be asked to find out what was reported to university officials and how those reports were handled.
The University of Utah did an internal investigation of some of these allegations in the fall but found no wrongdoing, university spokesman Keith Sterling said. Hill said that probe was triggered by a letter sent by a swimmer's father. Hill declined to discuss what they investigated or what the findings were, saying that will be revealed at the conclusion of the new investigation.
"The issue is to find out what we know, what the athletic department knew, what the athletic department maybe should have known, what are the things that happened," Hill said. "What, if appropriate, improvements need to be made in our program."
The university does not yet have a cost estimate or timetable for the outside investigation, though Hill said it will be done quickly.
Winslow denied the sexual abuse allegations at Arizona State University in an interview with ASU police. The police report shows Winslow was 32 when he took a special interest in a 15-year-old swimmer on the Sun Devils Aquatics club in Tempe, Ariz.
The girl's father reported the abuse to ASU police in September 2012 after his now-22-year-old daughter attempted suicide. The father told police that the sexual abuse went on for three years until Winslow left to take the job at the University of Utah, according to a police report obtained by the AP. The abuse occurred after swim practice in Winslow's locked office and included kissing and fondling, the report shows.
Winslow urged her to keep quiet about the abuse, saying, "People will think I'm Chester the Molester," according to a police report. The woman told police in Arizona that Greg Winslow was "like the creepy uncle you know hugging you too long."
The University of Utah conducted a criminal background check of Winslow before hiring him as a swim coach in June 2007, Sterling said.
Prior to coming to Salt Lake City, Winslow was assistant swim coach at ASU, the Air Force Academy and Saint Cloud State University. He is originally from Colorado Springs, Colo., and was an All-American swimmer in 1996 at the University of North Dakota.
The university has begun a search for a new coach. Richard Marschner is serving as interim director of the swimming and diving program, and will continuing to coach divers. Assistant coach James Winchester is the interim swim coach.
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Date:Sunday July 1 2007
Leeds United are casting a wide net as they look to build up the first team squad in order to bounce straight back into the Championship.
The deadline for objections to Ken Bates` offer to takeover the club is reached on the 3rd of July, and this should then allow the 1st team management to make additions to a squad which can only be described as…very very small!
We had a three-hour meeting last weekend and if he gets the team he wants then I think we'll almost be there, Bates told LUTV
We've been looking at two players from Eastern Europe, but unfortunately they're both injured at the moment."
Both injured? Oh dear!
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Rick Nash was born June 16, 1984 in Brampton, Ontario. The 1st choice, 1st overall selection of the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft, Nash is a graduate of the OHL's London Knights where he captured OHL Rookie of the Year honours in 2000-01 and was a member of the OHL First All-Rookie Team and CHL All-Rookie Team.
A member of the OHL's Third All-Star Team in 2001-02, Nash was also a member of Canada's 2002 Silver Medal World Junior Team and member of Canada's Gold Medal Under-18 Team at the 2001 Six Nations Tournament where he led Canada in scoring (5-5-10 in five games).
In 2002-03, Nash made the jump from junior to the NHL and quickly became one of the bright young stars of the future. In 74 games with Columbus, Nash tallied 39 points (17-22-39) and was named to the NHL All-Rookie Team, and was a finalist for the Calder Trophy as the league's top freshman. Following a strong rookie season, Nash exploded offensively in 2003-04, tying for the league lead in goals (41) with Calgary's Jarome Iginla and Atlanta's Ilya Kovalchuk. Nash became a co-winner of the Maurice Richard Trophy as the league's top goal scorer and this in only his second season in the league.
After a strong NHL season in 2003-04, Nash suited up HC Davos in 2004-05 following the NHL labour dispute and subsequently helped Canada capture a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships. Nash's international experience carried over into the 2006 Winter Olympics where he skated with Team Canada.
That year Nash and Team Canada were unsuccessful in taking home the Gold Medal, however the following year Nash would lead team Canada to a World Championship. Nash was named MVP of the tournament after netting two goals in the game that lead Canada to its record 24th world title. He returned to the World Championships again in 2008, however managed to only capture a silver medal.
At the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Nash was part of the Canadian team that captured gold on home soil.
The 2011-12 season was a difficult one for Nash and his Blue Jackets teammates. Though Nash reached the 30 goal mark for the 7th time in his career, the team finished the season in last place in the NHL standings.
After months of rumours and speculation, Nash was traded to the New York Rangers on July 23, 2012. In exhange, the Rangers shipped Artem Anisimov, Brandon Dubinsky, Tim Erixon and a first round draft pick to Columbus. | http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=20510 | 549 |
BROOKLYN — Organizers of the 2013 Midwest Open Ice Fishing Tournament will wait until noon Tuesday to decide how to proceed with the annual competition set for Jan. 26 and 27.
Tom Knutson from Knutson’s Recreation Sales in Brooklyn said the event, originally set for Devils Lake, has now been moved to Wamplers Lake due to mild temperatures that have prevented ample ice from forming.
“Wamplers Lake has better ice conditions right now and we have a better chance for success at this point by moving it there,” Knutson said Friday.
As of Friday, ice conditions were not ideal on Devils Lake, Knutson said, with thin ice and open water across the sand bar off Cherry Point.
Knutson said he will make a decision at noon Tuesday whether the competition can take place Jan. 26 and 27 or if it will have to be postponed to February.
“We are hoping the cold temperatures next week will encourage some ice making,” he said.
The 2012 tournament was canceled due to lack of ice.
Those who had signed up were given the option of being automatically registered for the 2013 event.
Though no spaces are left for the 150-team event, Knutson said, the public is invited to watch the weigh-in and $16,000 prize announcement at 2 p.m. Jan. 27 at Columbia Central High School, 11775 Hewitt Road in Columbia Township. | http://www.lenconnect.com/article/20130120/NEWS/130119352/0/sports | 303 |
Ryan Raburn takes in a little scenery in this game against the Mariners. - Gregory Shamus
As teams prepare their rosters for the Rule V draft, tons of news spawns.
- The Tigers released Ryan Raburn Tuesday afternoon. Raburn was terrible in 2012, but OPSed .788 from 2007-2011 (108 OPS+). He had a BABIP over .300 every year in the majors until 2012, when it was .224.
- Unsurprisingly, the Blue Jays had a bunch of roster spots to clear. They did this by letting go of Mike McDade, Mike McCoy (not the Broncos OC) and Cory Wade.
- The Royals signed Jeremy Guthrie to a 3-year contract. It's long for a guy like him, but the third year may have only cost them an extra $4M over the length of the contract. To quote their home page, he "went 5-3 with a 3.16 ERA after he was acquired July 20."
- "LHP Nick Hagadone (disqualified list) still doesnt count against Indians' 40-man. Have to think that'll be resolved some time this winter." —Bastian
- The Blue Jays hired Gibbons as their manager.
- Bud Black survived another boss. Which is pretty unusual in the sense than new FOs usually want their own guy to manage.
- The Tigers could go from Jhonny to Stephen Dhrew.
- Hiroki Kuroda re-signed with the Yankees (1y/$15M).
- The Cubs DFA'd 2012 first half sensation Bryan LaHair. La[NotPorta] OPSed .572 in the second half, .311 lower than his first half.
- The Mariners DFA'd Chone Figgins.
- The Red Sox DFA'd Danny Valencia, Zach Stewart, Ivan DeJesus, Sandy Rosario and David Carpenter.
- The Rockies outrighted LGFT Andrew Brown and LGFT Matt McBride to AAA. McBride was acquired in The Trade That Shall Not Be Mentioned.
- Another Antonetti castoff, Cory Burns, was designated for assignment by the Padres on Tuesday. Burns, you may remember, was sent to San Diego for Aaron "The Answer" Cunningham. He had a nice year in AAA but was rather terrible IN... | http://www.letsgotribe.com/2012/11/21/3672222/tribe-news-and-notes-november-21-2012?ref=yahoo | 477 |
Brian Rafalski NHL 3rd Star of the Week
Posted 22 November 2010 - 02:35 PM
HankthaTank - Squirrels, they hate to be thrown. / Why is the magical unicorn named Brian... Jedi - I just downloaded the "kids" book, "Go the F--k to Sleep" as narrated by Samuel L. Jackson on my kindle. I am now ready to be a daddy. / *Checks Router* No, I'm positive I didn't hit the "Wings Defense Sucks" button. Electrophile - I'm just glad the Wings were able to win despite the Curse of Brian. ACallToArms - I think Trey needs to put something about payroll tax and deferred income in his sig... Edicius - I'd rather [have] a soundbite of me saying "I like (man sausage)" rather than "I like Crosby".
Posted 22 November 2010 - 02:46 PM
hes still my fav though
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Posted 22 November 2010 - 02:49 PM
man does he need to quit turning over the puck though. 2 turnovers last night that directly led to goals and i think he made a similar mistake against thee wild.
