The National Bar Association (NBA) is seeking applicants for the Crump Law Camp which was established for students entering the 9th through 11th grades and between the ages of 14 and 17 to introduce them to the judicial system.
The Crump Law Camp will be held July 11 - 24, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The application deadline is April 30, 2010.
The goal of the NBA camp is to encourage young people at an early age to become lawyers and seek legal careers in the future. By 2050, more than half of the people in this country will be of color. More than 90 percent of the nation’s lawyers are white, as are more than 80 percent of the students enrolled in law school. Yet more than 30 percent of the United States is comprised of people of color. The NBA is seeking applicants to attend this camp from every ethnic group and its selection process is non-discriminatory.
The first inaugural two-week camp was held during the summer at Howard University School of Law through a grant by the Ford Motor Company Fund in 2001. Campers were and will be housed on the Howard University campus and live in a protected camp environment.
The Camp will have an open enrollment policy and be available to students from across the country; however, emphasis will be on enabling low-income students of color. Campers are selected by the Crump Law Committee.
The camp provides students with an exciting academic and social agenda in the Washington, D. C. area. The competitive highlight of the camp is the Evett L. Simmons Mock Trial Competition. The four winners of this competition are invited to the NBA’s Annual Convention.
To access the applications and more information, visit www.Nationalbar.org and find the Crump Law Camp page.
At this weekend’s National Bike Summit in the nation’s capital, Google is making a splash in the cycling world. The company will announce that they are integrating bike paths/directions into their wildly popular Google Maps service.
Apparently, this was the most requested feature by Google Maps users.
With five days of downtime coming to a close for the Phoenix Suns, the team has been gearing up to tackle the 17 remaining games of the regular season starting with a tip-off against the visiting Lakers tomorrow night.
Having been out of the line-up following wrist surgery in January, the return of Leandro Barbosa to the court is being warmly welcomed. Though Barbosa’s been easing into practices with the team, building up strength in his right hand has been a slow and steady process. “I’m very hungry to come back and help my teammates. I don’t know if I’ll have the same minutes I used to have, but I’m just going to help the team. The bench is playing great, and I just want to add to that.”
Meanwhile Goran Dragic is also expected to make his first re-appearance after suffering a sprained ankle during last week’s match-up with the Clippers. Add to that a (hopefully) completely recuperated Steve Nash and the Suns appear ready to kick things up a few notches to dominate the rest of their season. Though the break saw OKC slide into the Suns’ fifth spot in the Western Conference, six of Phoenix’s next seven games will be played at the Purple Palace. Fingers crossed that the Suns will have more than a home court advantage pushing them into the playoffs; we can expect that a refreshed effort from the bench team will be the team’s upper hand.
The Arizona State Sun Devils enter the 13th annual Pac-10 Tournament in Los Angeles knowing they need at least one win to bolster their resume in an attempt to catch the eye of committee members who will announce the NCAA Tournament field on Sunday.
But the Sun Devils haven’t had the best track record at the Pac-10 Tournament, which started in 1987 and took place for the next four years, before going on hiatus until 2002.
In fact, before last year’s run to the championship game, ASU was just 3-10 all-time in the Pac-10 Tournament, and two of those wins came in 1990, when the tourney was held on their home floor in Tempe. In the second incarnation of the tournament, the Sun Devils were 0-6 before last season.
This year, the Devils are the #2 seed, their highest ever in the Pac-10 Tournament. Their prior high seed was a #4, which happened twice–in 2003 when ASU was knocked off in their first game by Oregon, who went on to win the crown, and last year, when the Devils squandered a 15-point halftime lead in the championship game in a loss to USC.
The number two seed has done very well historically in the tournament, notching a 19-9 record overall, and three times has won the championship (Arizona in 1990 and 2002, and Washington in 2005).
Two years ago, Herb Sendek’s Arizona State Sun Devils gathered as a team to watch the NCAA Tournament field be announced.
The Sun Devils, despite losing their first round Pac-10 Tournament game to USC a few days earlier, were hopeful they’d get in to the field. They were 19-12, 9-9 in the Pac-10, and had improved their win total from the previous season by 11.
They’re name was never called. Instead, their arch-rival, the Arizona Wildcats, a team the Sun Devils had beaten twice during the regular season, and a team that had less regular season wins and a worse conference finish did get in to extend their streak of NCAA Tournament appearances to 24 in a row. ASU was left to play in the NIT, where they advanced to the quarterfinals before losing to Florida.
Many members of that 2008-08 Sun Devils’ squad pointed the finger at that first round loss to USC in the Pac-10 Tournament that kept Arizona State from dancing that year. “If we would have beat them, I think we would have been in”, then-junior Jeff Pendergraph said at the time.
