For LaMarche, record undefeated start to SU volleyball season means nothing as Big East play opens
Comments Published on September 23, 2010 at 12:00 pm Contact Rachel: rnmarcus@syr.edu To Carol LaMarche, Syracuse is 0-0. No wins, no losses. It’s back to the start. And though that may seem odd considering her team is actually off to a record start at 16-0, it makes sense to the SU assistant coach. For LaMarche, the record that really matters is the team’s wins and losses in Big East play. And that’s the record the team will look to build starting this weekend, when it plays games against Georgetown on Friday and South Florida on Sunday. ‘It’s great that we’re 16-0, best in Syracuse history,’ LaMarche said. ‘But it means nothing once Big East starts. Everyone starts 0-0. It’s the Big East record that gets you into the conference tournament. Everyone knows that.’ The team may be putting its record aside this weekend, but not the collective team effort and intensity that has gotten SU to its 16-0 start. There has not been one single player responsible for SU’s wins this season. Hayley Todd, Noemie Lefebvre and Mindy Stanislovaitis have been responsible for much of the high-powered offensive showing this season, and Ashley Williams has stepped up in her libero position.AdvertisementThis is placeholder text But those are just a few of the players. It is not far-fetched to say nearly every player on the roster has had a major contribution at some point this season. The team will be out to get those contributions from everyone this weekend as it attempts to sweep its matches against Georgetown and South Florida. ‘We definitely just want to dominate in both of those games,’ Todd said. ‘This sets us up for Big East standing and will give us a good indication of where we are going to be in those standings.’ The Orange beat both teams by a score of 3-1 last season at Manley Field House, and SU will be favored again to win both matches. But by no means does that mean SU is taking either team lightly. This is Big East play, after all. Plus, just last weekend the team was pushed to five sets by Kent State, a team similar to a middle-of-the-pack Big East team. A team similar to the ones SU is facing this weekend. ‘Everyone knows that these are two important games, and this past weekend did give us a good boost of confidence,’ LaMarche said. If the Orange can win both games, it will be on the right track. And along the way, it can surprise some people, too. Not that the Orange wasn’t expected to be good. The team just wasn’t expected to be 16 win-zero loss good. Coming off a fifth-place finish in the Big East and a first-round loss to Louisville in the Big East tournament, expectations around the Big East weren’t exactly sky-high. ‘When Big East rankings came out, we weren’t predicted to do very well this year,’ Stanislovaitis said. ‘So we just want to show everyone that we’re a good team, that we can be top of the Big East, not just pulling in the middle.’ And though the team wants to be successful in the Big East, it isn’t worried as much about itself as it is about what its opponents are doing. SU has been working on getting the middles stronger and developing more as a team. There is confidence because its win against Kent State gave SU a sense of what the team is capable of. ‘I think we’re ready to compete against any Big East team,’ Lefebvre said. ‘Kent State was definitely a good game to start with right before Big East.’ And Todd said she believes the team is ready to translate its 16-0 record to wins in Big East play. ‘I know, personally, Big East games always have a lot more excitement,’ Todd said. ‘There’s more adrenaline because they’re so important. It’s not so much about getting to know your team anymore. It’s about performing once you get to Big East.’ rnmarcus@syr.edu
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Published on September 3, 2017 at 5:27 pm Contact Kaci: klwasile@syr.edu In the third minute, freshman Kate Donovan took her shot. As she gained possession, her foot made contact, sending the ball in a perfect arc to sail to the top left corner of the net.Donovan’s early goal set the momentum for Syracuse (4-1-1) to dominate Fairfield (2-3-0) Sunday afternoon at SU Soccer Stadium, 3-0. The strong showing on offense helped the Orange get its fourth win in six games.“When we scored we actually started to gain more momentum,” SU head coach Phil Wheddon said. “Usually the other team comes back quite quickly. For us, I thought we got possession of the ball better after the goal.”Because of Fairfield’s scheme, SU played between their midfield and back lines for a large portion of the game. This, Wheddon said, allowed the Orange the time and space on the field. Syracuse shot 12 times, scoring on 25 percent of its attempts. “We moved the ball quite well from side to side,” Wheddon said, “and we’re dangerous playing forward.”AdvertisementThis is placeholder textAlexandra Moreo | Photo EditorThe danger of SU’s forwards was on full display, as they scored two of the three goals of the game. Donovan and Sydney Brackett’s goals bookended the three-goal game, with Brackett’s goal