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  • New football signee; sand volleyball tournament

    Ron Turner said he wanted to get more offensive linemen on the football roster. Turner's apparently picked up one, FIU announcing the signing of Byron Pinkston, a 6-3, 300-pound center from Dean College. Pinkston was a Honorable Mention Junior College All-America selection in 2012.

    Reminder: tomorrow night, 7 p.m., the football [...]

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  • New football signee; sand volleyball tournament

    Ron Turner said he wanted to get more offensive linemen on the football roster. Turner's apparently picked up one, FIU announcing the signing of Byron Pinkston, a 6-3, 300-pound center from Dean College. Pinkston was a Honorable Mention Junior College All-America selection in 2012.

    SAND VOLLEYBALL

    No. 1 Pepperdine, FAU, Tulane, Georgia [...]

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  • Stuff like (this and) that...

    On vaca, so my recently sporadic updates from weeks of Doral-nursing-a-dying laptop will seem like breathless Tweets from the front for the next week. Unless they fire or lose a high profile coach, which is what happened at the end of my daughter's 2012 Spring Break.

    So, here's some stuff for [...]

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  • New court at The Branch

    Next week, work begins on the new floor for U.S. Century Bank Arena.

    Now, normally, I would just put a picture of it here, but TypePad, which hosts this blog, seems to have gotten testy. Or maybe it's just having a problem uploading stuff from Windows 8, which is what my [...]

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  • FIU women fall to Florida, 75-68

    Despite Jerica Coley's 37 points and setting a school record in going 18 of 18 from the line, the women's basketball team lost 75-68 to Florida in the first round of the Women's NIT at The Branch. FIU ends the season 19-13.

    Sidney Moss had 28 points for the Gators on 13 [...]

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  • First day of (football) spring; Gators at FIU, women's hoop, 7 p.m. Thursday

    The headline tells you the time of Thursday's Women's NIT game at The Branch. Now on to Tuesday morning at La Cage.

    Attendance: On the first spring football roster, but not present were quarterbacks Loranzo Hammonds Jr. and Favian Upshaw, wide receiver Nick England, wide receiver Johnnie Durante, linebacker Leroy Owens and offensive [...]

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  • WNIT for FIU

    FIU's women's team got an at-large bid to its second consecutive Women's National Invitational Tournament, the WNIT announced Monday night. Where, when and who FIU will play is still undecided. I'll update the post as soon as we know what's what.

    Last season, FIU pounded Stetson 75-47 at The Branch in the [...]

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  • Florida at FIU, Women's NIT, Thursday

    FIU's 19-12 women's team got an at-large bid to its second consecutive Women's National Invitational Tournament, the WNIT announced Monday night, and will host Florida Thursday.

    Florida's 18-14, but went 6-10 in the SEC during the regular season and lost in the second round of the conference tournament to Tennessee 82-73. Interestingly, [...]

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  • Premiere Week at FIU

    This is What's New at FIU Week in the Balls, Jocks and Clocks part of the university.

    Tuesday: Spring Football practice will give the public the first look at FIU under Ron Turner and his staff. That's right, "the public" as practices will be open for viewing. Granted, the 9 a.m. [...]

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  • Rocky lost

    Western Kentucky doesn't exactly fit the Apollo Creed role. FIU was the higher seed and had split with Western this year. The Hillpeople slogged through four games in four days and "slog" fits the fourth game, Monday's Sun Belt Championship game with FIU. Nobody gave up much cheap. You had to work [...]

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