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NEW YORK -- Until last week, Semi Ojeleye had not appeared in a game for nearly two years and even when he played at Duke, the minutes were limited. Cheap Padres Jerseys .Since then, Ojeleye has been putting in the work away from the court and so far it is paying off much to the delight of SMU coach Tim Jankovich.Ojeleye continued his torrid start by scoring 20 of his 24 points in the second half and SMU defeated Pittsburgh 76-67 in the first semifinal of the 2K Classic at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night.Of course, its enjoyable when a guy sits out, (is) a transfer and you hope he has success, Jankovich said. But Ill triple that because Semis one of the most outstanding young men that you could ever be around your entire life and on top of that he is arguably the hardest worker away from practice time in terms of the time he puts in.Hes a machine, literally, and were like blown away. Weve been around a lot of hard-working guys. I have not been around a guy you set your clock by this guy. Its each and every day and he cant get enough.Ojeleye scored 46 points in 23 games in two seasons with Duke before transferring to the Mustangs following the 2014-15 season. The junior forward surpassed his point total from Duke in the first half when he shot 2 of 7 and then surged past it with several outstanding athletic plays during the second half.Just staying confident, Ojeleye said. Nothing changed in the locker room. I didnt think about what the stats were. I kept trying to do the same stuff I was doing in the first half.Ojeleye missed his first two shots of the second half before starting to roll. He made a 3-pointer about 3 1/2 minutes into the half to give the Mustangs the lead for good and capped his 9-for-17 showing by converting a transition layup in the final minute.Ojeleyes 7-for-10 showing in the final 20 minutes was part of a second half when the Mustangs shot 57 percent after missing nine straight shots to end the first half.Besides Ojeleyes impressive showing, Shake Milton added 14 points while Ben Moore contributed 12.Michael Young scored nearly half of his 22 points at the foul line for Pittsburgh. Jamel Artis added 20 for the Panthers, who had averaged 96 points in home wins over Eastern Michigan and Gardner-Webb.Hes athletic, Young said of Ojeleye. He can really get up vertically and he can make some shots. We knew that going in. He got it going in the second half and guys like that we got to take away air space and make them uncomfortable.BIG PICTURESMU: The Mustangs came into the game playing effective defense by allowing 54 points per game and for the most part they continued it. Their defense forced several traveling violations, including one with about 13 1/2 minutes left which resulted in an unsportsmanlike technical and ejection for Sterling Brown. Brown was handed the technical for emphatically applauding in the face of Artis after his defense resulted in a traveling violation.Pittsburgh: The Panthers have struggled defensively and other than the final five-plus minutes of the first half, their defensive issues continued. The Panthers have allowed an average of 82 points so far and even when Stallings started instructing his players to press, it was unsuccessful. Turnovers also continued to be an issue as Pittsburgh committed 13, resulting in 11 fewer field-goal attempts.FAMILIAR COACHING MATCHUPJankovich and Stallings worked together at Vanderbilt. Jankovich was an assistant under Stallings from 1999 to 2002 and the Commodores made two NIT appearances. Jankovich also coached at Illinois State from 2007-2012 over a decade after Stallings coached there.ANOTHER JETER IN NEW YORKFor the second college game at Madison Square Garden, there was a Jeter on the court. Unlike Dukes Chase Jeter, who wears the number two -- the same as the former Yankees captain -- Pittsburghs Sheldon Jeter wears number 21, the same as Pirates Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente. Jeter had averaged 13 points in his first two games but was held to five points on 2-of-8 shooting.UP NEXTSMU: Will play in the 2K Classic championship game Friday.Pittsburgh: Will play in the 2K Classic consolation game Friday. Tony Gwynn Jersey . 