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With leading rusher Gordon Collins now out for the season, second-ranked Richmond is short on experience at running back entering Saturdays CAA Football lid-lifter at Stony Brook (12 p.m. ET).The Spiders lost Collins to a torn ACL in last weeks 34-0 romp over Norfolk State. Collins played a large role in the Spiders 37-20 Week 1 stunner over Virginia by rushing for a career-high 114 yards on 13 carries and ripping off a back-breaking 55-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.True freshman Xavier Goodall and sophomore Deontez Thompson will be called upon to fill the void, a duo which has combined for 118 yards and 22 carries at the collegiate level.Despite the pairs limited track record, Richmond coach Danny Rocco insisted the game plan wont change against the Seawolves, who return seven starters from a defense that held opponents to a conference-low 104.6 rushing yards per game in 2015.Were going to find ways to run the ball. Weve got our schemes and were going to stay true to who we are and what we do, Rocco said. (Goodall and Thompson) are both young but theyre both talented. Theyre both very capable.Rocco will still have the Spiders on upset alert. Stony Brook already owns a win at home over an opponent ranked in the STATS FCS Top 25, having edged then-No. 19 North Dakota 13-9 in the Sept. 1 opener, and its rugged defense kept Temple to 301 total yards last week.The offense hasnt followed suit, though. The Seawolves have mustered a mere 354 total yards through two games and are averaging a measly 1.6 yards per rush attempt. They finished 0 for 13 on third-down conversions in the 38-0 loss to Temple.Coach Chuck Priore knows that kind of production wont cut it against a potent Richmond team featuring the reigning CAA Offensive Player of the Year in quarterback Kyle Lauletta and All-America receiver Brian Brown, not to mention a defense that shut down Virginias run game and yielded just 122 total yards to Norfolk State.I think theyre the best FCS team weve played against, Priore said. Weve been in the playoffs -- we played Sam Houston State, who was No. 2 in the country at that time -- I think this team is more complete. They can do everything well on both sides of the ball.Rocco and Priore have an extensive history against one another, having split four meetings from 2008-11 when Rocco was at Liberty and Stony Brook in the Big South. The Flames lost both visits to LaValle Stadium, though Rocco guided Richmond to a 39-31 win there in 2013.Hell have his team ready to play, thats one thing that I know is a given, Rocco said. So were going to have to certainly be at our best here to get a road win. Wholesale Sweden Jerseys . Reigning world champion Eve Muirhead of Scotland opened with a 12-2 rout of Winnipegs Jennifer Jones in a battle of teams bound for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Cheap Sweden Soccer Jerseys . But the quarterback hopes to stay involved in football after officially calling it quits Tuesday. "Id love to look at those opportunities as they arise," Pierce said in an interview from his Winnipeg eatery. http://www.cheapswedenjerseysauthentic.com/ . -- The proud fathers huddled near the Dallas Stars dressing room, smiling, laughing and telling stories while wearing replica green sweaters of their sons team. 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She competed in the Summer Games five times -- 1984, 88, 92, 96 and 2000 -- winning four gold medals and one silver.They were all special experiences, but the Atlanta Games, held in her home state of Georgia, were the most amazing of all.When I first met the president, we were doing a flag presentation in front of all the captains of the various sports teams in an auditorium. He was charming, personable, happy to be around the athletes. My mother loved the man to death, so I had to say, Mr. President, my mom wanted me to say hello to you from her. We went around the village so the athletes could meet and shake hands with him. And that felt great. Then I went back to get ready for the opening ceremony.A couple of days later, the president and Hillary showed up in our locker room after one of our games. They were everywhere. It was one heck of an experience. It was wonderful to have them want to be there and spend time with our team.Edwards was born and grew up in Cairo, in the southwestern part of Georgia, not far from the Florida border. She had played at Georgia for coach Andy Landers, leading the Bulldogs to the Womens Final Four twice.She already had competed in one Olympics in the United States: the Los Angeles Games when she was just 20 and still in college. Now, after a nearly year-long Olympic preparation tour by the U.S. team, during which the team went 52-0, it was a pivotal time in womens basketball history. Both the ABL and WNBA were set to launch after the Atlanta Games in 1996.In 1984, I wouldnt have been able to really define the word Olympics. I just didnt know anything about it. I went to the Olympic trials reluctantly; I think I was a little nervous. Coach Landers gave me a great talk that got me out there. Once I made the team and we went to L.A., at first it still just felt like a really big, fancy basketball tournament. By the time we got to the last game and we were celebrating, I really, really realized what it was all about.By 1996, it felt like we had an opportunity to truly do something different: To introduce people in the United States to womens basketball at a higher level so we would have an opportunity to have pro ball here. That was so huge, but it actually wasnt distracting. Because the core of what we do was just play. I thought, All I need to do is perform, entertain and have fun.You can sense true greatness in certain people. Once [USA Basketball] assembled our team, you could tell we were about to embark on something huge. Every one of those players was special. We grew up very fast, and we enjoyed each others company. When we got out on the court, we jelled like peanut butter and jelly. We were smooth.One of the early stops of the pre-Olympics USA Basketball tour had been in Atlanta, in October 1995.dddddddddddd U.S. coach Tara VanDerveer took the players to the Georgia Dome then to see what it would be like competing there the following summer, and had them visualize winning the gold medal. By that point, Edwards already had two golds, but she also had bronzes from the 1992 Olympics and 1994 world championship that still stuck in her craw.So when she took to the court to start the Atlanta Games, Edwards was pinpoint-focused.Wed played together so long, and we were so close to the finish line, I just felt like, This is not the time to screw it up. So once I was inside the lines on the court, I would not look outside the lines. I said, Im not speaking to anyone or looking over, no matter how many times they call my name. I dont care if its my mom in the stands yelling at me; Ive got to stay focused. The stakes were just too high. Me being the oldest one, the captain, the point guard, that was how I handled it.Wed played all these teams so many times that we could have lost a game to them. They knew us just as well as we knew them.But, in fact, no team could stop the Americans, who won their eight games in Atlanta by an average of 28.6 points. They shot 66.2 percent from the field in beating Brazil 111-87 in the gold-medal game.Edwards then went through the joy and heartbreak of the ABL, which launched in the fall of 1996 but lasted just two full seasons. Eventually, Edwards played and coached in the WNBA, but she says working with younger kids is her true passion. She and two of her Olympic teammates, Katrina McClain and Ruthie Bolton, have formed a group called Gold Medal Team that gives clinics and works on community projects across the country.Edwards was the chef de mission for the U.S. Olympic team at the 2012 London Games, which gave her an even greater connection to all American athletes. And when she thinks about Atlanta 1996, its with a mixture of pride ... and a little relief.I wanted to kick Brazils butts to the fullest, and I was totally excited about playing them in the final because theyd beat us in the 94 world championship. I was the old lady whod been through it before, but winning the gold medal really was a big relief, too. Because mentally, physically, emotionally, it was a big load for me to be able to let go.I remember that Olympics that everybody else from the United States was winning, too. Gymnastics was on the other side of [the Georgia Dome] and we saw them walking in and out. We already knew the soccer team, and softball was also doing well. We were well aware what all the women were doing, so when you saw each other, there was this light, this glow, this support.It was like, Theres no stopping us. We felt the momentum of it, and it felt amazing. 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