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Greening helped guide England to the Silver Medal at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and to second place in the HSBC World Sevens Sevens after previously captaining his country on the same circuit.
He takes over from Graham Shiel, who moves to a skills coaching role, and becomes the third high-profile Englishman to currently be involved with senior Scottish sides after joining Andy Robinson and Neil Back north of the border.
"This is a really exciting time to be joining Scottish Rugby and their developments in Sevens rugby. I can't wait to get started and back onto the circuit," said Greening, who was in line for a spot on the Lions' Test bench 11 years ago before injury robbed him of that opportunity.
"I want to cement the Scotland 7s team as one of the core competitors in the abbreviated game and help produce some exciting new Scottish rugby talents ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2016 Olympics."
After leaving his Sevens role with England five years ago, Greening spent three years with London Welsh in the RFU Championship before departing Old Deer Park in 2011.
The 36-year-old was linked with the head coach job at Nottingham earlier this year but will now turn his attentions to improving Scottish Sevens as Glasgow gears up to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Greening has signed a three-year deal with the SRU and the Murrayfield hierarchy are confident they will see big improvements in the coming seasons.
"We're delighted to welcome Phil into this new role. He brings with him a wealth of international coaching and playing experience," said Scottish Rugby's director of performance rugby Graham Lowe.
"His passion and understanding of Sevens is clear and he has taken every opportunity to remain at the forefront of developments in the game after his time with England Sevens.
"He will be a key part of helping us reach our goals at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and before that at next year's Rugby World Cup in Moscow. He will also drive our players to stake a claim for inclusion in the Great Britain Sevens team in the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics". | http://www.lionsrugby.com/mobile/news/5349.php | 427 |
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April 27, 2007
Sevierville, TN – The Tennessee Smokies snapped a four game losing streak by beating the Carolina Mudcats on Friday night by a score of 4-2. A boisterous crowd of 4,408 watched Mark Holliman (3-0) pitch six strong innings, with Chris Walker and Jorge Cortes powering the Smokies offense by driving in two runs apiece.
It looked to be the same old story in the 1st inning for the Smokies, who have struggled early on in the game as of late. The Mudcats drew first blood in the first inning after Jai Miller doubled to lead off the game, and then eventually scored to stake Carolina to a 1-0 lead.
The Smokies stormed back in the third inning. After Issmael Salas walked, Holliman advanced the runner to 2nd base on a ground out. Walker then doubled down the left field line to score Salas to tie the game at 1-1. Cortes then singled Walker home in the next at bat, and the Smokies took a 2-1 lead.
In the 5th inning, Gary Cates starting things off with a brilliant bunt single. Salas singled to put runners at 2nd & 3rd, but Cates was thrown out at third on a fielder’s choice. Walker then strolled to the plate and ripped a single to score Salas. Cortes then hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Holliman to make the score 4-1 Smokies.
Carolina struck back with a run in the top of the sixth to cut the lead to 4-2, but the Smokies pitching shut the Mudcats down the rest of the night. Holliman gave up two runs in six innings, with James Henderson coming on for two innings of scoreless work. Geoffrey Jones came on in the ninth to record his second save of the season. Daniel Barone (0-2) took the loss for the Mudcats.
The Smokies will host the Mudcats again on Saturday night at Smokies Park for game three of the five game series. The Smokies will send left-hander Paul Schappert (1-1, 6.08) to the mound to face Mudcats righty Gaby Hernandez (2-2, 3.22).
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It's hard to believe but we are nearing the end of 2012, but it's indeed coming to a close. It's also safe to say it has been a hell of a year in Badger country, huh? With that in mind it's time for us to recap the year that was in Badger sports. We've combed through the best stories of the year, the biggest headlines, the untold stories, and so much more to give you the Top 10 Wisconsin Badgers Stories in our Year in Review. (on a side note it's hard to believe this site is nearing it's own one year anniversary after our move from a previous home.)
Today, we begin our look at those stories with one that was of utmost importance and potential from this spring - the transfer of Danny O'Brien to Wisconsin from Maryland. Some in Badger nation thought he could be the second coming of one Russell Wilson, leading us to yet another Rose Bowl and such. Well, they got the 2nd part of that story correct, except it had absolutely nothing to do with getting them there like most thought he would and for al the ups and downs and potential this story kicks off our Top 10 list.
What Happened: Let me set the scene for you.... Wisconsin has two warm bodies that were ho-hum at best in the Spring game and they literally have just 2 guys who could play come the start of the season. No, we're not talking about 2011, we're talking about 2012 and we're talking about another former ACC Freshman of the Year being the target of just about every transfer rumor on the face of the earth. Danny O'Brien followed Russell Wilson to Wisconsin as a transfer QB and much was expected.
Like Wilson he came in and won the starting job in camp, but in dramatically different fashion - having to hold off both Curt Phillips and redshirt freshman walk-on Joel Stave for the job. That alone should've been the signal that things weren't going to be the same. D.O'B came in and played alright - good enough to win, in the season opener against Northern Iowa, but things quickly unraveled in a horrible start at Oregon State. O'Brien led the team to just 7 points against a team that mattered and in the next game against a game Utah State program he managed to lead the Badgers to just 3 points at the half. Bielema had seen enough and in came Joel Stave at the half and the rest is nearly history for the team.
Except for we wouldn't see the last of O'Brien and what we ended up seeing cost Wisconsin two more football games when he had to come in and replace an injured Stave against Nebraska and Michigan State. Against the Huskers he fumbled a snap deep into their territory where a score would've won the football game. Against the Spartans he came in to lead an offense following Stave suffering a season ending broken collar bone and he led the team to 3 and out after 3 and out, even when the Badgers took over inside the MSU 20 yard line, where they had to settle for a field goal instead of a touchdown and thus the game gets lost in OT instead of won in regulation.
That's the story of Danny O'Brien in 2012 and come 2013 he's pretty much buried himself on the depth chart in his final year of eligibility.
Why it’s on the List: This story would've been much, much higher on the list had two things happened - 1) Danny O'Brien stayed the starter at Wisconsin or 2) Wisconsin doesn't make the Big Ten Championship game without him. Either way this had the potential to come up much higher on the list and in football only terms it probably did. However in the grand scheme of things all worked out for the best in the end and for that it comes in at the opening spot on our list.
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Burnham Ramblers show their title credentials
3:41pm Thursday 7th February 2013 in Local Sport
BURNHAM Ramblers showed their title credentials by fighting back to sink Basildon United on Saturday.
That’s the view of proud manager Keith Wilson, who was buoyed by his side’s late fireworks in the 3-2 victory at Leslie Field.
That result, coupled with Tuuesday night's 2-0 win against Southend Manor, left Ramblers five points clear at the top of the Essex Senior League table, having turned the match on its head thanks to goals from Brad Hunter, Stuart Judd and Ricky Stubbs.
“It was a massive result that I don’t think would have happened last season,” said Wilson.
“I’m pretty certain of that, but now there’s an extra desire among my players.
“We were missing seven players because of illness and work commitments and only had three on the bench, yet still had the character to score two late goals.
“We’re really pushing for the title and were absolutely determined to get the three points.
“We certainly deserved to win, but the longer the game went on we were wondering whether it was going to happen for us.
“To then score twice in the last five minutes was fantastic and everyone, quite rightly, was buzzing afterwards.”
Ramblers have no match this weekend. | http://www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/sport/localsport/10214170.Burnham_Ramblers_show_their_title_credentials/ | 337 |
Roberto Mancini's men now trail rivals Manchester United by a point at the summit ahead of a midweek round of fixtures which sees the champions travel to Wigan.
Milner said: "It shows mental strength because sometimes, when you have those days, it is easy to think it's not our day and sit back and let the other team into the game and have chances themselves.
"I don't think we did that. We were pretty solid and moved the ball around pretty well.
"The pitch wasn't the greatest but we tried to be positive and it just didn't happen for us at the business end."
The game was short on entertainment with Chelsea managing just one shot on target and City five. Most of the headlines were made by the home fans' negative reaction to the arrival of their new manager Rafael Benitez.
The visitors' best opportunity came when Sergio Aguero headed at Petr Cech late in the first half.
Another area City shaded was the corner count, having 11 to their hosts' six.
Milner said: "When you are on top of teams you are going to have set-pieces.
"We have got quality delivery with 'Kolar' (Aleksandar Kolarov) and David (Silva) and people like that.
"We need to maybe come up with a few new things and make sure we attack that ball. I'm sure the goals will come."
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Date:Saturday August 25 2007
Saying that his game is a must-win is an understatement: the games at City and at Pompey were must-wins, too, yet we failed to take three points from them. Now it's urgent, vital, imperative. We just can't drop more points, especially that Liverpool have won again and Chelsea will surely overwhelm Portsmouth.
