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• Defending Sun Belt women's soccer champs open Friday night at home vs. Stetson

  Half the starting lineup from last year’s Sun Belt Conference champions is gone, so the Sun Belt coaches poll picking FIU women's soccer as the preseason favorite gives props to the talent in the 2010 and 2011 recruiting classes.

  On the 24-woman roster, there are 15 juniors and sophomores, eight freshmen and [...]

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• Track soon? XX soccer picked to repeat; Basketbal Wright

  Heard this morning that while the Sun Belt Conference tolerated FIU not having any track facilities -- heck, the 2013 Sun Belt conference meet will be hosted by FIU...in Miramar -- Conference USA isn't playing that. Word on the street is C-USA has given FIU a time frame, perhaps as [...]

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• Specialists

  After Tuesday's special teams scrimmage got delayed an hour by rain, freshmen Leroy Owens, Patrick Jean, Davison Colimon and Michael Wakefield and redshirt freshman Akil Dan-Fodio drew recognition for their work.

  "All those guys are 6-2, 6-3, 210, 235. Wake's about 245 now," FIU coach Mario Cristobal said. "They're all big bodies who can [...]

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• Two more things from Media Day

  A couple of things I forgot from earlier...

  1. Some programs shoo NFL scouts away for fear the temptation of league money will shorten the careers of their best players by one or two years.

  FIU, on the other hand, embraces the NFL hawks.

  "Not every school allows them in for preseason camp," Cristobal [...]

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• Quick hits from Media Day; T.Y. pics from Sunday

  Not much new at Tuesday's Media Day. But here are a few tidbits, some of which appear also in a story that'll appear in tomorrow's print Herald and online later this evening:

  Mario Cristobal said there's a significant gap from Jake Medlock to Lorenzo Hammonds, Jr., and E.J. Hilliard, but that [...]

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• Another day at Le Cage; why is the Graham Center BK closed today?

  Though posts on volleyball and soccer don't "move the needle" on this blog, readers from the last 12 months know I actually like to post on both. Those three teams started practice last week and I'll be blogging on them soon. Men's soccer has a preseason game at Barry Thursday. The women's soccer team [...]

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• A few thoughts from Saturday night...and football cards

  Usually, as readers of this blog know from last year, postgame blog analysis is done after the game and posted sometime in the wee am hours (exceptions for excessive sleepiness preceding multi-hour morning drives). Last night, I planned to do the same. I didn't plan to get home late, sleepy [...]

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• A few thoughts from Saturday night; Hilton's debut and football cards

  Usually, as readers of this blog know from last year, my usual long-winded postgame blog analysis is done after the game and posted sometime in the wee am hours (exceptions for excessive sleepiness preceding multi-hour morning drives). Last night, I planned to do the same. I didn't plan to get [...]

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• Saturday (not so) early...

  The title refers to the blog post, made after lunch The Saturday morning practice definitely was early. Like if this were the old Saturday morning cartoon days, FIU would've been on the field before the first In The News.

  (Digression: Between Schoolhouse Rock, In the News and ABC's Time for Timer, [...]

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• Friday Football Fun at FIU

  Alliteration abounds!

  Saturday's scrimmage will be 120 plays, divided evenly among 1s vs. 1s, 2s vs. 2s, 3s vs. 3s. They'll roll out most of the offense.

  Safety Jordan Davis, a freshman out of Tampa Alonso, will have knee surgery in the next few days to determine the extent of his ligament damage.

  One of [...]

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