coming in the 54th minute of the game. Brackett was coming back from tracking back on the right hand side as Fairfield’s defense bounced the ball around the box in an attempt to clear it. Brackett sent the ball above the Fairfield goalie’s head and into the back of the net for her fourth goal so far this season and her first career goal at home. “The biggest thing for me this year has just been finding that closure,” Brackett said. “You’re going to get chances as a forward all of the time, every game, but making the most of them, capitalizing on them and settling nerves in the box is really huge for me.”Between Donovan’s and Brackett’s goals was sophomore Carolin Bader’s goal off of a corner kick at the end of the first half. Senior Jessica Vigna sent the ball toward the scrum in front of the net. Bader made contact with her head, knocking it into the net for the second of 20 corner kick SU has capitalized on in 2017.“Set pieces decide games,” Wheddon said. “You can have the best designed plays in the world but if the service isn’t there, it doesn’t matter. Jessie’s ball in today was a fantastic service and Carolin had a great header.”Alexandra Moreo | Photo EditorMinutes after Bader’s goal, Sheridan Street entered the game. After only a minute on the field, she was holding on the ball when she went down and had to be carried off the field. Wheddon said Street believes she rolled her ankle.“I’m disappointed, she’s disappointed, the teams disappointed and we’re hoping she will be back on the field,” Wheddon said.SU played all 23 members of the team, including backup goalie Lysianne Proulx, who entered after SU was up 3-0. Proulx faced zero shots on goal. Syracuse’s starting goalie Courtney Brosnan need to make only one save.“It’s really important to have fun while playing,” sophomore defender Taylor Bennett said. “You have to be disciplined and I think we did a good job with being disciplined.” Comments Facebook Twitter Google+
Despite increased awareness, college campuses nationwide are plagued with incidents of sexual assaults. Both college students and student-athletes alike are impacted. The University of Wisconsin is no exception, and neither is their athletes.Soon after the athletes returned to school, wide receiver Quintez Cephus was charged with the third-degree sexual assault against two women and second-degree sexual assault of an intoxicated woman. His roommate and fellow wide receiver Danny Davis allegedly took photos of the women during the assault.Soon after these incidents became public, Coach Paul Chryst subsequently suspended Cephus from the team and suspended Davis from the first two games, however, Davis will still be permitted to attend practices pending further information being released.Football: Coming off hot starts, Badgers set to face LobosSaturday morning marks the first-ever meeting between the University of New Mexico Lobos and the University of Wisconsin Badgers. Both Read…While speaking with Bucky’s 5th Quarter about Davis’ suspension, Chryst addressed why he felt Davis’ punishment was adequate.“I think there’s certainly a standard of conduct that we want to shoot for and want to hold that at a high level,” Chryst said, “Anything that doesn’t, it’s appropriate.”This raises the question, if Chryst said himself that he has such high standards for this program then why isn’t Davis receiving as harsh a punishment as Cephus? Both players appear to have violated UW policy, so both players should receive an equal punishment, despite their commitment and record with the team.Chryst’s decision to only suspend Davis for the first two games may be perceived as him focusing on the team’s record and need for two top receivers rather than on the heinous incident.Football: Safety Patrick Johnson leaves programPatrick Johnson, a safety for the University of Wisconsin football team, left the program Wednesday morning citing personal reasons. The Read…Though Davis has not yet been charged with his alleged involvement, legal action could still come later. In a criminal complaint, Davis is said to have both laughed at and took pictures of the assault with Cephus. But Cephus said only one photo was taken that night and it was “quickly deleted.”Athletes should be no exception to the consequences following a sexual assault crime in any case. If the allegations against Davis hold true, Chryst’s actions show that despite taking nonconsensual nude photos of women, they can still have a place in the UW football program.Sexual assault issues anywhere on campus are intolerable by university policy and will result in a criminal record with UWPD.Football: Breaking down the Badgers’ strength of schedule problemA No. 4 AP preseason ranking comes with a lot of excitement, and with that high expectations. As it stands Read…Hopefully, if more information is released from this case, the university, along with the athletics program, will take necessary action for these students and either clear their names or further punish them.If students are seeking help for themselves or a friend following a sexual assault, they can contact University Health Services for (608) 265-5600 for more resources.