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They need to know what the consequences are.With the sporting world embroiled in another massive doping scandal, this one involving claims that Russia ran a state-sanctioned system for juicing its athletes, USA Swimming has stirred up a 40-year-old hornets nest by producing a documentary film, The Last Gold.The title refers to the American women pulling off a stunning upset of the doped-up East Germans in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay in the final swimming event at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.Really, its about a bunch of athletes -- and one in particular -- being denied their just rewards by a now-defunct nation that set the bar lower than anyone before or since when it came to winning gold through better chemistry.Babashoff should have been a star in Montreal. She was the greatest female swimmer in the world and, at 19, in the prime of her career. Instead, she settled for one silver after another -- in the 200 freestyle, 400 free, 800 free, not to mention the 4x100 medley relay.Each time, she was beaten by an East German.Frustrated by the results and convinced her rivals were cheating, she blurted out her accusations to the world. The result was a nickname that still dogs her to this day (Surly Shirley) and led much of the media at the time to brand her a sore loser.Most people look at a silver medal as being something you won, said Babashoff, now 59. Unfortunately, in 1976, the silver medal got to be the losing (medal). You were the loser.Of course, after Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early `90s, all of Babashoffs suspicions, and then some, were confirmed. The East Germans doled out copious amounts of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, not always with the knowledge of their athletes.The ramifications are still being felt today, not just in the tainted results but with the massive health problems many of those gold medalists went on to suffer.Theres plenty of blame to go around, but its a reminder that no one can let their guard down in the war on drugs. Not the anti-doping agencies, which dont always go far enough to root out the cheats. Not the governing bodies, which are often beholden to big-money sponsors. Not the media, which is often more cheerleader than watchdog.Babashoff suspected something was up with the East Germans. Their female swimmers had never won an Olympic gold medal before 1976. Suddenly, they seemed to be winning them all -- 11 of 13 at Moontreal, to be exact. Cheap Stitched Padres Jerseys. Even though the Americans -- Babashoff, Jill Sterkel, Wendy Boglioli and the late Kim Peyton -- finally claimed the only gold for the U.S. women in their final event, that did little to ease the sting of such a massive fraud.The East Germans were nothing at the Olympics, Babashoff recalled Friday, a tinge of anger still evident in her voice all these years later. Why didnt that send up a red flag? People going, `Wait a minute, whats going on here? This is so unusual. This tiny, little, depressed country now has the best women -- and only women -- swimmers in the whole world. But no one thought anything of that.Despite a mountain of evidence that has since emerged, the East Germans were never stripped of their ill-gotten triumphs, having pulled off a scam that tarnished a lot more sports than swimming.But Babashoff remains the cause celebre -- a giant of the pool who, it turns out, never won an individual gold medal.The International Olympic Committee doesnt have a mechanism in place to deal with such an epic, long-ago con job. Theres a 10-year statute of limitations (or, in some older cases, just eight years) for punishing dopers -- not nearly long enough to help Babashoff and so many others.Also, sanctions can only be applied to those who test positive, miss or refuse a test, or show irregularities in their biological passport. Again, nothing in the books applies to the East Germans.No reason that cant change.Its never the wrong time to do the right thing, Babashoff said.Admittedly, it would get very messy if the IOC tried to sort out every case of a tainted East German who cheated a clean athlete. Impossible, really. And lets not be naive: some of those athletes they beat were surely doping, too.But, at the very least, the IOC should recognize Babashoff and every other athlete who was beaten by an East German with a duplicate gold of their own.The record book would get a lot more crowded, to be sure, with hundreds of events suddenly listing multiple champions.That seems a small price to pay to all those who were wronged.Babashoff, in particular.Were not getting any younger, she said. It would be nice to be a part of that and not have my grandchildren going up there to receive my medals for me and say, `Were getting these on behalf of my grandmother, who passed away 50 years ago.The time to right this wrong is now.---Paul Newberry is a national writer for The Associated Press. Write to him at pnewberry(at)ap.org or at www.twitter.com/pnewberry1963 . His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/paul-newberry . Cheap NFL JerseysCheap NFL Jerseys ChinaCheap Jerseys From ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys AuthenticWholesale Jerseys ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys ChinaNFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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