Exciting match expected today when Terps play Tar Heels for NCAA D1 Field Hockey title

At Noon on Sunday I'm watching the NCAA
D1 Field Hockey championship match on
CBSC -CBS College Sports, DirecTV 613-
between undefeated, # 1 and defending champion
Maryland and #3 19-2 North Carolina in what
looks to be a really exciting match from Winston-Salem.

http://www.ncaa.com/sports/w-fieldh/ncaa-w-fieldh-body.html

http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2009/ncaa_bracket_DI_field_hockey.html

http://www.ncaa.com/sports/w-fieldh/champpage/w-fieldh-div1-index.html

http://wakeforestsports.cstv.com/sports/w-fieldh/spec-rel/09-wake-fieldh-final-four.html

In my opinion, the handful of matches televised
this past season on The BigTen Network were
much better than in the past, though Michigan
State naturally got the lion's share of the games,
befitting their national reputation and consistent
Top 15 ranking.

Last year's Big Ten tourney in Bloomington
was played under some cold, wet and windy
conditions on the field just off of 17th Street
between Fee Lane and N. Jordan.
The weather sometimes seemed to affect play,
which is always a possibility in early November
in Bloomington.

This year's tourney up in East Lansing,
thankfully, seemed blessed with much nicer
weather that allowed all the teams to flash
their skills.

I was very pleased to see IU make it to
the finals against the Spartans on Nov. 8th,
and to be able to watch the match from
beginning to end.

Though they ultimately lost 3-2 to an
excellent Spartan squad, whom I knew
fairly well from watching their earlier matches
on TV over the past few months,
the closeness of the match and the
gritty spirit and character the Hoosiers
displayed in hanging-tough with a top
national team on the road, clearly
demonstrated to all who are paying
close attention to the sport, that IU's
growing positive national reputation
is well-deserved.

Kudos to Hoosier Head Coach
Amy Robertson and her assistants
for getting the most out of the team
and making it to the NCAA Sweet 16
this year, before losing to a tough
Wake Forest squad, which is always
well-coached and full of very talented
international players.
http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/w-fieldh/ind-w-fieldh-body.html


Efforts like those will only increase the
positive word-of-mouth about the
Hoosier's FH program's upward direction
and increase the flow of high-quality
recruits from field hockey hot-spots
on the East Coast and in the Midwest
to Bloomington.

Not that it wouldn't be great to get
some silly-talented girls from
The Netherlands or Great Britain,
though!
http://www.knhb.nl/


Thru fortuitous timing, that same day,
I was also able to watch the ACC
tourney final and watch the Terps
stage an amazing comeback in
overtime against a scrappy and
ultimately somewhat heart-broken
#2 UVA squad at Charlottesville,
one of my favorite places.
http://www.virginiasports.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=17800&SPID=10593&SPSID=92022

The talented Cavaliers regrouped
and later eliminated Michigan State
from the NCAA tourney 3-2 and
made it to the Final Four where they
lost 3-2 on Friday to UNC .
http://www.ncaa.com/splash/2009fhockeysplash.htmldefault.aspx?id=188

The sheer talent and ability of the
Terps in that game demonstrated
once again that no matter what the
score is, no matter how well you're
playing, you can NEVER EVER
take your foot off the accelerator
when you play Maryland.

They will not quit, no matter how
close to the end of the match it gets.
They are relentless!

The Terps tradition of winning NCAA
titles and playing tough matches even
when they are not at their best, is a
valuable lesson that ought to be more
widely-known and appreciated than it
currently is.
http://www.umterps.com/sports/w-fieldh/archive/090809aab.html
http://www.umterps.com/sports/w-fieldh/md-w-fieldh-body-main.html
http://www.umterps.com/view.gal?id=58544

I like them to win 4-2 over a talented
Tar Heels squad.
http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/w-fieldh/unc-w-fieldh-body.html

June 3 is 'IU Day' on the Big Ten Network; Isiah Thomas

June 3 is 'IU Day' on the Big Ten Network, DirecTV Channel 610

TV schedule is below some of my icons borrowed from my

South Beach Hoosier blog,

http://www.southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/

GREAT SCOTT, IT'S INDIANA!

Scott May Shoots Down Michigan, April 5, 1976

THE CHAMPS!

Hoosier Hero Isiah Thomas, April 4, 1981

IU All-American and Olympian StevE Alford on the cover of the 1987 Media guide

INDIANA HOOSIER SPIRIT AT ASSEMBLY HALL

IU cheerleaders doing a 360° circle turn at half-court.

IU head basketball coach Tom Crean at his press conference

in Bloomington. With his hiring, South Beach Hoosier's prediction

-and wish- came true!

Now, we can finally get back to the IU tradition: an emphasis on

playing smart, playing hard, playing as a team -and winning with class.

