Three Syracuse University men's basketball players have been cleared by a SU judicial affairs board of charges they sexually assaulted a female student last fall. Jonny Flynn, Antonio "Scoop" Jardine, and Rick Jackson - all rising sophomores on the basketball team - and a fourth male SU student were cleared of the charges after their case was presented to a judicial panel Monday, Jackson's lawyer, Michael Vavonese, said Friday.
An Onondaga County grand jury has decided not to pursue criminal prosecution against three players on the Syracuse men's basketball team, an SU spokesman said Saturday. Jonny Flynn, Antonio "Scoop" Jardine and Rick Jackson - all rising sophomores - testified Friday in a grand jury hearing investigating the alleged sexual assault of a female student last year.
Chris Ventura swings underneath the big, blue Texas sky, in the middle of a playground. He pushes his feet against the woodchips, looking down and tightly grasping the chains of the swing. In a turquoise polo shirt, the 21-year-old Ventura looks like a child again, amongst the monkey bars and jungle gym.
So seniors: we're graduating. This is it, the day, the weekend, the week we've all been waiting for. Family flies and drives in, you start talking to "friends" you've curiously found a way to avoid for three and a half years. It's a grand time. To be honest, I'm not that sentimental about graduating.
Darrick Scott would sit at home reading college football recruiting Web sites with disgust. Every time he logged on to Scout.com or Rivals.com and checked the list of Syracuse commitments for the Class of 2009, the only name he would see was his own. The lone soul with a verbal promise to play for the Orange.
NEWPORT, R.I. - Greg Robinson sat at the Syracuse table minutes into the interview session, wearily fielding the same question again and again. The same question he has attempted to answer countless times during his tumultuous tenure as SU's head coach. The same question made even more relevant now as the Orange comes off a summer of seemingly constant discontent.
I was talking to a friend jokingly that architect Ieoh Ming Pei, more commonly know as I.M. Pei, was "the man" because he designs sweet buildings like the Washington Memorial, Mount Vesuvius and the Statue of Liberty. Just kidding. Architect majors, chill.
May 22 -- John Galloway finished classes weeks ago, but his biggest test looms this weekend. Until then, he's playing the waiting game. "It's tough," the freshman goalie said. "There's not much to do." There's plenty of free time for Galloway and the rest of the third-seeded Syracuse men's lacrosse team before the Final Four kicks off this weekend, with a rematch against Virginia in the first national semifinal Saturday at Foxborough, Mass.
May 22 -- Gary Gait has had a hand in plenty of dynasties. As a player, his Syracuse teams were 51-5 and won three straight NCAA titles. As an assistant coach at Maryland, the women's lacrosse team won seven championships and lost 16 games in nine years. Now he's on the other side - his Syracuse women's lacrosse team is the clear underdog to three-time defending national champion Northwestern in the national semifinal Friday.
