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II. THE FAMILY
Every coach has a gimmick. Massiminos was family. Come to Villanova to play basketball, and youll be part of a family. Well eat pasta dinners together and talk about life and then well win because youll love each other like brothers. It was a sales pitch, wrapped in genuine emotion. The youngest child of an immigrant shoemaker who had a sixth-grade education, Massimino would have five children of his own, and they would give him 16 (17 now) grandchildren. Even on the road Rollie never wanted to be alone in hotel suite, says Mitch Buonaguro, his top assistant in 85. He always liked to have people around him.
In the early 1980s, many prospective recruits and their families were eager to buy a piece of Massiminos schtick. His family atmosphere was absolutely key, says Harold Pressley, who in 1982 as a senior at St. Bernard High in Uncasville, Conn., was an All-America. He came in, lounged around with my mother, seemed real comfortable. It worked. It was believable. And it was real. Jensen says, I was recruited by Providence, Syracuse, UCLA and South Carolina. I felt very comfortable with the community that Coach Mass had built at Villanova.
tulane university, rocked by an alleged point-shaving scheme and cash payments to players, cancels its basketball program. Students successfully persuade school president Eamon Kelly to reinstate the program in 1988.
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The 85 team came together in one huge chunk and then in small pieces that followed. In the summer of 1979 Howard Garfinkels Five-Star Basketball Camp in the Pocono Mountains was attended by a stunning roster of future Hall of Fame players, including Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Ewing, Chris Mullin and Karl Malone, all of whom would enter college in the fall of 81. Among the other prospective recruits at the camp were McLain, a Long Island native living with his high school coach in southeastern Massachusetts; McClain, a willowy 6' 6" forward from Worcester, Mass.; and Pinckney, a solid big man from Adlai Stevenson High in the Bronx who was under-recruited. The three of them became friends, and when Buonaguro induced McLain to commit to Villanova, McLain put the heat on McClain to join him, and McClain in turn applied pressure on Pinckney. It was nothing complicated, says McClain. We connected. We all wanted the Big East, and we knew with a point guard, a small forward and a big man, maybe we could do something.
Point guard Gary McLain was part of Villanovas stellar 1981 recruiting class. He, Pinckney and McClain would form the nucleus of the Wildcats title team.
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As freshmen and sophomores, the big three played on good teams that were beaten in the Sweet 16, in 1982 by Jordans North Carolina team and in 83 by Houstons Phi Slamma Jamma. Eighty-three was the best team we ever had, says Massimino. A year later the Wildcats went 19-12 and lost to Illinois in the second round. The seniors reported to preseason conditioning in the fall of 1984 with 67 wins on their rsum, yet no trophies in the case. But they had experience, says Steve Pinone, a sophomore reserve on the 85 team who later became an assistant coach under Massimino and Lappas. They had been to two Sweet 16s and fought tons of Big East battles. Pinckney, McClain, McLain and the junior Pressley had been joined in the starting lineup by junior shooting guard Dwight Wilbur from Paterson, N.J. Jensen would back up Wilbur, while the hulking Everson and Mark Plansky, a 6' 7" freshman sapling from the Boston area, would get frontline minutes off the bench. They struggled throughout the regular season. I still dont know why, says Pinckney. The chemistrythat senior year, it just wasnt happening. A soft early schedule and some nice wins got the Wildcats to 13-3 heading into a January nonleague game at Marylands Cole Field House. The game was NBCs featured Sunday-afternoon telecast with the fabled announcing team of Dick Enberg and Al McGuire, and the Terps beat Villanova 77-74. Plansky, seven months removed from his high school graduation, found himself subbed in for Pressley and guarding Maryland All-America forward Len Bias. As soon as I came into the game Lenny drops to the low block and starts screaming, Mismatch! Mismatch! Give me the rock! says Plansky. Ive got a tape of the game. After Lenny gets about his fifth basket over me, Al McGuire says, on TV, Mr. and Mrs. Plansky, its not your sons fault. Hes just guarding a superstar. Bias, who would be dead of a cocaine overdose 17 months later, finished with 30 points, and that defeat sent Villanova into a regular-season-ending tailspin that included six losses in its last 11 games.
These were heavy days in the Big East, and among Villanovas nine regular-season defeats were two each to Georgetown (both close, a fact that would be widely overlooked at the Final Four in Lexington) and St. Johns, teams that volleyed the No. 1 ranking all season. The most humbling was the regular-season finale. With his team trailing Pittsburgh 40-23 at the half in Pitts Fitzgerald Field House, Massimino told his starters at halftime, Youve got two minutes to show me something, or youre coming out. He gave them three before yanking them for good. Reserves played the last 17 minutes and Pitt won, 85-62. Villanova slunk home to Philadelphia with an 18-9 record, firmly on the NCAA bubble, even from the most powerful conference in the country.
