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Florida Sports & Outdoors
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Saint Augustine Sports & Outdoors
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Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL football)
Jacksonville Sports & Outdoors
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Water Sports
Sanibel Island Sports & Outdoors
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Golf in Naples
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Boating and Marinas
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Water Sports
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Water Sports
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The 'Canes
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Pro Football
Raymond James Stadium was completed in 1998 and is home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, University of South Florida Bulls, and the New Year's Day Outback Bowl. It is located north of downtown just across the street from Yankee's Legends Field. The stadium was built at a cost of $170 million and it seats 66,000. I attended the Bucs game against the...more
Jacksonville Suns (professional...
Jacksonville Sports & Outdoors
The Jacksonville Suns baseball club is the AA affiliate of the Miami Marlins. The team, which plays in the Southern League, has a long history in Jacksonville, and has had the likes of Hank Aaron, Nolan Ryan, Alex Rodriguez, and many other big names of the game play on its rosters. After many years of playing at Wolfson Park, the Suns began playing...more
The Beach
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SCUBA and snorkeling
Tilden's has a place at Hawk's Cay resort and one in Marathon. It was one of the places recommended to me by someone at the marina (one of the guys who lived on a boat said his girl friend worked there.) I never actually got to dive with them myself. OPEN 7 days a week, 8 am to 6 pm Tilden's Scuba Center is a full service dive facility. They...more
The Beach
All along the Hawk Channel side of Key West (the south-east side) is a long beach, which runs from up by the East Martello Tower around to the West Martello Tower. This is a man made beach, and the sand is a little coarse, but it is the closest thing Key West has to a beachy-beach. South Roosevelt Blvd runs down alongside the beach, and on the...more
I had a hard time getting the name of Miamarina correct. It usually has plenty of space for transients (except during the boat show), and is the same price as Dinner Key. (as of 2003-2004 it is $1.85/ft/day or $25/ft/month). Plus Florida tax of course. In 2001 it was cheaper than Miami Beach, and much nicer. The price includes electricity, water...more
World Golf Hall of Fame
Jacksonville Sports & Outdoors
The World Golf Hall of Fame in World Golf Village is a living history museum that provides visitors with a behind-the scenes look at the sport of golf through artifacts, interactive exhibits and hands-on activities. Here you can putt on a nineteenth-century style green using an old fashioned putter and ball or utilize state of the art technology to...more
Golf and Tennis
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Dock or Moor
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Columnist: NHL owners are hypocrites
Aug 25, 2012, 11:42 AM EDT
Lyle Richardson of Spector's Hockey has written a passionate column called "The Hypocrisy of NHL Owners," which as you might imagine doesn't have many nice things to say about the group for which commissioner Gary Bettman works.
A snippet:
In its initial proposal, the league not only sought to reduce the players share of revenue from 57 percent down to 43 percent, but also five year term limits on contracts.
It's difficult, however, to accept the league's position at face value when the owners continue to sign players to expensive, long-term contracts in the midst of CBA negotiations.
The most notable example, of course, was the Minnesota Wild signing free agents Zach Parise and Ryan Suter to identical 13-year, $98 million contracts.
Ordinarily, this would be considered quite the coup by the Wild, a club not known for making such expensive forays into the UFA market, successfully wooing this summer's two best free agents.
No one should begrudge the Wild signing Parise and Suter to those contracts. Their front office deemed it was worth the price to improve their club, and they were operating under the rules of the current collective bargaining agreement. They saw an opportunity to land a couple of "hometown stars", were willing to pay the big bucks to get them, and will now live with the consequences of those signings, good or bad.
What makes those moves galling, however, was Wild owner Craig Leipold, only three months earlier, decrying his club's biggest expense was players' salaries and calling for the system to be fixed.
The column's making the rounds on Twitter, with high-profile agent Allan Walsh selling it as a "Great Read!"
Walsh is correct that it's a great read because it's opinionated and has people talking.
But the question I have is, what should the Wild owners have done? Should they have just let Parise and Suter go to the Red Wings or Flyers or one of the many other interested parties? Because it's the "rich" teams that set the market, and if the "poor" teams want to participate in free agency, they have to pay the market price.