In the second day of action at the outdoor NCAA Division I Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Paige Stoner was the lone SU athlete to run, and she made it count. Stoner successfully qualified for the women’s 3000-meter steeplechase final, placing third in her heat with a time of 9:50.76 to advance to the finals which will be held at 6:54 p.m. ET on Saturday.Stoner quickly launched into third to start the race running alongside Utah’s Grayson Murphy while Furman’s Kristlin Gear held the early lead. As the race went on, Murphy took control of the lead and Stoner battled for second with Utah State’s Cierra Simmons.Simmons and Stoner went back and forth until eventually Simmons barely pulled ahead, beating Stoner by just .41 seconds. All the while Murphy ran away with it, finishing 1.78 seconds ahead of the other runners in the heat. All of the top five finishers in the heat received an automatic qualification to the final.Syracuse will be in action again tomorrow when Aidan Tooker and Noah Affolder race at 8:54 p.m. ET in the men’s 3000-meter steeplechase final. Comments AdvertisementThis is placeholder text Published on June 7, 2018 at 8:14 pm Contact Eric: estorms@syr.edu Facebook Twitter Google+
Rejects Dalung’s Reconciliation movesDuro IkhazuagbeIn a clear case of absurdity, the Chris Giwa group laying claim to the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) wednesday listed a Nigerian referee who died since January 22, 2016 as one of the arbiters to officiate a Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) this weekend.The said late referee, Wale Akinsanya passed on during the mandatory FIFA Cooper Test for match officials in Ibadan.In a statement sent to the League Management Company (LMC) and signed by one Yahaya Adama, the late referee was listed to officiate as the centre referee of the clash between Warri Wolves and Giwa FC at the Warri City Stadium this weekend. The late Ibadan-based referee was listed to be assisted by Tope .O from Osun State and Adeleke M of Oyo State in the game.Earlier yesterday, the Giwa group had rejected the peace move by Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung to end the crisis in the administration of the game in the country by setting up a reconciliation Committee headed by former NFA President, Ibrahim Galadima.In a statement signed by the group’s self christened Chairman of Chairmen, Effiong Johnson, it urged Nigerians to disregard the action of the minister, as it was to hoodwink football followers.“In the first place, the minister is a party to the case in court as the fourth defendant and when the court by an Order made on April 8 2016 restored all its previous orders, including the order which nullified and set aside the election which purportedly produced Amaju Pinnick et al. The minister betrayed his partisanship in the dispute by wasting no time to hold brief for the Amaju Pinnick group in his erroneous and flawed public statement that the group was entitled to 30 days to appeal against the ruling of the court.“The minister has thus lost the moral podium to midwife any settlement of the dispute. Secondly, the composition of the membership of the so-called reconciliation committee leaves no one in doubt that it was constituted only for a hatchet job for the Amaju Pinnick group,” he said.Effiong added: “virtually all members of the committee are associates of the Amaju Pinnick group. For instance, Musa Amadu is not only a co-defendant with the minister in the case but is also the chairman of the Organising & Disciplinary Committee of the Amaju Pinnick group. Barrister Okey Obi has made statements in many fora on behalf of the Amaju Pinnick group and has also appeared in court as counsel to the defendants, while Paul Bassey is known to be an avowed supporter of the Amaju Pinnick group.”Dalung inaugurated the reconciliation committee at the conference room of the National Stadium in Abuja, and charged them with the mandate of restoring peace to the crisis ridden Nigeria Football Federation.Share this:FacebookRedditTwitterPrintPinterestEmailWhatsAppSkypeLinkedInTumblrPocketTelegram