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The best rivalries in sports don't have an offseason. We all know this, which is sort of a basic litmus test for how serious your favorite rivalry is.
A second test is how far the rivalry extends beyond sports and into areas of life where, you know, we really should not care so much about such trivial things, although we do.
Ohio State-Michigan is the perfect example of a rivalry that passes both tests.
Here's the latest brilliant example: The Ohio State College of Veterinary Medicine just completed a construction project, and one of the new additions is an area for walking dogs.
What is in that dog-walking area, you ask?
Yes, a Michigan fire hydrant for dogs to piss on.
Here's photo evidence, courtesy of Eleven Warriors.
Bravo, Ohio State vet school. You can't even make this up.
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3/27/15: Justin Smoak smacks a two-run home run to center field, bringing home Dalton Pompey and increasing the Blue Jays' lead to 4-1
Here's a rundown of the other news that came out of Spring Training on Tuesday:
Justin Smoak made the team and will begin the year as the club's starting first baseman. That decision allows Edwin Encarnacion to open the season as a designated hitter, but it's still likely the veteran slugger will get some occasional time at first.
The Blue Jays optioned catcher Josh Thole to Triple-A Buffalo, which means Russell Martin will be behind the plate for all of R.A. Dickey's starts. Dioner Navarro assumes the backup role and it's possible he'll also start some games at DH when Encarnacion slides over to first.
TOR@BAL: Tolleson takes Chen deep to left-center
3/25/15: Steve Tolleson lines a solo home run off of Wei-Yin Chen to left-center field, giving the Blue Jays a two-run lead
Utilityman Steve Tolleson was informed that he has made the team. Tolleson will begin the year as a backup infielder and outfielder and his versatility should be crucial with the club likely starting the season with an eight-man bullpen. The decision to use Tolleson plus eight relievers likely means that Ryan Goins will be optioned to Triple-A Buffalo in the coming days.
Kevin Pillar was named the starting left fielder until Michael Saunders is able to return from a left-knee injury. Saunders has yet to be officially placed on the disabled list, but he has been ruled out for Opening Day. Saunders likely won't be ready until at least the Blue Jays' home opener on April 13 vs. Tampa Bay.
The Blue Jays have yet to make a final call on their bullpen as general manager Alex Anthopoulos left the door open for possible additions from outside the organization in the coming days. That may put Liam Hendriks' and Todd Redmond's spot into question, but another pitcher who was on the bubble, prospect Roberto Osuna, confirmed via Twitter Tuesday evening that he had made the team.
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Paint Out Norwich organisers Stephanie Sinclair, James Colman, Will Buckley and Helen Vinsen launch the 2015 open air painting competition celebrating Norwich. Picture by SIMON FINLAY.
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A wonderful sweeping panorama of our fine city is set to inspire artists when an open air art competition returns to Norwich later this year.
Paint Out Norwich - an open air art competition which saw seven Norwich landmarks celebrated in paint by 28 artists last autumn - will take to the citys streets for a second time in October. Up to 50 artists will be dotted around Norwich competing in the two-day competition on October 20 and 21.
At yesterdays launch some new additions to the competition were revealed, including a mass painting event which will see all the artists gather together at Mousehold Heath to paint the citys skyline on October 22.
James Colman, who organises Paint Out Norwich with Will Buckley, said: We are very excited about doing Paint Out Norwich again and that we are expanding it to include more artists. We are also going to diversify the programme so that we keep our core event from last year but on top of that we are going to have a select number of artists doing a nocturnal event that will run parallel to the day event.
We will also be doing a mass Paint Out event on Mousehold Heath. It lends itself to a chance for artists to paint a wonderful panoramic view of Norwich and includes all the historic landmarks you associate with Norwich.
Last year the seven landmarks the artists painted during the original two-day competition were Norwich Castle, Norwich Cathedral, the Cathedral of St John The Baptist, Pulls Ferry, Elm Hill, Norwich Market and The Forum. For 2015 there will be a different selection of locations. The Maddermarket Theatre will be one of them but the rest are still being decided.
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The D.C. Zoning Commission took its first action on Monday night against developers building the citys growing number of pop-up homes, voting to reduce the maximum by-right height of single-family rowhouses to 35 feet, down from 40, in some of the citys gentrifying neighborhoods like Capitol Hill, Shaw and Columbia Heights.
But developers of pop-up homes residences with upward extensions that often jut out over neighboring dwellings did win one key concession from the commission. In a split vote, the five-member Commission decided to allow developers to convert their pop-ups into condo buildings with up to four units, with one reserved for families who earn at most 80 percent of the citys median family income.