The derby defeat was as hurtful as possible, especially the manner of it but we must now bounce back. I'm clinging to one hope: our bad luck has to change sooner or later. The last three games were frustratingly similar: the opponent not even attempting to play football but park the bus. United control the game but fail to score and the opponent either find one out of the blue or hold us to a 0-0 draw. Sooner or later we are due to beat someone heavily if we continue to create chances at this rate.
Spurs haven't enjoyed the best of starts but the 4-0 thumping of Derby will give them a real confidence boost - as the absence of Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo. The return of Saha, however, offers more possibilites up front, as well as the inclusion of Anderson. I'm optimistic as I have little else to do now...
We can't fall further behind but our football has been pretty good and that gives me hope.
Sir Alex Ferguson is in an optimist mood ahead of the game.
'We will win the game on Sunday,' he said. 'Our performance level will win the game for us. There is no question Tottenham will come here with a great determination to help their manager. But with the ability in this team, I know the results we have been having will not carry on for long.'
I guess Spurs fans would have been happier if we had won our first three games - for I reckon Sir Alex is right: results will come for a team of such ability.
Paul Robinson was England's weakest link in the midweek friendly against Germany but is confident ahead of the trip to Old Trafford.
'The Spurs players are buoyant [after last weekend's 4-0 win over Derby County],' Robinson told TottenhamHotspur.com. 'We're all looking forward to the game and we're determined to get another positive result.
'United are strong and it will be tough, as it always is at Old Trafford. We'll be going there in good spirits after the Derby result and we're looking to put in a performance and pick up some points.'
Of course I don't expect him to commit such blunders again. Unreliable, error-prone keepers usually transform into unbeatable heroes whenever they step onto the Old Trafford turf. We must brace ourselves for a Robinson in magnificent form, however unlikely that may sound.
Louis Saha is set for a bench role after completing training without problem this week. Anderson, recovering from a hamstring strain is also available. Gary Neville picked up another injury which will keep him out for a further two weeks but Edwin van der Sar is fit to start, as is Owen Hargreaves who has shrugged of his tendonitis problem that had kept him out of England's friendly against Germany.
He scored in both games against Spurs last season so let's hope he'll continue his good form against them.
Tottenham are troubled by injuries: Assou-Ekotto, Dawson, Kaboul, King and Lennon are all out which means that their defence in particular will be pretty makeshift and that can prove their downfall at Old Trafford. Dimitar Berbatov and Darren Bent are both doubtful while Gareth Bale, once United's target, could make his debut.
Let's see if we made a bad decision not to sign him!
Spurs have never won at Old Trafford in the Premier League; we haven't lost back-to-back games in the league for ages (84 games if you want to know); we never had fewer than four points after four games of the Premiership campaign; Spurs won only one game against members of the big four since Jol took over - all the omens point to a United victory. But I do not trust stats...
We will make advantage of Tottenham's weakened defence and win 3-1.
Date:Saturday August 25 2007
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Paul Hayward writes in The Telegraph…
Rooney still England's gladiator
Tournaments have not been kind to Wayne Rooney. Nor has Wayne Rooney always been kind to tournaments. But the foul-up in Ukraine’s defence that allowed the returning talisman to earn his country a quarter-final against Italy was the sweetest charity. On Tuesday night England reclaimed their most potent asset, prompting Steven Gerrard, the England captain, to say: "Wayne took all the pressure on his shoulders when we needed him to. Sometimes a tap-in is as important as a 30-yarder." Sent off in the 2006 World Cup and listless in South Africa four years later, Rooney was forced by his own irascibility in a qualifying game in Montenegro to wait until the third game of this championship for his chance to be England’s saviour. Memories of his dramatic impact on Euro 2004 as an 18-year-old have lost their force. The redemption plan was not progressing well until Gerrard swung in yet another of his defence-baffling crosses and it bounced through defender and goalkeeper before popping onto Rooney’s head a couple of yards out. It may have been hard work for him, but boy, did he mean business.
Several papers pick up on Rooney’s explanation of his goal celebration, in which he mimicked applying hairspray to his head. "I used a bit of Andy Carroll’s product," he said. "Hopefully I will end up with hair like him! He asked me to do it if I scored and so I did it."
United will likely come up against an old foe in Didier Drogba next month after the striker completed his move from Chelsea to the Reds' Tour 2012 opponents, Shanghai Shenhua.
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Tonight, everyone just hopes there aren’t any malfunctions and the teams can begin and finish the game at Cardinal Field when Pope (3-2) meets Osborne (1-4) in the Region 7AAAAA(B) opener for both clubs.
Prior to a 27-24 double-overtime victory for the Greyhounds over the Cardinals on Sept. 23 of last year, the stadium lights stopped working early in the second half and the game was moved to South Cobb High School.
“That was strangest set of circumstances I’ve ever been around in 20 years of coaching,” Pope coach Matt Kemper said. “I’ve never finished a game in a different stadium.”
“It was one of the strangest games I’ve been in,” Osborne coach Xarvia Smith said. “We ended up playing at two different places on the same night. A fun game and exciting game. Wish I had went for 2.”
The contest was delayed an hour-and-a-half but tonight’s game should be clear of any type of encore.
“Everything is good,” Smith said. “The county has taken care of it.”
“I hope they got a new fuse box or whatever,” Kemper said. “That was definitely one we will remember for a long time.”
With the win, Pope improved to 4-0 all-time against Osborne and will be seeking more success in the series, while also hoping to win its fourth straight game of the season.
“We’re just praying that we can play hard and kill that three-game winning streak,” Smith said.
Last week, the Greyhounds cruised to a 49-7 victory over Cambridge in which Ronald Woods rushed for 175 yards and three touchdowns.
“We’re happy about the fact that our guys went out there and took care of business,” Kemper said. “But at the same time, not breaking our arm to pat ourselves on the back because that was a really young football team and that is what the outcome should’ve been.”
On the other hand, the Cardinals dropped a region crossover game — a 31-0 loss to Creekview.
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Real gladiators were big, well-fed men, says Barry Strauss, Ph.D., a professor of history and classics at Cornell and author of The Spartacus War. “They looked a little like sumo wrestlers with spare tires. One guess is that the girth protected them from wounds,” he says.
There are no gladiator guts on Spartacus. But these televised warriors have a philosophy similar to that of the ancients: Nutrition rules, whatever your training. (Fuel your muscles with 5 Protein-Packed Gym Snacks.)
To maintain his body, McIntyre eats a bowl of oats with protein powder for breakfast; other meals focus on lean protein (chicken or fish) and vegetables, and maybe some good carbs like a sweet potato or whole-grain rice. “Rinse and repeat,” he says.
Once a week, McIntyre takes 2 hours to eat whatever he wants.
“You say, ‘To hell with it’ and cheat, but then you try to fight vomiting—and you realize why you cheat only once a week. It’s not a cheat day; it’s 2 hours where I can have as many calories as I want,” McIntyre says. “I’ll have pizza, maybe a burger. My girlfriend likes baking, so every Friday I have cheesecake waiting for me during those 2 hours.”
Between seasons, McIntyre had a few months during which he could’ve let his nutrition go before ramping up for preseason training. Didn’t happen.
“The funny thing is that I tried to let it go, but I felt awful, absolutely horrible. The old me wanted to eat badly, but that didn’t last long,” McIntyre says. He needed to eat right not only for aesthetic appeal but also to maintain maximum energy and training strength—and for handling the demands of fight scenes.
“If your nutrition isn’t on,” Bell says, “you’re going to break, and that’s the honest truth.”
ANCIENT GLADIATORS HAD the ultimate motivation to keep in shape—staying alive. McIntyre has a similar philosophy, though the stakes aren’t quite as high.
“I’ve always been stubborn. I don’t like losing. I don’t like failing at anything. So the job at hand, you find a way to do it.
“The key to motivation,” he says, “is the people around you.”
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05-31-2011, 05:42 PM
Rosol is coming off an R3 after qualifying in Paris. Stepanek is the veteran Czech on the downside of his career. Who do you think will take this, the old guard or the *up-and-comer?
*This term is used extremely loosely.
05-31-2011, 05:43 PM
Difficult but I think Stepanek after all. Old fox, should have the way to beat a younger compatriot. Plus he played the final here last year.
05-31-2011, 06:25 PM
I wouldn't write Radek off, he said himself that he'd love to play till he's 40 if he stays healthy. I don't think he will though...
As for the match, I think Radek will win in 3 sets.
05-31-2011, 06:28 PM
I haven't written Radek off but he's on the downside of his career. He's not going to be a top 20 player again in all likelihood but he's still a good 35-60 ranked player.
