Sports

2022 - 2 - 13

Sports Communication: Electronic Hog Line observation suspension ... (worldcurling.org)

Due to technical issues with the curling stone handles, the electronic observation system will be suspended for hog line judging starting from Men's ...

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Sports Recap: Women's fencing, women's tennis crowned ... (The Daily Princetonian)

In last week's opening game, the Princeton Tigers (8–14–2 overall, 7–9–1 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)) took down the Yale Bulldogs (5–15–1, 4–10–1) ...

Columbia’s matches on Saturday, Feb. 12 saw two out of three wins in the double matches and all five single wins in favor of Princeton. The Sunday, Feb. 13 match against the Harvard Crimson yielded results similar to Saturday’s with two double wins and five single wins. The Tigers (17–5 overall, 7–2 Ivy League) defeated the Dartmouth Big Green (5–15, 2–7) by a score of 85–40 on Saturday, Feb. 12 at Jadwin Gymnasium. Princeton walked onto the court in the opening half with intentions to dominate the game, and that is exactly what they did. Princeton dominated the ice on Sunday against the Dartmouth Big Green as well, winning 4–1. The Tigers scored three goals within the first half of the opening period to gain a 3–0 advantage. Wilson Conn is a co-head editor for the Sports section at the 'Prince' who typically covers football, basketball, and breaking news. Senior Maggie Hock ran the fastest 1000 meters in school history with a time of 2:44.00. Sophomore Tsion Yared followed with 2:47.00, earning the fourth-best mark in school history. Their Friday, Feb. 11 game, however, saw less than ideal results for the Tigers with a 7–1 loss against No. 19 Clarkson (17–7–6, 12–2–4). The two had competed earlier in the season at Hobey Baker Rink when Princeton fell 8–3. The Clarkson Golden Knights scored the first six goals of the game, all during the first two periods. Despite a loss to start off the weekend, the Tigers swept Dartmouth (8–18–1, 2–17–1) with wins in their matchups on Saturday, Feb. 12 and Sunday, Feb. 13. Unfortunately, the momentum didn’t last for long, as the Tigers lost at Baker Rink on Feb. 14 to the Dartmouth Big Green (5–17–3, 4–12–2), who were second-to-last in the ECAC entering the game. Despite a strong first period, though, the Tigers faltered in the second and third, letting in two goals from Harvard en route to a 2–0 loss. The Tigers, in first place and undefeated in the league, have earned a spot in the Ivy League tournament. Junior forward Maggie Connors added two goals and sophomore forward Annie Kuehl added one to the scoreboard during the second period to secure the win for the Tigers. The Tigers netted both of their goals in the second period less than two minutes apart, scored by senior forward Corey Andonovski and sophomore forward Nick Seitz. The Tigers had won all of their games against Ivy League teams this season up to this point.

Winter Olympic sports can put athletes on the (literal) edge (Manhattan Mercury)

BEIJING — Skiers skidding into safety nets. Snowboarders eating it on the halfpipe. Speedskaters crashing into the barriers — and each other.

Merl Code Peels Back the Curtain on College Basketball's Bribery ... (CalBearsMaven)

Deals with Anthony Davis and Brian Bowen were also discussed by Merl Code, former Adidas executive sentenced to prison in the case.

A guy who prided himself on doing his job was incomprehensibly being told by the cops that elements of the job were considered criminal behavior, and his career started to crumble. The stress of the Nike job drove Code out of the business for a short period of time. Code wrote that early in Davis’s time at Kentucky, in the fall of 2011, his father, “Big Ant,” was laid off from his job and the family was financially unstable. With John Calipari getting an overabundance of the top recruits in the country at the time, Florida and every other program were fighting for scraps. Now, with athletes being permitted to profit off their names, images and likenesses, I actually feel vindicated in helping that family in the way that we did. I had some solid relationships with folks in Lexington, so the first call I made was to a former assistant athletic director. As he wrote in the book, “The gist of the prosecution was that, as it related to me, my actions made Brian Bowen ineligible, thus defrauding the University of Louisville. As a consultant with Adidas, I did not act on my own, nor could I have done so. He wrote: “If I wanted to, if I REALLY wanted to, I could create a real s---storm in this space by mentioning the names of the coaches, athletic directors and big-time recruits at a number of high-profile universities in the ACC, the Big 12, the Pac 12, the Big Ten, the SEC and other major D-I conferences over the years whose texts, emails and phone conversations were intercepted by the FBI, who the government so deftly kept away from the jury because it exonerated us. But Code isn’t interested in helping the NCAA and further exposing Black assistant coaches to scrutiny or sanctions. “If anyone thinks that there is such a thing as a clean big-time program, they need to wake up and smell the donkey s---,” Code wrote in his book. Eight of the nine men who were charged, found guilty and sentenced in the scandal were Black. None were in high-paying, high-profile jobs. At the time he was an Adidas consultant who helped the brand procure talent for its flagship college basketball programs; previously he had been an executive at Nike in a similar role.

TBK Bank Sports Complex plans to add three-story golf range, hotel ... (Quad City Times)

The City of Bettendorf and the developers of the TBK Sports Complex have drawn up another development agreement to further expand the massive sports complex ...

Of that, the city plans to issue up to $7 million in debt for the I-80 economic development area. The city also plans to build a pedestrian bridge over Middle Road to connect the two complexes by Jan. 1, 2025 — the city is pursuing a federal grant to off-set those costs. In Bettendorf’s case, 75% of incremental taxes generated by the golf entertainment facility, fields and entertainment area will be issued in the form of up to 40 semi-annual grants to the developer, which the city estimates to total $7 million. The sports complex is already part of a tax-increment-finance district, an economic development incentive tool that cities use to collect taxes on increases in land value as it adds development. The city has already spent more than $1 million for utility burial. It is only limited by the 20-year maximum lifetime of the TIF.” This go-around, the city of Bettendorf has committed at least $5.8 million in economic development grants, infrastructure improvements and a 75% tax-increment-finance rebate for 20 years. A strip of commercial retail, a hotel, and convenience store, has an identical agreement, which the city expects to carve out another $7 million in rebates from the TIF fund. As in 2017, when the complex was first proposed, the city and developer are pursuing another multi-million-dollar economic development agreement to make it happen. That total is $14 million that the city expects to award the developer from taxes on increased land value over the 20-year agreement. That's more than the city's $1.9 million in grants it gave five years ago. Under the proposal, Bettendorf would give the developer $3 million in economic development grants, paid in two installments.

Major expansion plans at the TBK Bank Sports Complex (WHBF - OurQuadCities.com)

A formal announcement is expected Wednesday but documents presented to Bettendorf City Council outline the plans. The expansion of the TBK Bank Sports ...