Originally, the Zoning Commission had considered a proposal that would have barred developers from building three or more units in those neighborhoods, a measure meant to make it less lucrative for pop-up developers.
The Zoning Commissions decision is not final. But its vote Monday night gives residents and developers who have been anxiously following the pop-up debate an initial look at the likely set of rules that could govern one of the citys most controversial building practices. Later this spring, the Zoning Commission will take a second, final vote after a legally required advisory review by the federal National Capital Planning Commission.
In the last year, pop-ups have generated impassioned, marathon public hearings across the city, especially in the citys R-4 zone, home to 35 percent of the citys low-density residential lots.
Many residents in those neighborhoods get angry when developers buy an old two-story rowhouse, and plop on top a third story; or, when developers raze the rowhouse and construct a brand new three-story residence. Longtime residents argue that the pop-up clashes with the established character of their community of two-story rowhouses, or simply blocks their sunlight, solar panels, or even their chimneys.
But pop-up developers have said that pop-ups are essential to meet the growing demand of people seeking to move into the nations capital. Theyve said that condo units within pop-ups allow middle-class families less expensive alternatives to move into pricier, established neighborhoods, where rowhouses can cost close to $1 million or more.
During Monday nights meeting, the commission voted 3 to 2 in favor of the by-right 35-foot height cap, but also allowed residents or developers to pursue a special exception if they want a 40-foot tall building.
Robert Miller, one of the commissioners who voted against the measure, suggested that the real problem with the pop-ups isnt the 40-foot height, but the buildings design.
We dont need to change a whole zoning framework, Miller said. We may need to add design development standards or a special-exception process.
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By - Associated Press - Monday, March 30, 2015
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Brett Anderson gave up four hits in six scoreless innings, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-2 Monday.
Los Angeles turned several sharp defensive plays behind Anderson, who lowered his ERA to 2.13.
So far, its been tremendous, Anderson said of the Dodgers fielders. Theyve made all the plays.
Los Angeles hopes the additions of Jimmy Rollins at shortstop and Howie Kendrick at second help its pitching staff.
Its easy to see what we were trying to do, manager Don Mattingly said. We want to be a better defensive club. Some of the things that really hurt us early last year was to give away so many outs and the taxing on the bullpen. Obviously the guys we brought in are two solid guys.
After Nick Evans two-run single in the seventh off Mike Adams, Adam Liberatore, Pedro Baez and Paco Rodriguez combined for two innings of hitless relief.
Rollins led off the game with a double and scored on Adrian Gonzalezs one-out groundout. Kendrick walked, and Carl Crawford tripled.
A.J. Ellis hit an RBI double in the fourth off Yoan Lopez, who allowed three runs and four hits in four innings. Kike Hernandez added a run-scoring single in the seventh against Enrique Burgos.
Arizonas Nick Evans went 2 for 3, raising his average to .414.
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VOL. 8 | NO. 14 | Saturday, March 28, 2015
Insure Tennessee deserves a vote on the floors of the Tennessee House and Senate.
The amendments offered in the second life of the Medicaid expansion proposal are reasonable additions that answer legitimate concerns of legislators whose feelings about the Affordable Care Act and its ramifications run the gamut from blind faith to blind hatred.
It is reasonable to wait on the U.S. Supreme Courts ruling in King v. Burwell, a case that deals specifically with health care exchanges in the Affordable Care Act. The ruling, which could have a broad impact, is expected this summer.
Likewise, some kind of confirmation in writing from Washington that Tennessee can call this off if the feds change who pays for the expansion could work.
Politically, however, such a cutoff should there be a change of terms in Washington is not as simple as changing the locks on office doors somewhere in the states bureaucracy after the furniture is moved out.
We cite the rich and brutal detail of Phil Bredesens move during his tenure as governor to pare the TennCare rolls more than a few years ago.
Such a cutoff would ultimately be a matter of political will and momentum, no matter how many ways the possibility of a cutoff is written down and spelled out.
The verdict of the crucial swing votes on Insure Tennessee, including several Shelby County Republican legislators, is crucial.
As our cover story points out, nothing about the general issue of health care and its cost is simple.
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March 26, 2015 - Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) New York Liberty NEW YORK, NY - March 26, 2015 - The New York Liberty announced today that the team has named Herb Williams and Katie Smith assistant coaches, and Teresa Weatherspoon director of player development. Per team policy, terms of the deals will not be disclosed.
"In her first season, Katie showed that she has the leadership and communication skills required to be an excellent coach, and I expect her to contribute even more this year," said Liberty Head Coach Bill Laimbeer. " Herb will have instant credibility with our players, and his extensive bench experience will be invaluable to our team. When he told me that he would be interested in the job, it was a no brainer to bring him on our staff."
