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Jim Boeheim dishes on Boeheim’s Army, Syracuse’s upcoming season, NIL and playing golf

Hall of Famer and former long-time Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim joined two of my favorite guys earlier this week to chat about a variety of topics. Boeheim, who has the second-most career wins in Division I men’s basketball history, caught up with Jim Lerch and Paul Esden Jr. on their fabulous program, The Manchild […]

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Hall of Famer and former long-time Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim joined two of my favorite guys earlier this week to chat about a variety of topics.

Boeheim, who has the second-most career wins in Division I men’s basketball history, caught up with Jim Lerch and Paul Esden Jr. on their fabulous program, The Manchild Show with Boy Green, via The Score 1260. Full disclosure: I have the privilege of talking Syracuse basketball on a weekly basis with Jim and Paul during the ‘Cuse seasons. They’re the best.

The Manchild Show with Boy Green will soon move to being a digital product, as Lerch and Esden will conduct their last radio show this Friday. Appropriately, then, they had Boeheim on for more than 30 minutes this past Tuesday, and it was a lot of fun.

I’ll share some of the highlights here. Also, please subscribe to The Manchild Show with Boy Green Digital via YouTube if you can!

Syracuse basketball icon Jim Boeheim dishes on a range of subjects.

First and foremost, while Boeheim retired as the Orange’s head coach in March of 2023, he’s surely keeping busy. He notes that he loves to play nine holes of golf at 7 pm, and he never hits a bad shot (wink, wink).

All kidding aside, Boeheim is a special assistant to SU’s director of athletics. He said that he’s up on the Hill every day, helping out with fund-raising. He talks to recruits, and he talks to coaches. Boeheim, as I’ve discussed in several columns, also works as a college basketball analyst for the ACC Network and ESPN.

This summer, Boeheim will serve as the head coach emeritus of Boeheim’s Army, the team named after him that competes in the annual $1 million, winner-take-all The Basketball Tournament (“TBT”). Boeheim’s Army won this event in 2021, and it has a roster that can absolutely make a deep run this summer.

In this role as head coach emeritus, Boeheim says he has helped out with getting players, and he will be in contact with the squad’s head coach, Syracuse basketball assistant Allen Griffin, about personnel things while attending some practices.

His sons, shooting guard Buddy Boeheim and forward Jimmy Boeheim, are on the Boeheim’s Army 2025 roster. “It’s a really good, solid team,” Jim Boeheim says, noting that his friend, businessman and philanthropist Adam Weitsman, returns as the Boeheim’s Army chairman, a role he had four years ago when the group captured the $1 million grand prize.

Weitsman has been supporting Boeheim’s Army in helping them obtain a strong roster. “He likes to win,” Boeheim says of Weitsman.

When Boeheim retired in March of 2023, he acknowledged that the way it was communicated to the public didn’t go as smoothly as he would have liked, but he never wanted a farewell tour, and he was ready to retire at that time, particularly as name, image and likeness deals were emerging, and college basketball was significantly changing due to numerous issues.

A lot of Orange fans, myself included, have lamented about the current state of the program, and the team’s “decline” started basically in the second year that the ‘Cuse resided in the Atlantic Coast Conference (SU bolted the Big East Conference for the ACC in the 2013-14 season).

Still, in the decade that Boeheim led Syracuse basketball while in the ACC before hanging up his whistle, the program made the NCAA Tournament five times and the NIT once. Of those five Big Dance appearances, the ‘Cuse went to a Final Four and a pair of Sweet 16s. In the 2013 March Madness, its last term in the Big East, Syracuse basketball also journeyed to the national semifinals.

Sure, Boeheim wished that his squad performed better during the regular seasons over those 10 years, but “in the tournament, we won. … The tournament is still the most important thing.”

He added, “It was pretty good in terms of the overall results. … Did I want to do better? Absolutely.”

Boeheim knows as much about the sport of basketball as pretty much anyone on this planet. He was asked about the recent NBA playoffs, which culminated with the Oklahoma City Thunder winning its first-ever championship.