Now, that being said, there are ways to build a winning team on a budget. Typically it involves drafting well and making "Moneyball" type signings. In baseball, the Oakland Athletics, Tampa Bay Rays, Baltimore Orioles, and Pittsburgh Pirates are all currently in the playoff hunt despite small payrolls. But when was the last time a penny-pinching franchise won the World Series? Or, for that matter, a Stanley Cup?
Yes, some of the financial disparity between NHL teams could be solved with more revenue sharing, and that will undoubtedly happen. But it won't solve everything. And remember, there are consequences to too much revenue sharing.
I don't disagree entirely with Richardson's take. For example, I think clubs could negotiate a little more aggressively with restricted free agents. (Though that does leave them vulnerable to an offer sheet.)
I just think it's too easy to tell owners, "Hey, if you don't want to lose money, don't spend it." Would you want to be a fan of a team with that attitude? Would you buy tickets to that team's games?
"Listen," Leipold said when asked to justify spending $196 million on Suter and Parise. "We've been losing money and the way we were going, we were going to have another year of 'keep losing more money and more money and more money.' So if I'm going to make the kind of financial commitment to keep this team and move this forward, I'd rather do it growing it.
"Ultimately that was the decision. As a result of this move, it's not going to cause us to be financially stable. I believe it will be within a year or two. This is a move to get us out of the hole that we've been digging. And as I spoke with some other owners in the league as to why I did it, they totally get it. They understand it. At some point you have to make that kind of commitment in order to turn your franchise around. If we didn't, then we would just keep losing more going forward without any plan of changing it."
Related: The problem with the "owners can't control themselves" argument
- tmoore4075 - Aug 25, 2012 at 12:14 PM
It's not you don't want to lose money don't spend. It's don't cry poor and then spend $200mil. And Leipold had to know in April they were gonna try and spend big money in July. A lot of people were questioning whther they would so don't open your mouth or at least word it better. These guys and politicians have a lot in common. Say one thing at one time but do another later or change your stance cause it suits you better at that time.
- icelovinbrotha215 - Aug 25, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Based on the contracts they are dishing out, including my beloved Flyers, yes. Though I think they are being forced by the 'have-nots' when it comes to subsidizing of contracts and spending of money. The Flyers are one of those teams that have no problem spending money. CBJ does. The Bruins have no issue with money. The 'Yotes do. That's the problem with the owners. They are divided among themselves.
- tmoore4075 - Aug 25, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Right on. I think the big time owners like NYR, DET, PHL and so on have no problem the way things are. The small clubs like CBJ, PHX and NYI do. The big clubs don't want to revenue share so they just cut the players share of HRR. I don't think the owners will get everything they want like last time since they are divided on this. Bettman had them in line back in 04-05 and now he doesn't. Just look at the deals they are handing out. NHL asks for a cap of 5 years on contracts and the Flyers give out a 14 year deal. The Oilers give out a 7 year deal. The Weber deal I get since he was an RFA and they were trying to steal him but Hall getting 7 shows the Oilers want him for longer than 5 years too.
- icelovinbrotha215 - Aug 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Exactly. The should just implement the revenue-sharing model the NFL has. As a hockey fan also, I don't want to see smaller markets suffering. You will always have the big spending teams. That's the reality of sports.
- Vintage Hockey Barn - Aug 25, 2012 at 12:57 PM
- andypoo38 - Aug 25, 2012 at 2:40 PM
This is the very reason that no matter what Bettman and the owners do during this CBA: If a long work stoppage results>>>THEY ARE THE VILLAINS.
There is NO WAY IN HELL they can justify another prolonged lockout given the players counter-proposal. The players have shown they are willing to make concessions. Buttman and the owners have yet to budge. This is just dead wrong.
I will boycott EVERYTHING NHL if there is another prolonged work stoppage. The fans ARE THE LEAGUES REVENUE…and this will make the HAT TRICK of work stoppages for Buttman and the owners…I have created a Facebook page called "Boycott the NHL" We have a voice….if we boycott everything NHL the owners will have NO CHOICE but to listen to us…how can they fight over revenue: when there is none?
