For the Record 11.07.13

ISSUE NO. 25 • NOV. 7 - 12, 2013 • SPORTS ISSUE

A look at the most infamous moments in the history of UC sports PG 4-5

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Kara Driscoll @kardadri @pdidion

SPORTS EDITOR

Joshua Miller @josh_tnrsports Jake Grieco @Rosewater_Eliot

ARTS EDITOR NEWS EDITOR

Ryan Hoffman @ryanhoffman3 KateDavis @kateTHE___great

DESIGNER PHOTO EDITOR

Phil Didion

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

THE

ASK

WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE ATHLETE OR SPORTS TEAM?

DO YOU THINK OUR CULTURE IS TOO SPORTS-OBSESSED?

DO YOU GO TO SPORTING EVENTS AT UC?

DID YOU EVER PLAY SPORTS OR CONSIDER YOURSELF AN ATHLETE?

HOW ABOUT DEM BEARCATS?

MIA HAMM!

Oh, certainly.

That girl is such a boss.

Sports are kind of dumb.

I actually haven’t been to a football game as a student. I’ll totally watch any game at the Catskeller though.

I balled so hard in a rowing boat during high school. And I can still totally paddle my ass off on the Mill Creek.

As a wise, empowered woman once said, “What does that even mean?”

I’m a fan of most things Cincinnati, which is why I recognize that Akili Smith is the single greatest quarterback of all-time.

I’m the sports editor, and even I get disgusted by the obnoxiousness of some sports fans.

Fantasy football is the perfect example.

Priorities don’t really exist anymore.

You can find me on press row at just about every UC football and basketball game.

Once upon a time I was a very over-rated football player. GO CLIMBERS! They just so happen to be playing against Ryan and Jake’s high school Saturday ...

We’ll find out during the next month and a half.

UC’s schedule isn’t very forgiving for the rest of the season.

Air Bud. I’ve never seen anyone ball so hard.

What else would we do?

Read?

Not coherently.

I played soccer year round until I was 18 years old. Now I play baseball, but the kind that involves solo cups and Nati Ice.

The big league boys are doing there things at the place. I’m a huge supporter. I’m a Bearcat and you’re going to hear me roar.

Eldrich Woods is a baller but I’d have to say Lary Sorensen. Look him up.

I don’t know. Have you seen Caddyshack?

No. I’m usually either busy working or participating in some extra curricular activities ... wink.

I played softball so yes, I am an athlete.

For some reason I just can’t get into football this year. Hopefully it’s different for basketball but if not there’s always the golf team.

As of this summer, I am a Red Sox fan.

Um, yes. Steubenville and Maryville demonstrate that more clearly than I ever could.

I went to all of the home football games my freshman year and they were a blast.

Shockingly, I was captain of the swim team in high school. Nowadays I sit on my yoga mat and watch reruns on Netflix.

This question has run so many times and I never know what to say.

Yes, I’m the dude running around and shooting photos in the yellow hat.

Look for me on ESPN.

I once bowled a 300 on “Wii Bowling.” So I’ve got that going for me.

Well apparently they do the things and get the points.

EDITORS

Bill Murray back in his days playing with the Looney Tunes in “Space Jam.” Dude can ball.

I think we’re a culture of obsessed people in general. Everyone has their outlet and mine happens to be nerding out over shows like “Battlestar Galactica.”

How ABOUT them?!

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Q&A: How much time does it take to be an athlete?

UC linebacker Solomon Tentman talks scheduling, practice hours, dreaded 8 a.m. classes Q: What time do you get up on the average practice day?

A: I get up around 7:30. Come to treatment, if I need treatment. If not, if my legs are sore, I’ll get in a cold tub.

Before I come [to the athletic facility] I’ll usually eat breakfast and then Tuesdays and Thursdays we usually have to lift so I’ll do that about 11:15 to 11:50 a.m. and then after that I’ll go eat lunch.

