https://www.axios.com/2024/05/16/columbia-faculty-president-shafik-no-confidence-vote

Students unlawfully took over a building and barricaded themselves in. If I was on the Columbia Board I would fire the faculty.

When I was younger I used to go to Eastbay to check out sports equipment that was a grade better then you would see at the local sports store. I guess in the last 10 - 15 years they went under and now are a part of Champs, but Champs is just clothes.

Does anybody have any good recommendations for sites that offer more specialized equipment? It really doesn't matter the sport but I am looking for sites that offer more of a variety then Dicks but more specific then looking on Amazon.


Thanks

Really?

Ranking coaches at their alma maters​

Damn.....Things are moving so fast....its hard to keep up.

What would be our starting lineup today?

Chaunce - PG
Middletown - 2G
Coleman - 3G
PF - Tubek??
C - ?? (any prospects we are close to)

A man better than most all of us


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Maplewood, N.J. – Seton Hall Athletics celebrated its 2024 graduating class with its annual Senior Banquet, held May 14 at Maplewood Country Club.

The event is designed to honor the graduating class in front of their coaches, peers and family members. As is tradition, each head coach delivered remarks about their respective graduates and handed out their senior gifts. Assistant Athletics Director Peter Long served as emcee and was assisted by Director of Athletics Bryan Felt in handing out the major awards.

Five major awards were handed out during the marquee event. For her efforts both on the softball field and within the department as a growing member of the media who took time to interview and highlight her fellow student-athletes, Sydney Babik (Gilbert, Ariz.) was named Seton Hall Athletics Senior Most Valuable Pirate.

Men's soccer's Mark Walier (Holmdel, N.J.) was named the Senior Male Scholar Athlete of the Year, and women's swimming & diving's Josie McCartney (Verona, Wisc.) and Madeline Field (Wheaton, Ill.) were named co-receipients of the Senior Female Scholar Athlete of the Year award. All three student-athletes are graduating with a 4.0 GPA.

There were co-recipients of the Senior Male Athlete of the Year Award as Kadary Richmond (Brooklyn, N.Y.) of the men's basketball team and Wenliang Xie (Burbank, Calif.) were both honored.

Richmond was a first-team All-BIG EAST, first-team All-Met and first-team NABC All-District selection after finishing as the only player in the BIG EAST in the top 11 in scoring (15.7 points per game), rebounding (6.9 rebounds per game) and assists (5.1 assists per game). In five NIT games, Richmond averaged 13.8 points, 9.4 rebounds and 6.4 assists en route to the Pirates winning their first NIT championship since 1953.

A first-team All-BIG EAST honoree, Xie enjoyed one of the greatest single-year golf efforts in Seton Hall history. He tallied six top-10 finishes, 15 sub-par rounds and six sub-par tournaments, all career-highs. Most recently, Xie led Seton Hall to its second BIG EAST Championship in three years with an even-par, 70-74-72-216, which tied for third overall and earned him All-Tournament status.

There were also co-recipients of the Senior Female Athlete of the Year Award with graduate student Silvia Alessio (Trieste, Italy) of the women's swimming & diving team and Azana Baines (Blackwood, N.J.) of the women's basketball team garnering the honors.

In her only season with Seton Hall, Alessio made an incredible impact, reaching the diving final in every meet she competed and winning all but two of them. She was dominant at the BIG EAST Championship, capturing gold in the 3-meter dive with a program and BIG EAST record score of 337.50 and taking silver in the 1-meter dive. She was named the BIG EAST Most Outstanding Female Diver.

Also a first-team All-BIG EAST selection, Baines had a breakout campaign in her final year as a collegiate athlete. Named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll seven times, she upped her scoring and rebounding averages from 8.5 points and 4.0 rebounds last year to 14.7 points and 6.0 rebounds in 2023-24. A starter in every BIG EAST game, she completed the regular season one of only three players in the conference to rank among the top-12 in points, rebounds, steals and blocks.

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RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. – The Seton Hall men's golf team will make its second trip to the NCAA Regionals in the last three years when it competes at the Rancho Santa Fe Regional, May 13-15. Fresh off the 2024 BIG EAST Championship, the Pirates have earned the No. 13 seed in the 14-team field and will compete for a trip to the National Championship with a Top-5 finish.

Tournament Details:
2022 NCAA RANCHO SANTA FE REGIONAL
Host: University of San Diego
Location: Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
Course: The Farms Golf Club
Course Vitals: Par-70, 6,962 yards
Dates: May 13-15, 2024

THE COURSE
Built in 1988 in the ruggedly beautiful terrain of Rancho Santa Fe, one of San Diego's most prestigious communities, The Farms Golf Club, a private, member-owned equity club, was created and built for golf enthusiasts…golfers serious in their commitment to the game and its historical traditions.