As for this match I think he'll win in straights. | http://www.menstennisforums.com/archive/index.php/index.php?t-183704.html | 248 |
Shabazz Muhammad scored 21 points, fellow freshman Kyle Anderson added 17 and No. 24 UCLA defeated Oregon State 74-64 on Thursday night, the Bruins' 10th consecutive victory.
"That's not really a focus," Anderson said about the streak. "We'll let that all fall into itself. We can only focus on what we want to control."
Travis Wear added 17 points for the Bruins (15-3, 5-0 Pac-12), who equaled their longest winning streak since the 2008-09 season. They have won 23 of the last 24 games played against Oregon State on their home court.
"We were really young coming into this season and it took time for these guys to adjust and for our team to understand what each other was about," Wear said. "We understand defensive rotations a lot better and it's showing in our stats."
UCLA is 5-0 in the league for the first time since 2003-04, coach Ben Howland's first season in Westwood.
"We're a much better team than we were my first year," he said. "It was a miracle we started 5-0 that year."
That team promptly lost its next six in a row, then lost another six straight to end the season.
But Howland said he doesn't talk to his team about streaks—win or lose—while keeping their focus on the next game.
Roberto Nelson scored 17 points and Joe Burton added 12 for the Beavers (10-7, 0-4). They lost their fourth
"The effort was good, but the execution is what has to get better," Oregon State coach Craig Robinson said. "These guys got used to winning and now they have lost four in a row. And they're mad. That's good. I want them to be mad. I want them to be mad enough to play better."
The Beavers had the upper hand in the game's opening minutes before the Bruins took over for good. Ahead by 11 points at halftime, UCLA ran off 11 straight points early in the second half to take a 48-28 lead.
"We came out ready, but when you play a team that has this many good players, you can't let up or you get behind and it's hard to come back, especially when you are on the road," Robinson said.
Muhammad had a three-point play, Wear and Jordan Adams had baskets and Anderson scored four straight points during the run that put the Beavers in a double-digit deficit the rest of the game.
"I just let the game come to me," Muhammad said. "My teammates gave me an opportunity to score. I think I played fast on the road, I'm not sure if it was jitters. I just came out here relaxed."
Oregon State got to 58-48 during an 8-0 run capped by Nelson's 3-pointer. But Muhammad answered with a 3-pointer to key a 7-0 spurt and extend UCLA's lead to 65-48.
The Beavers were held under their 75.7-point scoring average. They are one of two Pac-12 teams with five players averaging double figures, but only three players reached that mark in the game.
The Beavers opened the game on a 12-7 run while UCLA struggled with turnovers and missed shots.
"They kind of woke us up. I don't know that our guys understood that they were coming at us," Howland said. "Our defense in the first half was particularly good. That's been key for us."
The Bruins settled down and outscored the Beavers 20-7 to take a 27-19 lead. Muhammad and Norman Powell hit consecutive 3-pointers, while Travis Wear had six points in the spurt.
Anderson and Muhammad combined to score UCLA's final eight points of the first half, extending its lead to 37-26.
Oregon State forward Eric Moreland and guard Victor Robbins were suspended for the game after violating team rules. They will be available to play at Southern California on Saturday.
"They will be fresh and we will need those fresh bodies," said Robinson, who will leave his team after Saturday's game to fly to Washington, D.C., to attend the inauguration of his brother-in-law, President Barack Obama. He will be back in time for the Beavers' home game against Washington on Wednesday.
Former UCLA star Jamaal Wilkes had his No. 52 jersey retired at halftime, with former Bruins stars Bill Walton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Mike Warren on hand. He helped lead the Bruins to NCAA championships in 1972 and 1973, and an 86-4 record in his three years under coach John Wooden. Wilkes had his jersey retired by the Los Angeles Lakers last month, and he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame last year. | http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_22398600/no-24-ucla-beats-oregon-st-74-64 | 1,002 |
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Pulaski returns to Appy League, playoffs08/26/2008 10:00 AM ET
By Jonathan Mayo / MLB.com
Absence has made the heart grow fonder in Pulaski, Virginia.
The Appalachian League was down to nine teams in 2007 when the Blue Jays left Pulaski following the '06 season, despite many efforts to find a way to field a team at historic Calfee Park. Then the Mariners stepped in to save the day, agreeing to bring baseball back to Pulaski by fielding a seventh minor league club -- and third short-season or rookie-level team -- in the United States.
It's worked out pretty well for all parties involved, with the Pulaski Mariners ending the Danville Braves' four-year run as the East Division champions. Attendance has increased by roughly 10 percent after the one-year layoff, from 902 fans per game in 2006 up to 1,007 this year. Considering Pulaski has less than 9,500 residents, that's not nothing, and the "blooming" fan base is gearing up for a championship matchup against the Elizabethton Twins, who have won the title in two of the past three years.
"It's been great," said Mariners farm director Greg Hunter. "We were stretched more than we had been in the past. I'd like to have a little more insurance on the bench, but it worked out. Guys were able to get at-bats and innings pitched more than in the past. Having the three teams enabled us to put the right guys in the right spots."
It was particularly beneficial for players, Hunter said, coming out of high school or from Latin America who were a touch advanced for the rookie-level Arizona League, but not quite ready for the college-heavy short-season Northwest League. Players like Gabriel Noriega, George Soto and Jonathan Arias all got the opportunity to be challenged a little bit more and Hunter was pleased with how they responded. Then there were players like Guy Welsh and Kris Sanchez, a little older but who would have had difficulty finding a place to play without Pulaski being in the organization. Both have made major contributions to Pulaski's playoff push.
None of this guarantees that Pulaski will have a club in the 2009 season. The Mariners signed a one-year deal to have a team in the Appy League and it remains to be seen whether they'll return, title run or not.
"We're one of a few organizations with seven clubs domestically," Hunter said. "It's an investment the organization has made and they'll have to make a decision [whether to continue it]."
Pulaski Mariners (37-24) vs. Elizabethton Twins (39-22)
It's not an Appy League championship without the E-Twins involved. Elizabethton is in the championship series for the fourth straight season, having won it all last year and in 2005. The Twins also took home the championship in 2000 and 2003, while finishing second in 2001 and 2006. Pulaski last made the playoffs in 1999 behind league pitcher of the year Aaron Harang. The last time a Pulaski team won a title was in 1991 when they beat Burlington and Manny Ramirez. The Mariners can keep the E-Twins from repeating if they can keep the league's top offense in check.
Pulaski and Elizabethton split the six games they played during the season, with each team faring better on the road than at home. The Mariners home opener was against Elizabethton and the Twins won two out of three. The Mariners returned the favor by taking two of three in Elizabethton in July.
Dwight Britton (.353 average) and Mario Martinez (.417) had the most success against E-Twins pitching, each driving in six runs. Projected starters Nick Czyz, Brooks Mohr and Jose Rios went a combined 1-1 with a 4.58 ERA in 17 2/3 IP. The trio allowed 23 hits and four walks while striking out 23. ... Evan Bigley has feasted on Pulaski pitching, going 8-for-22 (.364) with three homers over the six games. Angel Morales hit .421 with three doubles and a homer in the season series. Bobby Lanigan made two starts against the Mariners, winning one and tossing 11 shutout innings. He yielded just six hits and no walks while striking out 15.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Pulaski: Catcher Juan Fuentes was tied for third in the league with his .337 average and fifth with a .407 OBP. Mario Martinez joined him in the top 10 in batting average by hitting .319. ... Jose Rios made just four starts, but he's been good in that role, holding hitters to a .182 average and striking out 23 in 19 innings while posting a 0.95 ERA. Closer Blake Nation was second in the league with 11 saves and averaged a strikeout per inning.
Elizabethton: The E-Twins had the top two home run hitters in the Appy League with Angel Morales (15) and Evan Bigley (14). Both hit over .300 and were also the top two in slugging percentage as well. Jonathan Waltenbury wasn't far behind, with 10 homers, a .319 average and .922 OPS (Morales, Bigley and Waltenbury are all in the top five in that stat). ... Brad Tippett (8-3) and Daniel Osterbrock (7-2) were 1-2 in wins, while Osterbrock easily led the circuit with 104 Ks in 75 innings.
This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs. | http://www.milb.com/gen/articles/printer_friendly/leagues/l120/y2008/m08/d22/c448994.jsp | 1,206 |
MARQUETTE - Northern Michigan University goaltender Jared Coreau believes he pulls of the color pink quite well, but that's not why he's been using his Twitter account this week (@Rozi3B1rd) to promote the Pink Wave on Saturday at the Berry Events Center.
For Coreau, the athletic department's fundraiser to benefit the Cancer Center of Marquette County is personal.
"My mother and aunt are both breast cancer survivors so that's what drove me to get it started," Coreau said.
"It's huge for me and huge for my family. Unfortunately they can't make it this weekend. It's pretty much for them."