When asked if a win over USC would have punched the Devils’ ticket, Coach Sendek said “Yes. I absolutely do. I think if we would have won one more game anywhere along the trail, it would have been very difficult to keep us out. I think we were one game away in a lot of different directions, winning one more game, having the cards fall another direction in a conference here or there. I think you can reasonably say we were one game away, here, there or somewhere else.”
Fast forward two seasons. The Sun Devils are 22-9, good enough for a 2nd place finish in what everyone around the country is calling a “down year” for the Pac-10. Yet, there’s a strangely familiar feeling for the team as they prepare for their first round Pac-10 Tournament game tonight against the Stanford Cardinal (13-17, 7-11) at Staples Center in Los Angeles. It’s the feeling that ASU needs to win this game against Stanford to get into “The Big Dance”.
“We’re not dumb,” senior point guard Derek Glasser said on Tuesday. “We hear things, we watch ESPN, we read newspapers, so we know what’s going on. I think guys are as focused as they’ve been all year and we’re really preparing as well as we have all year for this week coming up.”
More to the point, Glasser was asked how many wins the Sun Devils need this weekend to feel confident about earning a berth. “I think if we get to the championship, I think we’re for sure in,” he said. “With one win, I think we’re gonna be sitting there Sunday like we were sophomore year (2008) and hoping and praying. I know if we lose on Thursday, we’re not in.”
Junior guard Ty Abbott was very much aligned with Glasser’s thoughts. “We know we have to go to the Pac-10 Tournament and get wins,” he said earlier this week.
So, the journey starts tonight for the 2nd-seeded Sun Devils, playing a Stanford team that they swept during the regular season. In the teams’ first meeting in Tempe, Abbott caught fire for 29 points as ASU breezed to an 88-70 win, leading by as many as 37 points in the process. The 88 points by ASU were their highest offensive output of the Pac-10 season, and 2nd-most overall this season. The Devils scored 104 in a 39-point win against San Francisco in November.
Two weeks ago in Palo Alto, it was ASU senior big man Eric Boateng who inflicted the damage on the Cardinal, hitting all 11 of his field goal attempts and scoring a career-high 24 points in the Sun Devils’ 68-60 win.
Defensively, the Devils have to concern themselves once again with Landry Fields. The senior, who earlier this week was named to the All-Pac-10 First Team, has averaged 20.5 points per game vs. ASU this season. Fields led the conference in scoring at 22.2 points per game. But ASU can’t sleep on Jeremy Green, the sophomore guard who averaged 16.9 points per game to rank 6th in the conference. Green has not shot well against ASU this season, hitting just 25.7% (9 of 35) from the field.
Key for ASU will be getting Boateng involved early. His performance in Palo Alto was no accident. Once he established position inside, he was successful because of his strength advantage against Stanford bigs Jack Trotter and Andrew Zimmerman. In 6 career games against Stanford, Boateng is shooting 95% (19 of 20) from the floor.
Wayne Finlinson consumed just over 2lbs 13 ounces to edge out Mark Reed’s 2lbs 8 ounces to capture Week 2 of the Native New Yorker Battle of the Bone 3 Wing Eating Contest at the Queen Creek Native New Yorker. Finlsinson advances to the finale in August at Chandler Harley Davidson.
The Valley’s premier wing eating competition runs every Wednesday from now through August at a different Native New Yorker in Arizona. 2010’s Grand prize is a Harley from Chandler Harley Davidson and the runner up wins a pair of 2011 Arizona Diamondback season tickets.
To qualify for the finale, just win a Native New Yorker location by eating the most “medium” Native New Yorker chicken wings in 10 minutes and 60 seconds.
This season’s Native New Yorker Battle of the Bone is brought to you by Chandler Harley Davidson, Bud Light, Arizona Diamondbacks, Xyience Energy Drinks, Fox Sports Arizona, Fanster.com, 98 KUPD and The Fan AM 1060. Portions of proceeds will benefit the 100 Club of Arizona.
Note on our weekly results: Nutritiondata.com states that one whole chicken wing (both the paddle and the drumstick portion of the chicken wing) weigh on average 1 oz. Thus providing us with the figure that each wing portion (the drumstick and the paddle) each weigh a half an ounce. So, when it is stated that a contestant has eaten 57 wings, they have eaten the weight that is the equivalent of 57 wings. In actuality they have eaten more than 57 wings, but the actually weight of the meat they have eaten is equivalent to the weight of 57 whole wings.
