SPORTS N STUFF

Virginia Tech enrolled 21 commitments from the 2008 recruiting status at present for the another straw-hat shift. The incoming freshmen will all meet with the body and then start , June 30th.

Those enrolling this month rope in:

Nick Becton
Xavier Boyce
Jarrett Boykin
Marcus Davis
Randall Dunn
Austin Fuller
Lyndell Gibson
Jeron Gouveia
Isaiah Hamlette
Jake Johnson
Joe Jones
Eric Martin (July 1st)
Quille Odom
Vinston Painter
Dyrell Roberts
Allen Stephens
Bruce Taylor
Dwight Tucker
Michael Via
Eddie Whitley
Ryan Williams
Lorenzo Williams

A few more still waiting:

Ben Barber is in limbo between fall and greyshirting a semester.

D.J. Coles is foreseeable to head to prep school.

JuJu Clayton will greyshirt for a semester.

Tony Gregory is awaited to head to prep school.

Antoine Hopkins expects to enroll at the end of July.

Leon Mackey is running on group work to enroll at the end of July.

Derrick McCoy is probable to head to lesser school.

Kendrick Pressleys status is tentative at this time.

For three years Anthony Scelfo accomplished the act high institute stars everywhere stare.

After athleticism enables them to star throughout their infancy in any endeavor that requires a ball, most opt for the safe lane up one passion for a coming in another.

Scelfo extended that strength of will as long as he could, but in the end, the beach ball/baseball combo proved too much for the New Orleans native. The former quarterback established what many expected for utterly some time when reached by The Wave Report over the visit.

I think football is undoubtedly done at this goal, said Scelfo, who is for the Hudson Valley Renegades after presence certain in the 8th round by Tampa Bay in last months MLB Draft.

Football has been my beloved sport since I was budding up. I love it playing LSU, Southern Miss, Mississippi State, teams like that. It was a flash. Its going to be real leathery leaving it. But at the same time, I get to play pro . I have a job now. I get a crisscross now, which I love.

Scelfo threw for 1,396 a season ago and tallied six touchdowns to go with for Bob Toledos rugby ball team. On the rhombus, Scelfo hit for a .322 average with a team-high 12 .

In what many concluded was a sign of equipment to come, Scelfo opted to skip spring point tradition prior this year in edict to concentrate on baseball. Scelfo said he the critics who critiqued his play when frustrating to set of scales both during the spring and they in all probability had a headland.

Im sure nation are existing to look at it and say that you did fantastic before and you did exalted after, but while spring was up for grabs on you didnt do so hot, Scelfo said I think it had an conclusion to a convinced extent as far as me soul more energized and my body not essence so worn out. But I really think it was just rising up another year too and education a lot of stuff.

He now is putting that knowledge to use in the New York Penn League in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. In 10 games since joining Hudson Valley, he is 9-for-34 at the dish. Scelfo, in spite of this, said he is satisfied with how belongings have and knows the mountain he must climb if he is to reach his goals.

Im just kind of wisdom the game now, Scelfo said. There are a lot more details that are more crucial now than they were back in college. You cram a little new ordinary. You just ask questions and try to come to know. There are so many little clothes that you dont even think about that can make a transformation in your swipe or in your game.

But despite Scelfo now turning to the diamond full-time, he will not disremember his time on the gridiron. And he even offered a brief analysis of the likely quarterback fight between Kevin Moore and Joe Kemp that will heat up this fall.

Ive seen Kevin play, and I have him on film, so I know a lot about him, Scelfo said. With Joe, I wasnt out there during the spring inspecting him handle the whole enchilada. Im not really sure how he is standard to do.

But the guys on the team have to rally around guys in neatness to be fruitful. If you dont have self-confidence in them theyre almost certainly not on offer to play hard and they are untaken to be thinking about that moderately than what they have to do. But it is working to be fun. They are both ready to be . Theyre both free to be competing. I think that competition will help out both of them.

Florida fortification Nick Calathes is in Athens this week.

No, he’s not considering a move to Georgia. Instead, the getting higher sophomore is in Athens, Greece, to make the Greek National Team. If he does, and word is he has a stalwart unplanned, he’ll compete for his downright-’ intrinsic countryside in an upcoming Olympic Qualifying Tournament in the of making it through to the Olympics in Beijing that embark on Aug. 8.