Saturday's NMU Pink Wave will feature a triple-header against Ferris State at the Berry Events Center, starting with a men's basketball game at 11 a.m., a women's basketball game to follow at 1 p.m. and Game 2 of a CCHA hockey series at 7:35 p.m.
Northern is selling pink apparel for the games and encouraging all fans to wear pink to the BEC on Saturday to support breast cancer awareness.
Northern Michigan University forwards Stephan Vigier (40) and Erik Higby (26) look on from the Wildcats’ bench during last season’s Pink Wave game against Notre Dame on Nov. 5, 2011. (Journal file photo by Matt Keiser)
"Our lives become so consumed with hockey and how busy we are being student athletes," NMU senior Kory Kaunisto said. "It's things like this that make you take a step back and be thankful for what you've got, but also just realize there are other, bigger, more important things going on."
T-shirts are $10, crew-neck sweatshirts are $15, hooded sweatshirts at $20 and polos are $40 with all net proceeds going to the Cancer Center of Marquette. Apparel can be purchased at the NMU Bookstore, the Superior Dome or on game day at the BEC.
NMU head hockey coach Walt Kyle is a cancer survivor himself. He said community events like these are what helped him defeat the disease not once, but twice.
2013 NMU Pink Wave
Berry Events Center
11 a.m. - NMU men's basketball vs. Ferris State
1 p.m. - NMU women's basketball vs. Ferris State
7:35 p.m. - NMU hockey vs. Ferris State
"I went through (cancer) a couple times in my life," Kyle said. "I know how important my family, friends and the community were in helping me get through both times when I had it. I think one of the remarkable things about Marquette is how we take care of each other. I think this is a great thing."
Matt Wellens can be reached at 906-228-2500, ext. 252. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/mattwellens. | http://www.miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/584256/Northern-Michigan-hockey--hoops-holding-Pink-Wave-event-Saturday.html?nav=5017 | 617 |
April 18, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second game in a row, Dylan Roden powered MIT’s attack, this time tallying four goals in an 11-3 victory over Clark University on Saturday. The Engineers, winners of five straight, saw their ledger improve to 7-5 overall and 4-1 in Pilgrim Lacrosse League play.
Corey Garvey posted three goals and five groundballs as Ernie Park and Ryan Ballentine each earned two assists. Patrick Shannon paced the defense with seven groundballs while Eric Zuk totaled six groundballs. Neil Zimmerman tallied five groundballs and a goal as Ebbe Strathairn registered four groundballs. In net, Garth Grove collected 13 saves.
In the opening quarter, Ballentine set up Garvey for a pair of goals as Roden recorded an unassisted marker. Clark got on the board with an extra-man goal at the 7:51 mark of the second stanza to narrow the gap to two (3-1). MIT responded with five unanswered goals to close out the period and enter the break with a comfortable 8-1 advantage.
Park found Roden for a man-up tally three minutes into the third quarter as a solo effort by Garvey extended the Engineers’ margin midway through the frame.
The Roden-Park collaboration netted another extra-man goal after 4:26 expired in the final frame. The Cougars capped the scoring with a pair of man-up strikes. | http://www.mitathletics.com/sports/m-lacros/recaps/041809aaa.html?dec=/printer-decorator | 309 |
The Rays are expected to sign designated hitter Hideki Matsui, Jack Curry of the YES Network reports (Twitter links). Matsui, who turns 38 in June, could sign a minor league contract with the Rays before long.
Matsui spent last year with the Athletics and posted a .251/.321/.375 line with 12 home runs and 28 doubles in 585 plate appearances. However, he finished strong, posting a .295/.353/.425 line in the second half. Matsui, a Wasserman Media Group client, has been preparing for the 2012 season in the New York area, according to Curry. | http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/04/rays-expected-to-sign-hideki-matsui.html | 124 |
Their All-American college careers may be over, but that hasn't stopped the honors from coming in for former Olivet College wrestler Kyle Vanderhyde of Sparta and ex-Calvin College freestyle swimmer Cara Van Woerkom of Calvin Christian.
Vanderhyde and Van Woerkom have been named ESPN The Magazine Academic first-team All-Americans.
Vanderhyde is a graduated mathematics major who carried a 3.85 grade-point average as a senior while compiling a 39-7 record as a 174-pound competitor.
Seven of his losses were against NCAA Division I opponents.
Vanderhyde was the only Division III wrestler to place at the prestigious Midlands Tournament in Chicago.
Vanderhyde ended his career at Olivet with a 110-20 record, a national runner-up finish in 2007 and a fourth-place effort in '08.
He also was a three-time National Wrestling Coaches Association Academic All-American.
Van Woerkom was an eight-time Division III All-American. At March's national swimming and diving championship meet, she was 13th in the 50-yard freestyle, and was a member of the Knights' All-America 400 medley, 200 free and 800 free relay teams to help Calvin to a seventh-place team finish.
Van Woerkom earned her degree in Spanish and minored in biology with a 3.92 GPA.
• Graduated senior Chris Hammer a five-time All-American in cross country and track at Grand Valley State, was selected as an All-District IV Academic performer by the College Sports Information Directors Association. Hammer finished seventh in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at last month's Division II track and field championship meet. He was a four-time All-American in the steeplechase and a one-time All-American in cross country.
• Senior quarterback Brad Iciek (Grandville) of Grand Valley will be featured on the cover of the inaugural D2 Football Preview Magazine. The 112-page publication will include previews of every Division II team, a top-25 poll and All-America team, all-conference picks and conference predictions. It will be on sale later this summer.
• Hope College led Division III in men's home basketball attendance for the seventh straight season. The Flying Dutchmen averaged 2,696 fans for 16 home dates at DeVos Fieldhouse. Rival Calvin averaged crowds of 2,553 for 13 games at the Knights' new Van Noord Fieldhouse to rank second. Hope was 14-2 at home, is 62-4 at the 4-year-old DeVos Fieldhouse and has led Division III in home attendance 10 times. The Dutchmen and Knights again allowed the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association to lead all Division III conferences in cumulative home attendance for the 18th straight season with an average of 1,059. The average home attendance for Division III men's teams was 434.
E-mail Howie Beardsley: [email protected] | http://www.mlive.com/smallcolleges/grandrapids/index.ssf/2009/06/swimmer_wrestler_honored_by_es.html | 624 |
ANN ARBOR -- Trey Burke looks different this year. Longer hair, a few extra pounds, a little extra swagger.
His biggest change can't be seen, though. Only heard.
"Making more people around me better, being more of a leader and taking more of a point-guard role," Burke said Wednesday at the Wolverines' media day. "The shots are obviously going to be there, but we have more options this year. So, just getting more people involved and being a leader."
Michigan begins the season with lofty expectations, appearing in most preseason top 10s and even a few top fives. It's propped up by the return of Burke and shooting guard Tim Hardaway Jr., as well as a bevy of talented freshmen such as wing Glenn Robinson III, forward Mitch McGary and guard Nick Stauskas.
But it also will have to figure out a way to mesh its assortment of veterans with its five freshmen, many of whom are expected to receive considerable time, and do so without its two top leaders from last year in the departed Stu Douglass and Zack Novak.
That's where Burke, last year's Big Ten co-freshman of the year, steps in.
The sophomore nearly departed for the NBA, but elected to return to school based mostly on his gut feeling, as well as the input from coaches and his family. A roster brimming with talent and athleticism didn't hurt, either.
He spent the offseason honing his game, beginning with building his lower-body strength after a grueling freshman campaign that saw him log 36.1 minutes per game.
Burke went to NBA camps hosted by Chris Paul, LeBron James and Deron Williams, where he proved himself as one of the best point guards in the country.
But the biggest thing he picked up at those camps wasn't an improved jump shot -- although he's got that -- nor sharpened ball-handling skills -- although he got that too. It was learning how to speak up and lead.
"It helped me be more of a vocal leader," Burke said. "I realized how much they stress the fact how important it is for a point guard to be vocal to help his team."
He's taken that message to heart.
Burke has spent much of the past few weeks taking the freshmen under his wing, watching film with them and helping them pick up the offense so that when practice starts Friday, they'll be ready to go.
"I've embraced it," Burke said of becoming a team leader. "Being vocal at all times and just having a presence on the court. A year ago, it was kind of forced. But now, it's more natural. I've been watching a lot of film of our offense. I'm just trying to teach the freshmen at a faster pace.
"All the guys are willing to listen and willing to learn. So I'm definitely ready for this. I'm pumped."
Last year, the Wolverines made it as far as a Big Ten regular-season title and NCAA tournament appearance. A successful season by most measures.
But they also lost their final two games, falling against Ohio State in the Big Ten tournament and then against 14th-seeded Ohio in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
This year's group has its sights set even higher. But to achieve those goals, the freshmen will be counted upon for heavy minutes.