I urge all concerned and upset fans to boycott the NHL and force the ignorant and arrogant to LISTEN TO THE CUSTOMER!!!!
- killerpgh - Aug 25, 2012 at 3:16 PM
You could also join the NHLFA (National Hockey League Fans' Assocation) at http://www.nhlfa.com/index.asp – not sure if it is any better than starting a Facebook page but it has been around for since 1998 and has over 30,000 members.
- dayno66 - Aug 25, 2012 at 3:17 PM
So glad to see someone call out the morons who parrot, "The owners shouldn't give the players those long contracts if they don't have money." if they don't give out those contracts then the players will sign somewhere else, their team will suck, and they will lose fans and even more money. Im a pirates fan so I know how old the slogan, "we're not paying these guys that much money gets."
- stakex - Aug 25, 2012 at 4:05 PM
No suprise most of the NHL owners are Republicans… not only do they spend money like its going out of style and then complain that theres too much spending, but they are a bunch of rich guys sitting around complaining about not being richer. If this goes to a lock out, I don't see the players taking them blame.
- hank10 - Aug 25, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Sorry, if you want to play with the big boys then you need to pony up when the time comes. If you can't then sell the team to an ownership who can afford it. Revenue sharing is a poor way to operate a franchise.
- islanders1 - Aug 25, 2012 at 6:29 PM
I tend to agree with the article. If you disagree with the system then stand up and negotiate for 5 year contracts do not sign players for more years and more money. But they all do why because they can not help themselves and need longer term deals with franchise players to try and build a team around them. If the owners want 5 year contract limits then let everyone be a free agent at contract expiry. Take a look at the raises the executives received from the owners these guys are making serious cash in most cases 3 to 4 times the league average for the players. How can they justify this kind of money? If you believe what they are saying they should all be FIRED. Think about it Bettman lead a group that locked players out lost mega revenue and fans took years to rebuild. He now says that contract is not good for the owners. He cost them and the game massive amounts of money for what he now says is a really bad deal! He is as much as saying I did a terrible job last time BOSS (owners) lost you all sorts of money and I negotiated a really bad deal for you. Give me a really big raise and I wont ____ it up this time. Oh by the way we may need to lock the players out again and get all the fans up set and questioning spending their hard earned money on tickets and merchandise. Oh do not worry about the TV contracts TV is over rated……. Any one would be fired if they admitted to such incompetence but instead the owners say to Gary here is your raise $$$$ million now go and get us a better deal because the last one you really ____________ UP. What a joke no wonder these guys lose money!!!
- greatminnesotasportsmind - Aug 26, 2012 at 1:58 AM
Did the Wild have to sign both Parise and Suter? No. But with fan attendance starting to slow down the past 4 years, they had to do something. They went from capping a season ticket waiting list to a few games around the 16,000 mark.
Should anybody feel bad for Leipold for shelling out 20 million (both Parise and Suter got $10 million in lockout insurance) up front before the lockout? No. I am willing to guess Leipold and the Wild have already make that and then some. Parise's Wild sweater is the #1 selling jersey since he signed. Season tickets have dramatically gone up since July 4th, and the fans know very well there could be a lockout.
Bettman has given the fans the finger ever since he has taken over back in 1993. No other commissioner in the HISTORY of SPORTS has ever seen their sport no play twice due to labor problems. We are a little over 2 weeks from that start of the third. The NHL isn't close to the NFL so there needs to be revenue sharing. The worst sport to follow would be the MLB there is no cap, which is why the Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays now have no chance of making the playoffs on opening day. The NBA model is slightly better with the luxery tax, but even then it's the same handful of teams that win the championship every year and players calling the shots where they want to play. By keeping a hard cap for both the floor and ceiling, makes the NHL more like the NFL with paraody. Ever since the lockout, we have never had the same team win the Stanley Cup. That is why teams like Carolina, Edmonton, and Ottawa has a chance to win the Cup every year or at least play for it.