Share Related Articles The bookmakers suffered a bad start to this year’s Cheltenham Festival, despite the early failure of Getabird and a surprisingly off-colour showing from the much-vaunted Apples Jade.Ridden by Ruby Walsh, Getabird was nowhere to be seen in the closing stages of the Sky Bet Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, as Summerville Boy came from behind to take victory from Kalashnikov.Stephen Harris, the racing guru at bettingexpert, commented: “Bookmakers got off to a horrific losing start on Day 1 of the 2018 Cheltenham Festival, despite getting 15/8f Getabird beaten in the opening Supreme Novice Hurdle.“The winner Summerville Boy (backed from 12/1 into 9/1 in the morning) was very popular each-way off course, while runner-up Kalashnikov was the other one to attract strong cash.”An impressive win for the Willie Mullins-trained Footpad, who attracted several five figure bets at the course to start at 5/6, put the bookmakers further behind before a gamble on Coo Star Sivola, backed from 13/2 into 5/1, compounded matters in the handicap chase at 2:50.It was then left to short-price favourite Buveur D’Air (SP 4/6), expertly marshalled by Barry Geraghty, to beat Melon to claim the Unibet Champion Hurdle, before the bookmakers were spared, or as the ITV commentary team put it “given partial respite” by Apples Jade coming in third behind Benie Des Dieux and Midnight Tour.Harris concluded: “Buveur D’Air proved easy to back on-course before the Champion Hurdle, drifting out to 8/11 in places, before scrambling home from Melon (and completing leg two in nearly every accumulator in the land).“The fate of the punters treble rested with the prolific mare Apples Jade, hammered down to 1/2f from 4/6 as the offices moved into to try and compress down the SP. Luckily for the layers and the industry, she proved very flat on the day, one paced in third up the hill in a driving three-way finish.”Watch the video below for Harris’ expert analysis and tips for day two at Cheltenham: Better Collective cautious on quick recovery as COVID drags growth momentum August 25, 2020 Submit StumbleUpon PokerStars moves to refresh global appeal with ‘I’M IN’ August 18, 2020 Share ITV secures three-year British racing broadcast deal August 5, 2020
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“Golden State, you only talk about the offense, and I think we should talk about their defense way more,” Doc Rivers said of the Warriors, winners of two of the past three NBA championships. “They do it as well as anybody, and that’s why they’re so good defensively.”INJURY UPDATESAustin Rivers was in the Clippers’ lineup Saturday, two nights after suffering a dislocated right pinkie in a victory over the Portland Trail Blazers. He wore a protective sleeve over his injured finger, but otherwise said he was good to go.Rivers’ injury could have been devastating to the Clippers’ guard depth. They are already without Milos Teodosic because of a plantar fascia injury in his left foot. Teodosic was hurt in the Clippers’ second game of the season and is sidelined indefinitely.Asked for an update, Doc Rivers said: “I saw him riding the bike. I don’t know what that means. I was on the bike next to him, and I’m not going to play. He was on the bike and I was on the bike, and he was going faster than me. I think that’s a good sign. He wasn’t doing that last week, so that’s good.” So far, the Clippers have covered for each other when playing defense. Breakdowns have happened, though. It’s the NBA, after all. Great offensive players can beat great defenses. But the Clippers have policed themselves when it comes to defensive lapses.“You’ve just got to pull the trigger and trust that someone will pull the trigger for you,” Doc Rivers said. “What I like about this group is if someone doesn’t pull the trigger, I’m not the first one to be telling them. They’re telling each other, and they don’t care who it is.“I think if I could say the biggest change in our team, it might be that. They don’t care who it is. They’re telling them. ‘You were supposed to be there,’ and the biggest thing is that guy acknowledges it. It’s all right to say, ‘my fault,’ and they’re doing that, so that’s good.“From a coaching standpoint, you don’t want 20 or 30 ‘my faults.’ Then we all have a problem.”Is it possible to be an elite team without playing with a strong sense of defensive trust? The Clippers say they “trust” each other on defense. They went into Saturday’s game against the Detroit Pistons at Staples Center with the NBA’s stingiest defense, giving up an average of only 91.8 points. They also had outscored the opposition by a league-high average of 19.2 points.What does “trust” really mean?“I guess the best way to explain trust is if someone gets beat off the dribble and a low guy, whoever the other guy is, goes and rotates freely and then someone picks up his guy, that’s trust,” Doc Rivers said when asked for a layman’s explanation. “What breaks down trust is when someone gets beat off the dribble, the guy goes to help and then his guy gets a dunk, the next time, that guy’s not going to help. That’s when you break down your trust. You’ve got to have blind trust to be a great defensive team.” Lou Williams thrust into bigger role for Clippers Clippers coach Doc Rivers focused on guards’ minutes 
