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1 Quibble
4 Like the NCAA
basketball three-
point line
9 Phantom’s
place?
14 Toothpaste tube
letters
15 Chevy SUV
16 Honeydew, for
one
17 Drop the original
strategy
19 Printing
heavyweight
20 Aspersion
21 Nickname for
Basketball Hall of
Famer Maravich
23 Euler’s forte
25 Commencement
opening?
26 Online reminders
28 Dilapidated digs
33 Attribute to, as
blame
34 Fish order
35 “What __ care?”
36 One always
looking up
40 Zeta follower
41 Soccer
followers?
42 Causes of many
Alaskan road
accidents
43 High-end
neckwear
46 Declines to raise
47 Bard’s bedtime
48 Machu Picchu
denizen
49 Shield bearers
55 Leave out
58 Hot
59 Novel surprise ...
and a hint to
what’s hidden in
17-, 21-, 36- and
49-Across
61 Cardinal, e.g.
62 “Friend Like Me”
singer in
“Aladdin”
63 Author Talese
64 Fire sign
65 Gladiator’s
milieu
66 Olive shaped like
a stick
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1 Complainers
2 “People” person
3 She beat out
Madeline Kahn,
with whom she
shared the
screen, for Best
Supporting
Actress
4 Org. that
publishes weekly
player rankings
5 Lauren et al.
6 Tazo choice
7 Long spans
8 Collector’s target
9 Filled, folded fare
10 Sneeze cause
11 Ultimatum word
12 Jícama or ginger
13 Actress
Hathaway
18 Stumper?
22 Rowing crew,
perhaps
24 St. formed from
the Southwest
Territory
26 Duel tools
27 “The
Untouchables”
gangster
28 Hotel
reservations
29 View from Lake
Geneva
30 Chihuahua “Ciao!”
31 Oater group
32 Locations
34 Sour fruit
37 Acid type
38 Bowie’s bride
39 __ Mule: vodka
cocktail in a
copper mug
44 Hot whistler
45 Plains homes
46 Tart container
49 Cosby of “Inside
Edition”
50 Place for a pupil
51 Pledge
52 Rolex Player of
the Year-
awarding org.
53 “The Sopranos”
actor Robert
54 Gelato holder
56 Words to Holmes
57 Texter’s toodle-
oo
60 Dim sum
beverage
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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, February 11, 2016 — 5A
Harbaugh, SEC clash over spring
practice trip to Florida, “whining”
By MAX BULTMAN
Managing Sports Editor
No one ever said college
football was cordial.
With Michigan football coach
Jim
Harbaugh
planning
his
second Southern invasion in
two years, the criticism keeps
on coming. This time, instead of
satellite camps, Harbaugh wants
to take his team to Bradenton,
Fla., for spring practice over the
school’s spring break.
“We’re going to work hard, and
we’re going to have fun doing it,”
Harbaugh said of the trip after
his Signing of the Stars event
last week. “We’ve already got
some good plans to have swim
meets. We’re going to have putt-
putt golf. We’re going to have
football meetings. We’re going to
have practice. I think it gives us a
chance to win at a lot of different
levels.
“Everybody’s
going
to
get spring break. There’s no
youngster who can’t afford to fly
somewhere who won’t be able
to enjoy his spring break. What
better way to do that than by
playing football?”
Not mentioned, of course, is
the fact that the trip would put
the Wolverines in a recruiting
hotbed, practicing at talent-rich
IMG Academy at a time when
Harbaugh and Michigan are
perpetually making headlines on
the recruiting circuit.
The Southeastern Conference
and
its
commissioner,
Greg
Sankey, want him to stay home.
Tuesday,
CBSSports.com’s
Dennis Dodd reported that the
SEC is attempting to prohibit
schools from holding spring
practice during spring break.
The motivation behind the
SEC request, publicly, was out
of concern for increasing time
demands of players, in this case
asking them to give up a week
that is, by definition, a break.
Harbaugh, naturally, didn’t
appear to take kindly to that.
Wednesday,
the
Michigan
coach posed a question to his
Twitter followers that seemed to
reference the SEC complaints.
“Question of the day: Does
anyone find whining to be
attractive?
Just
curious,”
Harbaugh tweeted.
While attractiveness may not
be what Sankey and co. are going
for, the message was received
loud and clear.
The recruiting significance
of IMG Academy shouldn’t be
discounted, as the No. 1 prospect
in 2017, Dylan Moses, is a student
there, along with six other
prospects in the top 150 of the
247Sports composite rankings.
And while neither side has
highlighted recruiting as a reason
for their dispute, the coincidence
is hard to ignore.
In response, Sankey rebuffed
Harbaugh’s apparent subtweet,
essentially declining to comment,
but making his feelings known in
the process.
“I’m not going to reduce what
is an important conversation to
some childhood use of Twitter,”
Sankey said, via Al.com.
It’s not the first time Harbaugh
and the SEC have butted heads, as
some of the conference’s coaches
took umbrage with his Summer
Swarm camp tour last summer.