Originally designed by Pete, Perry and Alice Dye with assistance from golfing great Tommy Jacobs, The Farms golf course was extensively remodeled in 2000 under the guidance of golf course architect John Fought and his associate, PGA tour professional Tom Lehman.

With modifications designed to improve the playability and maintainability of the course, changes included newly reconstructed and re-contoured bent grass putting greens that allow for more undulation and additional hole locations; new teeing areas and bunkering that test a player's ability to visualize and execute the proper shot; a state-of-the-art irrigation system; and a wonderful practice facility featuring a double-ended driving range, complete with target greens and bunkers. Nestled amid gently rolling hills and hollows, several additional water features and newly created high rough landscaping add to the course's beauty and the sense of peaceful seclusion that prevails on this championship course.

THE FIELD
The field consists of the 14 selected NCAA Rancho Santa Fe Regional participants and five individuals. Below are the teams in order of their seed with their national ranking (as of May 6) in parenthesis.

Teams:

1. Arizona State (3) – Pac-12 Champion
2. Washington (10)
3. Oklahoma (16)
4. California (22)
5. Oklahoma State (26)
6. North Florida (34)
7. Chattanooga (38)
8. USF (46) – AAC Champion
9. San Diego (50) - WCC Champion
10. West Virginia (58)
11. Kansas (67)
12. Wright State (124) – Horizon League Champion
13. SETON HALL (166) – BIG EAST Champion
14. Winthrop (192) – Big South Champion

Individuals

1. Mahanth Chirravuri, Pepperdine
2. Tegan Andrews, Cal State Fullerton
3. William Walsh, Pepperdine
4. Brady Siravo, Pepperdine
5. Kevin Li, Seattle University

THE FORMAT
Teams will play five golfers and count the four lowest scores per round. Teams are allowed to substitute a sixth golfer for any player in their lineup prior to any round.

THE LINEUP
Seton Hall will be bringing the following lineup to Rancho Santa Fe:

1. Wenliang Xie, Graduate student
2. George Fricker, Junior
3. David Lally, Sophomore
4. Jack Bosworth, Sophomore
5. Wanxi Sun, Senior

Available for substitution if necessary: Patrick Kahanek, Junior

LAST TIME OUT
For the second time in three years and the fourth time overall, the Seton Hall men's golf team won the BIG EAST Conference championship. With a strong, team-wide final-round effort on April 29, the Pirates bested second-place Butler by five strokes to win the title and claim the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

As a team, the Pirates never dropped out of the top spot on in the final round. The Hall entered the day with a two-stroke cushion on Butler, and saw it grow to as many as double-digits and shrink to as few as two again. In the end, Seton Hall shot an even-par, 288, its best round of the tournament, to hold off the field and edge Butler by five strokes.

The Hall's final score was an 8-over-par, 292-292-288-872. Butler finished at 13-over-par, while Creighton, who had the top team round on Monday, finished third at 15-over-par. Defending champion and tournament favorite Marquette finished fourth at 17-over-par.

The Pirates' 872 is the third-lowest score for the program at the BIG EAST Championship.

At one point during Monday's final round, three Seton Hall golfers were tied for the individual lead. In the end, only one, Wenliang Xie (Burbank, Calif.) qualified for the All-Tournament Team. The graduate student had four birdies in route to an even-par, 72, in round three. Xie was the top Seton Hall performer for the tournament, tying for third place among all golfers with an even-par, 70-74-72-216. It's Xie's 15th career top-10 finish and eighth top-5 effort.

PIRATE NCAA HISTORY
Seton Hall has made five prior trips to the NCAA Regionals, including most recently in 2022. The Pirates went in four consecutive seasons, 1998-01, led by Seton Hall Athletics Hall of Famer Eugene Smith, who was on three of those teams. Former Pirate Lloyd Jefferson Go went to the NCAA Regionals in back-to-back years, 2016 and 2017, as an individual.

THE STAKES
In addition to the Rancho Santa Fe Regional, there are five others being played simultaneously in Austin, Texas, Chapel Hill, N.C., Stanford, Calif., West Lafayette, Ind. and Baton Rouge, La. The Top-5 finishing schools from each regional (30 teams total) and the low individual not on an advancing team (six individuals total) will advance to play in the NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. on May 24-29.

TEE TIMES
The field will play one round (18 holes) over each day for three days. Competition on each day will begin at 8:00 a.m. As the No. 13 seed Seton Hall will be paired with golfers from No. 14 Winthrop and the five individual golfers in round one and will tee off of the first hole beginning at 9:50 a.m. The Pirate schedule looks like this for Monday…

SUN (HALL) – 9:50 a.m.
BOSWORTH (HALL) – 10:01 p.m.
LALLY (HALL) – 10:12 a.m.
FRICKER (HALL) – 10:23 a.m.
XIE (HALL) – 10:34 a.m.

