OGL Roundup (The Abridged Version)

Well, it’s officially the doldrums with all JMU sports on summer break and 12 more weeks till football season (10 more weeks till Field Hockey if you were wondering, and I know you were).  Even the CAA Zone message boards have settled back down after weeks of conference realignment craziness into a summer pattern of irrational recruiting speculation and H’burg food discussions.

Honestly, if any of you have ideas for a summer series in the mold of our past H’Burg Eats Bracket or the Battle of the late 90’s JMU Bands, let us know and we’ll fire it up, but it’s slim pickins right now.

Thanks to all who voted for former JMU soccer star CJ Sapong last week, who did indeed win MLS Goal of the Week.  (after a bloodless 0-0 draw with Canada, here’s hoping the USMNT doesn’t need his spark against Antigua this week – only half kidding).

JMU's Rich Thompson rights a storybook chapter by scoring a game-winning run

Next, great story from ESPN on former Diamond Duke Rich Thompson’s recent call-up to the majors with the Tampa Bay ys.  That said, it’s a little unclear who stole the “modern day Moonlight Graham” reference from who between the four-letter and Yahoo’s Big League Stew (our bet would be on Yahoo as the originator though).

And on another cool JMU note, check out last week’s Washington Post story on the upcoming movie “Lawless,” which has been generating award buzz even months ahead of its debut.  The movie is based on the outstanding book “Wettest County in the World” by former Duke Matt Bondurant.  From the sound of things, he may be poised to become one of the more renowned Dukes in recent memory.