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  March 19, 2018 8:21 PM PDT

  SYRACUSE, N. Balenciaga Scarpe Outlet .Y. -- Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim wants his bench to perform better.He got his wish Saturday.John Gillon and Taurean Thompson came off the bench to score a Syracuse career-high 23 points and career-high 22 points, respectively, and the Orange broke open a tight game early in the second half to defeat Boston University 99-77.Gillon hadnt scored in Syracuses two previous games.We want guys to come off the bench to score and thats what happened today, Boeheim said. Thompson is getting better on offense. ... John saved the game in the first half.Andrew White added 19 and Tyler Lydon 10 for the Orange (6-3). Frank Howard had 11 assists and just two turnovers.Syracuse had lost three of four entering the game.Cedric Hankerson led the Terriers (4-6) with 34 points, including 10 of 20 from beyond the arc. Eric Fanning chipped in with 12 points and nine rebounds.Syracuse led 45-39 at the half but outscored the Terriers 19-5 in the first five minutes of the second half, led by seven from Thompson, to take a 64-44 lead. The Orange breezed the rest of the way, extending their lead to 88-55. Syracuse shot 55 percent in the second half, outscoring the Terriers 54-38 after intermission.They just got on a run and we couldnt really bounce back from that, said Hankerson. They were hitting some daggers and we started turning the ball over too much.They had some guys who shot better than they had been, and we helped them, said BU coach Joe Jones. We were really bad on offense and made some really bad decisions and you cant do that.Gillon and Thompson scored 14 and 12 points, respectively, in the first half to spark what had been a lethargic Orange effort. Gillons first-half points included 4 of 4 from beyond the arc.I had a lot going on and wasnt in the right mindset, not ready to play, said Gillon. Thats what happens, you get bad results. Im getting myself together.Both teams exchanged baskets early on, but then the Terriers went on an 8-0 run, led by two 3-pointers by Hankerson, to take a 20-12 lead. Two 3s by Gillon and a jumper by Thompson tied the score at 23 with 8:31 to go in the half. The Orange then outscored BU 22-16 to take its halftime lead.Hankerson, who averaged 9.3 points a game entering the game, scored 19 in the first half.The undersized Terriers outrebounded Syracuse for the game.Despite the win, Boeheim said theres much work to do.Its foolish for me or anybody to think this was going to happen right away. Its a long way off, Boeheim said. We have glaring weaknesses and have to get better.BIG PICTUREBOSTON UNIVERSITY: The Terriers hung tough for a half but the Oranges talent took over in the second 20 minutes. BU was tough on the boards and had 18 second-chance points.SYRACUSE: It was another decisive victory for the Orange over a decidedly inferior opponent, so you cant really judge much from the win.TIP-INSHankersons game was his best yet since returning from last years season-pending ACL. . This was the first game all year that the Terriers had been outscored in the paint.White has scored in double figures in all nine Syracuse games. . Lydon is 3 of 17 from 3 in his last three games. .. Dajuan Coleman had just two points after two solid efforts.UP NEXTBoston University: Hosts New Hampshire a week from Sunday.Syracuse: Continues its five-game homestand next Saturday against longtime rival Georgetown on whats been designated Pearl Washington Day in honor of the Syracuse legend who died earlier this year. Air Max 98 Uomo . -- Jonathan Drouin gave Halifax the boost it needed to edge host Sherbrooke Phoenix 3-2 in a shootout in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. Nike Presto Uomo .com) - The game was all punts and field goals before Kodi Whitfields catch. http://www.scarpesportiveofferte.it/air-force-one-italia.html . From filmmaker Nanette Burstein (On the Ropes), The Price of Gold revisits the saga that rocked the figure skating world ahead of the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic Winter Games: the assault on Nancy Kerrigan, and the plot that led its way back to her rival Tonya Harding. ?The latest tranche of greats found in #MLBRank includes a trio of the all-time greatest second basemen ever: Rogers Hornsby, Joe Morgan and Jackie Robinson. It might be a slight surprise for some of you to see Jackie in that company, but lets get into the legacies of each in what makes for a tough ranking between the three of them.Rogers Hornsbys case can effectively be boiled down to the 10-year stretch of extraordinary performance he put up at the outset of the live ball era starting in 1920. Through 1929, Hornsby hit .382/.460/.637 with 770 extra-base hits while winning seven batting titles. If you like WAR, hes No. 1 there as well. Its a case for all-time dominance that rests on the unquestioning assumption that what you see on the page is all you need to know, because very few of us alive today saw him play in his prime.And while the same factors are in play with Hornsby that are also the case with Lou Gehrig or Honus Wagner -- playing in small, unintegrated leagues with poor competitive balance -- on their face the numbers are unimpeachable. If you want a case built on reading a stat line and going no further, Hornsby is your guy, even if it means skipping over a few criticisms of his indifferent defense or a personality that contributed to teams readiness to ditch him in the back half of his career, at a time when free agency didnt exist.But if you like numbers, Rogers Hornsby provides. Hes the statistical choice.Joe Morgans case is a variation on that theme. Hes the greatest second baseman in the history of the game since the game was fully integrated. He ranks fourth all-time in WAR among second basemen behind Hornsby, Nap Lajoie and Eddie Collins, fourth behind them in peak WAR, fourth behind them in Jay Jaffes JAWS metric blending peak and career value.Hes second all time among second basemen in stolen bases and first in walks. Evaluations of his defense rate him among the greats. In The Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James referred to him as the best percentage player in baseball history, citing his defense, base stealing and walk rate, while ranking him the best second baseman in the games history. With Johnny Bench, Tony Perez and Pete Rose, he was a part of the offensive quartet thhat made the Big Red Machine one of the greatest teams of all time, winning back-to-back MVP awards in 1975-1976. Air Max 97 Off White. Hes the analytical choice, and all other things aside, hed be my guy, but for one thing.Second base is where Jackie Robinson played most of the time. Take a step back from the numbers, because this isnt that kind of argument. It cant be, because Robinson played just 10 years, far too few to rack up the counting stats that might flesh out a career in this kind of conversation.As fans, we ask of athletes what they ask of themselves: Greatness, at its simplest. To rise to every challenge their sport presents them with. To be excellent. And in the broadest of broad strokes, how many baseball players faced the challenge Jackie did, breaking baseballs color line? Who could conceivably have done it better? I know Ive upset some of you with my disinclination to hallow the great numerical accumulators of the games pre-integration era, but in part thats because, of all the things ever done on a diamond with a stick and a ball, there is no one thing greater than what Jackie Robinson did, for the game or for history.Jackie doesnt have the numbers. He was asked to do something more important, and he delivered. Its why he belongs in a conversation about who the greatest American athlete of the 20th century might be, in the company of Ali, Jordan, Jackie Joyner-Kersee or Jesse Owens. Its a conversation that doesnt include Hornsby or Morgan, not to slight them in the least.If you want to tell the story of baseball, you can tell it without mentioning a great many of the great players weve talked about in #MLBRank. But you cannot tell that story without Jackie Robinson. And if you were going to reduce the game to one team, one starting nine, the people who should be the imperishable example on some field of dreams, one of those nine men has to be Jackie Robinson.At this level of greatness within the game, there are no wrong answers. But in this trio, Jackie Robinson is consciences choice, and its the credit of the game that it gave him to us, not the other way around. Wholesale Jerseys Discount NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys China Jerseys Wholesale Cheap Jerseys Online Jerseys Wholesale ' ' '