Q: How much food do you eat for breakfast to get enough energy for the day?

A: I eat a decent size; I don’t eat a fullblown meal. Sometimes I’ll eat oatmeal, bagel some eggs or some bacon — some combination like that.

Q: Do they feed you guys every meal?

A: Just one meal at dinner (seven days a week).

Q: How do you guys balance your class schedules around practice?

A: Before the school year starts, like say we’re in the Spring, we’ll [schedule] summer and fall classes with our advisers. We cancel off anything from [noon] to 6 p.m.

Q: So most football players probably have an 8 a.m. and a night class?

A: 8 a.m. and a night class more than likely. If not, they’re probably all online classes.

Q: So between noon to 6 p.m. you’re all football every day? No matter what?

A: No matter what. That doesn’t include lifting; I lift Tuesday and Thursday from 11:15 a.m. to about [noon]. Meetings start at 1 p.m., so tape and dress start at noon.

Q: So how long on average do you

FILE ART

UC linebacker Solomon Tentman (No. 33) and members of the UC football team walk away with the Victory Bell Trophy for the eighth year in a row. The Bearcats defeated Miami University 14-0 Sept. 21, 2013.

guys actually practice?

A: two and a half hours, two hours (four days a week).

Q: On a game day, what is your schedule like?

A: On noon game days, we usually wake up 8 a.m. at a motel, get up, meet for a little bit and go eat breakfast.

After we eat breakfast, we’ll meet again over special teams. We’ll all come together and watch a little team video, and after that, we’ll get on the bus to either head to the stadium or head to the catwalk. It’s a little bit different on night games because it’s like 7 p.m. We’ll wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, head here if it’s a home game for a walkthrough, if not, we’ll head to the stadium we’re at and do a walkthrough at the stadium, come back, have a meeting or two, maybe eat lunch, then we get a little period to nap from about 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. After that we get up, have another meeting between offense and defense and have another special teams meeting, eat pre-game meal, meet as a team and

then we’re off to the stadium.

Q: So you stay at a hotel even for home games?

A: Yeah, the night before the game.

Q: So what’s the hardest part of maintaining the schedule you guys have to adhere to?

A: I would just say the 8 a.m. classes honestly. Everything else becomes Groundhog Day honestly. That’s probably the hardest part, and staying up for night classes too.

Q: Do you guys struggle to get all your schoolwork done?

A: Well this semester, no, just because I’m [taking] four classes and one of them is an online class. But one of them, like last year at this time when we just got moved to semesters, it was a struggle. I had stats, accounting and digital technology and business [classes]. It can be rough if you have 15-18 hours. I know some kids who have [more than] 15 hours.

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THE NEWS RECORD’S

TOP 10

After winning the backto-back national titles in 1961 and 1962, UC’s 79-67 national championship loss to Loyola Chicago probably resonated as a huge let down at the time.

But the fact remains that 1963 was UC’s fifthconsecutive trip to the NCAA Final Four.

In the 50 years since, only John Wooden’s UCLA dynasty of the late 1960s and ’70s made more consecutive Final Four trips.

SPORTS

MOMENTS

in UC history

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Bearcats reach fifth straight Final Four

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UC basketball wins 90 straight games at home From Dec. 6 1957 to Dec. 7, 1963, the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team won 90 consecutive home games, an NCAA record at the time.

In a span that saw the career of Oscar Robertson and two national championships, the UC program from 1957-63 is considered among the greatest dynasties in NCAA history.

UC wins first national championship in school history

After back-to-back Final Four defeats under legendary coach George Smith, first-year head coach Ed Jucker implemented a new offense that, despite early season woes, led the UC men’s basketball team to a 70-65 overtime victory against Ohio State.

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Lifted by teamate Fred Dierking, Larry Shingleton cuts down the net after UC’s 1962 National Title victory.

UC basketball wins second straight national title

After claiming the university’s first national title against the Buckeyes the prior year, UC entered the 1962 season with a target on their backs.

