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Art Monk Honored by Football Legends Award (redskins.com; Walker)
Hall of Fame wide receiver Art Monk was in Bethesda, Md., on Saturday to accept the Washington Football Legends’ “Bobby Mitchell Champion Of The Gridiron” award.
By now, Art Monk’s “silent assassin” persona on the field has reached legendary status, as the Redskins wide receiver let his play do the talking all the way to his enshrinement into the Pro Football of Fame.
But don’t let his quiet ways fool you. Like anybody else, Monk certainly had his frustrations throughout his 16-year career, the first 14 of which he spent in Washington, D.C.
And when times got tough, Monk knew exactly who he could go to for advice: Bobby Mitchell.
On Saturday, Monk accepted the Washington Football Legends “Bobby Mitchell Champion of the Gridiron” award at the organization’s seventh-annual scholarship gala, and said the recognition was extra special because of its namesake.
“Bobby was like a father to a lot of us,” Monk told Redskins.com of Mitchell, a legendary Redskins flanker who spent more than 30 years as a team front office executive. “(There were) a lot of days where he was near for us to vent our frustrations to. But he always listened and he was always supportive, always encouraging.”
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Syracuse athletic director Daryl Gross is gone, but the Director's Cup standings live on.
Syracuse Drops to 18th in Most Recent Director's Cup Standings (PS; Carlson)
In the most recent unofficial update of the metric, Syracuse dropped seven spots to No. 18 in the country. The standings claim to judge the top athletic program in the country, and Syracuse celebrated its No. 1 ranking in the first unofficial standings released earlier this year.
Gross, the former Syracuse athletic director, was a staunch proponent of the Director's Cup, as was former chancellor Nancy Cantor. His stated goal was to finish consistently in the Top 25, and he frequently used SU's improvement as a gauge of his success.
Some consider the rankings a contrived metric that attempts to justify the jobs of athletic directors who struggle to achieve success in marquee sports, and Gross' spending on non-revenue sports was a hot-button issue throughout his time at Syracuse.
The award is presented annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
The most recent release includes updates for skiing, rifle and indoor track and field. Syracuse offers only the last sport, and the men's team added 15.5 points to SU's total. Syracuse finished 57th in the NCAA Championships thanks to a seventh-place finish from Martin Hehir in the 3,000 meters.
The only other winter team from SU to pick up points will be women's basketball, which advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Syracuse will almost assuredly fall further when the official winter rankings are released but may improve on its all-time best winter ranking of 35.
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Father of Max Maisel Shares Eulogy (D&C; DiVeronica)
The family of Max Maisel, the missing Rochester Institute of Technology student who was last seen near the Charlotte Pier on Feb. 22, held a memorial service for the 21-year-old on Friday back home in Connecticut, and in his eulogy Maisel's father said "circumstantial evidence" indicates Max may have taken his own life.
"We live at a time when suicide is recognized as a result of mental illness, when the stigma has been removed. Even if it weren't, we have never been ashamed of Max, and we aren't going to start now," Ivan Maisel, a longtime senior writer and college football writer for ESPN, said in his eulogy, which he posted on his Twitter feed on Monday afternoon.
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Given the response to my eulogy for Max, and the requests for copies, I decided to publish it: https://medium.com/@Ivan_Maisel/approximately-900-friends-and-family-members-gathered-on-march-27-for-a-memorial-service-at-36c63a5854ce…
1:23 PM - 30 Mar 2015
Approximately 900 friends and family members gathered on March 27 for...
By Ivan Maisel @Ivan_Maisel
Thank you, again, all of you, for your love and your support.
Medium @Medium
"And yet. And yet," the eulogy for his son continued. "Three days before he disappeared, he paid for a year-long membership to OK Cupid, the dating service. On the day he disappeared, he spent the afternoon doing photographic work, which we think was for a class. Police found no note in his car or on his computer. None of this, they tell us, is consistent with the behavior of someone intent upon hurting himself."
