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By Spencer Fordin / MLB.com
The College World Series received some clarity and some intrigue on Tuesday, when one game was completed and another postponed midgame because of inclement weather. South Carolina earned an 11-4 victory to eliminate top seed Arizona State earlier in the day, and Clemson held a 6-1 lead over Oklahoma when the rains forced an early stop to the action.
Clemson and Oklahoma will continue their winner's-bracket game at 4:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, and the loser will be pitted against South Carolina in an elimination game. South Carolina earned the right to stay alive by crushing Arizona State, pushing ahead with an eight-run second inning and cruising to the win behind an efficient seven-inning outing from starter Sam Dyson.
Arizona State hadn't lost back-to-back games all year before going 0-2 at the College World Series, and the Sun Devils continued a bizarre run of events for the tournament's top seed. Only one No. 1 seed -- the 1999 Miami Hurricanes -- has won the tourney since it expanded to 64 teams, and in the past six years, four top seeds have been knocked out in three games or fewer.
The die was cast early on Tuesday, thanks to an eight-hit and eight-run onslaught in the second inning. Jackie Bradley and Adrian Morales both delivered home runs in that rally, and ASU starter Merrill Kelly absorbed all the damage. Kelly, an eighth-round draftee by Tampa Bay earlier this month, gave up 10 hits and wasn't able to escape the second inning.
The eight-run inning was the biggest this season for South Carolina, and it was the most Arizona State had allowed in any inning in 196 games, a stretch dating all the way back to 2007. Dyson held Arizona State to two runs in the first seven innings and allowed two more in the eighth before reliever Matt Price took over.
Oklahoma, which beat South Carolina in its first game of the tourney, fell behind by five runs to Clemson in the first five innings on Tuesday before the weather forced the teams to leave the field. NCAA officials stopped the game because of lightning in the area, and after a 32-minute delay filled with heavy rain, the decision was made to continue the action on Wednesday.
Clemson starter Scott Weismann allowed a run on three hits and two walks in the first five innings, but the Sooners weren't as fortunate. Oklahoma's Bobby Shore allowed just three baserunners in the first three innings and then walked the bases loaded in the fourth. Clemson used a two-run single by Spencer Kieboom to take a three-run lead and added runs in the fifth.
MIAMI – Dr. Lynn Harrison Jr., a nationally-recognized leader in cardiothoracic surgery, has joined Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine as chief of the division of cardiothoracic surgery and professor of clinical cardiovascular surgery for Baptist Health South Florida.
Harrison will help design the clinical experience in heart and lung surgery for FIU’s third and fourth-year medical students.
“This is an incredible opportunity to shape the education of FIU medical students as they make the transition from the classroom,” Harrison said. “Exposure to cardiothoracic surgery and cardiovascular physiology will be useful in most areas of medicine that the students might pursue, including general practice, obstetrics and gynecology, geriatrics and pediatrics. I am also looking forward to working with students, which will be an energizing and rejuvenating experience.”
Harrison, 66, is credited with leading the transformation of the University of Massachusetts’ cardiac surgery program into one of the top 100 programs in the United States. At UMass Memorial Medical Center, Harrison restored a heart surgery program that had been shut down voluntarily because of high death rates. One year after Harrison’s arrival, the UMass Memorial cardiac surgery program had some of the best outcomes in the nation and earned a three-star rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the highest category of quality, awarded to only 15 percent of hospitals with heart surgery programs.
“We are excited to have a physician of the caliber of Dr. Harrison playing such an important role in the education of our students,” said Dr. John Rock, founding dean of the Wertheim College of Medicine. “This is another example of how our partnership with Baptist Health South Florida and its doctors is helping us achieve our mission of training compassionate, culturally competent physicians who are dedicated to serving their communities.”
Before joining UMass, Harrison served as the Craighead professor of surgery and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. Harrison is a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and has trained other physicians in a variety of surgical techniques. His research and clinical findings also have been widely published.
A native of Oklahoma City, Harrison has a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a medical degree from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. He completed his training in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Duke University, where he was a Teaching Scholar in Cardiac Surgery.
Harrison and his wife, Lura, live in Miami. They have two grown children.
In addition to Baptist Health South Florida, FIU’s other clinical partners include Jackson Health Systems, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Children’s Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Leon Medical Centers, Memorial Healthcare System, Broward Health and Cleveland Clinic Florida.
Media Contact: Maydel Santana-Bravo at 305-348-1555.
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Allan A. Cullman, from the gated community of Smoke Rise in Kinnelon, was arrested in connection with a string of bank robberies in Florida. He was a geology major at the University of Miami.
"He certainly didn’t want for anything. He must have got mixed up with the wrong crowd down there... That’s the only reason I can think of for all this," said his stepmother.