- ray2013 - Aug 26, 2012 at 2:25 AM
Solid original article, but the link re: the dis-incentivizing nature of revenue-sharing is misleading. The NHL owners can get everything they ask for; 57% of revenues with five-year contracts. There is still going to be some teams that care about winning and some teams that only care about the finances. You're still going to see smart GMs making smart moves and see dumb GMs make dumb GM moves.
- Doesnotmatter - Aug 26, 2012 at 4:33 AM
like paying Shane Doan 7.5 million per season. Any what is he waiting for? Sign that contract, Shane. Be quick and make sure you get a hefty signing bonus, man. I'll take my 10 percent, thank you.
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Valley News Dispatch Spotlight Athletes: Maria Pallone, Valley; Cole Quinio, Riverview
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Maria Pallone
School: Valley
Class: Senior
Sport: Girls tennis
Claim to fame: Pallone captured second place at Section 4-AA singles last week and qualified for the WPIAL tournament Thursday and Friday. Pallone has lost only twice in Section 4-AA, both to Lucy Bujdos of Indiana.
How much of a challenge has it been moving from No. 3 to No. 1 singles?
There's a lot of pressure and big shoes to fill. No. 1 is always expected to win.
What's your outlook on being the only senior starter?
I had such great examples when I started. Every senior set a good example for me. But I don't look at it as being anything special.
Does being the last in a line of Pallone siblings and cousins to play for Valley carry any extra pressure?
Everyone always refers to me as the youngest. But, if anything, it's always made me work harder, and I've always had someone to look up to.
—Alex Novickoff
Cole Quinio
School: Riverview
Class: Senior
Sport: Boys soccer
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Following my testing and reporting last weekend about
Intel Beignet starting to provide very usable open-source OpenCL support on Linux
, one of the most common requests was to next see if this Intel OpenCL Linux supprot benefits x264 encoding at all.
The open-source x264 program does support OpenCL acceleration -- when building x264 it will check for the presence of OpenCL development support and then at runtime the
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test profile that uses the same revision of x264 and the same media file, but the only difference is that it forces OpenCL support. So now with the Phoronix Test Suite it's as easy as running
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Using the
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For the fourth year in a row now, the folks at Third String Productions are ringing in the return of the school year with its annual September to Remember affair, which grabs a whole bunch of mall-approved pop-punkers (a good chunk of which, it should be noted, are local) and offers them up in an easily digestible two-day affair, this year held at Plano's underused Oak Point Amphitheater.
And there's some gems on the bill, too, hidden beneath the bright lights of the touring headliners of This Providence and the like. We've devoted plenty of space to talking up The Secret Handshake's new direction in recent weeks, but This Is The Good Fight is also worth the look-see.
So, too, depending on your gym, tan and laundry schedule, is Dallas' own Disco Curtis, who last night saw their song "Surprise Me," placed on MTV's Jersey Shore. (In other placement news unrelated to September to Remember, another Dallas act, Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, is having its "Young & Free" used by ESPN this year as part of the sports network's college football broadacasts.)
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The business of items with historic meaning and investment value is booming.
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Ivy grew up in Fort Worth and started his company in 1969 in nearby Dallas, where Heritage saw its auction totals reach $860 million last year.... View Enlarged Image
A signed copy of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album for $290,500.
Lou Gehrig's 1927 New York Yankees jersey for $717,000.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's sword for $1.7 million.
The recession has been good for Heritage, whose auction totals soared from $562 million in 2007 to $860 million last year, making it the third largest in all categories, behind Sotheby's (BID) and privately held Christie's.
"They're more corporate," Heritage CEO Steve Ivy told IBD, "while my partners and I came up as collectors. We're all seat-of-the-pants entrepreneurs" — a big reason his firm has been profitable 11 years in a row.
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Ivy, 62, grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and started collecting fast. He was just 10 when he borrowed $25 from his dad to buy a rare coin and a week later sold it for $50.
By 12, he had his first display table at a local coin show.
In 1967 he began majoring in business at the University of Texas, but dropped out two years later and moved to Dallas to open the first office of the Steve Ivy Rare Coin Co.