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The debate on the future of Rakitic is installed in both Barcelona and Seville. In Barcelona, due to Barça’s desire to get a financial return from a footballer who has little more than a year left on his contract and who seems determined to return to a Sevilla that, far from it, will be one of the suitors who pay the most for him. In the Andalusian capital, meanwhile, there is debate about the suitability or not of making a high bet for a 32-year-old footballer. And if that were not enough, in Nervión there is also an evident fact: while the players who pack their bags towards the Camp Nou usually succeed, those who take the opposite path are synonymous with disappointment.There is no doubt that Barcelona has filled Seville’s coffers by signing players like Daniel Alves, Keita or Rakitic himself, in addition to others like Adriano or Lenglet one step below. But these high investments gave a spectacular return with the Barça shirt. By cons, whenever Sevilla has gone for a culé player, his performance in Nervión, for some reasons or others, has not been at the level of expectations. Munir’s case is the most recent example. Arrived as a star signing of the 2019 winter market, at no time has he made a place for himself in the Lopetegui team, being currently the player least used in the last ten games by the Basque coach. But the most distant example of the present century was also very disappointing. It was the case of Javier Saviola, whose transfer was celebrated in style but did not have the importance expected of him in a team that achieved its first European title in the only year that the Argentine militated in its ranks, in the 2005-06 season.The list of disappointing transfers from Barcelona lengthens with the return of Aleix Vidal last season, the transfers of Deulofeu and Denis Suárez in the 2014-15 season or the signing of Martín CáceresAlthough the Uruguayan had to be a soldier in one of the most unstable Seville of this century. Rakitic, by quality and by predicament (he was captain in his last season in Nervión) has little to do with the aforementioned footballers. And possibly no one better than the Croat to break a disastrous statistic that, although out of the corner of its eye, in Sánchez Pizjuán is taken into account.
Dayot Upamecano aims to be one of the most famous names in the next transfer market. The French central defender, as AS could know, is one of the great objectives of Real Madrid, which is very well placed to undertake the operation. However, the fact that he ended his contract in 2021, his concern to make the leap to a big one and his price and salary, affordable in the crisis caused by the coronavirus, make have more than one suitor.As reported Sky Sports, Manchester United and City also follow closely. What’s more, they both have more than enough reasons to go looking for a central defender. The ‘red devils’ have defensive problems and have on the exit ramp a Smalling and Phil Jones. The other mancuniano team, meanwhile, has dropped in benefits behind and they need another guarantee footballer to compete with Stones and Laporte. Otamendi It was close to leaving last season and his future is uncertain. Even so, three defenders seems insufficient for a leading club. Meanwhile, Upamecano looks from a distance at the possibility of leaving. AS learned that he is already pressuring his club to leave next summer. Leipzig has a problem: either it gives in at the request of its footballer or it lets him go free and he does not enter an amount that can be around 50 million euros. The balance begins to decline towards the side of the sale and Madrid has already taken a step forward. The center-back is young, with a lot of projection and to the liking of Zinedine Zidane, an expert in exploiting young French talents. Another point that plays in its favor is its salary. Actually, Upamecano charges just over two million euros. Whoever bets on it, will not need to raise the card too much, something to value in the deep economic crisis that is coming. Meanwhile, Leipzig is already working on spare parts. Malang Sarr and Tanguy Kouassi are two of the names on the table. Everything indicates that his promising center-back will end up leaving, but Madrid must be careful. Manchester United and City are also on the prowl and are not the only ones on the continent …