And graduating!

No more one-and-done recruits!

The Championship Banners: 1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987

Assembly Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

------------------------------------ http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/c-varsityclub/spec-rel/060309aab.html

Today is 'IU Day' on the Big Ten Network

June 3, 2009

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - June 3rd on the Big Ten Network has been named "IU Day,"

and all programming on Wednesday will be involving the Indiana Hoosiers!

COMPLETE PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE
6:00 a.m.- The Big Ten's Greatest Games: 1990 - Kentucky @ Indiana [Basketball]
8:00 a.m.- The Big Ten's Greatest Games: 2006 - Iowa @ Indiana [Football]
10:00 a.m.- Big Ten Short Stories: Indiana Hoosiers
10:30 a.m.- #1 NBA Draft Picks
11:00 a.m.- Men's Soccer: Indiana @ Ohio State
1:00 p.m.- Big Ten Friday Night Tailgate: Indiana
2:30 p.m.- Big Ten Short Stories: Indiana Hoosiers
3:00 p.m.- The Big Ten's Greatest Games: 1999 - Illinois @ Indiana [Football]
5:00 p.m.- Men's Golf: Match Play Championship
8:00 p.m.- The Big Ten's Greatest Games: 1987 NCAA Tournament Championship - Indiana vs. Syracuse
9:30 p.m.- Big Ten Short Stories: Indiana Hoosiers
10:00 p.m.- The Big Ten's Greatest Games: 1981 NCAA Tournament Championship - IU vs. North Carolina
12:00 a.m.- The Big Ten's Greatest Games: 2007 - Purdue @ Indiana [Football]
2:00 a.m.- Big Ten Short Stories: Indiana Hoosiers
2:30 a.m.- #1 NBA Draft Picks
3:00 a.m.- Men's Golf: Match Play Championship

"In the Heart of a Great Country, Beats the Soul of Hoosier Nation." -South Beach Hoosier, 2007

Those of you who have written, called or wondered

when I was FINALLY going to be writing something

about Isiah being hired as head coach at FIU, and

the Miami media's tempest-in-a-teapot over his hiring,

should know that something was already written weeks

ago on him and the over-the-top media coverage,

where lots of usually sober TV and print reporters

were sloppy with facts and heavy with insinuations

in ways that you rarely see on local news coverage

-even in Miami!

It's in cold storage right now, waiting for the right time

to bring it out, a day that is fast approaching.

South Beach Hoosier/Hallandale Beach Blog

Big Ten Network airing IU's 1981 NCAA title win vs. UNC at 8pm

South Beach Hoosier trivia: the entire time I was at IU, I never wore an IU cap.
Ever.

Instead, if I wore one at all, it was a Dolphins cap, which was a great conversation starter walking thru campus, as far as finding and meeting other IU students on campus or in town from South Florida.


For those of you in South Florida who can't recall ever talking to me when I wasn't wearing the cap
above, it's probably hard to imagine.
But then there's really no need to wear a cap when it's overcast and one degree above zero, as it was late last night in Bloomington.

The north side of Branch McCracken Court, Assembly Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington

Because of the last episode of Prison Break -part of which was set in Miami- I missed watching the Northeastern at IU ballgame Monday night on The Big Ten Network -thinking the game was Tuesday night.

When I went to the network website to see when the replay was scheduled, 3-5 pm Tuesday afternoon, I also saw they'll be replaying the 1981 IU-North Carolina NCAA title game at 8 pm as part of their Big Ten's Greatest Games Series.

The Sports Illustrated cover that said it all: The Champs!

For more info on that great team of 1980-'81, see the Bloomington Herald-Times' great website, Hoosier Historia: http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/sports/hh/1981/

As far as I'm concerned, perhaps because I watched so many college games in that era and have a great memory of so many of those teams, I think the series has really been sort of hit or miss,

since there seem to be far fewer of the really great games from the late '70's and early '80's, you'd expect to have seen televised by now.

Proof of that is that early this coming Sunday morning, the network will be airing IU's games from this past February at Illinois and versus Wisconsin, at 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. respectively, as part of that series. Great?

Hardly!

IU All-American and Olympian Steve Alford on the cover of the 1987 IU Basketball media guide.

The guide was sent to me just a few months before we beat Syracuse for the 1987 NCAA title by IU Varsity Athletics' one-man Renaissance team (and Assembly Hall announcer) Chuck Crabb, when I was living in Evanston.

Preceding Tuesday's IU-North Carolina replay is a 6 p.m. airing of the December 18, 1990 U.K. at IU ballgame.