Cullman, then 25, was charged with two state and three federal counts of armed robbery along with four accomplices. He was caught after he pressed assault charges against his alleged bank robber accomplices after they reportedly disputed the division of the latest haul. They had reportedly stolen $59,000 in three bank robberies over two years.
In Hollywood, Fla., one of the bandits shot a bank guard.
The police recovered about $14,000 of the stolen loot, as well as seven guns, ranging from a small derringer to a .45 automatic. The police also searched the 38-foot sailboat that Cullman had recently purchased but reportedly only found pistol cartridges.
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OptionIt, a Web-based platform that allows sports fans to buy options for event tickets before they go on sale, recently signed a deal with the University of Miami to provide ticket options to Hurricanes fans.
Under the deal, fans will be able to buy options to all Hurricanes games for the 2010 and 2011 seasons. Options reserve fans the right to buy tickets at face value when they become available. If a fan decides not to exercise an option, they can sell their option to another fan on the OptionIt Web site.
Options prices vary depending on the game and seat location. Options for Miami's September 2010 game against Florida A & M are going for $12; options for Miami's September 2011 game against the Ohio State Buckeyes are going for $58. Options are also available for 2010 and 2011 postseason games, like the ACC Championship game, for $18. If Miami does not make it into the postseason, that $18 is lost.
Michael Proman, OptionIt's vice president of marketing partnerships and development strategy, told TicketNews that the deal comes at a time when UM football is on the upswing. He cited their schedule for the next two seasons, which includes the Buckeyes coming to Coral Gables. Proman said fans can have access to those tickets now. "It's access on demand and without obligation."
University of Miami assistant director of athletics for ticket operations, Erik Book said in a statement, "Many fans want more flexibility in making their purchasing decisions and OptionIt presents a unique and valuable solution that serves this audience."
OptionIt already has deals with the Baltimore Ravens, Boston Celtics (Proman said there are Celtics fans at the finals who are there because they bought $20 options early in the season), and the Washington Capitals, among others. UM is the first college team to enter into a deal with OptionIt.
OptionIt's deal comes on the heels of bad news for other companies in the ticket futures market. FirstDIBZ, which also gave fans the ability to reserve options on tickets but locked them into their purchases, is now effectively defunct after a scandal last year in which options for Super Bowl tickets were sold without tangible tickets attached. The company put its losses at $1 million and is now in settlement talks to compensate the hundreds of fans who lost money. Yoonew, another ticket futures Web site, closed in February because it could no longer cover its operating costs.
Proman stressed OptionIt operates differently than FirstDIBZ and yoonew. OptionIt has contracts with teams and can guarantee that their tickets are authentic. "You know you're getting a legit, certified ticket and it comes directly from the rights holder," he said. "The problem with FirsDIBZ is that they were going through brokers and unreliable sources on the secondary market to fulfill these orders. We will never serve an option if we don't have a contractual agreement with the team. We don't oversell events especially in the contingency scenario."
FirstDIBZ brought a patent infringement suit against OptionIt, yoonew, and viagogo. OptionIt has responded with a countersuit. Proman again stressed that OptionIt is different from FirstDIBZ and others because the company has contracts with ticket rights holders and fans are not obligated to exercise their options.
"That's why we see our platform as more sustainable," he said. "It's access without obligation. You can secure something and decide you don’t want it and not be on the hook to pay."
OptionIt signs partnership deal with University of Miami | TicketNews
Foreclosures had become a strikingly normal part of life in Miami-Dade, as the economy became one of the hardest hit during the recession and homeowners found themselves underwater. Thing however appear to finally be getting better.
In the first five months of 2010 foreclosures were down 38% from the same time in 2009. Meaning there were only 18,327 foreclosures, compared to 29,674.
However there's no sign that the commercial foreclosure rate is letting up, and that residential foreclosures may pick up again. [Herald]
- Starting on July 17th there will no longer be toll booths on the Don Shula and Snapper Creek expressways. Instead drivers will be charged via Sun Pass (drivers without will receive a bill in the mail). Drivers will also be charged by segments of the road traveled instead of a flat toll. [CBS4]
- Much of the swim advisory for Biscayne Bay has been lifted as crews finally fixed the sewage pipe leak that had spilled millions of gallons of nastiness into the waters. [WSVN]
- University of Miami's Ti'erra Brown won the national title in the 400 meter hurdles, making her the first UM track athlete to win at a national level. [Herald]
- Jury selection for the trial of Christopher Sutton has begun. Sutton is charged with hiring a neighbor to kill his parents back in 2004. His mother died and his father was left blind after the attack. The killer, Garrett Koop, plead guilty in 2008. [CBS4]
The Miami Vein Center, in affiliation with American Venous Forums National Screening Program, will be conducting Free Vein Screenings on Saturday, July 10th and 24th.