THE RESULTS
Live scoring will be available at GolfStat.com. Full day results will also be available at SHUPirates.com.

Player profile

• Position Guard
• Height 6-0
• Weight 185
• Class Sophomore
• Hometown Temple Hills, Md.
• High School Marshall County HS

2022-23 Season

• Appeared in 32 games, starting in 27
• Averaged 13.7 points, 2.0 rebounds, and 2.8 assists
• All-SWAC Second-Team
• SWAC Freshman of the Year
• Shot 33.8% on 4.9 3-point attempts per game
• Shot 82.3% from the free-throw line (2nd in SWAC) on 102 attempts (9th in SWAC)
• Scored in double-figures in 20 games
• Had 36 points on 12/15 shooting (8/10 from three) and 1 steal against Southern (1/9/23)
• Had 29 points on 9/11 shooting (4/6 from three), 3 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 steals against Florida A&M (3/4/23)
• Had 22 points (5/6 from three), 1 rebound, and 4 assists against Alcorn (1/23/23)

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@HallDan,

What’s the status of possibly Barrett coming in? Is that inevitable or is there a hitch in that plan?

Really surprised his return hasn’t been confirmed yet. Don’t know why he would have been allowed at the recent NIL event while in the portal unless he was 100% coming back. Only thing that makes sense from the outside is that Sha is trying to move around $$ to get a starting caliber big, and DAW may be sacrificed for it (which I’d be OK with).

Astros’ Ronel Blanco ejected for ‘stickiest’ glove umpire has ever seen​

By Matt Ehalt

The cheating Astros are at it again.

Houston starter Ronel Blanco earned an ejection Tuesday night against the Athletics for having “the stickiest” glove first base umpire Erich Bacchus has ever encountered.

Blanco is now open to a possible 10-game suspension.

“I felt something inside the glove,” Bacchus said, according to ESPN. “It was the stickiest stuff I’ve felt on a glove since we’ve been doing this for a few years now.”

MLB umpires began their checks for substances in 2021, and for Blanco’s glove to be that sticky is quite notable — especially due to the Astros’ nefarious history.

Blanco, who threw the first no-hitter of the season in April, ran into issues prior to the fourth inning during his glove check conducted by Bacchus.

The umpires, Blanco and Astros manager Joe Espada eventually all stood on the mound as the examination continued before crew chief Laz Diaz gave Blanco the boot.

Diaz said the glove would be sent to the commissioner’s office, per ESPN.

“Everybody checked the glove to make sure we all had the same thing and he had to get ejected because he had a foreign substance on his glove,” Diaz said, per the outlet.

Diaz added that the umpires did not know what substance Blanco had on his glove, but it violated the rules.

“We don’t determine that,” Diaz said, according to ESPN. “We just felt it was sticky, sticky enough that our fingers got stuck. So now it’s all up to the office on what it was and all that.”

Blanco maintained his innocence.

“Just probably rosin I put on my left arm,” Blanco said via a translator, per ESPN. “Maybe because of the sweat it got into the glove and that’s maybe what they found.”

He added: “What I told them is, ‘If you found something sticky in my glove you should also check my hands because it should also be on my hand. Just check my hand,’ and he didn’t.”

However, Blanco said he did not know it’s illegal to have a sticky substance on his non-throwing arm.

“No, I didn’t know that was illegal,” Blanco said, according to MLB.com. “I see other pitchers come in and do it as well, so I thought that was normal.”

The Astros overcame the early ejection to down the A’s, 2-1, in 10 innings.

Houston was famously embroiled in a sign-stealing scandal, with an MLB probe revealing in 2020 that the Astros stole signs electronically during the 2017 regular season and postseason en route to a World Series win.

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South Orange, N.J. -- Seton Hall men's basketball is set to participate in the 2025 Maui Invitational. The 42nd edition of the prestigious tournament will be played Nov. 24-26, 2025 at the historic Lahaina Civic Center in Maui, Hawaii.

This will be the Pirates' second Maui Invitational appearances and their first since 2001. The Hall go up against a competitive field that includes Baylor, NC State, Oregon, Texas, UNLV, USC and Chaminade, the annual host school.

Seton Hall is coming off of a historic 2023-24 season that saw them go 25-12 overall, 13-7 in the BIG EAST and win the 2024 National Invitation Tournament. The Pirates' 25 victories were tied for the fourth-most in school history and their most wins in a single season since 2015-16. Despite being picked to finish ninth out of 11 teams in the BIG EAST's preseason coaches poll, Holloway led The Hall to a 13-7 mark in conference play and a fourth-place finish in the league standings.

https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/40146167/rory-mcilroy-files-divorce-wife-7-years

Files for divorce and has won the last two tournaments he's played (including Wells Fargo - Quail Hollow this weekend where he blew the field away). I would guess he will be the favorite at the PGA at Valhalla....I would not bet against him.