That soared into Heritage Auctions, whose headquarters now occupies four floors.
In 1982, squeezed by the recession, Ivy merged with rival coin dealer and fellow college dropout Jim Halperin, who made a beeline from Boston to join the Dallas operation.
They renamed the firm Heritage Auctions. And when they held a contest for collectors to evaluate rare coins, Greg Rohan of Seattle won and became the third young partner in 1985.
Heritage now has seven partners in Dallas and one in Europe, and they make decisions collectively.
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Property118 Landlord Newsletter – Issue 91
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Mark Alexander shares his thoughts on how to regulate the letting industry and adds a thought provoking social media video link to his landlord's log. HMRC delays its self assessment filing deadline by 48hrs, Mary Latham draws attention to a dangerous scam email and Ally MacDermot passes on some top tips to brighten up communal hallways. There's also the latest news from the private rented sector.
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Why is this silly Government still leting the LHA pay the tenants direct and still giving them the opportunity to take money from Landlords who are being attacked by even my own MP Rob Flello in the Commons saying the Government should get tough on making Landlords repair houses. What planet is this idiot on most tenants i know in Stoke struggle to pay the rent and many Housing Benefit tenants leave owing thousands of pinds of rent to good Landlords as the LHA scheme of Works and Pension idiots are still paying the tenants the rent direct and only after stealing 8 weeks of rent does by the tenant can the Landlord claim the Rent Direct to his account. However is then owed £800 by the Tenant and if has to evict later a troublesome tenant he will loose this rent and probably get his house trashed in the process by the tenant or items stolen and no notice as why would a tenant give notice if they can leave owing £800 thats at £400 pcm x 2 months = 8 weeks rent.
Also where does Rob Flello think the money is coming from to renovate the house when often a Landlord 85% geared interest only on the house only has a £100 – £150 profit per month and this is often used to repair damage and tused to cover stolen Housing Benefit rent as the LHA scheme gives all the money to the tenant. What is even more amazing is when they have ran off and trashed a Landlords house and owe the 8 weeks rent plus the notice period of 60 days rent so in all around £2000 they then run away and get paid Housing Benefit on another property as even if a Landlord reports them to the Council , the council still pay them and tell the Landlord to take the tenant to court —–oh great advice if you can find the little sh***……bleep bleep tenant.
There is certainly no money left over for the renovation of houses with so many tenants shortfalling with rental payments and this Robert Flello Stoke MP should grow up and get the facts straight before addressing parliment saying Landlords dont repair houses. Why doesnt he talk about non paying tenants and why the money is going direct to the tenant by LHA and so stopping the Landlord paying the banks and doing repairs to houses. The tenants have all the Laws on there side and in my experience it is those tenants who are false and wrong and many with debts to the Landlords. Perhaps Mr Robert Flello doesnt want to upset his majority Labour following of DSS Housing Benefit tenants in Stoke all 35,000 of them. Spare a thought for the Landlord not getting his rent and being robbed by people keeping Housing Benefit money being aid direct to them by the LHA leaving a Landlord no money to spend on houses and a big job just to keep the banks paid to stop re-possession. Think again Mr Flello and get your facts right.
There is no FREE Ticket in life like most people think that the state owes them – I say get out and Work and let the people who really need support receive the benefits and to the others stop thinking like England has a big free pocket of money to pay you all. You should support your country and we would not have an 80 Billion pound Benefit bill to pay for which is what really cripples Englands economy and stops us competing. In Brazil you would all get nothing and they have NO DEBT and our Mr Gordon Brown had to go cap in hand 5 years ago and beg them to lend us some money in 2007. WHY because we have so many who think they have a right to state benefit money and they do not wish to work. Why do i find polish all pay there rent on time yes because they are doing 15 hours a day working keeping our hotels and our other manufacturing industry in production whilst certain others dont get out of there room to look for work.
There used to be a pride to work when i was young and if on Benefits i always felt ashamed to be having someones money that i had not earned. Now its seen as someones right to have Benefits and a big outcry if they dont get any benefits. —– Get back to work i say and help your country out and stop feeling so selfish about yourself and thinking about your right to have someone give you free money from our diminishing pot of reserves.
