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Division I men's lacrosse Final Four preview bc-lacrosse-preview(sh) | By: BOB HERZOG | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) May 24, 2013 12:15 PM By BOB HERZOG Lacrosse royalty collides in one game, coaching royalty in the other. It's Final Four weekend for men's college lacrosse and the matchups in Philadelphia are intriguing. In Saturday's opener, Duke, which has reached seven consecutive Final Fours, faces Cornell, in a game matching two of the nation's highest-scoring teams. "We look at Cornell as an ACC team," Duke coach John Danowski said. "They are athletic and talented -- like Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia." The Big Red features attack Rob Pannell (Smithtown West), the nation's second-leading scorer with 95 points (53 assists) who is six points away from the NCAA all-time career scoring record, and Steve Mock (Huntington), the nation's leading goal-scorer (59). Duke has five players who have scored at least 25 goals. In the second semifinal game, top-seeded Syracuse, more of a defensive team the last couple of years, must try to stop high-scoring Denver, a relative newbie in the sport whose coach, ...
Matt Serra, former UFC champ, 'walking away' from MMA bc-mma-serra(sh) | By: MARK LAMONICA | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) May 23, 2013 2:05 PM By MARK LAMONICA Matt Serra felt pain while sitting in the corner during an MMA fight. Nothing unusual for the lifelong fighter, except for one thing: he wasn't the one fighting. Instead, the former Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight champion from East Meadow was cornering one of his fighters at Ring of Combat in Atlantic City April 5. It was a pain that would put Serra in the emergency room for four days, lead to the surgical removal of one of his ribs and now, cause his exit from mixed martial arts competition. "It's hard to say it," Serra told Newsday. "It's like you can't say it, even though it probably is true. I would love to put closure on my career with one last fight at the Garden, but at the same time, if that doesn't happen, I definitely consider myself done. It's hard to say the 'R word.' I might never say the 'R word.'" That thrill of fight night, when the adrenaline pumps through the veins, the fans scream and invincibility consumes the brain and body -- ...
MMA Today: Cain Velasquez 'ready for everything' Antonio Silva might throw bc-mmatoday22(sh) | By: BOB EMANUEL JR. | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 22, 2013 2:45 PM By BOB EMANUEL JR. A year ago, Cain Velasquez's bout against Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva was about redemption. Velasquez suffered the first loss of his career six months earlier when Junior dos Santos defeated him for the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight title. Silva's career was stuck in neutral with two losses in five fights, including his previous outing against Daniel Cormier in the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix in 2011. Velasquez won the fight with a first-round TKO of Silva and, seven months later, recaptured the title with a decision over dos Santos. Saturday night in the main event of UFC 160 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Velasquez and Silva will meet again -- with much higher stakes. Velasquez will defend his title for the first time, and Silva -- fresh off a pair of victories, including one over former Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem -- aims to begin his own championship pedigree. "This is a whole new fight," Velasquez ...
American conference looking to 'brand new canvas' to launch league's branding, marketing bc-american-conf(sh) | By: KYLE VEAZEY | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | All Other Sports (AO) May 21, 2013 1:20 PM By KYLE VEAZEY Mike Aresco, the commissioner of the new American Athletic Conference, was meandering through bullet points here Monday afternoon when he struck upon something perhaps most instructive to how his new league will be perceived: "You have a canvas that's brand new," Aresco said. Therein lies the opportunity for the new league the University of Memphis will join on July 1. It's what's left of the Big East after high-profile departures of schools like Louisville (to the Atlantic Coast Conference) and the breakaway of the seven basketball-only Catholic schools that will retain the Big East name. A new name equals a new marketing and branding strategy, so they were significant components of Monday's first of three days of annual meetings for the league, held at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club. League athletic directors heard from Ketchum, a public relations agency brought in to consult the league on its image, and saw the final draft of new logos. They were of particular ...