Harbaugh got his way then, and
with the planned trip scheduled
for less than three weeks from
now, he likely will on this issue,
too.
But this also isn’t likely to
be the last time the Wolverines
coach clashes with the SEC. And
with every passing incident, it
seems to only grow more tense.
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ALLISON FARRAND/Daily
Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh has ruffled plenty of feathers with his recruiting tactics in his time in Ann Arbor, including a pair of clashes with the SEC.
Infield combines
new and old faces
Led by Romero,
Wolverines boast
strong group of
returning players
By BETELHEM ASHAME
Daily Sports Writer
As the No. 2 Michigan softball
team prepares to open its season
this weekend, it faces a challenge
in blending the old with the new.
While the Wolverines retain
the majority of their Women’s
College World Series runner-up
squad from last year, they must
overcome the loss of two key
pieces of their starting infield —
catcher Lauren Sweet and first
baseman Tera Blanco.
Though Blanco is still a
member of the team, she will be
transitioning to her preferred
position
at
pitcher
in
her
sophomore season, leaving the
starting spot at first up for grabs.
Though question marks abound
in regard to who will claim the
position, Michigan coach Carol
Hutchins faces no shortage of
options to fill the void.
“Well, you’ve got (sophomore
infielder)
Aidan
Falk
who
works
over
there,”
Hutchins
said.
“And
really,
(freshman
utility player)
Faith Canfield
is
somebody
that’s
very
valuable.
She
is
the
most
prepared to play this level out
of really anybody on this team,
and we’ve been looking at her.
So, I expect execution level to
determine that.”
Sweet, on the other hand,
graduated last spring. After
serving as a security blanket for
the Wolverines as a four-year
starter, Michigan faces a tall
order in replacing her leadership
and productivity behind the
plate.
Eager
to
find
her
heir
apparent, the Wolverines took
to the recruiting trail with
purpose. Scouring the state for
high-quality talent, Michigan
found freshmen catchers Alex
Sobczak and Katie Alexander,
from Farmington and Ypsilanti,
respectively.
“There’s a lot to be said for
being a freshman and being a
catcher,” Hutchins said. “It’s one
of the toughest learning curves
there is. (Sobczak) is ahead of
where Sweet was at this time (in
her career), but she’s now going
to need the game experience to
get better. I expect there to be
a learning curve, which means
maybe some gray hairs for me at
times ... we have to let her grow.
“And a really pleasant surprise
has been Katie Alexander, who
I originally recruited to be a
bullpen catcher. But she’s much
better than a bullpen catcher,
and she’s going to have some
time for us and give us some
depth there.”
Despite the transitions at
first and catcher, the left side
of the infield remains relatively
solid for the Wolverines, due in
large part to the return of All-
American and 2015 inaugural
espnW Softball Player of the
Year Sierra Romero, a senior
second baseman.
Romero
has
been
nearly
unstoppable
throughout
her
college career, but last season,
she took her dominance to a
whole new level. With a .449
batting
average,
22
home
runs, 83 RBIs, a .909 slugging
percentage and an OBP of .601
on the season, Romero played
a pivotal role in guiding the
Wolverines in their journey to
the WCWS.
Alongside her at third and
short
are
juniors
Lindsay
Montemarano
and
Abby
Ramirez, respectively. Ramirez,
in particular, enjoyed a breakout
sophomore campaign, providing
some
extra
firepower
for
Michigan from the No. 9 spot
in the lineup with a .371 batting
average and 24 RBIs.
Together,
Romero
and
Ramirez make a formidable duo
on defense, combining at second
and short to great effect. That
should come as no surprise,
given that both have experience
playing
each
other’s position
at a high level.
Romero played
at
short
and
Ramirez played
at second before
they
flipped
positions,
which
explains
their
harmonious
relationship on the field.
“Oh, we’re awesome,” Romero
said. “She knows my range so
well and I know her range so
well; we just complement each
other. And we joke about it all
the time, that we made some
really cool plays. We know what
each other is thinking. It’s nice
because we both know what
areas are hard to make plays at.
When she has a backhand throw
and good spin on the ball, I know
where the ball is probably going
to go. We read each other and
feed off each other very well.”
The stable presence of veteran
leadership between the two and
Montemarano will undoubtedly
help
ease
the
adjustment
process at first and catcher. The
experience of playing together
for an extended period of time
strengthens the infield unit
as a whole despite the roster
turnover.
“It helps a lot because in this
sport, communication is key,
especially when all hell breaks
loose and the ball is going the
other way and you need to just
calm down and talk,” Romero
said. “I think we do a really
good job with that, and now
we’re putting our new freshmen
in and they’re kind of getting
the hang of it. Having all those
returners really helps make the
whole transition a lot easier.”
The infield will rely on these
returners to bridge the gap
between the old and the new,
and if they do, Michigan can
expect its recent run of success
to continue.
SOFTBALL
“There’s a lot to
be said for being
a freshman and
being a catcher.”
JAMES COLLER/Daily
Senior shortstop Siera Romero looks to build on a stellar junior season.