{"id":6843,"date":"2014-08-03T23:30:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T03:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2014-08-04T08:09:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T12:09:24","slug":"seasons-almost-here-ogl-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6843","title":{"rendered":"Season&#8217;s Almost Here! &#8211; OGL Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve collectively almost made it through the JMU offseason. Football kicks off at Maryland in less than four weeks and many of the Olympic sports will be well underway long before then (Women&#8217;s soccer kicks off the year August 22nd vs. Xavier!). We&#8217;ve been on vacation wrapping up our summer research for Beer of the Week this year but it&#8217;s time to ramp up our two-a-days, or hopefully just back to three-a-weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick Old Guys Leave roundup of some news, notes and links to finish out these last weeks of vacation:<\/p>\n<p>First, pretty cool that two current JMU Women&#8217;s Soccer players <a href=\"http:\/\/jmusports.com\/news\/2014\/7\/30\/WSOC_0730140902.aspx\">spent the summer playing on the Washington Spirit&#8217;s Reserve Squad<\/a>, where they made it all the way to the title game. Great work ladies!<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Stanton&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigblueview.com\/2014\/7\/13\/5891639\/ny-giants-2014-training-camp-roster-preview-jordan-stanton-profile\">making some early noise <\/a>at Giants camp and we&#8217;re excited to see all the Dukes in camps and preseason action this fall (especially given most of them are now with the two teams we cheer for). Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/sports\/football\/beckham-still-out-1.1058713\">this cool story<\/a> and keep it up Jordan!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6844\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Jordan-Skins.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6844\" data-attachment-id=\"6844\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=6844\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Jordan-Skins.jpg?fit=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,220\" 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=\"Jordan Skins\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Damn those Dukes look good in burgundy and gold!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Jordan-Skins.jpg?fit=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Jordan-Skins.jpg?fit=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6844\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Jordan-Skins.jpg?resize=300%2C220\" alt=\"Damn those Dukes look good in burgundy and gold!\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Damn those Dukes look good in burgundy and gold!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s something rarer than a unicorn,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/redskins-xtra\/jmu-s-jordan-trying-to-be-all-business-with-redskins\/article_2b5ad725-33d1-5147-84e3-e646008f50e3.html\">a great piece<\/a>\u00a0in the RTD, in this case on the Skins&#8217; Akeem Jordan playing for his boyhood team and trying to balance out essentially playing for the home team.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, as I&#8217;ve sort of mentioned this summer (and probably overmentioned @JMUSportsblog), I moved to Greensboro, NC this summer for work. So JMUSB will be split up other than BFS, but we&#8217;ll also have a odd presence (ok, just me) at some off-brand road games this year. So feel free to comment and let me know if you&#8217;re interested in W&#8217;s Soccer at Wake Forest August 29, M&#8217;s Soccer at UNCG September 5, or of course any of the roadies at Elon.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D6843&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>We&#8217;ve collectively almost made it through the JMU offseason. Football kicks off at Maryland in less than four weeks and many of the Olympic sports will be well underway long before then (Women&#8217;s soccer kicks off the year August 22nd vs. Xavier!). We&#8217;ve been on vacation wrapping up our summer research for Beer of the [&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":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3204,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3204","url_meta":{"origin":6843,"position":0},"title":"OGL Weekly Roundup (No football talk, we promise)","date":"November 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"While we've all been cringing about the gridiron freefall the last few weeks, there's been big news elsewhere in JMU land, both incredibly good and unbelievably tragic. First, we want to send\u00a0our thoughts and prayers out to the family and friends of fifth-year senior cheerleader, former Duke Dog, and incredible\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5720,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=5720","url_meta":{"origin":6843,"position":1},"title":"Fall Season Kicks Off&#8230;","date":"August 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"...and thank goodness. \u00a0With Field Hockey's trip to Duke for a preseason scrimmage yesterday, the 2013-14 year in JMU Athletics (at least the portion that shows up on the \"upcoming schedule\" portion of JMU Sports) is officially underway! \u00a0And for those of you suffering through our flailing attempts to avoid\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GingerGiant-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3974,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3974","url_meta":{"origin":6843,"position":2},"title":"OGL Roundup (The Abridged Version)","date":"June 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"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). \u00a0Even the CAA Zone message boards have settled back down after weeks of conference realignment craziness\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/espn_g_thompson1x_300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6450,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6450","url_meta":{"origin":6843,"position":3},"title":"OGL Roundup","date":"January 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Haven't done an Old Guys Leave roundup post in a while, but it's a slow week and there's only so much that we can actually write about the struggles of men's hoops. \u00a0Oh yeah, and we aren't going to do a day-by-day recruiting thing, though we plan to get something\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/MMMKGKRMESXVDLD.20121118051525-300x214.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3115,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=3115","url_meta":{"origin":6843,"position":4},"title":"Bye Week Special: Old Guys Leave","date":"October 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"So as we all catch our breaths before loading up for the big game agains ODU next week and the stretch run after that, we wanted to get around to some to other stories around the JMU sports universe in our standard OGL roundup.\u00a0 Also, if you haven't already, check\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;JMU Baseball&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7851,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7851","url_meta":{"origin":6843,"position":5},"title":"18 Days Till the JMU Sports Year Begins","date":"August 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"First, thanks to everyone who chimed in on our \"greatest JMU QB ever\" poll last week. 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