DeCock: 90-year-old former Ranger takes aim at track record bc-90yrold-racer(sh) | By: LUKE DECOCK | Source: Raleigh News and Observer | All Other Sports (AO) May 21, 2013 1:05 PM By LUKE DECOCK All Charles Ross had to do to set a world record was finish the race. For him, in this event, the real challenge was making it to the starting line. No one in his age group had ever completed the 2,000-meter steeplechase, at least officially. He would give it a shot Saturday, at N.C. State's Derr Track, in the 43rd edition of the Southeast Masters track and field meet. All he had to do was show up, make it five times around the track, over a few hurdles and across the finish line. Doesn't sound like much, unless you're 90 years old. "You better finish," Bob Weiner, 66, told Ross as they gathered at the starting line. "It's a world record if you do." "I know," Ross replied. "I've finished every one I ever ran in." Ross is a spry 90, lean and muscular with a square jaw, a member of the Army Ranger Hall of Fame. That isn't the kind of honor one receives merely for finishing, although surviving three wars certainly clears that bar. He fought in World War II. He ...
Moulton: John McCain's bill could blow up sports TV bc-tv-sports-bundle(sh) | By: DAVID MOULTON | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Television (ET), Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 21, 2013 12:40 PM By DAVID MOULTON Do you remember Bell Telephone? Until 1984, "Ma Bell" as many called it, provided telephone service to the country and most everyone was OK with that. Everyone except the U.S. Justice Department, which ruled that Bell Telephone was a monopoly and ordered that it be broken up. ESPN is not a monopoly. But it is as big as one. Because of that, it is the most expensive group of channels on our cable and satellite systems. Even though most people don't watch ESPN, they have to pay for it anyway. For now. Sen. John McCain first tried to change this in 2006. He's back at it. The Arizona Senator has introduced another bill that would blow up the current system of "bundling" cable channels and let customers pay for select channels a la carte. Sounds simple and, dare I say, fair. But if McCain is successful (along with a current lawsuit where Cablevision is suing Viacom to not have to carry certain channels to get others) it could have staggering ramifications in the ...
MMA Today: Luke Rockhold risks streak in UFC debut bc-mmatoday15(sh) | By: BOB EMANUEL JR. | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 15, 2013 12:45 PM By BOB EMANUEL JR. Luke Rockhold's past year in Strikeforce included a pair of canceled fights and great uncertainty. But when he signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship earlier this year, his immediate career path became clearer. Saturday night, the final Strikeforce middleweight champion will put his nine-fight winning streak on the line in his UFC debut when he faces 17-year MMA veteran Vitor Belfort in the main event of UFC on FX 8. The event, held at the Arena Jaragua in Jaragua do Sul, Brazil, will be shown live at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. "The last year or so in Strikeforce wasn't very exciting," Rockhold said. "I lost a lot of interest in Strikeforce and started looking to fight for the UFC. Growing up as a kid, I always watched the UFC. The UFC was the first show I watched, and that's where I wanted to be ... I couldn't be in a better situation. I'm excited about my future in the UFC." Rockhold's UFC start will not be easy. Belfort, 22-10, is 8-2 in his last 10 ...
Moulton: Did they choke or didn't they? That's the question bc-sports-chokes(sh) | By: DAVID MOULTON | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 15, 2013 12:12 PM By DAVID MOULTON How much choking takes place in sports? Is it something that happens far more frequently than it is talked about and the media should have the guts to bring it up more often? Or is choking something that happens so rarely that when it does occur, it's obvious? To answer that question wouldn't we first have to define, what is choking? Webster defines choking in sports as "to lose one's composure and fail to perform effectively in a critical situation." That doesn't seem that harsh a definition. In sports, if you say someone or a team "choked," only calling them a "quitter" is seen as worse. Yet don't individuals or teams, according to Webster, choke all the time? Just this month, we've seen some amazing occurrences. Golden State blew a 16-point lead with four minutes to play in an NBA playoff game. That hadn't happened in a generation. Sergio Garcia put three balls in the water on the final two holes of The Players Championship after being tied for the ...