Click away.... LOL

Predicting where players are going has become difficult. Even regarding insiders and the media.

The reason that so many people whiffed on Abass coming to Seton Hall, and that includes me, is because he lied to the staff. He asked for a final offer and when he got it during his visit he accepted it.

The school was so sure he was coming stories were written both inside SHU and with the media. Pictures were taken to be used in the school's article and then when the visit was over he said he wanted to think on it. Which meant...shop it around. Which he did and then committed to his next visit.

Take that into consideration when commenting on bad info here.

BTW, the above was just given to me by someone at the school and told me who passed on the info. Someone I will not identify but is a strong school insider not on the staff.

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Sha's put together a roster of untapped potential with 2 scholarships left to fill. I love to watch Sha work his magic.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/danab...Your Morning Newsletter - WEEKDAYS 2024-05-10

News Nation this week if you want a balanced view of the crisis.

https://www.lehighvalley.org/news/m...EMAIL_ID]&mc_cid=bc2545102d&mc_eid=e3f0043771

He continues to be a common-sense leader in PA. Another example of eliminating barriers for businesses to invest (in this case, revitalize an important part of a city that has had a rebirth). Good tag line: "Government moving at the speed of business".

He's taken a visibly strong stance against anti-Semitism on college campuses emanating from the protests, and rarely gets involved in silly woke issues. Runs circles around Murphy and Hokul. Would not be surprised to see him as a top Presidential candidate in 2028.

I'm not sure what's effective and what's not but it seems these are Sha's NIL/Budget principles. Do others agree or disagree?

1- He's not willing to pay going-rate for players in the Portal who have not proven themselves at SH.

2- Wants players to come in and earn their spot and salary. This is a good stance but loses effectiveness if you can't afford to keep your own players once they do prove themselves.

3- This year he seems to prefer paying many players around the same rate rather than pay for 1 or 2 good players to lead the team. Last year he had a terrible budget and gave most of it to his 3 returning starters. This year he seems to want to spread it out as much as possible to have 10 capable players.

4- He seems unwilling to raise his initial offers much. If he makes an offer and that player gets a higher offer, Sha says take it or leave it.

5- SH still seems far behind most Power 5 schools in NIL budget. Seems we are working with somewhere between $1.0M and $1.4M not $1.5-2.0M.

He just opened recruitment again . Is there interest?

Bronny James appears ready to join his father in the NBA.

Bronny, the eldest son of Lakers superstar LeBron James, is planning to stay in the 2024 NBA Draft after being medically cleared to play in the league, The Athletic reported Monday.

The 19-year-old received clearance from the NBA’s Fitness to Play Panel following his cardiac arrest due to a congenital heart defect last year, and is allowed to participate in the pre-draft combine this week, per ESPN.

The USC guard is scheduled to participate in five-on-five scrimmages starting Tuesday, according to NBADraft.net

Bronny’s future has been a major storyline entering this year’s draft since his future could be tied to his father’s.

James, 39, has said he hopes to play in the NBA with his son, and Bronny entering this year’s draft would potentially pave the way for that opportunity.

The team that drafts Bronny could, in theory, have the upper hand in landing James this summer. The four-time NBA MVP holds a $51.4 million team option with the Lakers for the upcoming season.

Los Angeles could draft Bronny in hopes it convinces James to stay around.

Bronny is projected as a second-round pick and multiple mock drafts have the Lakers using the 55th pick — a second-round selection — to draft the freshman, including The Ringer.

However, James’ agent, Rich Paul, recently downplayed how Bronny will affect his father’s plans.

“The idea of them playing together is not a priority. It’s not foremost, at least any longer, in LeBron James’ mind,” ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said.

“Rich Paul’s goal here in the pre-draft process for Bronny James is to see if there’s the right developmental organization, a place that can take a young player like Bronny James … If he does go in the draft, he very likely would spend next year in the G League.

“That’s the priority for them as a family. What’s best for Bronny James? If it ends up them together, that would be great, but I don’t get a sense it’s playing much of any role in LeBron James’ decision on next season.”

If that’s the case, Bronny’s case is lacking for a freshman prospect.

Bronny averaged just 4.8 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.1 assists while shooting 36.6 percent — 26.7 percent from 3 — for a bad USC team that did not qualify for the NCAA Tournament.

While acknowledging that Bronny even playing this season was a triumph in its own right, those statistics would not generate draft buzz for almost any other freshman.

Bronny declared for the draft in April while maintaining his collegiate eligibility.

Should Bronny decide before the May 29th deadline to return to college, he will transfer from USC, which lost the coach that recruited him in Andy Enfield.

Seeing it on Twitter and his Instagram. Backcourt looks set with Harmon, Jenkins, Coleman, Middleton, Felton and maybe DAW. Add a decent big and this is an interesting roster.