"As a player, T-Spoon was legendary for her work ethic and constant dedication to improvement," said Kristin Bernert, Senior Vice President of Business and Basketball Operations, New York Liberty . "She will lead our efforts in making our players the best they can be both on and off of the court, with a primary focus on skill development this season"
Williams returns to Madison Square Garden after spending 13 seasons as a coach for the New York Knicks (2001-2014), which marked the longest tenure of any on-the-bench assistant coach in franchise history. He first joined the Knicks' staff as an assistant on Dec. 29, 2001, and on two occasions, took the helm as the head coach. The Ohio State alum played in the NBA for 18 seasons with the Pacers, Mavericks, Knicks, and Raptors, averaging 10.8 points and 5.9 rebounds in 1,102 career games. Williams was a member of the Knicks' 1994 and 1999 Eastern Conference Championship teams and became the oldest Knick to ever appear in a game (41 years, four months, nine days) during Game Five of the 1999 NBA Finals against San Antonio. On Feb. 20, 2012, he proudly accepted the distinguished Dick McGuire Knickerbocker Legacy Award.
Smith returns to the Liberty for her second season as an assistant coach. A 14-year WNBA veteran, Smith played on four different teams (Detroit, Minnesota, Washington, Seattle) before spending her final season with the Liberty. Appearing in 448 career games, Smith averaged 13.9 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game. Smith is the all-time leading scorer in women's professional basketball, having notched over 7,000 points in both her American Basketball League and WNBA career. The Ohio State graduate holds the distinction of being the first female Buckeye athlete to have her number retired and is an Olympic gold medalist, winning gold three times with Team USA in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
A Liberty legend, Weatherspoon joined the team in the WNBA's inaugural season in 1997, leading the Liberty to the first-ever WNBA Finals. That same year, she became the league's first winner of the Defensive Player of the Year Award, winning again the following year. Following seven seasons with the Liberty, Weatherspoon signed with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2004, retiring at the end of the season. During her time in the league, Weatherspoon started 220 straight games and led the Liberty to four WNBA
Finals appearances in 1997, 1999, 2000 and 2002. Weatherspoon began her coaching career as the head coach of the Westchester Phantoms of the American Basketball Association in 2007. In 2008, she joined the coaching staff of the Lady Techsters of Louisiana Tech, where she was the head coach from 2009-2013. Weatherspoon was elected to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
The New York Liberty will tip off the 2015 regular season on Fri., June 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Madison Square Garden, hosting the Atlanta Dream. Season ticket packages are available by calling 212-465-6073 or by visiting NYLiberty.com.
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WINE LIST: 83 bottles cited in lawsuit claiming high arsenic levels WINE LIST: 83 bottles cited in lawsuit claiming high arsenic levels
Updated: Friday, March 20 2015 9:14 PM EDT2015-03-21 01:14:32 GMT
The 83 bottles of wine cited in a lawsuit this week as having dangerously high levels of arsenic came from 28 California wineries and were bottled under 31 different brand labels.
The 83 bottles of wine cited in a lawsuit this week as having dangerously high levels of arsenic came from 28 California wineries and were bottled under 31 different brand labels.
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If you're a mom, you're busy. Shalonda Dominique knows that all too wellbut she takes busy to the next level. She's the mom of a newborn, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old--- all of whom were born on the same day of the year.
If you're a mom, you're busy. Shalonda Dominique knows that all too wellbut she takes busy to the next level. She's the mom of a newborn, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old--- all of whom were born on the same day of the year.
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D.C. passed a law legalizing pot use in residences, but the city did not specify how to control the smoke going into other apartments and condos or public areas.
D.C. passed a law legalizing pot use in residences, but the city did not specify how to control the smoke going into other apartments and condos or public areas.
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March 24, 2015 20:57:38 GMT
The actress who plays a nymphomaniac on the second 'AHS' season will return for the fifth installment, joining Lady GaGa and Matt Bomer.
is brought back for the upcoming installment of "". The series creator Ryan Murphy announced her casting on Twitter, "Very excited to announce that Chloe Sevigny returns to the AHS family as a series regular on 'AHS: Hotel.' "
It's unclear what role she will be playing on "Hotel", but she previously portrayed Shelley on the second season "Asylum". Shelley was a diagnosed nymphomaniac who often butted heads with 's Sister Jude and 's Dr. Arden.
On the "Hotel", Sevigny is joined in the cast ensemble by fellow "AHS" alums & and new additions Cheyenne Jackson & . The 13-episode new season of "AHS" is expected to debut on FX in October without the mainstay Lange.
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