The encore showings of the IU-UNC game on Channel are as follows:
Wednesday 12/24 4-6 a.m.
Thursday -Christmas Day- 4-6 a.m. and 9-11 a.m.
http://www.bigtennetwork.com/schedule/

By the way, if anyone out there in cyberspace knows the answer to this, why does IU not have any campus programming on the network of any kind like so many of the other conference schools do, namely, Penn State and Northwestern, who seem to have more than any one else?

Also, for what seems like the 1,001st time, The Big Ten Network will also show the U-M-Ohio State BCS title football game from almost six year ago.

You know, the one that was stolen by the refs on that phantom defensive holding penalty?

That's still painful to watch, just like last week's replay on the NFL Network of the 1974 Dolphins at Raiders divisional game,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke7yAME-x8w and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWte184Lu6U&NR=1

The invaluable lesson learned by watching Benny Malone scoring too early for the Dolphins before the end of the game was over, thus giving Ken Stabler enough time to mount an epic comeback, has never been lost on me at any game I've ever played in or watched since then.

Running Tallies on Ross vs. Lewy for 2nd HB Commission Seat

Friday 1:40 p.m.

Watching the Big Ten Field Hockey semifinal game between Iowa and Michigan State from Bloomington on The Big Ten Network as I write this. http://www.bigtennetwork.com/
Great game!

As a result of their defeat of Penn State in the first semifinal, the winner here faces Ohio State in championship game on Sunday at Noon, televised live on BTN.

One of my nieces is playing Saturday morning in the Maryland H.S. Field Hockey State Championship game, so I'm taping the game for her and her younger sister to watch next week.
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As of 11 am Dotty Ross is leading Alexander Lewy by 32 votes.

I got a call from Michael Butler around noon and he reminded me that the Broward BOE does have publicly accessible running tallies at Broward Elections's various URLs.

You might want to check it every few hours, even though the whole thing willlead to a formal recount next week.

And check out his latest entry at www.changehallandale.com

See parent site http://www.browardsoe.org/

See tally box http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/FL/Broward/8512/13382/en/md.html?cid=0144

See precint-by-precint breakdown http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/FL/Broward/8512/13382/en/md_data.html?cid=0144&
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www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/hallandale/sfl-flbhallandale1107sbnov07,0,1923804.story
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
No winner yet for Hallandale Beach commission seat
By Ihosvani Rodriguez
November 7, 2008

Who won the second commission spot?

The answer depends on when you ask.

Tuesday night, newcomer Alexander Lewy won by 23 votes.

On Thursday, veteran Commissioner Dorothy Ross took a 24-vote lead.

The top vote-getter was clear from the start: Commissioner Anthony Sanders. But calling the second spot is turning into a slow-motion drama.

Election officials still have thousands of provisional and absentee ballots to count, elections spokeswoman Evelyn Hale said.

A winner may not be declared until next week, likely followed by a manual recount.

Hearing he was ahead by one vote, Lewy rushed to the ballot-counting center Thursday, only to watch his lead evaporate.

"This chair is actually kind of comfortable," he said.
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I saw the Channel 10 truck in the city hall parking lot on my way into last night's Unsafe Structures Board meeting right before 6 PM, which turned out to be not quite what I imagined it'd be, with lots of wasted time.

http://www.local10.com/politics/17926517/detail.html
Hallandale Beach Commission Race Very Close
Recount Imminent For Hallandale Beach City Commission Race

POSTED: 6:31 pm EST November 6, 2008
UPDATED: 6:45 pm EST November 6, 2008
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. --

At the beginning of Thursday, only one vote separated two candidates for the Hallandale Beach City Commission.

Commissioner Dotty Ross was torn.

She was clearing out her office in City Hall because it appeared that she lost the commission seat she has held since 1995.

The problem is that election workers are still counting absentee ballots. The new numbers on Thursday showed Ross trailing her opponent, Alexander Lewy, by just one vote.

"Can you imagine one vote? One vote?" she said.

According to the Broward County Supervisor of Elections' Office, Lewy had 2,721 votes for the at-large commission seat, and Ross had 2,720.

"There's no point in analyzing something that may or may not happen. Now as it gets closer, I will," Ross said. "I'm starting to get antsy a little."

At the very least, Ross' race will have to be recounted because the margin of victory likely will be within 0.5 percent of the total ballots cast.

Canvassing board member Judge Robert Lee said it is not the first close race he's seen.

"We've had several small cities over the past at least 10 years where we've actually come within three or four votes," Lee said.

"It is rare, but unfortunately for us, it's not unusual."

If she wins, Ross said her newly cleaned office will be a reminder that every vote counts. "This is proof positive that it does," Ross said.

Late Thursday, the supervisor of elections updated the numbers, and this time Ross held a 23-vote advantage over Lewy, with some 5,000 votes still to be counted.

If the race ends up in a tie, the city charter says the winner will be "decided by lot," which is something like the toss of a coin, Local 10's Roger Lohse reported.