After finishing the regular season 25-2, UC easily dispatched Creighton and Colorado before narrowly defeating UCLA in the Final Four.

The Buckeyes, who entered the game with only one loss, strolled their way to a title rematch with UC. Many felt that UC’s overtime victory in 1961 was a fluke, and Ohio State once again entered the 1962 title game as favorites. But the Bearcats erased any doubt as to who was the best team in Ohio and the nation.

Led by Paul Hogue’s 22 points and 19 rebounds, UC coasted to a 71-59 victory.

In the three-year span between 1959-1962, Ohio State lost three games, two of which were title games against UC. With the victory, UC head coach Ed Jucker became the first, and only, coach in NCAA history to win national titles in both of his first two seasons as a head coach.

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UC receiver Armon Bins (No. 80) celebrates with teammates after catching the game winning touchdown against Pittsburgh in 2009.

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Pike to Binns

In undoubtedly the single greatest 10 seconds in UC football history, Tony Pike and Armon Binns combined to cap off an improbable comeback and secure UC’s first undefeated season since 1952. In the time since, UC fans have immortalized the moment as “Pike to Binns.”

After trailing Pittsburgh by 21 points in the second half, UC came back to win 45-44, with Binns’ diving catch in the endzone, giving the Bearcats the lead with a little more than a minute remaining.

The Victory earned UC a trip to the Orange Bowl and a No. 3 ranking in the final regular season poll.

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Oscar Robertson Breaks NCAA scoring record

There is no debate over who holds the title of greatest athlete in UC History.

After all, there’s only one athletic statue on campus. Oscar Robertson was and, in the eyes of most, still is the greatest college basketball player of all time.

Although a national championship eluded him at Cincinnati, as the Bearcats went on to win back-to-back titles following his departure, Robertson’s greatness was rewarded Feb. 6, 1960 at UC’s Armory Fieldhouse.

Robertson broke the NCAA’s all-time scoring record with a typical dominant performance against the Houston Cougars. Robertson finished his UC career with 2,973 points, a record that would stand until ‘Pistol’ Pete Maravich scored 3,667 in his three years at LSU.

Sandy Koufax wins third Cy Young Award

Although it didn’t happen at UC, Sandy Koufax’s third Cy Young award (1966), which honors the best pitcher in the MLB, solidified the former UC athlete as arguably the greatest left-handed pitcher in baseball history.

Although few people associate Koufax with UC, he is arguably the mostsuccessful professional athlete UC has produced.

With the 1963 National League MVP award and four World Series Championships to go along with his Cy Young Awards, its hard to remember that arthritis problems prematurely ended his career at the age of 30.

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UC Basketball reaches 1992 Final Four

After reaching five NCAA Final Four appearances between 1957-63, few thought it would be nearly 30 years before the UC basketball team retuned to the upper

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echelon of college basketball. But success was few and far between in the 1970s and ’80s. But under third-year head coach Bob Huggins, UC burst back onto the scene in 1992.

With All-American guard Nick Van Excel (pictured below) at the helm and Huggins storming the sideline the Bearcats advanced to the Final Four, where they were narrowly defeated by Chris Webber and the Michigan Wolverines. The 1992 season marked the first of 14 consecutive NCAA trips for Huggins.

9 Kenyon Martin goes off, wins AP Player of the Year

Anyone that followed UC basketball in the late 1990s and early 2000s remembers the greatness of Kenyon Martin, who was inducted into the University of Cincinnati Athletics Hall of Fame a week ago.

For most, three memories come to mind when Martin’s name enters the conversation. The first being the tragic scene of Martin clutching his broken leg during the 2000 Conference USA Tournament, an injury that squashed UC’s National Title aspirations. The second, his forever immortalized shoulder shake and the third, his unbelievable preformance against Depaul in 2000.