How they mesh with the talented returners could be the biggest factor in whether this team succeeds or fails.
McGary and Robinson, both five-star recruits, are already being penciled in as starters. Stauskas is expected to receive major minutes, and Spike Albrecht is the presumed backup to Burke at point guard.
Shooting guard Caris Levert rounds out the five-man class.
That group is athletic -- players have said Robinson already is the most athletic guy on the team -- which means the Wolverines could be expected to run a little more this year.
"I’ve seen that in the past open gyms and the past workouts," Burke said. "I think we’re going to be a half-court team, but I think we’re going to be able to get out and run more than we were last year.
"We’re a little bit deeper, so if we are running more, a couple people get fatigued, we can have some people come off the bench. Us running will definitely benefit us."
There's also more size in the frontcourt, with Jordan Morgan back, McGary added to the roster and Jon Horford's return to health. Burke said he anticipates running more inside-out plays, with the physicality up front feeding shooters from the outside.
That's a lot of change, most of it for the better. But it takes time to adjust to change, as rotations are sorted out and roles and identified.
Burke's role is clear: He's the team's leader, and he hopes to embody that as Michigan tries to live up to its preseason billing.
His experience last year -- the ouster against Ohio -- serves as a steady reminder to how quickly things can fall apart.
"That’s another thing I love about this team: All the preseason accolades and awards, we’re not getting caught up in that," Burke said. "We have grounded and humble players.
"That will keep us grounded when we have our highs during the season, and when we have our lows." | http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2012/10/michigans_trey_burke_has_a_new.html | 1,141 |
American Exports: Young Yanks taste defeat in Copa MX
MEXICO CITY – There were two Americans in action in Mexico's new cup competition on Tuesday, although neither got positive results.
For Club América, 19-year-old center back Ventura Alvarado went the full 90 minutes in his team's 4-3 away loss against second-division Correcaminos.
It was Alvarado's second appearance in the competition at the heart of América's defense, but the result leaves the Águilas in third place in Group 5, four points off leaders Correcaminos with three group-stage games remaining.
Also in action was left back Greg Garza (above) for Club Tijuana, but his team slipped to a 2-1 defeat against Celaya, also from the Ascenso MX.
Alejandro Guido and Stevie Rodriguez both made the bench for the Xolos, but are still awaiting their first-team debuts.
Tijuana slumped to third in Group 6 of the Copa MX, but are level on five points with Celaya and Pumas UNAM, with only the first-place team guaranteed to qualify for the quarterfinals.
Tom Marshall covers Americans playing in Latin America for MLSsoccer.com. E-mail him at [email protected]. | http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/08/15/american-exports-young-yanks-taste-defeat-copa-mx | 286 |
If Sean Sherk's body had an odometer, it would probably read 500,000.
All those miles have taken a severe toll on him in the 10 years since he
started fighting professionally, and several longstanding injuries have
returned following his split-decision victory over Evan Dunham this
past September at UFC 119.
Sherk today told MMAjunkie.com that he won't fight again until he's fully healed. | http://www.mma-core.com/news/Longstanding_injuries_return_to_UFCs_Sean_Sherk_but_summer_r/1011168 | 90 |
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Cameron Alexander Brown, 21, of Angleton, passed away Sunday, October 5, 2008 in San Marcos.
Cameron was born July 11, 1987 in Houston, Texas to Mark and Teresa Terrell Brown. He was a 2006 graduate of Angleton High School and attended college at Texas State University in San Marcos. Cameron’s passions were music, sports and martial arts.
In addition to his parents, survivors include his brother, Garrett Brown of Angleton; and grandparents Ray and Sonja Terrell of League City and John Clifford Brown of Angleton. He was preceded in death by his grandmother, Mary Catherine Brown.
CameronB will always be remembered here at MMAFighting.net, he was a key contributor to this forum and has helped shape it into the great forum that it is today. This forum has maintained it's life through the backbone core "veteran" members over the years and CameronB was one of those people.
There is nothing left to say, I have posted this announcement and am going to leave it open to be displayed for good. Every day you log on you will see this hopefully and be reminded of his contributions to this forum. | http://www.mmafighting.net/forum/announcement.php?f=24 | 276 |
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The Varner cut, to me, is less surprising than the Horodecki cut. Chris brings it and should really consider 145 as a way to re-ignite his career. He just looks too small at 155.
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American Hockey League Announces Suspension
SPRINGFIELD, MA - The American Hockey League today announced that Manchester Monarchs center Andy Andreoff has been suspended for three (3) games as a consequence of being assessed a match penalty in a game against the Worcester Sharks on December 31.
Andreoff will miss Manchesterís games on Friday (Jan. 4) and Saturday (Jan. 5) at St. Johnís IceCaps and on Friday (Jan. 11) versus the Albany Devils.
The Monarchs will travel to play the IceCaps at the Mile One Centre at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, January 4. Catch all the play-by-play action of Monarchs hockey with Ken Cail on the Monarchs Radio Network WGIR 610 AM, WGIR.com and at www.manchestermonarchs.com, presented by Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. | http://www.monarchshockey.com/news.php?nid=4581&startdate=2013-02-15&prev=1 | 185 |
Baleigh Schuler, vice president of the Dundee High School FFA, won the local Discussion Meet Leadership Contest Nov. 16 at Blissfield High School and sponsored by Michigan Farm Bureau.
Baleigh, a senior, was one of three FFA members to compete in the contest. She will advance along with Aaron Justice of Springport and Abbey Carpenter of Lenawee Tech Center to compete in the state discussion finals next week at the Michigan Farm Bureau annual convention in Grand Rapids.
Baleigh is the daughter of Brian and Janet Schuler. She defeated 11 other contestants from six other schools. Other Dundee students who competed were junior Zach Scheich, chapter sentinel, and senior Kelsie Layton. Both Baleigh and Kelsie made it to the second round and finals of the local meet, said Tom Stahl, FFA adviser.
"Both did an outstanding job," Mr. Stahl said. "Baleigh has been a finalist in prepared public speaking the last couple of years for FFA. She does an excellent job communicating and speaking."
The contestants spoke on two subjects: what is agriculture's role in combating obesity and early onset of diseases like diabetes and what is agriculture's role in alternative energy production. | http://www.monroenews.com/news/2011/nov/26/dundee-ffas-schuler-wins-discussion-meet/ | 251 |
VANCOUVER - Markus Naslund's day began Wednesday like so many others.
He turned on his computer to check the previous night's NHL summaries, starting of course, with the Vancouver Canucks.
"That's nothing unusual," Naslund said in a phone interview from his home in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden. "I have followed the Canucks every morning, basically, since I came back here. I like to keep up with what is going on and how things are going for people that you know."
People like Henrik and Daniel Sedin.
Naslund was pleased to see the Canucks won Tuesday night's game, but a tad disappointed that Henrik was held off the scoresheet and remains two points shy of surpassing Naslund's franchise mark of 756 points. When he left Vancouver after the 2007-08 season, Naslund knew it was only a matter of time until both of the twins passed him. The only question was which was one was going to be first. Time lost to injury has left Daniel needing 29 points to pass Naslund.
"It's nothing that you really think about too much after you have left that scene," Naslund said of his franchise scoring mark. "I'm very impressed with the years that both Daniel and Henrik have had recently. They have really established themselves as world-class players and have been able to do it game-in and game-out."
He's even more impressed with the Sedins as people.
"In general, most hockey players are good people," Naslund said. "But then there's another level and that's where I put these guys."
PLAYOFF RACE: Naslund's real focus these days is on Modo, the Swedish Elite League team that he manages. Modo currently sits sixth in the 14-team SEL and has already locked up one of eight playoff spots.
Modo is five points out of fourth place, which would give it home-ice advantage in the first round. Eight regular-season games remain before the playoffs begin on March 12.
"We are progressing and taking steps here," Naslund said. "We have a junior program where we are No. 1 in Sweden in both the (under) 18 and (under) 20 standings and that's huge because we need to produce our own senior players. "We have quite a few prospects coming through our system now which hasn't been the case for a few years. There are a lot of good things that are happening. But it is a battle, too, because it is tough to do everything with a fairly small budget and in a small market."
FIN-TASTIC: Naslund was pleased to hear about Wednesday's appointment of Finnish native Jarmo Kekalainen as the new general manager of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Kekalainen becomes the first European GM of a NHL team.
"It's a global game and if you are a good hockey mind and prepared to put in the work that it takes I think nationality shouldn't stop you from becoming a general manager in the NHL," Naslund said. "I think it's good for the sport. It opens up another door."
QUARTER-POLE: And just like that, the Vancouver Canucks' regular season is one-quarter over.
Tuesday night's 2-1 win over the Minnesota Wild improved Vancouver's record to 8-2-2 and that matches Vancouver's best start through 12 games in franchise history. The Canucks also started the season 8-2-2 in 2003-04 and 2005-06.