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Art Monk Honored by Football Legends Award (redskins.com; Walker)
Hall of Fame wide receiver Art Monk was in Bethesda, Md., on Saturday to accept the Washington Football Legends’ “Bobby Mitchell Champion Of The Gridiron” award.
By now, Art Monk’s “silent assassin” persona on the field has reached legendary status, as the Redskins wide receiver let his play do the talking all the way to his enshrinement into the Pro Football of Fame.
But don’t let his quiet ways fool you. Like anybody else, Monk certainly had his frustrations throughout his 16-year career, the first 14 of which he spent in Washington, D.C.
And when times got tough, Monk knew exactly who he could go to for advice: Bobby Mitchell.
On Saturday, Monk accepted the Washington Football Legends “Bobby Mitchell Champion of the Gridiron” award at the organization’s seventh-annual scholarship gala, and said the recognition was extra special because of its namesake.
“Bobby was like a father to a lot of us,” Monk told Redskins.com of Mitchell, a legendary Redskins flanker who spent more than 30 years as a team front office executive. “(There were) a lot of days where he was near for us to vent our frustrations to. But he always listened and he was always supportive, always encouraging.”
...
Syracuse athletic director Daryl Gross is gone, but the Director's Cup standings live on.
Syracuse Drops to 18th in Most Recent Director's Cup Standings (PS; Carlson)
In the most recent unofficial update of the metric, Syracuse dropped seven spots to No. 18 in the country. The standings claim to judge the top athletic program in the country, and Syracuse celebrated its No. 1 ranking in the first unofficial standings released earlier this year.
Gross, the former Syracuse athletic director, was a staunch proponent of the Director's Cup, as was former chancellor Nancy Cantor. His stated goal was to finish consistently in the Top 25, and he frequently used SU's improvement as a gauge of his success.
Some consider the rankings a contrived metric that attempts to justify the jobs of athletic directors who struggle to achieve success in marquee sports, and Gross' spending on non-revenue sports was a hot-button issue throughout his time at Syracuse.
The award is presented annually by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
The most recent release includes updates for skiing, rifle and indoor track and field. Syracuse offers only the last sport, and the men's team added 15.5 points to SU's total. Syracuse finished 57th in the NCAA Championships thanks to a seventh-place finish from Martin Hehir in the 3,000 meters.
The only other winter team from SU to pick up points will be women's basketball, which advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Syracuse will almost assuredly fall further when the official winter rankings are released but may improve on its all-time best winter ranking of 35.
...
Other
Father of Max Maisel Shares Eulogy (D&C; DiVeronica)
The family of Max Maisel, the missing Rochester Institute of Technology student who was last seen near the Charlotte Pier on Feb. 22, held a memorial service for the 21-year-old on Friday back home in Connecticut, and in his eulogy Maisel's father said "circumstantial evidence" indicates Max may have taken his own life.
"We live at a time when suicide is recognized as a result of mental illness, when the stigma has been removed. Even if it weren't, we have never been ashamed of Max, and we aren't going to start now," Ivan Maisel, a longtime senior writer and college football writer for ESPN, said in his eulogy, which he posted on his Twitter feed on Monday afternoon.
Ivan Maisel ✔ @Ivan_Maisel
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Given the response to my eulogy for Max, and the requests for copies, I decided to publish it: https://medium.com/@Ivan_Maisel/approximately-900-friends-and-family-members-gathered-on-march-27-for-a-memorial-service-at-36c63a5854ce…
1:23 PM - 30 Mar 2015
Approximately 900 friends and family members gathered on March 27 for...By Ivan Maisel @Ivan_Maisel
Thank you, again, all of you, for your love and your support.
Medium @Medium"And yet. And yet," the eulogy for his son continued. "Three days before he disappeared, he paid for a year-long membership to OK Cupid, the dating service. On the day he disappeared, he spent the afternoon doing photographic work, which we think was for a class. Police found no note in his car or on his computer. None of this, they tell us, is consistent with the behavior of someone intent upon hurting himself."
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