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Read the Pac-12 Letter to the University of California Regents
We all know from printed medical analysis by the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, research carried out by the NCAA, and discussions with our personal student-athlete leaders that important extra journey, together with repetitive journey throughout 3 time zones, impacts student-athletes’ bodily and psychological well-being and their tutorial pursuits.
These elevated journey calls for require student-athletes to journey throughout a number of time zones commonly, which disrupts sleep, temper, and bodily and cognitive perform for days after journey and has cascading private results. In reality, a typical medical guideline is {that a} physique requires at some point to regulate for every time zone crossed.
From our calculations primarily based on 9 of the UCLA groups with common season convention journey schedules (soccer, males’s and girls’s basketball, girls’s volleyball, girls’s soccer, baseball, males’s and girls’s tennis, and softball), UCLA student-athletes competing within the Huge Ten will fly 159% extra air miles and drive 44% extra bus floor milles than they do right this moment within the Pac-12. Longer flight and bus instances add up over the season and can lead to fewer days on campus with their fellow college students centered on schooling. Even when UCLA athletics decides to constitution extra flights, UCLA student-athletes will face, on common, double the times missed on campus.
2. Important hardship for the households of UCLA student-athletes and UCLA alumni
Past the journey hardship for student-athletes, we’re additionally involved by the numerous extra burden UCLA’s resolution places on households of student-athletes and constant, invested alumni.
With nearly all away, convention video games occurring at the least 2,000 miles from campus, the households of UCLA scholar athletes will face longer and dearer journeys to look at their children compete. 70 % of UCLA alumni dwell on the West Coast and can face related journey and expense to look at the Bruins play away video games.
3. Important adverse affect on UCLA bills
Regardless of all the reasons made after the very fact, UCLA’s resolution to affix the Huge Ten was clearly financially motivated after the UCLA athletic division managed to build up greater than $100M in debt over the previous three fiscal years. The monetary uplift to UCLA as an impetus for its resolution has been extensively touted by the media and in public discourse.
Whereas it’s true that the Huge Ten Convention has not too long ago introduced a big media rights deal and distributions from the Huge Ten to its member colleges will probably be bigger than distributions obtainable to Pac-12 colleges from the Pac-12 Convention for the close to future, UCLA membership within the Huge Ten may also require important extra athletic division expenditures. By our estimates, UCLA’s extra journey prices, aggressive salaries, and sport assure bills will greater than offset ALL the extra revenues that UCLA will generate from the Huge Ten’s media rights deal.
UCLA at the moment spends roughly $8.1M per 12 months on journey for its groups to compete within the Pac-12 Convention. UCLA will incur a 100% improve in its staff journey prices if it flies industrial within the Huge Ten ($8.1M improve per 12 months), a 160% improve if it charters half the time ($13.1M improve per 12 months), and a 290 % improve if it charters each flight ($23.7M improve per 12 months).
Past journey, we additionally count on UCLA to extend bills to compete with the typical Huge Ten athletic division. Primarily based on UCLA’s newest bills, normalized to the typical Huge Ten athletic departments’ funds and measurement, UCLA must improve its head coaches’ salaries & bonuses by 19%, its assistant coach salaries by 13%, its assured bills by 122%, and its administrator salaries by 27%. This represents roughly $15M in extra annual bills simply to compete at an “common” Huge Ten funds. Lastly, UCLA will probably face different elevated annual bills to compete as a member of the Huge Ten in advertising and marketing, fundraising, recruiting, and sport operations.
Any monetary features UCLA will obtain by becoming a member of the Huge Ten will find yourself going to airline and constitution firms, directors and coaches’ salaries, and different recipients quite than offering any extra assets for student-athletes.
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Duhatschek: Carson Soucy's cross-check to Connor McDavid's face was reckless. What will the NHL do?
So, for most of Sunday night’s game between the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers, there were two parallel narratives — one on the ice, one on social media.
On the ice: How Vancouver was badly winning the goalie battle, rookie Arturs Silovs, playing exceptionally well (and much better than his Oilers counterpart Stuart Skinner). Silovs stopped 41 of 44 shots. He was the absolute difference maker in a 4-3 Vancouver win, which gave the Canucks a 2-1 series lead in the NHL’s Western Conference semifinal.
On social media: How referee bias was working against the Oilers, who were not getting their fair share of the calls, from the refereeing tandem of Chris Rooney and Graham Skilliter.
But in the end, the dirtiest play of the night came once the final whistle had blown; and Silovs had made one final stop to win the game in regulation.