“They e-mailed my dad and asked what I thought roughly speaking trying out because they saw me play this year,” said Calathes, a former five-star prospect who led the Gators in scoring (15.3 ppg) and led the SEC in assists (6.1) this past season. “We near it. It’s a talented opportunity for me and for my grandfather (John), who passed away (in May 2006). If he saw me do this, he’d be very self-satisfied.”

The qualifying tournament takes domicile July 14-20. Along with host Greece, another countries participating are Brazil, Lebanon, Cape Verde, Germany, New Zealand, Canada, Korea, Slovenia, Cameroon, Croatia and Puerto Rico. The top three progress to Beijing.

Calathes said the Greeks before now have a “really good instant lookout,” so he sees himself in a backup role if he ought to make the team.

“I think I have a good fortuitous. I just have to go and play,” he said.

The hallucination, of course, would be to meet up with the U.S. team at the Olympics.

“That’s all I think more or less,” Calathes said. “It be so absolute to go on the ground with those guys. They’re obviously the best in the flora and fauna.”

The Gators had been the best in the college globe for two eons before Calathes’ arrival, star consecutive national titles. But with the departures of Al Horford, Joakim Noah and Corey Brewer (all NBA tombola picks) and more starters Taurean Green and Lee Humphrey, UF fell flat last season. The new-look, inexperienced Gators went 8-8 in the SEC and were relegated to the NIT.

Coach Billy Donovan was less than pleased. He in rags the undeveloped team after it was eliminated from the SEC tournament in the first round, exclusively the freshman class Rivals graded No. 1 in the voters. “I’m not necessarily really that overwrought nigh on guys being , to be honest,” Donovan said then. “I don’t think inhabitants alteration a total lot, and I don’t think you’ve seen the team amendment at all this year. So it’s hard for me to get overly thrilled or motivated.”

Calathes is mindful of his instructor’s comments. He believes stuff will variation in 2008-09.

“I think we’ll come in with a atypical mind-set and be employed hard in manner each day to be the best we can be,” Calathes said. “We don’t want a season like we had last year.”

No one associated with the agenda does.

“In custom we didn’t have the kind of pose that Joakim and Al and those guys had,” Calathes said. “Sometimes we took off drill and didn’t go the way we wanted to go.”

Calathes said he and classmates Chandler Parsons, Jai Lucas, Alex Tyus and Adam Allen have hard in the consequence room to get ready for next season. Word is Parsons, another five-star prospect, has put on some much- heft and could be ready to have a breakout season.

Donovan also will reckoning on another exceedingly touted class. The Gators welcome a five-man class tiered 10th nationally that four four-star prospects.

“We’re going to need some of the new guys to help us,” Calathes said. “The freshmen will have a big role.”

So will the sophomores. No one is rational home deed, but no one was discerning it something like when a relatively quartet of led Florida to the federal ownership in 2006.

TRANSFER WINDS UP AT OREGON STATE

Providence transfer Dwain Williams took a rather devious course to Oregon State, where he’s now enrolled.

Williams, who averaged 11 points per game last season for the Friars, had signed with Long Beach State just about a week before zigzagging up in Corvallis.

Williams told the 49ers there had been a “miscommunication,” the Long Beach State informal data office said.

New Beavers teacher Craig Robinson was attentive of Williams. Robinson at Brown last season; Brown also is situated in Providence, R.I., and the played each fresh Dec. 9. Robinson was linked to the Providence job after Tim Welsh was fired, but the Friars went with Drake’s Keno Davis and Robinson rich at Oregon State.

“We are agitated to have a participant of Dwain’s diameter come to Oregon State,” Robinson said. “I had an opportunity to coach against him at Brown, and I came away very impressed. He’s a able sentinel and the type of team member who can look after an near impact and can help us dimensions as a synopsis.”

In a discharge from Long Beach State, it sounds as if put out before the “miscommunication,” Williams was quoted as saying, “I felt that Long Beach was the best station to go in that club. It’s close to my mama and I have a solitary parental, hovering five kids on her own. To come back home and be near my intimate and help put Long Beach on the map were the main the full picture I chose Long Beach State. Coach (Dan) Monson and the preparation staff are a good assembly of guys and good recruiters. They told me I’ll have an opportunity to come in and be a organizer on the team and bring my ‘A’ game every nightly and to repetition all day and bring management. They were really real. Everything was up front. They are a good trio of guys, and my mom worshipped them.”

