Wednesday, January 20, 2010

News --- Jan 20th, 2010

MassLive.com has a story on Vladimir Ducasse's family in Haiti and his efforts to help his nation.

Matty Vautour has another story on Ducasse coping with the tragedy in his homeland.

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Bleacher Report says the Big East should grab UMass to fill the ( basketball) vacancy if Notre Dame should leave. It would be even better if UMass football made the leap also. That would end the cycle of funding problems every time there is a recession---which seems to happen every four years or so lately.

Off topic question. What happened to Atlantic 10 TV basketball? Like most males I surf sports a lot. Last night I ended up watching Hofstra-George Mason (dropping football does not seem as if it has jump started any interest in Pride basketball, but I digress) ---- I never hit an Atlantic 10 game. Where did all the A10 basketball games go?

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Fordham's John Skelton has been impressing people at the Shrine game workouts. Mike McLaughlin gets mixed reviews.

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Two weeks to go till National Letter-of-Intent Day (a National Holiday for college football fans).