Connor McDavid was behind the net, jousting with Carson Soucy. Soucy cross-checked McDavid, and McDavid slashed him back on the pants. It wasn’t much — or until Soucy’s defence partner, Nikita Zadorov joined the fray. As Zadorov cross-checked McDavid from behind, causing his knees to buckle, Soucy cross-checked him in the throat.
Carson Soucy catches McDavid with a cross-check after the final buzzer 😳 pic.twitter.com/Gf03SqgE0l
— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) May 13, 2024
That hit definitely crossed the line.
Yes, playoff hockey is intense. Yes, teams generally can’t leave well enough alone once the final whistle blows because these are best-of-seven series, and once Game 3 is over, the posturing for Game 4 begins.
The Canucks will be lucky, however, if they get to Game 4, with Soucy in the lineup.
A cross-check to the face, like the one he delivered, took punishment to another level. In the end, Soucy did get a minor penalty assessed at the buzzer, which is completely inconsequential if the NHL doesn’t follow up with supplementary discipline.
NHL playoff hockey is of course a different animal than the regular season. Some players are just built for it — Zadorov is a case in point. Zadorov — acquired from the Calgary Flames in a trade earlier this season — was added because of his size and willingness to play a physical game. At times, his regular-season play was erratic. But in the playoffs, and especially in this series against the Oilers, he’s been a powerful, intimidating force.
At one point in Sunday’s game, he finished a check on Evander Kane, which knocked Kane into the Edmonton player bench. Not content with simply driving Kane right off the ice surface, Zadorov followed up with two more pushes to ensure he stayed there. That earned him a roughing penalty. Still, it didn’t end up costing the Canucks a thing because the Oilers were themselves dinged for a bench minor, for retaliating from the bench.
The Canucks acquired Zadorov just for these playoff moments — he understands that in playoff hockey, someone needs to play the role of the villain for Vancouver, because if no one does, then the McDavids and Leon Draisaitls will eventually make you pay.
Zadorov can also be crafty about it. Presumably, he understood his blindside postgame cross-check to McDavid was just borderline enough to escape further NHL justice. So thinking strategically.
Soucy, on the other hand, got carried away with the last response. You just can’t cross-check someone across the throat, at any moment in time. The NHL’s player safety department has been eerily quiet thus far in these playoffs, even as officiating controversies rage from game to game and series to series.
The fact that it was McDavid on the receiving end of that double-barreled cross-check adds further fuel to the fire. Remember, less than three years ago, a popular narrative was how McDavid couldn’t get a break from the NHL referees — that statistically, he drew very few penalties, considering his skill level, his ice time and his production.
The controversy came to a head in November of 2021, at a time when McDavid was second in the league in scoring but only 57th when it came to drawing penalties. And this after he’d gone an entire playoff the year before without drawing a penalty call — unimaginable really, considering the way he plays.
When McDavid commented on that finally, he was called out by none other than John Tortorella, who was then between coaching jobs, working as a broadcaster for ESPN. Tortorella advised him to “honestly, just shut up. Stop talking about it.”
It almost seemed as if McDavid, because he had an overdrive that mere mortals couldn’t match, took more punishment than warranted because he was so good.
In time, the moment passed, and the controversy faded.
There is sometimes a perception that the NHL goes out of its way not to protect elite players, because it might show favoritism. This of course is nonsense. Players only ever want one thing from the referees — consistency, as much as possible, from shift to shift and period to period and game to game.
In other words, the same treatment for journeyman players as for the stars of the game. But consistency has to cut both ways too. You can’t ignore what happened here, just because this was McDavid, getting manhandled. What Soucy did was reckless and dangerous. A suspension almost certainly has to be coming. If not, what is already a rowdy Oilers-Canucks series has a real chance of descending into real mayhem.
(Photo: Paul Swanson / NHLI via Getty Images)
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Aaron Rodgers' likely return set for Monday night affair in Week 1 as Jets take on 49ers
Aaron Rodgers’ New York Jets regular-season debut lasted all of four plays on a Monday night to start 2023.
In 2024, Rodgers will likely be back playing on a Monday night when the Jets head to Levi’s Stadium to play the San Francisco 49ers to start the season. It will be Rodgers’ first game since he tore his Achilles in that fateful game against the Buffalo Bills.
New York went with Zach Wilson as the starting quarterback for most of the 2023 season. The team did its best to try to make the playoffs but fell short at 7-10.