"I think defensively we have been really good, our goaltending has been outstanding and we are getting contributions from a lot of different guys," general manger Mike Gillis said in an appearance Wednesday on Team 1040. "I think some guys are starting to find their games and get back to a level that we expect. We are moving in the right direction and hopefully we'll get some injured guys back shortly and see what we really have."
Heading into Wednesday night's schedule, the Canucks were tied for third in goals-against, giving up just 1.92 per game. The Canucks, who had the day off Wednesday, were 11th in goals for, averaging 2.75 per game. | http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/vancouver-canucks/Markus+Naslund+keep+eyes+Canucks/7961526/story.html | 878 |
A few quick observations from the 10th week of the season:
• Maybe I was too quick to write off the Saints. It's funny to say this after a team allowed 27 points and the opposing quarterback, in this case Matt Ryan, to throw for 411 yards, but the Saints' defense might be starting to play just well enough for them to have a chance. They held Michael Turner to 15 yards on 13 carries in their 31-27 win Sunday, and even though Ryan's numbers were excellent, holding the Falcons offense to 27 points isn't a terrible day at the office. Should Seattle and Minnesota fall off, I'd take the Saints over the Cowboys, the Lions, the Cardinals and whoever else for the sixth NFC playoff spot.
• This week's back-from-dead team in the other conference has to be the Bengals. I know the Giants aren't exactly rolling right now, but that's a pretty impressive 31-13 win nonetheless. Andy Dalton had just 199 yards, and 56 came on one pass to the awesome A.J. Green, but it's encouraging for the Bengals that their up-and-down young QB completed 70 percent of his passes and had a 4-0 TD-to-INT ratio. Pittsburgh has a two-game lead, but it has an injured Ben Roethlisberger and just needed overtime to beat Kansas City. Miami just got beat 37-3 by the freaking Titans. The Chargers aren't exactly making the right kind of headlines. You can't convince me Cincinnati isn't a pretty decent bet to sneak into the playoffs. Well, except by pointing out that they're the Bengals and that Marvin Lewis is their coach, that is.
• I still can't believe that Miami/Tennesse final. While the Dolphins had shown all kinds of life in the first half of the season, the Titans' three wins came by a combined seven points over the inconsistent Lions, the inconsistent Steelers and the bad Bills. They had been outscored 308-182 and were coming off that absolutely brutal loss to the Bears. But for one week, the team that at least one idiot picked to win the AFC South showed up. Jake Locker is healthy again. Most importantly, a defense that had been among the NFL's worst held an opponent to 255 yards and had three interceptions, even if it was against Ryan Tannehill. It seems more an abberation than a turning point, but it's a surprise either way.
•Another surprise was the Rams earning a 24-24 tie with the 49ers. Much has been made about the missed field goals in overtime, or the time-clock gaffe. The thing I think deserves more scrutiny was Rams coach Jeff Fisher calling a timeout early in the play clock with 1:13 left in regulation and his team facing first-and-goal down 21-17. They scored four seconds of game time later, but the 49ers drove down and hit a tying field goal with three seconds left in regulation. The Bears fan in me who wanted a 49ers loss was moaning, "Why?" at Fisher the second he called the timeout, and I think Fisher is in a way fortunate that so much else in the game overshadowed his own poor clock management. | http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/2012/11/13/week-10-nfl-thoughts/btnmgl6/?page=2 | 655 |
BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell thinks eliminating kickoffs will receive more consideration by league leaders.
Representatives with TIME Magazine recently sat in on a meeting between Goodell head of the NFL's Competition Committee, Rich McKay, while working on an in-depth report on the commissioner.
During the meeting, Goodell reportedly brought up a proposal promoted by Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Greg Schiano that would give kickoffs the boot.
The proposal would give teams the ball on their own 30-yard line after a touchdown or a field goal in a fourth and 15 situation. TIME reports that under this proposal, teams can either go for it and try to retain possession or punt. Punting, which experts view as less dangerous than kickoffs, would take the place of kickoffs.
The commissioner reportedly predicts that eliminating kickoffs will receive more consideration. Goodell is quoted as saying it's a different, "off-the-wall" idea that will make others think differently as it did to him.
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Recap: Drake vs. Xavier
Anaheim, CA (Sports Network) - Semaj Christon scored 16 points to lead the five Musketeers that scored in double-figures as Xavier defeated the Drake Bulldogs, 74-70, in the fifth place game of the DirecTV Classic at the Anaheim Convention Center.
Christon also led Xavier (5-1) in assists with seven and grabbed six rebounds. Dee Davis added 15 points while Isaiah Philmore contributed 10 off the bench. Justin Martin and Jeff Robinson each had 12 points while Martin pulled down a team-high eight rebounds.
The Bulldogs (2-3) lost despite an impressive performance off the bench from Joey King, who scored 21 points with the help of 5-of-7 shooting from beyond the arc. Ben Simons added 20 points while Jordan Clarke recorded a double- double with 12 points and 11 rebounds.
Drake took a 30-26 lead into the break despite shooting 38.2 percent from the field in the opening 20 minutes.
In the second half, the Bulldogs' poor shooting continued as they converted only 36.7 percent of their attempts from the field. Xavier outscored Drake by eight points in the second half. The Musketeers dominated inside to hold an 18-4 advantage in points in the paint after the break.
Drake's 23 personal fouls led to 23 made free throws by the Musketeers.Game Notes | http://www.mytvwichita.com/sports/cbaskm/l.ncaa.org.mbasket-2012-e.66884/game.aspx | 293 |
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Hector Taveras, a 22-year-old catcher in the Nationals' farm system, has been suspended 25 games for violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.
Taveras, who played last season in the rookie Gulf Coast League, will begin serving his suspension on Opening Day. His punishment is not for testing positive for any performance enhancing drugs.
[UPDATE -- According to the Associated Press, Taveras was found in possession of an unauthorized syringe.]
A native of the Dominican Republic, Taveras has played only one season in the United States. He hit .291 with 24 RBI in 39 games at the GCL in Viera, Fla., and went 2-for-3 with a triple in a brief appearance at low-Class A Hagerstown.
Taveras is the second minor-league catcher from the Nationals' system to be suspended in the last week. Adrian Nieto, a 21-year-old who spent last season at Hagerstown, received a 50-game suspension on Thursday after testing positive for two performance enhancing drugs. | http://www.natsinsider.com/2011/02/minor-league-c-taveras-suspended.html?showComment=1297223091469 | 220 |
Banner Year: 17th Title Reclaims Heart of Championship City
BOSTON, MA - For longer than anyone would care to remember, and during a period where admittedly, too few remembered to care, the Boston Celtics, 16-time World Champions and the NBA's most storied franchise, were just another NBA team.
Tonight the Boston Celtics are World Champions, and for those of us old enough to remember any [or all] of the last 16, a hole in our collective hearts has been filled.
For a city that's seen five other World Championships in just under a decade, as the Celtics add the sixth title since 2002, these luminous times in Boston sports have never been brighter.
Wyc Grousbeck holds the trophy aloft for fans in the Garden.
Tonight, Boston is, as U2 would say, the city of blinding lights. And boy, do we look beautiful tonight. With fans still basking in the glow of three Super Bowls and a pair of World Series titles, the Celtics' 17th NBA Championship takes Boston and New England to a level few cities will ever see.
Admit it, when you saw the New England Patriots win their first title on February 3, 2002, you were overwhelmed with pride, but just a little jealous. And when the Red Sox finally snapped an 86-year drought in 2004, it was euphoric, but you looked at a basketball team with less-than-indomitable talents like Jiri Welsch and Mark Blount and doubted the Celtics ever get to this point.
Even with a glass-two-halves full and overflowing optimist outlook, it seemed like a ridiculous stretch. But from Manchester, NH, where basketball hoops went up all over the neighborhood when the Celtics were winning three titles in the 1980s, to outposts in rural Maine where kids cherished their gaudy, one-size-too-small Celtics jacket, NBA basketball once owned Boston while the city's other franchises came tantalizingly close but never quite reached the top of the mountain.
Expect communities across New England, not to mention transplants from Manhattan to Manhattan Beach. to renew their long-lost love affair with Boston Celtics. If you've been driving an empty bandwagon through the passing of Red Auerbach, 24-win seasons, Jerome Moiso jerseys, draft lotteries and summer league box scores, it's time to expect company. And that's not a bad thing. After all, why else were total strangers embracing in the stands at TD Banknorth Garden tonight and high-fiving at Sonny McLean's in Santa Monica, California, a Boston sports stronghold in the heart of Lakers country?
It's simple. Humans like company, and shared experiences like watching the Celtics knock off their most hated rivals engenders a sense of pride between the best of friends and the most perfect of strangers. It brings us closer together.
