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FIU Golden Panthers Prowl (10 unread)

• Mendoza/Samoday reach final four of sand pairs championship

  FIU's sand volleyball season, which ended Sunday, could've come with the Brooklyn-esque "Wait 'til next year!"

  Three of the four players on FIU's top two pairs, Jessica Mendoza/Maryna Samoday and Kate Stepanova/Ksenia Sukhareva, are juniors. The 6-3 Stepanova finished her graduate work at FIU and will be the only player out of eligibility.

  Mendoza/Samoday got to the semifinals [...]

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• Coming, going on grass & winning in sand

  When you've got a small roster that might be getting shorter after grades say some guys had trouble with the "student" part of student-athlete, you start recruiting the next class as soon as possible.

  FIU's thrown out offers to Neptune Beach Fletcher quarterback/punter Luke Medlock (brother of Jake Medlock), Jacksonville Bishop Kenny [...]

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• Moving Days

  That's what this weekend was. Students moving out. Students moving in. Players getting told where to move next.

  And guys moving from here to there in 10.63 seconds. That's how long it took FIU football signee Wilkerson Myrtil, out of Orlando Jones, to win the Class 2A state championship in the [...]

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• Tourek to San Diego in 6th round

  FIU defensive end Tourek Williams heard his name in the big NFL choose-up when San Diego picked him in the sixth round, 179th overall.

  Now the Norland High graduate gets a shot at making a team in one of North America's most beautiful cities. Williams' training camp mission (and you know [...]

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• Cyp taking a short trip

    

  And, as agent Drew Rosenhaus pointed out, by going in the second round, FIU safety Johnathan Cyprien will get a four-year contract instead of a five-year one. Back to the Jacksonville bank earlier if he plays well.

  Jacksonville finished last season 2-14. Second round picks should be starting on teams coming off 2-14. New [...]

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• Cyprien goes to Jacksonville

  Safety Johnathan Cyprien's party got started quickly Friday night as Jacksonville took him with the first pick in the second round of the NFL Draft. I'll have video from the party on the blog later. Right now, I've got to crank out the story, edit the photos and video, blah, [...]

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• No First Round for Cyprien

  Oh, well. The draft watch party's tomorrow anyway.

  NFL Network's Mike Mayock, the best of the draft analysts, had FIU safety Johnathan Cyprien as the third best safety in the draft. One of the two he rated better was Florida's Matt Elam, who went to Baltimore with the last pick in [...]

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• Where Will Cyp Go? and Golf Stuff

  San Francisco, Green Bay, Dallas, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Washington, over to 27th Avenue and turn north to the Dolphins...all have been mentioned as possible landing spots for safety Johnathan Cyprien either Thursday or Friday in the NFL Draft.

  I like that Cyprien's holding his draft watch party Friday, the night of Rounds 2 and [...]

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• Evans signee No. 1: Daniel Robinson

  New FIU men's hoop coach Anthony Evans wasted no time trying to get more size onto the roster, signing 6-10 Daniel Robinson to a letter of intent.

  Robinson spent the 2012-13 season across the state at the IMG Academy after going to high school at Chesapeake (Va.) Atlantic Shores Christian. As [...]

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• Sand Nationals: pairs da, team nyet

  Early in the season, sand volleyball coach Rita Buck-Crockett said FIU's top two pairs could stand up against any in the country. FIU just needed to get some depth behind them for team success.

  While FIU got enough depth to get to No. 8 in the nation, that still left them [...]

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