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Athletes react to tragedy in Boston
Two explosions rocked the Boston Marathon on Tuesday and multiple injuries and fatalities have been reported. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this tragedy as more details continue to unfold. What follows is a roundup of athletes who took to Twitter to express emotion over the tragedy.
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April 15, 2013
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Miami is for real after routing the Blue Devils
If you’ve reading the blog you know contributor @HokieGuru has been high on the Hurricanes all year. I was late to the party, but I was convinced after Miami beat Michigan St. earlier this that this team could be very good. Wow did they put on a performance tonight against Duke. That was a awesome display of basketball by Jim Larranaga’s Hurricanes.
Going to back to @HokieGuru‘s...
After a 2-4 Start on Day 1….Can the ACC ally to reclaim Conference Bragging Rights
PROJECTED SCORE AFTER DAY 1: 4-2 ACC
DAY 2: Wednesday 11/28
7:00PM -Virginia @ Wisconsin (ESPN2) – In what will be a knock-down and-drag out affair between 2 teams that really like to slow the tempo, Virginia travels to the Kohl Center to take on Wisconsin in the opening game of day 2 of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Seriously, if you like free flowing, high octane basketball, this...
Miami 87, Stetson 79
Reggie Johnson scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and Miami held off Stetson 87-79 on Friday in the season opener for both teams.
Kenny Kadji finished with 12 points and 12 rebounds for Miami, which trailed by seven late in the first half, then wasted most of a 13-point second-half lead before hanging on in the final minutes. Trey McKinney Jones scored 14 points, Shane Larkin...
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November 09, 2012
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Miami hold off Stetson in season opener
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) -- Reggie Johnson scored 22 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, and Miami held off Stetson 87-79 on Friday in the season opener for both teams.
Kenny Kadji finished with 12 points and 12 rebounds for Miami, which trailed by seven late in the first half, then wasted most of a 13-point second-half lead before hanging on in the final minutes. Trey McKinney Jones...
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November 09, 2012
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Game Notes: Stetson @ Miami
Stetson at Miami Date 11/9/2012 5:30:00 PMLive StatsCheck At Gametime.TV ESPN3 Team Stats Embed This Chart On Your Website
The Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball season officially kicks off on Friday Nov. 9. The Stetson Hatters’ will be traveling to Coral Gables in what should be a relatively easy win for the ‘Canes. However, following Miami’s exhibition loss...
The exhaustive tempo-free guide to the Horizon League's 2012-2013 season
Over at Horizon League Hoops I've been posting 1200-word+ tempo-free previews for all nine Horizon League teams in reverse order according to my own data-supported rankings. I've decided to combine them all into one mega post right here.
No. 1 Valparaiso
Last season: It seemed like an impossible crusade. After posting 23 wins, a CIT berth and the most efficient...
Happy College Basketball Eve!! 2012-2013 ACC Basketball Panel
Happy November from all of us at All Sports Discussion. In Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) country, men’s basketball season is one of our favorite times of the year. And it’s college basketball eve!!!
The patented panel is back!!! Our ACC panelists (we have one panelist from each of the ACC schools) will be discussing six topics. First, our panelists will give you the...
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November 08, 2012
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Fast Break: Kentucky starting from scratch
If it is true that last year's Kentucky basketball team shifted the paradigm of college basketball, so that the Calipari Way loading up on the best freshmen and turning them loose for one year, for better or for worse is now the way it is done, then we will all be right to ask that Calipari no longer cast himself in November as a guy with a heavy burden on his back.
Because...
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November 05, 2012
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Inside the Boxscore: St. Leo 69, Miami (Fl) 67
1. Senior Trent Thomas, St. Leo's leading scorer last season, came off the bench and torched the Hurricanes for 23 points. He made 41% of his threes as a junior, and against Miami made 4-8 (50%). He also made 4-6 twos, and 3-4 free throws.
2. St. Leo turned the ball over 20 times in a 68 possession game (29.4%). This only left them 48 possessions in which they scored 69 points...
Bolt can't forget roots on the fast track to fame
(Eds: For use any time. With AP Photos.) By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer Finding out where Usain Bolt might be on any given day on his home island of Jamaica in advance of his trip to the London Olympics - that's not so difficult.
Finding out who Bolt really is - that's a trickier task.
Of course, he's the defending Olympic champion and world-record holder in the...
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July 06, 2012
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Pitching Stat Lines From July 5th Games
My first pitching post today is started off with the performance of Peninsula Oiler J.D. Sales (Fresno State). J.D. allowed just two runs on five hits in seven innings to earn his first win of the summer. He didn't walk a batter and he fanned six on the night.
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Other pitching stat lines from July 5th.
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My improvements for Ralph Wilson Stadium
When the news broke that the Bills were going to have a press conference on Monday at 2pm, the majority of Twitter assumed that it would be for the announcement for Fred Jackson's contract extension....and they were right. There was also some chatter that it could be the announcement for Ralph Wilson Stadium improvements, which got me thinking...
What stadium improvements...
Stetson pulls away from St. Leo 74-69
Liam McInerney scored 13 points and Aaron Graham made all eight of his free throws to help Stetson hold off St. Leo 74-69 on Saturday.
Division II St. Leo (2-2) kept it close the majority of the game, trailing 46-41 after a Dominick Robinson 3-pointer. But McInerney scored eight points in three minutes to give Stetson (3-1) a 55-47 lead with 9:22 left to play.
Robinson came up...
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November 19, 2011
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Stetson 74, St. Leo 69
Liam McInerney scored 13 points and Aaron Graham made all eight of his free throws to help Stetson hold off St. Leo 74-69 on Saturday.
Division II St. Leo (2-2) kept it close the majority of the game, trailing 46-41 after a Dominick Robinson 3-pointer. But McInerney scored eight points in three minutes to give Stetson (3-1) a 55-47 lead with 9:22 left to play.
Robinson came up...
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November 19, 2011
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