He praised Oklahoma City’s dynamic point guard, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, for the 2024-25 season that he put forth, noting that “SGA” can get off a shot against anyone he wants. He also praised the Indiana Pacers and their head coach, Rick Carlisle, for taking the league’s top team to seven games in the NBA Finals.

Like everyone else, he also questioned why the New York Knicks fired head coach Tom Thibodeau, who took the squad this past post-season to its first appearance in the Eastern Conference Finals in 25 years. I still don’t get that move by the Knicks.

Perhaps most importantly, Boeheim talked about Syracuse basketball and the upcoming 2025-26 season. He said, “there’s no doubt in my mind that (incoming freshman Kiyan Anthony) will be a great player,” but he needs time to develop.

Boeheim lauded the job that head coach Adrian Autry and his staff did with their portal recruiting efforts this off-season, landing the ACC’s best point guard and a supremely athletic center, among other transfers. A healthy Donnie Freeman will return, and J.J. Starling can play most of the time at shooting guard, where he’s more comfortable.

“I just think they’re gonna be a pretty solid, really good basketball team,” Boeheim said, adding that the ACC will be better in 2025-26. The league only got four teams in the NCAA Tournament this past spring, and Boeheim believes that six or seven ACC squads will hear their name called on Selection Sunday in March of 2026.

Naturally, Boeheim says that he thinks Syracuse basketball will be one of those teams dancing next spring. Love you, Coach.





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Six Named To NIRA All-Academic Team

HANOVER, N.H.—The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) announced its All-Academic Team for the 2024-25 season. Six members of the Big Green were named to the team. Abbey Savin, Allie Amerson, Asialeata Meni, Josie Harrison, Kyla Widodo, and Katelyn Walker each earned the honor. A student-athlete must be at least a sophomore and have a cumulative […]

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HANOVER, N.H.—The National Intercollegiate Rugby Association (NIRA) announced its All-Academic Team for the 2024-25 season. Six members of the Big Green were named to the team.

Abbey Savin, Allie Amerson, Asialeata Meni, Josie Harrison, Kyla Widodo, and Katelyn Walker each earned the honor.

A student-athlete must be at least a sophomore and have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or better to be named a member of the NIRA All-Academic Team.

The Big Green enter the fall 15s season following a perfect 13-0 7s season in which Dartmouth captured its first CRAA National Championship. Dartmouth finished with an 8-1 15s record and advanced to the NIRA Championship in the fall.



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President Trump issues college sports executive order addressing NIL, pay-for-play

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on July 24 that attempts to create a national standard for NCAA name, image and likeness programs. The order is Trump’s latest entry into a debate that has embroiled the NCAA since NIL rules went into effect in 2021, ushering in a wild-west era of college sports that […]

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order on July 24 that attempts to create a national standard for NCAA name, image and likeness programs.

The order is Trump’s latest entry into a debate that has embroiled the NCAA since NIL rules went into effect in 2021, ushering in a wild-west era of college sports that has come under increasing scrutiny by local and national legislators.

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Broadly focused on efforts to “save college athletics,” the order also seeks to preserve and support “expansion of opportunities for scholarships and collegiate athletic competition in women’s and non-revenue sports.” Most of the NIL money is given to athletes in football and men’s and women’s basketball.

The settlement in the long-running House v. NCAA case went into effect July 1 and allowed schools to directly pay college athletes through a revenue-sharing model.

In May, Trump appeared poised to create a commission co-chaired by former Alabama coach Nick Saban and influential Texas Tech booster Cody Campbell with a directive to explore and address major issues facing college sports. But there have been no announcements regarding that directive.

This week, a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives aimed at restructuring rules around the administration of college athletics passed two committees and is expected to move to the House floor when the summer recess is over in September.

