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Former Niles West basketball star Jewell Loyd, right, and her father, Calvin, watch as her No. 32 jersey is unveiled in the rafters of the gym at the school in Skokie on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. To the left is Tony Konsewicz, Loyd’s coach at Niles West. (Brian O’Mahoney / Pioneer Press)
“Honestly, not really,” he said. “I don’t know if there’s anything more to it than we’ve got really good guys on the team, really unselfish guys, guys willing to put in the work and work for their teammates and work to win. Everybody gets along really well. I don’t think there’s anyone you’re not happy to see each day showing up to work. When you got guys like that, it makes playing basketball really easy.”
“He was a big, physical back who was running behind a pretty good offensive line,” coordinator John Shoop said. “Our run game was pretty sophisticated, and Jim and Shane rarely made a bad run check, finding the right looks. ‘A-Train’ is one of those guys because he’s big, he’s strong. Dick used to always say to me, ‘We’ve got to build this team that all of a sudden, when it’s zero degrees here in Chicago, we’re still big and strong.’ Those are things that don’t matter with the weather conditions, if a guy tweaks his ankle, he’s still big and strong.
Virginia (6-4) played without quarterback Brennan Armstrong (ribs), who leads the nation in total offense with an average of 425.3 yards. Jay Woolfolk, the first true freshman to start at quarterback for Virginia since 1977, was ineffective. He completed 18 of 33 passes for 196 yards, threw two interceptions and was sacked seven times.
Perhaps no yearly matchup in college football has spawned a greater collection of NFL-caliber talent–certainly over the past four decades–than the annual Miami Hurricanes-Florida State Seminoles game. Here are a collection of the series’ standout performances–throughout a game, or even in a crucial moment of a win. (Steve Svekis)
“He’s been in every meeting,” LaFleur said Wednesday. “He’s been engaged. So it’s just he’s not with his guys out on the field. That’s the dynamic that you never know. But we’re fortunate to have a guy that has got a ton of reps under his belt, has played a ton of ball, so we’re pretty confident that provided he checks out well, he can go out there and play at a high level.”
Wisconsin (7-3, 5-2 Big Ten, No. 18 College Football Playoff) entered the day in a four-way tie for the Big Ten West lead with Minnesota, No. 19 Iowa (No. 20 CFP) and Purdue (No. 19 CFP). The Badgers already have beaten Iowa and Purdue. They visit Minnesota on Nov. 27 to close the regular season.
Beyond adding more quality, starting with the waiver-claim addition of veteran left-hander Wade Miley, the Cubs need more velocity, especially in the rotation. Cubs starters threw the fewest fastballs greater than 95 mph in Major League Baseball at 185, accounting for 0.8% of their pitches thrown. Conversely, the Milwaukee Brewers led baseball with 3,031 pitches at least 95 mph from their starters (12.6% of their pitches) while five of the teams ranked in the top six made the postseason, including the World Series champion Atlanta Braves.
“We fiercely dislike Mexico’s soccer team, right, and we’re fierce competitors and we want to win every time on the field,” Berhalter said, making a point to distinguish Mexico’s team from its people. “Afterwards, you shake hands and you move on. We have a lot of respect for them.”
“I was asking everybody what they were challenging, and I had no clue what they were challenging,” King said. “It was explained to me it had to be something about the high stick, whoever played the puck came over the blue line. I’m totally, to be honest with you, I’m not 100% sure. I’m glad it went in our favor.”