With UC, ranked second in the country at the time, Martin took over the game like few have since. He scored 21 second-half point (33 in the game) and at one point, converted four baskets in which UC’s offensive stragetgy was to make

sure no one got in his way. For the better part of 10 minutes, it was literally Martin vs Depaul, and he won. After blocking two shots to keep the game tied, Martin dished the game winning assist to DerMarr Johnson with 2.7 seconds remaining.

The preformance was the crown jewel of his National Player of the year campaign.

UC Football becomes national player in 2008

Although UC’s 2008-09 football season ended with a lackluster 20-7 loss to Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl, it was a monumental achievement for a program that had been of little prior national relevance.

Led by improbable quarterback Tony Pike, who inherited the starting position after Dustin Grutza’s season-ending leg injury against Oklahoma early in the year, Cincinnati slowly picked up speed throughout the course of the season and finished off the year with victories against four straight ranked opponents.

The success of the 2008 season announced UC’s presence among major college football teams in the years to come, as the Bearcats went on to be one of only 10 teams to win 10 games in five of the next six seasons.

Setting the stage for UC’s 13-0 run in 2009, the success of 2008 also indirectly resulted in the contruction of the Sheakley Athletics Facility and numerous other facility upgrades, as UC scrambled to try and keep Brian Kelly from leaving for another school.

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Football season’s end marks start of Nippert renovations

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The Nippert Stadium renovations, expected to be completed in 2015, will increase the seating to 40,000.

Renovations to 89-year-old stadium to increase seating to 40,000 THE NEWS RECORD

The University of Cincinnati will start the process of overhauling one

of America’s oldest college football stadiums in the next several months.

While official funding plans for Nippert Stadium renovations haven’t been finalized, construction on the 89-year-old stadium is set to begin immediately following the conclusion

of the current season.

Following the UC Board of Trustees’ approval of the $86 million renovation in June, which came despite the renovation’s total cost exceeding initial projections by more than $15 million, faculty and students met in early October to discuss the venue’s future.

University architect, Mary Beth McGrew, is leading the project and said the expansion will add about 100,000 square feet to Nippert, increasing its capacity to 40,000.

By increasing the number of restrooms and concession stands, McGrew hopes to add to the game day experience and provide attendees with more accessible facilities that increase the flow of foot traffic in the stadium.

Due to the compactness of UC’s campus, stadium renovations will primarily be built upward rather than outward.

“The charm of our stadium is also the difficulty of our stadium,” McGrew said in an October interview. “It’s a charming place to be and can be so much fun, but the downside — if you see it as such — is that there really isn’t

anywhere to go but up.”

Nippert’s field level won’t change, but the newly renovated western concourse will include new media facilities, club style seating and a skywalk connection to Tangeman University Center.

The addition of club seating and luxury boxes will produce a projected $2.5 million of revenue per year for the next 25 years, said UC Athletic Director Whit Babcock.

The eastern concourse of the stadium will also receive renovations that include the building of skywalks to connect the stadium’s upper deck with O’Varsity Way. “I think [this project] will be historic; will really be a legacy for decades to come,” said UC President Santa Ono after the board’s initial approval.

UC will play its 2014 home games at Paul Brown Stadium where the Bearcats have played several marquee games at in the past.

No general university funds will be used for the project and construction is scheduled to be complete before the 2015 football season.

UC men’s club soccer returns to national tournament After hard fought season, UC team determined for big run against talented competition JAKE GRIECO ARTS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati men’s club soccer team is headed to the NIRSA National Soccer Championship after its first undefeated regular season.

The tournament is held in Phoenix, Ariz. Nov. 21 to 23 and consists of 24 teams. The teams are divided into eight groups of three, and a two-game round robin whittles the group down to 16.

After that, it’s single elimination format until there is a champion.

The club soccer team secured one of the six wildcards slots due to their competitive schedule and a big win against the University of Michigan in regionals, which resulted in a run to the regional semifinals “It was the most complete game we played all season.