In the offseason, the Jets traded Wilson to the Denver Broncos and added Tyrod Taylor to back up Rodgers. The team added wide receiver Mike Williams as another piece to the offensive puzzle. New York also signed offensive linemen Tyron Smith and Morgan Moses for added protection.
The 49ers had heartbreak of a different kind.
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Additionally, the 49ers lost linebacker Dre Greenlaw as he suffered a torn Achilles during the game. In response, the team signed linebacker Leonard Floyd from the Buffalo Bills in the offseason.
At this point, too, San Francisco still has wide receivers Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk on the roster. One of those players could be traded between now and the first Monday night game of the season.
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Monday's high school baseball and softball scores, updated playoff pairings
City Section
BASEBALL
Tuesday’s schedule
(All games at 3 p.m. unless noted)
Division I
First round
#17 Westchester at #16 South Gate
#18 Franklin at #15 LACES
Division II
First round
#17 Sun Valley Magnet at #16 Van Nuys
#20 Stella at #13 Fremont
#19 Los Angeles at #14 Rancho Dominguez
#18 SOCES at #15 Grant
Division III
First round
#17 Animo Venice at #16 Downtown Magnets
#20 Central City Value at #13 Community Charter
#19 Animo Robinson at #14 Triumph Charter
#18 CALS Early College at #15 L.A. Jordan
Wednesday’s schedule
(All games at 3 p.m. unless noted)
Open division
First round
#1 Granada Hills, bye
#9 El Camino Real at #8 Narbonne
#12 Sun Valley Poly at #5 Sylmar
#4 Bell, bye
#3 Carson, bye
#11 Cleveland at #6 Legacy
#10 San Pedro at #7 Taft
#2 Birmingham, bye
SOFTBALL
Monday’s results
Division I
Quarterfinals
Garfield 7, Bravo 0
San Fernando 5, Verdugo Hills 1
Granada Hills Kennedy 4, Eagle Rock 0
Palisades 5, L.A. Marshall 1
Division II
Quarterfinals
Chatsworth 3, Franklin 1
Sylmar 10, Taft 2
L.A. Wilson 9, North Hollywood 7
Marquez 7, King/Drew 5
Division IV
Quarterfinals
Fulton 15, L.A. Leadership Academy 5
Tuesday’s schedule
(All games at 3 p.m. unless noted)
Open division
Semifinals
#5 El Camino Real at #1 Granada Hills
#3 Carson at #2 Birmingham
Division III
Semifinals
#9 VAAS at #4 Bell
#11 Sotomayor at #2 Narbonne
Division IV
Semifinals
#5 LA University at #1 Community Charter
#11 Fulton at #10 LACES
Wednesday’s schedule
(All games at 3 p.m. unless noted)
Division I
Semifinals
#4 San Fernando at #1 Garfield
#15 Palisades at #3 Granada Hills Kennedy
Division II
Semifinals
# 12 Sylmar at #1 Chatsworth
#3 L.A. Wilson at #2 Marquez
Southern Section
BASEBALL
Tuesday’s Schedule
(All games at 3:15 p.m. unless noted)
Semifinals
Division 1
Huntington Beach at Corona
Harvard-Westlake vs. Orange Lutheran at Hart Park, 6 p.m.
Division 2
Arcadia at Hart
Ayala at Moorpark
Division 3
St. John Bosco at South Torrance
Beckman at Los Alamitos
Division 4
Culver City at Camarillo
St. Francis at Ontario Christian
Division 5
Oxnard Pacifica at Santa Monica
Chino Hills at Chino
Division 6
Diamond Bar at Village Christian
Colony at Rancho Mirage
Division 7
South El Monte at Buena Park
Oxford Academy at Lancaster Desert Christian
Division 8
San Bernardino at Orange County Pacifica Christian
Azusa at Edgewood
SOFTBALL
FINALS
At Barber Park in Irvine
Friday
Division 8
Hesperia Christian (18-5) vs. Jurupa Valley (19-12), 10 a.m.
Division 6
Ganesha (21-0) vs. Viewpoint (17-2-1), 1 p.m.
Division 4
JW North (17-13) vs. Paraclete (29-2), 4 p.m.
Division 1
Orange Lutheran (21-3) vs. Garden Grove Pacifica (26-2), 7 p.m.
Saturday
Division 7
Oxford Academy (25-5) vs. Eastside (22-10), 10 a.m.
Division 5
Liberty (22-6) vs. Cerritos Valley Christian (17-6), 1 p.m.
Division 3
Etiwanda (27-5) vs. King (19-9), 4 p.m.
Division 2
California (28-3) vs. Gahr (18-10), 7 p.m.
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