Racing's first family enjoys new title: Kentucky Derby winner bc-rac-orb-preakness(sh) | By: ED McNAMARA | Source: Newsday | , All Other Sports (AO) May 13, 2013 12:03 PM By ED McNAMARA Daisy Phipps Pulito stood in Churchill Downs' soggy winner's circle holding a bouquet of roses, her hair soaked, her heart overflowing. Orb, a colt bred and owned by her father, Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps, and his cousin, Stuart Janney III, had just won the Kentucky Derby, a first for American racing's first family. She looked at her beaming father. "I knew just what my dad was thinking," Pulito said. " 'I did it. I got it.'" Her younger brother, Ogden Phipps II, was shaking a fist in triumph. "Our family has had a lot of great accomplishments in the sport going back many generations," he said. "Winning the Derby hasn't been the most important thing to us, but it was always in the back of everyone's mind." There has been no Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978. Orb will be heavily favored in Saturday's Preakness Stakes to go to the Belmont Stakes on June 8 with a chance for a sweep. Despite breeding 21 champions, the Derby's solid-gold ...
UFC and Fox Sports 1 launch MMA schedule bc-mma-fox-fs1(sh) | By: MARK LA MONICA | Source: Newsday | Television (ET), All Other Sports (AO) May 13, 2013 11:40 AM By MARK LA MONICA FS1, the new 24-hour cable sports channel that Fox Sports hopes can compete with ESPN in time, launches Aug. 17 with more than seven hours of Ultimate Fighting Championship programming, including six hours of live coverage, the network has announced. Here's a quick rundown: 3:30 p.m.: UFC Ultimate Insider 4 p.m.: UFC Unleashed 5 p.m.: UFC Tonight (live) 6 p.m.: UFC on FS1 prelims (live) 8-11 p.m.: UFC on FS1 main card (live) You can expect some UFC post-fight coverage from the TD Bank Garden in Boston in the 11 p.m. hour as well when Fox Sports Live debuts. (That's their flagship news, opinion and highlights program, i.e., something similar in nature to ESPN's nightly SportsCenter.) There will also be a live UFC event on Aug. 28, from 8-11 p.m., followed by a third live UFC on FS1 event Sept. 4, at 8 p.m. to serve as the lead-in to (taped) Season 18 of "The Ultimate Fighter," featuring Ronda Rousey and Cat Zingano as coaches. (Contact Mark La ...
Diversity is in the air for 'Biggest Week in American Birding' bc-out-birding-week(sh) | By: MATT MARKEY | Source: Toledo Blade | Recreation (BO), All Other Sports (AO) May 9, 2013 11:55 AM By MATT MARKEY Step into the throngs of birders who have descended on the area for "The Biggest Week in American Birding" festival and one thing becomes clear -- this is not your grandma's birding crowd. Twenty or 30 years ago, birders were predominantly older, well-to-do, and highly educated. That pattern was present even in studies of the makeup of the birding population done in recent years. "Old ladies in tennis shoes -- that was the profile you used to hear pretty often when people were talking about bird-watchers," said Mark Shieldcastle, an avian biologist with the Ohio Division of Wildlife for three decades. "You never heard the word 'birding.' It was bird-watching -- people studying birds." But the makeup of the human crowd drawn to northwest Ohio to observe the mass migration of songbirds from their wintering grounds in Central America, South America and the Caribbean, is changing. On Monday morning, the boardwalk that uses a series of tangents to make its way through ...
MMA Today: Eddie Alvarez determined to jump to UFC bc-mmatoday08(sh) | By: BOB EMANUEL JR. | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 8, 2013 2:00 PM By BOB EMANUEL JR. Eddie Alvarez remains one of the world's top lightweight fighter, but his career is on hold because of a contract dispute with Bellator MMA. Alvarez's agreement, which expired last year after his October fight against Patricky Freire, contained a clause that allowed Bellator to match any outside offer. Alvarez signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Bellator exercised its option to match. Alvarez and his management team disputed whether Bellator truly matched all aspects of the UFC offer, which included bonuses derived from pay-per-view sales. Bellator's content airs on Spike TV, and the company has not produced a pay-per-view event. Both sides have yet to relent, and Alvarez remains steadfast in his right to join the UFC. "We will be going to trial and there will be no settlement," Alvarez tweeted last week. "I want to see this thing through and let the truth come out in the end." SUMMER SERIES ANNOUNCED Michael Chandler, who defeated Alvarez ...