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Speaking at a National Press Club event in Washington earlier in the day, before the order was signed, NCAA President Charlie Baker was asked about possible executive order on college sports. He said he was open to ideas, but “our focus needs to be on the legislative process.”

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, who along with many in college sports has been advocating for federal intervention, told USA TODAY Sports last week, “The President is going to do what he wants to do.”

“I’ve read things on social media, but I also read that there would be a presidential commission,” Sankey added. “So the question with an executive order is if (Trump) does, and then what it is, and then we’ll go from there.”

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Donald Trump issues college sports executive order for NIL



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Howe Tabbed for U.S. Under-18 Men’s Select Team Staff

Story Links COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Yale men’s hockey assistant coach Joe Howe has been selected to serve as an assistant coach for the U.S. Under-18 Men’s Select Team. The team will hold training camp from July 28-August 3 at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan. Following camp, 23 players will […]

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Yale men’s hockey assistant coach Joe Howe has been selected to serve as an assistant coach for the U.S. Under-18 Men’s Select Team.

The team will hold training camp from July 28-August 3 at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, Michigan. Following camp, 23 players will be chosen to compete in the 2025 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, held August 11–16 in Brno, Czechia and Trencín, Slovakia.

This marks Howe’s second consecutive summer with USA Hockey. In 2024, he served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Under-17 team at the Five Nations Tournament in Pieštany, Slovakia.

Howe joined the Yale staff in July 2021 after three seasons at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He previously spent three years at the University of Denver as a volunteer assistant coach and director of hockey operations. During his tenure, the Pioneers captured the 2017 NCAA Division I National Championship and an NCHC regular-season title, while making two Frozen Four appearances and qualifying for three NCAA Tournaments.

A native of Plymouth, Mass., Howe was a four-year standout at Colorado College, where he appeared in 119 games and posted a 54-50-10 record, a 2.97 goals-against average, and a .905 save percentage. He ranked third all-time in career saves. After college, Howe played professionally in the ECHL, CHL, and AHL.

Read the full announcement from USA Hockey here.



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N.J. boys ice hockey final rankings, All-State & top honors, 1990-2000: HS historical project

Hudson Catholic’s Benett Shelly (#57) goes down after being hit by Bayonne’s Dave Bodson (#13 left) in the NJSIAA/New Jersey Devils Tournament of Champions final hockey game at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford.SL NJ Advance Media’s HS sports department is using some of its time over the summer to republish semi-recent postseason honors […]

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Hudson Catholic’s Benett Shelly (#57) goes down after being hit by Bayonne’s Dave Bodson (#13 left) in the NJSIAA/New Jersey Devils Tournament of Champions final hockey game at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford.SL

NJ Advance Media’s HS sports department is using some of its time over the summer to republish semi-recent postseason honors that, for a variety of reasons, had become largely inaccessible, even to us.

Please enjoy a look back at all the Star-Ledger’s boys ice hockey postseason honors as well as final rankings from 1990-2000.

Brian Bobal may be reached at bbobal@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on X at @BrianBobal.

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Italy’s Lorenzo Bonicelli reportedly in medically-induced coma after fall on rings at World University Games

Photo courtesy of the Italian Gymnastics Federation. Italy’s Lorenzo Bonicelli was seriously injured after a fall on his rings dismount while competing at the 2025 FISU World University Games on Wednesday. As of publishing, he is reportedly in a medically-induced coma and the rest of the Italian team withdrew from the competition. The Italian Gymnastics […]

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Lorenzo Bonicelli on rings via the Italian Gymnastics Federation.Lorenzo Bonicelli on rings via the Italian Gymnastics Federation.

Photo courtesy of the Italian Gymnastics Federation.

Italy’s Lorenzo Bonicelli was seriously injured after a fall on his rings dismount while competing at the 2025 FISU World University Games on Wednesday. As of publishing, he is reportedly in a medically-induced coma and the rest of the Italian team withdrew from the competition.