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(AP) NEW YORK - Boston College's only win this season came with Olivier Hanlan scoring a career-high 38 points on 11-of-19 shooting against Florida Atlantic.
The Eagles' next game was against No. 18 Connecticut, and the Huskies were going to make sure the Atlantic Coast Conference's rookie of the year last season didn't put up numbers like that.
Hanlan finished with 19 points on 5-of-14 shooting in Connecticut's 72-70 victory Thursday night in the semifinals of the 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Wounded Warrior Project.
"They were pretty aggressive coming off ball screens and when I would come off a handoff they would deny and get to the open spot," Hanlan said. "I think that's probably the game plan they had in mind."
It was.
Connecticut guards Shabazz Napier and Ryan Boatwright were responsible for most of the coverage on Hanlan.
"It wasn't only me and Ryan," Napier said. "The whole team, all five guys were looking at him. Coach warned us about him. He's tough and we wanted to tire him out and we felt we did so."
Connecticut and Boston College had played plenty of times since their first meeting in 1918 _ but not since 2005 when both were in the Big East.
Eight years and two different conferences later, they had one of the best games of their 90 meetings.
Boatwright made two big free throws with 7.9 seconds to play and blocked a 3-point attempt at the buzzer.
"That was like an old BC-UConn rivalry," said Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie, who played in a few of those games when he was a guard with the Huskies. "Coming down to the last possession like that. We gutted out a win."
DeAndre Daniels had 23 points to lead the Huskies (5-0), who play Indiana, which beat Washington 102-84, for the title on Friday night at Madison Square Garden.
Napier had 20 points for Connecticut, which led most of the way. He made his first seven free throws but missed the second of two with 30 seconds left, leaving the Huskies ahead 69-67.
Hanlan missed a drive and the 6-foot Boatwright was fouled grabbing the rebound. He made two free throws with 7.9 seconds remaining to make it 71-67.
Hanlan felt he should have made the shot, which sat on the rim for a split second before falling off.
"They were pretty aggressive the whole game. It was an open look," he said.
Hanlan, who finished with 19 points, hit a 3 with 3 seconds left to make it a one-point game.
Napier made one of two free throws with 2.3 seconds to go, and the Eagles' chance to win ended when Boatwright blocked Lonnie Jackson's 3-point attempt a few feet inside midcourt.
"Ryan's block was a phenomenal play," Ollie said. "He was able to use his athleticism to jump up. The kid didn't have time for a pump fake."
Boatwright had two blocks in the game, one more than his previous career high.
"He did a lot of things for us tonight," Ollie said. "He had a great floor game. I know he wanted to score a little more, but the game is going to dictate that and when that does you have to play for your teammates. He can explode at any time and I know he'll be ready for tomorrow and we'll play better offense than we did tonight."
The Huskies shot 39 percent from the field, just 32 percent in the second half (8 of 25).
"We weren't knocking down our shots. We only had seven assists," Napier said. "But we weren't able to knock down the easy shots and it made it difficult for us to break out."
Boston College coach Steve Donahue was proud of his team for hanging around.
"We held them to 32 percent in the second half and outrebounded for the game (33-32) and we did a lot of good things and that's frustrating," he said.
Both teams had impressive games at the free throw line. The Huskies were 25 of 29, with Napier going 8 for 10. Ryan Anderson, who had 22 points, was 11 of 11 as the Eagles (1-4) finished 24 of 25 from the line.
Boston College spread the court against the taller Huskies and went 8 of 25 on 3-pointers. The Huskies were 3 of 14 from beyond the arc but committed just three turnovers.
"I tell our guys if we are under 10 turnovers, the coaches have to run sprints," Ollie said with a smile. "I guess we owe them seven when we get back."
The last time these schools met, both were members of the Big East Conference. Now, neither is.
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Nov 10, Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities called in commandos to control the situation in the main Welikada Prison today following a gunfight broke out between the inmates and prison authorities during yesterday's riots at the prison killed at least 16 inmates.