A lot of things had to happen to get the Boston Celtics to this point, and sure, luck played a part, but this championship, more than anything, reflects the hard work of basketball players who sacrificed for each other on the court, and a front office that came up with a plan and hired the smartest people it could find to pull it off.
There's a lot of sweat-equity, thought-equity and old-fashioned financial equity, invested in this championship team.
You'll probably read a handful of stories today marveling about how the Celtics have returned to glory in the span of a year, but nothing could be further from the truth. The resurrection began when ownership changed hands in September of 2002, and a group of people who loved the team decided they would restore the franchise.
You may know this team as the Boston Celtics, but every other Thursday, there's a group of people working in Boston and Waltham depositing paychecks from Banner Seventeen, LLC, daring to dream out loud about the next chapter in the Celtics' legacy.
As of press time, there's no word on when the company will rename itself, but after a little bit of well-earned celebration, the focus will soon shift -- where else? -- to Banner 18.
There were bumps along the way; certainly mistakes were made and well chronicled, but ultimately, the organization's philosophy of building a strong business off the court to put the team in position to field a championship-caliber basketball team on the court paid off.
When you celebrate this championship, you have to think about Danny Ainge, a feisty member of the 1986 team who was entrusted with the team's basketball operations and faced many potentially franchise-altering decisions. Inheriting an aging team that had made an improbable run to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2002, Ainge blew the team up and started the rebuilding process, trading a mercurial star in Antoine Walker who'd become the face of the franchise and opting to instead build around Paul Pierce, who was just coming into his own.
Meanwhile, Ainge began accumulating draft picks and young talent in the hopes of one day being in a position to make the Celtics a championship contender. Along the way, the team developed some talented players while trying to bring in character veterans. The young Celtics took their lumps, as did Ainge, Doc Rivers and everyone associated with the team. Pierce began to lose faith and started to reconsider his future with the Celtics, placing the team at the crossroads a little quicker than anyone had probably imagined.
Thanks to developing situations in Seattle and Minnesota, though, the timing couldn't have been better. Ainge rolled the dice, dealing youth for experience, and the summer of 2007 turned up aces. Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett were suddenly joining Pierce in Boston, the team was back on the NBA map, and free agents started lining up to join the fray.
Pundits figured the Celtics would need some time to gel and figure it out. Next year, they said, would be the Celtics' time. But the team started playing together informally a month before training camp, traveled to Rome, and while Ubuntu wasn't built in a day, it was definitely underway.
Sixty-six regular season wins later, the Celtics were THE story of the postseason, and the Celtics' time was now. Sixteen postseason wins later, after dismissing Zaza, LeBron, Chauncey and Kobe, the Boston Celtics are World Champions.
In the city of blinding lights, it's time for the blinding bling of trophies and rings. It's been a banner year, in every sense of the word. | http://www.nba.com/celtics/playoffs2008/feature061708-banner-year.html | 1,347 |
As West steps forward, Hibbert thrives in new role
May 1, 2012 -- So much of the focus of this series, before it began, was the matchup at center.
With Orlando Superman Dwight Howard out, surely Roy Hibbert would dominate inside. After all, this is a 7-2 All-Star playing against 6-9 Glen "Big Baby" Davis, a stand-in playing on a bum ankle.
It hasn't quite worked out that way.
While Hibbert has been a dominant force defensively, blocking 11 shots and pulling 26 rebounds in two games, he has attempted just 16 shots and totaled 12 points as the Pacers' offensive focus shifted in the first two games of their first-round playoff series.
As they head to Orlando for Game 3 Wednesday, the Pacers have turned to David West as their primary inside force.
"We definitely want more production from Roy inside but I've said all series since it began I know all the media's creating this mismatch with Roy Hibbert and Glen Davis," Pacers Coach Frank Vogel said. "We've got a lot of guys that can score the ball.
"Roy's primary assignment in this series is to guard the paint and own and dominate the defensive end. He's done that in two games. We are going to go to him in the post just like we always do but we're not going to over-emphasize it when we have good matchups elsewhere."
West finished the regular season on a roll and it has extended into the playoffs. In the last eight games, West has averaged 19.8 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists, shooting .521 from the field. He also has averaged 15.1 shots, a substantial increase from his full-season average of 10.8. The veteran power forward averaged 12.8 points and 6.6 rebounds during the regular season, but those are deceptive numbers.
When he joined the team as a free agent from New Orleans, West was coming off knee surgery and hadn't played basketball for months. It took him awhile to rebuild his conditioning, then regain his legs and ultimately his rhythm.
The past few weeks, he has been much more the West of old. In the first two games against Orlando, he has totaled 37 points, 20 rebounds and six assists.
"He's leading our team right now in competitive spirit and will and desire and all that stuff that doesn't show up in the box score," Vogel said. "He's providing our team with the necessary swagger to get a good playoff win.
"He's thinking the game, he's thinking play calls, he's thinking defensive rotations, defensive adjustments, always asking questions, should we do this, should we do that. He's just dialed in. He's a playoff-tested veteran and we're hopeful he's going to lead us very far in these playoffs."
Hibbert has no issues with the role change.
"That's my job," he said. "D-West has been playing great in the post and my thing is to get rebounds and block shots, defend and on the offensive end just try to tip out everything so we can get extra possessions. If we can get him going in the post, he's been killing it, so I'm satisfied with what I'm doing right now. If the coach wants me to adjust anything I will but it's all about winning.
"That's what I like to do, block shots and rebound, and that's what I've been doing. Offensively if I get some tips around the basket, that's fine. If coach calls a play or two for me, that's fine. Seriously, I'm the epitome of the team player. I want to see everybody else do well and whatever happens for me, happens for me."
Of course, it really isn't about either Hibbert or West, but rather both. They present a combination of size, strength and productivity that should be the Pacers' biggest advantage in this series. | http://www.nba.com/pacers/news/caught-web-west-steps-forward-hibbert-thrives-new-role | 825 |
Do you think he is a first round pick? and who do you think will draft him?
i dont know much about him but i have him going to portland at like 24? i think. they are obviously not afraid to draft overseas and they need a backup sf
if he doesn't get picked in the 1st round, i think spurs would get him at the 37th (he's exactly what they need and he can play in the nba now). i don't think portland needs another sf. they have batum, webster and outlaw.
I have Cleveland would get Casspi at 30th. Seems like they are trying to find pieces that can produce outside of Lebron and Casspi's shot gives them exactly that
I am a huge trailblazers fan, Batum could be the answer at SF but probably not they are set up front with channing frye, lamrcus aldrige and Greg oden. So they are soemwhat set inside. They have Roy at SG=SET and they have Rudy, Bayless, and other PG's I think there weakest area is SF.
Casspi is most likely coming over regardless of who takes him.
Right now, I have him as mid-to late first. | http://www.nbadraft.net/forum/omri-casspi-0 | 265 |
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Nebraska Wesleyan University basketball coach Cam Schuknecht has announced details of a summer trip to Estonia for the Prairie Wolves men’s basketball team. NWU will be in Estonia Aug. 10-20 to play three games in preparation for the 2011-12 campaign.
“I believe there is a great advantage to extra practices and games throughout the summer,” said Schuknecht. “We get time on the floor and time together as a team that we wouldn’t normally get.”
NCAA allows schools to take team trips overseas once every three years. Nebraska Wesleyan will be able to hold practice from Aug. 1-9 to prepare for competition in Estonia. All returning NWU players will be making the trip in August.
After starting practice on Aug. 1, the Prairie Wolves will arrive in Estonia on Aug. 10. Dates for the games are not yet set, but NWU will have three games against: Rakvere Tarvas, Tartu Rock, and BC Paru.
In addition to the games, the Prairie Wolves will have time for sightseeing and relaxing. NWU will spend times in the following cities; Tallinn, Helskinki, Rakvere, Tartu and Parnu. They will visit Old Town and the Estonia Museum in Tallinn, take in a Ski Resort and Tree Climbing in Tartu and see Beach Park in Parnu.
“This trip allows our team the opportunity to compete against athletes from another country, while learning about and experiencing the cultures, customs and history of Estonia,” Schuknecht added. “The memories of this trip will last a lifetime.”
One player on the current NWU roster, sophomore center Sass Karemae, will be returning to his native homeland. Karemae has been a part of the NWU basketball team for the past two seasons. Nebraska Wesleyan has had several students from Estonia as they currently have a student exchange program with Tartu University.
Estonia is a state in the Baltic Region of Northern Europe and used to be part of the USSR. It is bordered on the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west of the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia and to the east by the Russian Federation. Tallinn is the capital city of Estonia. | http://www.nebrwesleyan.edu/athletics/mens-basketball/news/15665?quicktabs_athletics_upcoming_results_block=0 | 478 |
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