Williams will have two years of admissibility remaining when he takes the patio again in 2009-10.

TIP-INS

Connecticut headfirst Stanley Robinson (10.4 ppg, 6.5 rpg) has every one intention of returning to play for the Huskies, his former AAU trainer said. Norm Williams inveterate to Rivals.com that Robinson is home in Birmingham, Ala., tending to cheeky matters. UConn tutor Jim Calhoun told The Day red-top of New London, Conn., former this that Robinson “has got some belongings that he’s got to prove to us much the same as, pretty frankly, Curtis (Kelly) and Doug (Wiggins).” Kelly and Wiggins have since transferred. “Right now Stanley is in the development of (causal) if he needs to be part of the booklet,” Calhoun told The Day. “It’s the same package as the additional kids with a combination of and societal, and being on time and being loyal to the presentation. He has time to show us that he requests to do the clothes that we him to do. There is an opportunity. He certainly could have a UConn uniform on again.” Williams said he has pronounced to Robinson and that the thespian did not talk nearby transferring.

South Florida has sent paperwork to the NCAA in hopes of locating current fitness for forthright Gus Gilchrist, a former four-star prospect who from Maryland. “The enigma is starting to fit in effectively,” USF tutor Stan Heath told Rivals.com. “Gilchrist is a critical calculation for us. I think he has the restored package. He’s an outstanding bent and can help put USF on the map in the Big East in a big way.” Whether or not they get Gilchrist, the Bulls will have Georgia allocation Mike Mercer offered this season.

Georgetown bouncer Austin Freeman in at 241 pounds at the Nike Paul Pierce Skills Academy in Los Angeles. The Hoyas’ register last season registered Freeman who is 6-4 at 210.

UCF lately hired Steve DeMeo as an secondary. He had spent the foregoing 12 as an associate to Tim Welsh, including the past nine at Providence. DeMeo was classified one of Rivals’ top 25 before last season.

Brian Carlwell, the Illinois actor incapacitated in an auto accident in February 2007 in which teammate Jamar Smith finally pleaded guilty to vexed driving under the effect of alcohol, has transferred to San Diego State. Carlwell, a 6-11 center, is a former four-star prospect.

Georgetown John Thompson III isn’t very sure how much growing guard Austin Freeman weighs.

He doesn’t on the whole care, either. As long as the performer remains productive, the teacher will be happy.

Thompson isn’t concerned that Freeman a former five-star overlook precipitously has this temporary. The 6-foot-4 Freeman weighed in at 241 at the Nike Paul Pierce Skills Academy in Los Angeles, 25 more than any other collegiate wing who attended and 31 pounds over his itemized weight on the Hoyas’ official Web site.

“You me to look at my Web site for the former time in 10 months,” Thompson told Rivals.com Thursday. “In at it, what I judge is of any kind med student did it put Austin’s weight in next to Nikita Mescheriakov. He (Mescheriakov) is recorded at 241 on the Web site and he’s not close to that.”

In fact, Mescheriakov and DaJuan Summers are both enumerated at 241 on the Internet site. In last season’s Georgetown media influence, Freeman is listed at 220, Mescheriakov at 205 and Summers at 240.

“I didn’t know he was at that weight (241), but I don’t know any of them,” Thompson said. “I knew he was in that radius.

“There’s no fear approaching his weight. No, he hasn’t put on 30 pounds. All I’m told his he very well there (at the Pierce camp), and that’s what to me.”

Freeman 9.1 points and 3.0 rebounds last season. He shot 51.3 , including 40 percent from 3-top reach (40 of 100).

With the departures of leading scorer Roy Hibbert (13.4 ppg) and third-chief Jonathan Wallace (10.7 ppg), the Hoyas want to see Freeman expand his scoring role, irrespective of whether his waistline expands.

Coming off one of the best seasons in institute story, Davidson coach Bob McKillop was agreed a contract conservatory through 2016 on Saturday.

Davidson elegant 29-7 last year, McKillops 19th at the helm of the Wildcats. He also guided Davidson to its primary NCAA Tournament win in 39 years, as the Wildcats reached the area tournament.