According to the police spokesman Senior Superintendent of Police Prishantha Jayakody inmates turned unruly and pelted stones at Special Task Force (STF) police officers and prison officials who were there to conduct a raid looking for narcotics and mobile phones. Police in return have fired tear gas to control the inmates.
However, the inmates, who had then broken into the prison's armory and taken the firearms, have started shooting at the STF officers and a shootout between the prisoners and the officers had resulted, the police spokesman said.
The prisoners were seen waving firearms on the rooftop of the prison during the shootout.
The military had been called in yesterday to control the situation at the prison and the army commando unit took total control of the Welikada prison at dawn Saturday, the authorities said.
Commissioner General of Prisons, P.W. Kodippili has said that an unknown number of weapons are in the hands of the prisoners and the authorities are trying to get them back now. Only four firearms have been recovered so far, he has said.
Dr. Anil Jasinghe Director of Colombo National Hospital confirmed that 16 have died and another 43 have received injuries. Among the injured are 13 STF police officers, a prison guard and a civilian.
STF commandant DIG C. Ranawana who was sent to control the riots has also been injured in the shootout. He underwent surgery at the Colombo National Hospital last night.
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Horrific scenes in Italy as Napoli fans ambush Foggia supporters in the streets, torch a moving car to cinders
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Violent thuggery was filmed on the streets of Vomero, Italy, on Saturday, as Foggia fans were attacked as they made their way home from their Serie D game at Campania by a gang of Napoli fans.
Napoli reportedly have a long standing football feud with Foggia, and that was evident in the outlandish ambush in broad daylight which was filmed by a local eye-witness.
Things kicked off when a bus transporting Foggia fans was set upon by the Napoli thugs in the middle of the street.
The thugs could be seen thumping on the vehicle's windows, throwing lit flares in the direction of the bus, and generally terrorising the supporters locked inside.
But then matters got a whole lot more serious.
After the bus finally got away, the thugs turned their attention to a solitary Foggia fan driving a black car. Although not captured on film, somehow the Napoli hooligans managed to 'smoke out' the moving vehicle, and within a matter of minutes, after the driver abandoned his car, the vehicle was completely up in flares in dramatic scenes.
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Nov 27, 2013, 12:18 PM EDT
The Buffalo Sabres have claimed journeyman forward Matt D'Agostini off waivers from Pittsburgh, according to TSN.
D'Agostini, 27, appeared in eight games for Pittsburgh this season, including Monday's 4-3 OT loss to Boston. He had been in and out of the Pens' lineup for most of the year, missing three weeks with a lower-body injury while sitting out a handful of games as a healthy scratch.
The Pens signed D'Agostini in July to a one-year, $550,000 deal in the hopes he'd discover the form shown early in his career. He has two very solid NHL seasons on his resume — n 2008-09, he scored 12 goals and 21 points in just 53 games for the Canadiens, and appeared in three postseason contests.
In 2010-11, he posted a career-high 21 goals and 46 points in 82 games with the Blues, finishing third on the team in tallies behind David Backes and Patrik Berglund.
The last two years, however, have been filled with disappointment.
D'Agostini fell out of favor in St. Louis during the 2011-12 campaign, and was shipped to New Jersey.
He failed to make much of an impact with the Devils, scoring just four points in 13 games, and wasn't tendered a qualifying offer by the club in late June.
- hockey412 - Nov 27, 2013 at 12:53 PM
Good luck to him. I'm not sure calling up Chris Connor from WBS is any better. Actually I know it is not. But, Megna is getting another look too. Aye aye aye….
- c9castine - Nov 27, 2013 at 1:35 PM
chris connor is terrible lol. good offensive skills total liability though.. megna on the other hand has it all.
dagostini just didn't do a damn thing in a Pens jersey hell be way better off in buffalo.
- westinpat - Nov 27, 2013 at 1:35 PM
And everyone thought Buffalo was going to claim Klesla.
- ibieiniid - Nov 27, 2013 at 1:51 PM
hey, that door hasn't shut yet.
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