The Cactus League is in full swing, with 15 teams playing afternoon games every day. The highly ranked Arizona State Sun Devils are also an attraction, and play 21 games in town during the month of March.
But, the baseball action doesn’t end there. Triple Crown Sports is hosting the Triple Crown Spring Championships at various sites in the East Valley, featuring over 250 of the best youth baseball teams from around the country. The tournament got underway last weekend in Tempe, Mesa and Gilbert, and continues this weekend and next.
There are, of course, a number of teams from Arizona competing in the tournament, but squads from California, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and even as far east as Illinois are showing their wares in this year’s tournament.
It’s an opportunity for the teams participating and their families to enjoy the wonderful spring weather of Arizona, play top quality competition and soak in plenty of Cactus League action during their stay. Teams will be able to see Cactus League games with no scheduling conflict on the weekend of play for an attractive team entry price. This also allows teams to know their complete schedule before the weekend so they can plan and enjoy their baseball vacation in the desert.
Games are being played at Big League Dreams in Gilbert, as well as various sites in Tempe and Mesa.
For more information on the Triple Crown Spring Championships, visit triplecrownsports.com.
A day after being named the Pac-10 Coach of the Year, Arizona State’s Herb Sendek held his weekly chat with local media in Tempe.
There’s a lot of questions up in the air as the 2nd-seeded Sun Devils prepare for their first round game Thursday night against 7th-seeded Stanford, a team they’ve already beaten twice this season.
Among those questions:
How difficult is it to beat a team three times in one season?
Does he expect the Cardinal to key on Eric Boateng, who burned Stanford for a career high 24 points just two weeks ago?
Will beating Stanford and getting a 23rd win ensure the Sun Devils will make the NCAA Tournament?
Has he ever coached in a conference tournament as wide open as this year’s Pac-10 affair?
Back on January 30, ASU led from start to finish against Stanford in their first meeting in Tempe, and built a 37-point margin at one point of the first half. The Cardinal fought back and got the lead down to 12 points with under four minutes to play, but ASU held on for an 88-70 win. Ty Abbott scored a season-high 29 points (22 in the first half) and made his first six three-point attempts–all in the first 10 minutes of the ball game.
Two weeks ago in Palo Alto, it Stanford’s Drew Shiller was the hot shooter early in the game. Shiller canned three treys and a layup as the Cardinal built an early 9-point bulge. But ASU fought back this time behind senior center Eric Boateng, who made all 11 of his field goal attempts, and finished with 24 points and 6 rebounds in ASU’s 68-60 win.
The Sun Devils and Cardinal take the court at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Thursday night at 7:10 p.m. Arizona time. The winner will take on the winner of the Washington-Oregon State game that follows on Thursday night.
The rain fell on Sunday in Ahwatukee, but it couldn’t stop the Hungry Dog Criterium.
Races in 8 different categories took place, and got under way with the Juniors 12-14 and 15-18 divisions. Fourteen year-old Kevin Polley of the Landis Trek team took first place, while 11-year old David Polley, also of Landis Trek finished second and Victor Colex of Trib placed third in the 12-14 division.
In the 15-18 division, Nick Thorpe of Notre Dame Prep Cycling beat out the other 12 riders in the field for the win, while Owen Groves of Bicycle Haus finished second and Daniel Ecton of Strada Racing placed third.
In the next race of the day, the Men’s Category 5, Scott Skinner of AZ Masters broke the tape first, ahead of David Wilcox of Tribe Racing and Aaron Matos of Swiss-Jobing.
In the Men’s Cat 4 race, Jose Migoni of Tribe took the honors, while Team Progressive’s Jason Boley and David Craw of AZ Masters took second and third.
Men’s 30+ honors went to Craig Streit of Team Carlos O’Brien who finished ahead of Landis/Trek’s Danny Bennett and Mark Fosenburg of Team Honeywell.
Team Honeywell’s Chris Poole won the Men’s 40+ category, followed by RPM’s Joe Cunningham and AZPhalt Cycling’s Doug Powell.
The Mens’ 50+ victor was RPM’s David Bixby. Kenneth Doss of Bicycle Haus finished 2nd and Robert Tompkins of AZ Masters took third.
And finally, in the Men’s Category 3, Jeff Herra of Procon bested William Westfall and Ryan Bagley of Bicycle Haus to win the category.
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Wayne Finlinson consumed just over 2lbs 13 ounces to edge out Mark Reed’s 2lbs 8 ounces to capture Week 2 of the Native New Yorker Battle of the Bone 3 Wing Eating Contest at the Queen Creek Native New Yorker. Finlsinson advances to the finale in August at Chandler Harley Davidson.
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