The Italian Gymnastics Federation published a statement Wednesday. The translated version reads, “During the men’s artistic gymnastics team competition at the 32nd Summer Universiadiade in Essen, the blue Lorenzo Bonicelli came out badly from his exercise at the rings, in the third rotation, incurring an injury on the extent of which investigations are still underway. Immediately rescued by the medical team of the German organization and by the health managers of FISU and CUSI, the twenty-three-year-old from Lecco of the Ghislanzoni GAL was transported to the nearby university polyclinic. The technical staff following the GAM mission in Germany, given the understandable emotional involvement of the rest of the team, preferred to withdraw the team from the competition. While waiting for the official medical bulletins, the FGI is all tight to Lorenzo, wishing him a speedy recovery. Come on Bonni!”

Steve Butcher, a member of the International Gymnastics Federation’s Men’s Technical Committee, shared an additional update on Facebook on Thursday, stating, “Please keep Italian gymnast Lorenzo Bonicelli (age 23) in your thoughts and prayers as he recovers from a significant neck injury suffered on his Rings dismount at the World University Games. Several of you have asked me about his condition after seeing me judging as the Apparatus Supervisor on the Rings. Sorry I could not respond sooner without confirmation. Lorenzo is in a medically induced coma after surgery last night. It will take 10 or more days to know his condition. The entire gymnastics family is pulling for Lorenzo’s full recovery!” (via Kensley Behel/Neutral Deductions)

Bonicelli reportedly fell on his neck when attempting his triple back dismount off rings. He was carried off the field of play on a stretcher and transported to a nearby hospital.

Please join us in sending Lorenzo, his family, and the Italian Gymnastics Federation our thoughts and prayers during this time. We will update this story with any further details as they are released.



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Judge finds five former players not guilty of sexual assault in Hockey Canada trial

By Frank Pingue (Reuters) -Five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior ice hockey team have been found not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room that year, a judge said on Thursday. The charges against Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube, Carter Hart and Cal Foote stemmed from an encounter in […]

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(Reuters) -Five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior ice hockey team have been found not guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a hotel room that year, a judge said on Thursday.

The charges against Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube, Carter Hart and Cal Foote stemmed from an encounter in a hotel room in the Canadian city of London after a Hockey Canada gala to celebrate their world junior championship victory.

All five former National Hockey League players faced one count of sexual assault while McLeod faced an additional count of being a party to an offence. They all pleaded not guilty.

McLeod was also found not guilty of the additional charge.

According to CBC News, Justice Maria Carroccia told the courtroom that she did not find the complainant’s evidence to be “credible or reliable” and that the Crown failed to prove she did not consent to the sexual activity.

“Justice Carroccia’s carefully reasoned decision represents a resounding vindication for Mr. McLeod and for his co-defendants,” said McLeod’s lawyer, David Humphrey.

“Justice Carroccia found that the complainant’s testimony was uncredible and was unreliable.”

Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham told reporters they would “carefully review” Carroccia’s decision but did not have further comments as the case is still within the appeal period.

Hockey Canada did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the verdict.

When the charges were announced in January 2024, McLeod and Foote were with the New Jersey Devils, Dube was with the Calgary Flames, Hart was with the Philadelphia Flyers while Formenton was playing in Switzerland.

The trial, which began in April and garnered national attention, faced many disruptions including a mistrial and two dismissed juries before Carroccia and the lawyers decided to proceed with a judge-alone trial.

A police investigation into the alleged incident was closed without charges in February 2019, but investigators reopened it in July 2022 in response to public outrage over reports that Hockey Canada used players’ registration fees to pay an undisclosed settlement to the woman who made the accusations.

The scandal prompted the Canadian federal government to freeze Hockey Canada’s funding for 10 months while a number of major companies either paused or canceled their sponsorships with the national governing body.

Amid the scandal, Hockey Canada said it would no longer use the fund financed by player registration fees to settle sexual assault claims, and the organization’s CEO and board of directors stepped down.

(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Nia Williams and Caroline Stauffer)



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