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Championship-Winning Team From College In Northern Westchester Honored At NY State Capitol
The first college team to win a national title from a school in Westchester was honored during a celebration held at the New York State Capitol. The Pleasantville-based Pace University women's lacrosse team, the Setters, which won the 2023 NCAA Division II National Championship on Sunday, May 21, 2023, after beating No. 1-ranked West Chester University 19-9, was honored at the New York State Capitol in Albany on Tuesday, Jan. 16, university officials announced. Earlier Report - White House Visit: Championship-Winning Team From Pace University Honored During the celebration…
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New York High School Athletes Can Now Profit Off Name, Image, Likeness
High school student-athletes in New York who make a name for themselves can now profit off it. At its quarterly Executive Committee meeting, the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) announced that it has revised its rule regarding amateur athletes statewide, and that student-athletes can now profit off their name, image, or likeness. The move comes after an NCAA ruling over the summer allowing college athletes to similarly cash in. NYSPHSAA said that student-athletes can “participate in commercial endorsements provided there is no school team, school, se…
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Fairfield County HS Students Made
Ncaa-t
ype Bracket To Rank Girls, Principals Say
March Madness got a little more maddening for some Connecticut educators in Fairfield County. Students at Fairfield Ludlowe and Fairfield Warde high schools are in hot water after allegedly collaborating to create an NCAA basketball tournament-like bracket to allow participants to “vote” on their female classmates. The brackets reportedly included the names of girls at both schools on the lines where teams would be listed on a traditional bracket, allowing students to vote. The bracket was then posted on social media, school officials said. Brackets were first posted on Instagram and inclu…
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Police Investigating After Pace Coach Allegedly Struck Student's Face With Bat In Locker Room
Police are investigating after Pace University's baseball coach allegedly whacked a freshman player in the face with a bat during a locker room tirade after a loss, then failed to call an ambulance and instead stormed into his office. Mount Pleasant Police got a phone call from someone familiar with the incident explaining what happened on Wednesday, June 3 -- nearly two months after it had occurred, Police Chief Paul Oliva told Daily Voice. "We're looking into it," Oliva said. Pace Athletic Director Mark Brown did not return Daily Voice's request for comment, asking if he thought Manning …
Sports
Covid-
19: NBA Suspends Season After Player Tests Positive For Coronavirus
As college basketball's March Madness, Major League Baseball's Opening Day and the National Basketball Association and National Hockey League playoff approach, the novel strain of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is now having a major effect on American sports. In a shocking development, the NBA has suspended the regular season until further notice. The announcement came shortly after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday night, March 11. On Monday, March 9, the NBA instituted a policy banning non-essential personnel from locker rooms. Earlier in th…
Sports
Covid-
19: March Madness Will Be Played Without Fans In Stands
March Madness will be less mad this year. Hours after the World Health Organization upgraded the COVID-19 outbreak a “pandemic,” the NCAA announced that the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments will be played without fans. NCAA President Mark Emmert said that only essential staff and some family members will be permitted to attend games during the tournament. “Based on [the panel’s] advice and my discussions with the NCAA Board of Governors, I have made the decision to conduct our upcoming championship events, including the Division I men’s and women’s basketball tournaments, with…
Sports
Covid-
19: Ivy League Cancels Men's, Women's Basketball Tournaments
The first Division I college basketball tournaments have been canceled due to the spread of the novel strain of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The Ivy League has canceled its men's and women's basketball conference tournaments because of concerns about COVID-19. The league made the announcement on Tuesday, March 10. The four-team tournaments were scheduled for Friday, March 13 through Sunday, March 15 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Ivy League will award its automatic NCAA Tournament bids to the regular-season champions, the Yale men and Princeton women.
Sports
Covid-
19: College Basketball Conference Suspends Player Handshakes Before, After Playoff Games
March will be mad for a different reason this year, as one NCAA Division I conference announced that the long time pre- and post-game tradition is being temporarily shelved to help curtail the spread of coronavirus. The Atlantic 10 Conference announced that it won’t permit handshakes between players before or after games in its upcoming postseason conference tournaments. The league is also expected to provide sanitizing gel to teams to use in locker rooms. The University of Dayton Arena will host the women’s basketball tournament this weekend, Friday, March 6 Sunday, through March 8; while…
Sports
Fairfield Native Elliot Herman Helps Final Four-Bound UConn Women Make NCAA History
The UConn women's basketball team will make history with an NCAA record 12th consecutive Final Four appearance when it faces Notre Dame on Friday night, April 5. That’s two more than John Wooden’s UCLA men's teams managed. So many people share in this moment and hope for an unprecedented 12th title in a span of only 25 years. Among them is Fairfield native Elliot Herman. The Fairfield Ludlowe grad (Class of ’15), who is now a senior at UConn majoring in Communications with a Marketing minor, has served as one of several student managers for the team over the past two years. Herman h…
Schools
Nyack College Closing Rockland Campus, Will Return To Manhattan
Nyack College has announced that it is planning on leaving Rockland County and “returning home” to New York City. School officials said on Wednesday that “Nyack (College) is heading back home to New York City to continue to pursue (its) mission of 'preparing men and women to take the whole Gospel to the whole world.’ This will establish Nyack as a truly unique Christian college. A Nyack degree will be the calling card of one truly ready to lead and to serve in the 21st century.” The college and Alliance Theological Seminary announced that it has applied to the state to operate solely out of…
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Adidas Executive, College Basketball Recruiting Insiders Convicted In
Sdny
Corruption Case
Three whistleblowers have been convicted have been convicted for funneling money to top prospects to steer them toward some of college basketball’s biggest programs. James Gatto, Merl Code and Christian Dawkins are facing up to 20 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud for their roles in running schemes to recruit players in violation of NCAA rules. The three were tried in Manhattan federal court by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. Gatto, the director of global basketball sports marketing at Adidas, Code, an Ad…
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