We scored two goals in the first 10 minutes and then a third pretty late in the game to put it on ice,” said

Brendan O’Brien, fourth-year marketing student and forward for the UC club team.

This isn’t the first time the UC club soccer team has made it to the NIRSA National Soccer Championship.

“It’s great to be back,” O’Brien said. “When I was a freshman, that was the first time we ever qualified for nationals, so it’s really cool to be going back with a couple of the old veterans and a lot of new guys. We’re really excited about it.”

Five teams from UC’s region qualified to compete in the tournament; the team is used to playing quality squads.

The team did well their first time competing in the tournament and O’Brien hopes that experience will make them more successful this time.

“We know that because we come from such a strong region that we can compete with everybody there,” O’Brien said. “But it’s definitely not our first time going there anymore. We really want to make a statement while we’re there and put UC club soccer on the map nationally.”

O’Brien is confident in the backline, and feels the team can out-possess any team it is matched up with.

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University of Cincinnati Men’s Club Soccer team defeated Miami University 3-0 Sept. 24, on its way to an undefeated regular season.

All UC has to do is finish the ball when they get their opportunities and success will follow.

“We know we can play with anybody in the country,” O’Brien said. “It’s just a matter of putting our best game together and putting the ball in the net.”

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Nationally ranked club rowing sees faster times MADISON SCHMIDT CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

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University of Cincinnati Men’s and Women’s Club Rowing practice for the Head of the Hootch Regatta in Chattanooga, Tenn. on the Little Miami River.

While most people cringe at the thought of waking up at sunrise, students from the University of Cincinnati Rowing Club roll out of bed hours before dawn to work out on the Little Miami River.

The men’s varsity team pushes off the dock in any weather when everyone’s schedule will allow them to meet, which is around 5 a.m., and the women follow beginning at 6 a.m.

In the afternoons, novice rowers join for what is the majority’s first experience in a boat.

The teams rely on the fact that each member is present on the boat; each rower has their own job separate from the rest that has to synchronize to the timing of the pace.

“There is no superstar in a boat,” said Andrew Lennard, a fifth-year construction management student.

Lennard started rowing four years ago with no experience. He began assistant coaching beginner groups when his eligibility ran out at the end of the Spring semester. It was the competitive nature, the team aspect and the physical challenge that made rowing worth it for him.

“No one person makes a boat fast,” Lennard said.“But one person can make the boat slow.”

Under a new yet familiar coaching regime, the team welcomed back head coach Rolf Linder, one of the original founders of the Rowing Club.

Over the years, the club has had its ups and downs with consistency in coaching, equipment maintenance and the women’s team gaining NCAA status, then losing it during the mid 2000s.

“We’re like the fighters,” Linder said.“For us, [rowing] is kind of a comeback story.”

After coaching their first two seasons in 1983-84, Linder left the handful of eager rowers to take another job.

Nearly 28 years later, he returned for his fourth season to a new team of about 45 men and women representing UC on a national level.

“My theme for the team this year is: we have to be blue

collar,” Linder said.“We have to just show up everyday, roll up our sleeves and get to work.”

So far, both teams have held their own against nationally ranked teams.

The men’s varsity team won nearly every event it competed in at the Speakmon Regatta in Columbus, Ohio Oct. 13 and swept the men’s pairs, winning gold, silver and bronze.

The women’s varsity four — four rowers to a boat — placed third behind two Ohio State University women’s boats that won the NCAA championship in 2012.

Over the weekend, the team competed in its last competitive regatta in Chattanooga, Tenn. at the Head of the Hooch Regatta along the Tennessee River.

The “Hooch” is the second largest regatta in the country with more than 100 teams and 2,000 boats entered.

Both UC’s men and women’s rowing clubs finished in the top half of the 11 different races they competed in.

“I say this to the athletes all the time: ‘Your reputation matters when you go up to the start line of a race and they see a UC boat next to them, I want them to say, oh shit,’” Linder said.