This soph to be has visits lined up this summer and fall with MD, Gtown, Arizona, and Kentucky

Here is the VUSports interview with Dylan Painter regarding his visit to Villanova yesterday and his recruitment:

https://villanova.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1774480

Junior Jordy Williamsz (Melbourne Australia) 2nd year in a row in 1,500 meters.
Senior Stephanie Schappert (Delray Beach, Fla) 1,500 meters. Both first team.
Angel Piccirillo (Homer City, Pa.) 5,000 meters. second team. Dating back to 1983,Villanova has had 37 women combine to earn outdoor All-american honors a total of 79 times.The total includes 71 top eight finishes all time at the NCAA Championships.
Senior Rob Denault (Aurora,Ont.) 1,500 meters. Junior Patrick Tiernan (Toowoomba, Australia) 5,000 meters. Both second team.

What a clown

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/tim-donaghy-gamblings-golden-boy.html

Hey Joe: Did you get a mountain bike yet? Are there any other mountain bikers on this board?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/sports/baseball/st-louis-cardinals-hack-astros-fbi.html?_r=0

The Feds are going after the Cards.

Armenians everywhere weep

Jumping in for 2016. The debates between him & Hillary will draw higher ratings than the Super Bowl.

Conducted a little research. My suspicions were pretty much confirmed. Only a few teams have considerable success over the last 25 years.

I looked at years in the playoffs, years not in playoffs but .500 or above, years below .500, division crowns. WS appearances, and titles.

Double-digit playoff appearances:
ATL (18)
NYY (17)
STL (12)
BOS (11)
OAK (10)

18 of 30 teams fall between making the playoffs 4 and 8 times over the last 25 years. Another 7 teams made it between 1 and 3 times.

Double-digit division winners:
ATL (16)
NYY (13)
STL (10)

16 of 30 teams have won their division between 3 and 6 times. Eight teams are between 0 and 2 times. Another three teams at 7 and 8 times.

In '94 (season cut short by strike) there were no division winners and of course no playoffs. Also, FLA (22 years), COL (22), ARI (17), and TB (17) haven't been around for 25 years. WAS (10) & MON (15) have shared a franchise.

Years of making playoffs or .500 record:
NYY (22)
ATL (21)
LAD (21)
STL (19)
BOS (19)

16 of 30 teams have between 10 and 16 years of playoffs/.500 record. Nine other teams have between 5 and 9 seasons of making the playoffs/.500 record.

Teams with 15+ losing seasons:
PIT (20)
KC (19)
BAL (17)
CHIC (17)
MIL (17)
FLA (16)
SD (16)
DET (15)
NYM (15)
CIN (15)

As for the Phillies. Only 10 teams have made the playoffs more than the six times they have gone. Only six teams have won more than their six divisions. Only four teams have made the WS more than the three times they made it. Is it super? No, but I'll take it considering that many teams have been worse during this time.

World Series Titles:
NYY (5)
BOS (3)
SF (3)

Discuss.......

We always hear about how Notre Dame is "one of those schools where even the athletes have to be good students." Image, meet reality.

http://espn.go.com/college-football...ting-irish-says-all-players-risk-academically

Manufacturing and foisting a rivalry upon UCF. This is pretty embarrassing. Especially when you consider 2 years ago UCF smoked UConn and that score is not on the trophy.

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yikes. speaking of- anyone have the picture of the SJU (PA) banner?

If you've watched the NBA at all this year, you've enjoyed watching the Golden State Warriors master the skill of ball movement and shot making. They've been beautiful to watch. Very similar to our team this year.

Unfortunately for the Warriors, the similarity between us and them has carried into NBA finals. The Cavaliers are taking away the passing lanes forcing the Warriors into an isolation game, and in do doing are making the most efficient offensive team in the NBA look inept. Sound familiar? (My editorial comment is that it's not about size, it's about beating people off the dribble).

So as to keep the Golden State/Nova comparison theme going, my crystal ball says that the little Aussie prick banks in a 3 pointer with under a minute left to win it for the Cavs.

DH working out for the Pistons this morning. He is someone they are considering with their second round pick

Just renewed my Nova football season tickets online!

It is going to be a great season with national rankings anywhere from # 2 to # 4 or # 5 depending on the poll you read!!

After 28 years, Joe Eichorn will no longer be the VU play by play announcer. He will however be doing other sports game day public address work. The thinking is Ryan Fannon will move over to play by play and a new person will handle color.
Thanks joe for 28 great years.

2017 guard Jayden Saddler is transferring to St Bens and will play alongside Andre Rafus. Yes, Jayden is the little brother of Davon (Delaware) and Tevon (UNCG) Saddler

a) for those who participate in the Canoebrook golf outing fundraiser for Villanova basketball - the event is scheduled for monday, 21 September. Save the date.

b) the game in Hawaii on 7 December will be precede by some sort of Villanova fan oriented event on the west coast - possibly LA or San Diego. That will be on the 4th. Team is in Hawaii for the 5th and 6th. Game will most likely be played on Hickam air force base to avoid potential weather issues that arise when trying to play on air craft carriers and the like. It is unclear so far how ticketing will be handled and what kind of # of tickets will be available for fans of the teams.

c) hoping to close the loop shortly with Painter to get his thoughts on his visit yesterday.

Anyone else as torn as I am watching him play?

I cringe thinking of him draining shots while falling over against us, but he's that hard-working, not as physically gifted type of player I've come to really root for and appreciate.

Anyone else?

I know this pretty random but I'm wondering if he has any affiliation with VU. I feel like there was threads about him in the past that he went to school here. I may be completely losing it and he has nothing to do with Villanova. Just curious if anybody knows if he ever attended VU. Thanks

Jordy Williamsz and Rob Denault bothmran in the 1500 semis tonight at NCAA track championships in tracktown, Eugene OR. Both squeaked thru and qualified for friday night's final. Race will be live on espn friday night. 2 women, Angel Piccirrillo and Stephanie Shappert will run tomorrow night in the 1500 semis. That should be on espnu or espn2. Tonight coverage on espnu.

Nova guys teaming up with St. Joe's (PA) and Temple.

Anyone planning on going? The games are July 17 - 19 at Philly U.

http://www.csnphilly.com/ncaa/basketball-tournament-returns-bigger-pay-day

http://www.thetournament.com/