We are no question thrilled to have reached an agreement with coach McKillop that will aid him to go on at Davidson for at minimum eight more years, Davidson president Tom Ross said. After 19 years at Davidson, it is clear to one and all that Coach McKillop is one of the states premier basketball .

At Davidson, we know that he is also an remaining forerunner of little men and an ideal symbolic of Davidson, a college of distinction, both academically and muscularly.

The Wildcats, led by murder guard Stephen Curry, enjoyed a 25-game winning line last time of year and reached the local battle before down, 59-57, to eventual champion Kansas.

Davidson had a 20-0 personal best in the Southern Conference and have won 30 consecutive association knockout dating to the 2006-07 fight.

Id like to thank Tom Ross, the Davidson College community, my workers, all of my players and my everyday for giving me the opportunity to renew my commitment to Davidson, McKillop said. Commitment has been the underpinning of what we have accomplished, and this clearly strengthens the footing.

Davidson has earned a entire of five NCAA Tournament berths and NIT appearances during McKillops duration. He is the sisterhoods all-time winningest coach with a career top score of 340-225.

New belligerent coordinator Mike Martz reports Gore has select up fleetingly on his complicated sin. Will be the centerpoint of the 49ers offensive the time.

Gore, who suffers from dyslexia, has not had any problems thus far with Mike Martzs complicated . Martz has gone on reputation, he will dimensions the slight around Gore, much like he did in St. Louis with alternative former fantasy stud Marshall Faulk. Given Gores pass catching ability, hell be a huge double danger out of the backfield, and is set to have a monster time of year in 2008.

Authorities say a man with the same name and date of birth as Baltimore Ravens cornerback Derrick Martin was cited for drug name-calling. After he was found in possession of suspected marijuana at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

Cleveland fraud squad Lt. Thomas Stacho said screeners bags of while searching the man at a reassurance checkpoint Saturday night.

Stacho said riot police are testing the substance to shape whether it is marijuana. He said the citation is a misdemeanor with a top fine of a $100 fine.

Martin was a sixth-round outline pick in 2006 out of Wyoming.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers superficially have particular to make on the trot back Earnest Graham part of their future plans.

The Buccaneers and Graham arranged to a three-year, $10.5,000,000 contract expansion that will keep him with the club through 2011, according to report Sunday from ESPN.com.

The deal eliminates a potential guidance camp holdout from Graham, who skipped some of the intentional programs but did attend a obligatory team mini-camp earlier this .

The 28-year-old Graham swift for a career-best 898 yards and 10 touchdowns last season. He also hauled in 49 for 324 .

The Milwaukee Brewers activated acceptable-hander Eric Gagne from the 15-day disabled list after Sunday game at Minnesota. But chief Ned Yost wasn’t discerning to lawfully dispense the earlier closer a role upon his return.

“Reliever,” was all Yost said.

With Salomon Torres 12-for-12 in save since captivating over the duty, however, Gagne is tending headed for a con trick spot after missing more than a month because of rotator cuff tendinitis.

After passing a one-year convention with the Brewers for $10,000,000, Gagne lost the closer’s job fleetingly in mid-May before the injury . For the time, the 2003 NL Cy Young champ is 1-2 with an unsightly 6.98 ERA and 16 in 19 1-3 innings.

He has 10 saves, and five blown save balance.

“It’ll be good to get back on the pile,” Gagne said. “Ready to rock and roll.”

Right-hander Mark DiFelice was optioned to Triple-A Nashville to make room on the roster. DiFelice posted a 3.95 ERA in 10 appearances, handsome out 16 without a walk over 13 2-3 innings.

“We like the fact that he can go down and jerk and get some innings,” Yost said. “We liked what he’s done here. He wishes to work on his power to get left-handers out.”

The Detroit Tigers placed fair outfielder Magglio Ordonez on the 15-day disabled list with a pulled weight in his healthy side on Sunday.

Ordonez pulled his indirect muscle in the third inning of a 7-6 win over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday evening.

Ordonez is hitting .307 with 12 home runs and 50 RBI. He hit .363 last spell to win the American League batting deed.

To replace Ordonez on the register, Detroit recalled the indenture of outfielder Matt Joyce from Triple-A Toledo.

It will be Joyce’s additional spell with the Tigers this season. He hit .208 with five home runs and 10 RBI in 18 cup in his major stay in Detroit. Joyce has 13 home runs and 41 RBI and is .270 at Toledo.