Pat Jensen taught her boy Luke how to treat women as a child. All Luke had to do was watch his mom coach her high school gymnastics team practice, 30 to 40 girls tumbling in the Ludington High gym with no ice machines in sight. "In the middle of the winter," said Luke, now coach of the Syracuse tennis team, "if a gymnast twisted her ankle, this is no lie, in a leotard, she put her outside in a snow bank, shove her foot in the snow for 20 minutes.
There is a certain order to the universe that should not be tempered with. One natural rule is that sports fans must root for their hometown team. And at Syracuse, the Internet is helping a dislodged bunch of students remain hometown fans. With the advent of widespread high-speed Internet connections, team and league officials across the sports spectrum recognized the potential for streaming games over the Web (whether live or after the fact).
The Syracuse softball team traveled to Louisville and South Florida with the same goal it has for every game: total nine hits throughout the game. During the four-game road trip, the top of the Orange's lineup set the table to easily eclipse its goal, but the bottom of the order didn't deliver.
The Syracuse track and field team is used to being split up. On any given weekend, various parts of the team compete in different locales throughout the country. This weekend though, the team was separated by something other than a scheduled meet: federal airline regulations.
Displayed on the walls of the crew room at Archbold Gym are the 10 things a Syracuse rower must be accountable for. On the list, communication falls third. While the varsity eight was defeated this weekend at the Orange Challenge Cup in Boston, the varsity four came out on top, claiming communication as a factor to the win.