Owner, jockey confident for Derby winner Orb's Preakness run bc-rac-orb-preakness(sh) | By: ED McNAMARA | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) May 6, 2013 11:35 AM By ED McNAMARA No race embodies tradition like the Kentucky Derby, and its 139th winner is old school all the way. Orb, bred and owned by two cousins whose racing heritage dates to the 1920s, was raised at Claiborne Farm, the Bluegrass country's most venerable thoroughbred nursery. No one in the family of Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps and Stuart Janney III had ever won the Derby, and neither had trainer Shug McGaughey. None of the three has a Preakness trophy, but Orb's surge from 17th on the backstretch to dominate by 2 1/2 lengths will make him a heavy favorite May 18 at Pimlico. As impressive as Orb was Saturday in the slop at Churchill Downs, McGaughey believes he hasn't shown his best yet. "I still think there's more there," he said. "I don't think we've bottomed out. I think he's still learning how to run a little bit." Joel Rosario, the country's hottest rider, is just as confident. "I know he's the kind of horse that keeps going," Rosario said, "and he can catch the ...
ESPN, SEC alliance called 'Ferrari' of college programming bc-secnetwork-tv(sh) | By: RON HIGGINS | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | College Football (FC), All Other Sports (AO) May 3, 2013 3:50 PM By RON HIGGINS Bret Bielema was in his second year as Wisconsin's head football coach when the Big Ten Conference Network began televising in August 2007. "I was in a recruit's home in Fort Lauderdale," recalled Bielema, Arkansas' first-year coach, "and his dad said, 'I can't wait for my son to be on a network that I can see him play every week.' That's the true value of having your own network. It takes you everywhere." Bielema already knows the positive effect of what the rest of his fellow Southeastern Conference coaches in all 21 sports are about to discover starting in August 2014 when the ESPN-operated SEC Network begins daily broadcasting. At a recent news conference attended by more than 30 coaches including all 14 football coaches, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive announced that the league and ESPN signed an agreement through 2034 to create and operate a multiplatform network. Slive would not disclose financial figures, but sports-business journalists previously said that ...
No one can resist the lure of Kentucky Derby day bc-rac-derbyday(sh) | By: JIM DONALDSON | Source: The Providence Journal | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 3, 2013 1:00 PM By JIM DONALDSON "Kentucky: May: Saturday." That was the headline of the story of the 81st Kentucky Derby that was written for Sports Illustrated by none other than William Faulkner. It was a story encompassing not only the Derby itself, but also the three days leading up to it. There was this, about an early-morning visit to Churchill Downs two days before the big race, to watch the horses work: "Even from just passing the stables, you carry with you the smell of liniment and ammonia and straw -- the strong quiet aroma of horses. And even before we reach the track we can hear horses -- the light hard rapid thud of hoofs mounting into crescendo and already fading rapidly on." The Kentucky Derby long has been known as "the greatest two minutes in sports." Having been to Churchill Downs on Derby Day, I would extend that time to at least 15 minutes, in order to include that marvelous moment when the horses come onto the track and the crowd, vocal chords lubricated by mint juleps, ...
Pittsburgh makes special preparations for upcoming marathon bc-pitt-marathon(sh) | By: BY MORIAH BALINGIT | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | All Other Sports (AO) May 2, 2013 12:45 PM BY MORIAH BALINGIT It's a long list: sprains, strains, heat exhaustion, dehydration and breathing and heart problems -- even chafing. On Sunday, as thousands of runners take to the streets for the Pittsburgh Marathon and Half-Marathon, medical personnel with the race will be prepared to deal with the wide range of conditions and medical problems that typically assail race participants. But they'll also be prepared for a grimmer reality: traumatic injuries, like the ones seen at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. After twin bombs exploded at the Boston finish line on April 15, race organizers and medical personnel adjusted their plans and protocols and took advice from their counterparts in Boston. At a news conference Wednesday, Mark Bocian, the city's acting chief of emergency medical services, and Ronald Roth, a doctor of emergency medicine with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the city's medical director, detailed some of those measures. "Medical ...
