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FIU Golden Panthers Prowl

• The Departed: Cristobal and Cyprien

  Well, that was a busy hour on the phone.

  After my cell phone battery drained waiting to ask NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock about what safety Johnathan Cyprien has done to move up his draft board to the No. 3 safety, I saw I had a text message from a [...]

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• The Departed: Cristobal and Cyprien; Coley Player of the Week (again)

  Well, that was a busy hour.

  After my cell phone battery drained waiting to ask NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock about what safety Johnathan Cyprien has done to move up his draft board to the No. 3 safety, I saw I had a text message from a source that former [...]

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• FIU sweeps Stony Brook with 1-0 win

  Mike Franco, Alex Seibold, Mitchell Davis and Mike Gomez combined for a five-hit 1-0 shutout to give FIU a sweep of the season opening series. Julius Gaines went three for four Sunday, seven for 10 in the series, and scored Sunday's only run.

  I'll update this post later.

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• FIU finishes rolling Stony

  Of course Sunday ended with the starter and game-winner dragging the infield.

  
  "That's my field duty," junior Mike Franco said after FIU's 1-0 win. "No matter even if I throw a complete game shutout, I have to do it."

  Franco, who popped a 94 mph fastball Sunday, said he definitely felt [...]

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• More (mostly baseball) stuff from A Great Day at Camp Mitch

   While Friday’s rain made for some long Saturdays for FIU athletes, coaches and staff, it did set up a pretty impressive Don Larsen Day for FIU: 6-0 across four teams playing at Camp Mitch Saturday, 2-0 at each venue.

  Softball reversed its fortunes after a tough start last weekend with wins [...]

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• FIU wins season opener 10-4; Game 2 coming

  Nathan Burns single to right field scored Julius Gaines and Oscar Aguirre to break a 4-4 tie in the sixth, and RBI singles by Aguirre, Burns and Tyler Hibbert in the seventh sent the Panthers to a 10-4 win against Stony Brook in their season opener.

  Ty Sullivan, who pitched four innings [...]

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• FIU wins season opener 10-4, second game 3-0

  Nathan Burns single to right field scored Julius Gaines and Oscar Aguirre to break a 4-4 tie in the sixth, and RBI singles by Aguirre, Burns and Tyler Hibbert in the seventh sent the Panthers to a 10-4 win against Stony Brook in their season opener.

  Ty Sullivan, who pitched four innings [...]

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• Baseball season opener postponed until Saturday

  Baseball season opener, 7:30. It's been postponed until Saturday, 2 p.m. with the second game Saturday 45 minutes after the finish of the first game.

  Just out of view: the four fans not taking shelter in the concession stand area. Of course, three of the four were from the swim [...]

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• Priority Mail

  Directly from the official FIU Police Department reports. I will withhold editorial comment on various parts of the report (well, except for two).

  Last Wednesday, a U.S. Postal Service Priority Mail box in the University Park Towers mailroom drew the olfactory attention of a young woman. She thought it smelled like marijuana, [...]

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• The Wright Effect

  Getting Louisville Trinity QB Travis Wright doesn't by itself save FIU's 2013 recruiting class in the national rankings that'll get reshuffled in two years once some guys soar like eagles, some guys flop like penguins, some guys flunk like dummies and some guys get arrested like cast members from Different Strokes.

  But there's [...]

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