{"id":5352,"date":"2013-04-25T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2013-04-25T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T03:06:10","slug":"prime-time-dukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5352","title":{"rendered":"Prime Time Dukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly slow weekend on the JMU Sports calendar for exams before the last of the spring sports wrap up, hopefully with good things for Lax and Softball in particular! \u00a0And while we&#8217;re thrilled to hear Matt Brady is back and hoping for a conference announcement soon, we&#8217;re both headed out of town this weekend and there&#8217;s only so much blood we can keep spilling on those topics.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">So for our Friday wrapup we just want to highlight two Dukes hoping for big weekends. \u00a0First, keep an eye on the NFL Draft for monster Dukes Guard Earl Watford. \u00a0With so many Guards going off the board so early in tonight&#8217;s first round, we&#8217;d think that&#8217;s a great sign for those remaining, including Earl when other teams inevitably realize they still have to fill that need. \u00a0If Watford is drafted, he&#8217;d be the first official draftee (not including other Dukes signed as free agents) since Buffalo&#8217;s Arthur Moats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chelsea.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"5354\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=5354\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chelsea.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chelsea\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chelsea.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chelsea.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5354\" title=\"Chelsea\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chelsea.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chelsea.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Chelsea.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Secondly, how about a big hand for current JMU Junior Chelsea Mohindroo for making it onto this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/the-voice\/artists\/chelsea-m\/\">Team Usher<\/a> on NBC&#8217;s The Voice! Chelsea was a member of The Overtones before taking time off to compete on the show. Unfortunately, Chelsea was eliminated this week, but check out the details from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breezejmu.org\/life\/article_10df46a4-a258-11e2-9bdf-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm\">The Breeze<\/a> a couple weeks back. \u00a0She certainly did JMU proud!<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D5352&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oddly slow weekend on the JMU Sports calendar for exams before the last of the spring sports wrap up, hopefully with good things for Lax and Softball in particular! \u00a0And while we&#8217;re thrilled to hear Matt Brady is back and hoping for a conference announcement soon, we&#8217;re both headed out of town this weekend and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4072,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=4072","url_meta":{"origin":5352,"position":0},"title":"Watford, Scott, and Robertson Earn Pre-Season All America Honors","date":"July 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sports Network released its 2012 FCS Preseason All-America teams and 3 members of the JMU Dukes were selected. 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