MMA Today: Lawal vows to come back stronger after loss to Newton bc-mmatoday01(sh) | By: BOB EMANUEL JR. | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Sports Columns (TN), All Other Sports (AO) May 1, 2013 4:40 PM By BOB EMANUEL JR. Big things were expected from Muhammad Lawal upon his entrance to Bellator MMA earlier this year. Lawal, a former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion, was instantly viewed by many as the favorite to win the Season Eight light heavyweight tournament en route to adding his second belt later this year. The plan held true through the quarterfinals of the tournament, when he defeated Przemyslaw Mysiala. Lawal, who is known by the moniker "King Mo," looked well on his way toward completing the journey in the semifinals when he faced Emanuel Newton. But, a momentary lapse -- combined with a unique attack -- stopped Lawal's quest. Newton, who was backing away from a flurry by Lawal, turned on his heels and struck Lawal's head with a spinning back fist to earn the victory. "It's not like he walked in with a spinning back fist," Lawal, 9-2 with a no contest said. "He threw it running away from me. He didn't throw it when he was going forward, like Cung Le." Lawal, ...
Warrior Games attract wounded, injured service members bc-warrior-games(sh) | By: ADAM ASHTON | Source: Tacoma News Tribune | All Other Sports (AO) Apr 30, 2013 3:15 PM By ADAM ASHTON Sgt. Josh Andrew is on the cusp of big changes at home and in his career. The Washington state soldier is preparing for a second baby even as the injured veteran looks to leave the Army by the end of this summer. First, though, Andrew has a simple goal that he hopes will propel him through the transitions he's about to make: He wants to come home with gold next month from the Warrior Games, the Defense Department's annual athletic competition for wounded and injured service members in Colorado Springs, Colo. Just training to participate in the shot put and discus competitions "makes me feel like I don't have anything wrong with me," Andrew said. "It makes me feel strong again." The 26-year-old soldier from Castle Rock is assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord's Warrior Transition Battalion, where he's receiving treatment for repeated knee injuries as well as for the effects of concussions he suffered in Iraq and Afghanistan. The unit contains soldiers coping with ...
MMA: Jones' entrance dance lasts longer than his title fight bc-mma-jonesvictory(sh) | By: MARK LA MONICA | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) Apr 29, 2013 12:05 PM By MARK LA MONICA Jon Jones' entrance to the cage lasted longer than the fight Saturday night at UFC 159. Dancing to Bob Marley as he first came into the vision of the crowd inside the Prudential Center, the UFC light heavyweight champion also walked past the prep area to say hello to his family. All the while, Chael Sonnen stood in the cage waving him in, and saying, "Wrap it up, Jones," among other things. Well, once Jones got in that cage, he wrapped up Sonnen in the first round with a TKO at the 4:33 mark. It was the fifth consecutive light heavyweight title defense for Jones (18-1), tying Tito Ortiz's UFC record for the weight class. "I wanted to make it a point to meet him in the middle of the octagon and get his respect right away," Jones said. "I was the wrestler. I was the dominant one. And it felt good." Jones said during the week that he thought his wrestling skills were underrated by many, and he set out to prove it -- against one of the best wrestlers in the UFC....
MMA: Jon Jones says he has learned from DWI bc-mma-jones-dwi(sh) | By: MARK LA MONICA | Source: Newsday | All Other Sports (AO) Apr 26, 2013 10:51 AM By MARK LA MONICA Jon Jones is far from the average 25-year-old man, be it in the cage or out. No matter how hard the Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champion tried to deny that reality -- same friends, same town, same hangout places -- his earlier definition of "normal" had to be rewritten. It took a telephone pole and a blood alcohol level above the legal limit to drive that point home for Jones. "Having a DWI, where there was injuries involved and stuff like that, it really opened my eyes right away," he said. "I realized right at that moment that I could have been sued. I could have ... I could have ... way worse things could have happened.' There were no significant injuries from that May 19 crash and arrest for driving while intoxicated in Binghamton, N.Y. Jones later pleaded guilty, had his license suspended for six months, paid a fine and avoided jail time. Compared with those "worse things" that could have occurred, a hit to his public image was minimal....
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