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Jim Boeheim’s ‘best season’ comes to bitter end with son benched
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Sitting subsequent to his sons, Jim Boeheim didn’t hesitate when requested to guage the primary shedding season in his 46 years as head coach at Syracuse.
“It’s the perfect season I’ve ever had,” the 77-year-old mentioned Thursday after his crew was eradicated by Duke within the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Convention Event. “I believe that claims sufficient.”
Barring some form of extremely sudden postseason invitation, Syracuse completed 16-17. The Orange struggled to shut video games all season, and once more in opposition to Duke they faltered late, getting outscored 10-0 within the closing 3:30.
Nonetheless, Boeheim received to educate each of his sons, Jimmy and Buddy, this season and at this level in his Corridor of Fame profession no end result was going to make that any much less satisfying.
“Typically you don’t need to say so much,” Jim Boeheim mentioned.
The ending was solely bitter for the coach as a result of Buddy Boeheim, the ACC’s main scorer, needed to watch from the bench as his massive brother did every part he may to upset No. 7 Duke.
Buddy Boeheim was suspended by the ACC on Wednesday after he punched Florida State’s Wyatt Wilkes within the abdomen.
Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim seems towards a referee in the course of the first half of the crew’s NCAA faculty basketball recreation in opposition to Duke in Syracuse, N.Y., Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022.
(AP Picture/Adrian Kraus)
Buddy attended the postgame information convention along with his brother and his father. He apologized once more for shedding his cool, for not setting an excellent instance for teenagers who look as much as him and for not having the ability to assistance is crew.
“It was simply an sincere mistake on my half,” Buddy Boeheim mentioned. “I’ve to dwell with that, come clean with that and I’m not right here to argue whether or not or not I ought to have performed or if I ought to have gotten suspended.”
His father was not fairly prepared to maneuver one.
Jim Boeheim conceded a flagrant 2 may have been known as on Buddy that will have resulted in an ejection Wednesday. The Orange had been already up by 18 about halfway by means of the primary half with Buddy having scored eight factors. They went on to win 96-57.
The officers missed the punch altogether. No foul was known as and there was no video overview, although Wilkes went all the way down to the ground for a second.
“If it had been dealt with correctly, if they might have seemed on the video — they’ve seemed on the video each single time this 12 months — the child was laying on the ground. Wyatt was laying on the ground. And so they’re going to punish these guys (the officers)? No, they’re not punishing these guys. They’re punishing this man proper right here as a result of they didn’t do their job,” Jim Boeheim mentioned.
Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton tried to diffuse the scenario when requested in regards to the punch after the sport, praising Buddy Boeheim’s character.
Nonetheless, Jim Boeheim felt Buddy was hit with the utmost penalty: suspended for a postseason recreation when there was no assure he would get to play once more.
“I’ve seen folks sort out folks, knock them into the stands, and get a one-game suspension. So he received the utmost for this,” Jim Boeheim mentioned.
A senior, Buddy Boeheim’s faculty profession exceeded even his father’s expectations. He grew to become “Buddy Buckets” and his sharp capturing led Syracuse to a shocking Candy 16 run final season.
“I simply wish to say thanks to everybody who has supported me on this journey. It’s been unbelievable. And I’d do something to put on this uniform … I really gave it every part I had on daily basis,” Buddy Boeheim mentioned, choking up on the finish.
Jimmy Boeheim spent his first 4 years in faculty at Cornell, changing into a among the finest gamers within the Ivy League crew earlier than transferring as a graduate pupil to Syracuse this season.
He proved a succesful ACC participant, too, and his closing faculty recreation may need been the perfect of his profession.
Jimmy Boeheim scored a season-high 28 factors, going 6 for 9 from 3-point vary with seven rebounds whereas taking part in all 40 minutes in opposition to Duke.
“I wished to do every part I may to get him another (recreation),” Jimmy mentioned about Buddy.
The Boeheim boys grew up round their father’s program, wiping the flooring and dreaming of sooner or later following some the nice gamers they watched on the Service Dome.
“I do know the usual that comes with it. Clearly we didn’t dwell as much as that this 12 months, Jimmy Boeheim mentioned.
Buddy Boeheim mentioned: “Not the season we wished. It’s clearly going to harm without end. However apart from that there are such a lot of good issues that I received out of this season. Particularly this season taking part in with my massive brother, who helped me get right here; pushed me to get higher on daily basis.”
Jim Boeheim mentioned it was by no means a given his son’s can be adequate to play in his packages, even Buddy, the extra extremely recruited of the 2.
“However they labored and made themselves into actually, actually good basketball gamers,” Jim Boeheim mentioned. “They had been known as Division II and III gamers by the social media folks in Syracuse. I believe we’ve dispelled that half. So I’m actually pleased with how they received right here. Not that they’re good however how they received right here.”
The Boeheim boys will transfer on now.
As for Dad, who ranks second in profession victories (1,099) in NCAA Division I males’s basketball behind retiring Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski (1,197), he isn’t executed.
“We’ll miss you guys,” Jim Boeheim mentioned. “These guys I’m going to overlook so much. You gained’t see them, however sadly you’ll see me subsequent 12 months.”
Sixteen-time world champion wrestler John Cena announced his retirement Saturday at WWE’s Money in the Bank at ScotiaBank Arena in Toronto, which Cena said was the “perfect” place to make the announcement.
In recent years, Cena has shown off a towel that said “Never give up.”
This time, it said, “The last time is now,” a reference to his entrance song, “The Time Is Now.”
John Cena celebrates his win during Wrestlemania in New Orleans April 6, 2014. (Jonathan Bachman/AP Images for WWE, File)
Cena also wore a shirt that said “The Last Time Is Now Tour” and “John Cena Farewell.”
Cena said he would compete at next year’s Royal Rumble, Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania, which will be his final events. Chants of “Thank you Cena” roared through the crowd afterward.
“Thank you for letting me play in the house you built for so many years,” Cena told the crowd.
Now a Hollywood superstar, Cena made his WWE debut in 2002 and quickly became a fan favorite. His first dominant shtick was as a trash-talking rapper when he was nicknamed the “Doctor of Thuganomics.”
Two of his most famous matches were at back-to-back WrestleMania events in 2011 and 2012, both of which came against Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Cena lost the first but won the second.
John Cena returns to WWE for the WWE Universal Championship during Money in the Bank at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, July 18, 2021. (Joe Camporeale/USA Today Sports)
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Cena has been a part-timer the last five years. His most recent return, before Saturday, came on night two of WrestleMania XL when Cody Rhodes dethroned Roman Reigns as the undisputed WWE champion.
He won his first of 16 world championships at WrestleMania XXI in 2005 at the age of 28.
Outside the ring and film, he is known for having granted the most wishes for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, granting close to 700.
Because of his in-ring success and popularity that was unmatched throughout the 2010s, he’s widely regarded as one of the greatest WWE performers of all time and is often placed on hypothetical WWE “Mount Rushmore” lists.
John Cena enters the ring at the WWE SummerSlam 2015 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn Aug. 23, 2015. (JP Yim/Getty Images)
Cena has headlined WrestleMania five times, and since next year’s in Las Vegas will be his farewell, it’s fair to assume he will headline a sixth.
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First-half goals from Rose Lavelle and Delanie Sheehan lifted NJ/NY Gotham FC to a 2-1 win over Angel City in front of an announced crowd of 16,542 at BMO Stadium on Saturday.
Claire Emslie scored Angel City’s only goal on a penalty kick in the 69th minute. It was the team’s first goal in three games and 254 minutes.
The crowd was the smallest of the season and the second-smallest in Angel City history. The team came into the weekend leading the league in average home attendance at 19,865.
With the loss, the team’s third straight, Angel City (4-9-3) skidded into the NWSL’s seven-week Olympic break having won only once in nine games dating to early May, falling to 11th in the league standings, three points out of the eighth and final playoff berth.
Lavelle, who was dangerous for most of the 60 minutes she played, tested Angel City goalkeeper DiDi Haracic twice — once with each foot — in the third minute before scoring for Gotham (9-3-4) 13 minutes later.
The play started with a long pass ricocheting off Angel City’s Rocky Rodríguez. Sheehan controlled the loose ball and sent it back the other way, starting a five-pass sequence that ended with Crystal Dunn feeding Lavelle in the middle box. From there she had an easy finish for her fifth goal of the season.
Sheehan, a Hermann Trophy semifinalist at UCLA, doubled the lead just before halftime, scoring into an empty goal after Ella Stevens drew Haracic to the top of the six-yard box, then sent a low, left-footed pass to a wide-open Sheehan for her first of the season.
That was one of seven shots on target for Gotham in a first half the reigning NWSL champions dominated.
Angel City, which didn’t put its first shot on goal until the opening seconds of the second half, played much better after the intermission with Emslie giving the team late life with her team-leading sixth goal of the season after Gisele Thompson was taken down in the box by Gotham’s Mandy Freeman.
Thompson left the game after drawing the foul.
Haracic finished with seven saves, matching her season high.
There’s still some time until the start of the Olympics, but tensions are already running high.
France and Germany faced each other at Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany, for an international friendly that apparently became anything but.
With just over two minutes left in the second quarter and the French leading the Germans, 41-23, Dennis Schröder, who also plays for the Brooklyn Nets, drove toward the basket and was fouled by Evan Fournier, a free agent who played for the Knicks and Pistons last season.
Evan Fournier of France in action during an International friendly match against Turkey July 3, 2024, in Rouen, France. (Christian Liewig/Corbis/Getty Images)
Schröder took exception to the foul and quickly approached Fournier with some words. Fournier, though, almost immediately fought back by placing his hands around Schröder’s throat.
The two were separated quickly, and Fournier was ejected for his actions.
Evan Fournier of the French National Basketball Team celebrates with fans after a win in an international friendly match against Turkey July 3, 2024, at Kindarena in Rouen, France. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Both teams are in Group B for the Olympics along with Japan and the soon-to-be-named winner of an Olympic qualifying tournament. They will face each other Aug. 2.
Germany also has Franz and Moritz Wagner of the Orlando Magic and the LA Clippers’ Daniel Theis. Franz just signed a $229 million deal with the Magic. France is loaded with reigning Rookie of the Year Victor Wembanyama and Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert.
France’s Evan Fournier (10) shoots over U.S. forward Kevin Durant (7) during a preliminary round game at the 2020 Summer Olympics July 25, 2021, in Saitama, Japan. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Olympic basketball begins July 27, and the men’s gold medal game is scheduled for Aug. 10.
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