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  导出博客文章(STATS) -- Chattanooga was picked to capture a fourth straight Southern Conference championship on Wednesday -- the favorite in both the preseason coaches and media polls at media day in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Cheap NBA Jerseys From China .If Mocs coach Russ Huesman had his way, his players would never learn about it.With the SoCon expected to be particularly strong this season, Huesman wants his team to take on a certain identity.Emphasis on the word team.I want it to be about our football team, and not about how people predict us or about anybody else that is on our schedule. We have to take care of us, the eighth-year coach said. We have to prepare and practice and just worry about Chattanooga. Not worry about where we are ranked, not worry about what people are saying about us, good or bad. We need to just make it about our football team.Chattanooga shared the conference title with The Citadel last year. The Citadel, now coached by former offensive coordinator Brent Thompson, was picked second in the preseason polls.Both teams placed a conference-high 10 players on the coaches preseason all-conference team. Chattanooga defensive end Keionta Davis was selected as the preseason defensive player of the year, while Western Carolina running back Detrez Newsome gained offensive honors.VMI junior Al Cobb was the first-team selection at quarterback. Thats the position in which Chattanooga goes through its most important change. Jacob Huesman, the coachs son, has graduated after starting for the last four seasons and winning three consecutive SoCon offensive player of the year awards.Well, weve got 12 good seniors coming up that we feel are really good players and good leaders for us. I think all of those guys have stepped up, said Russ Huesman, whose team went 9-4 (6-1 SoCon) and finished ninth in the final STATS FCS Top 25 last season.A lot of it comes from the quarterback. Alejandro (Bennifield, the new starter) has stepped up big. His leadership role, his work ethic and how he has handled himself has been excellent. Ive seen a lot of leadership come from him in this offseason. I think Alejandro is going to be a really good leader for us, but, obviously, the 12 seniors are the guys.The Mocs surround Bennifield with a veteran offense, including All-America lineman Corey Levin and workhorse running back Derrick Craine. The defense will feature linebacker Nakevion Leslie and safety Lucas Webb in addition to Davis.It is a deep, deep year in the league, Russ Huesman said. There are a bunch of teams that if they end up Southern Conference champions at the end of the year, it would not shock me.When I filled out the preseason poll, it was extremely hard. There are so many quality teams. We learned that last year. We tied for the league title with The Citadel and I think every one of our games was a battle. We lose to Mercer and beat Wofford on a last-season field goal. We understand that this league is strong and deep. If you dont come to play, you will lose a football game.---=SOUTHERN CONFERENCE FOOTBALL PRESEASON POLLS=Head Coaches Poll=(Coaches not permitted to vote for their team)1. Chattanooga (7 first-place votes), 63 points2. The Citadel (1), 523. Samford (1), 504. Western Carolina, 415. Mercer, 386. Wofford, 337. Furman, 248. VMI, 149. East Tennessee State, 14---=Media Poll=1. Chattanooga (26), 2502. The Citadel (2), 2083. Western Carolina, 1794. Mercer, 1485. Samford, 1476. Wofford, 1367. Furman, 1028. VMI, 629. East Tennessee State, 28---=SOUTHERN CONFERENCE FOOTBALL PRESEASON TEAM=(Coaches not permitted to vote for their players)Offensive Player of the Year -- Detrez Newsome, RB, Western CarolinaDefensive Player of the Year -- Keionta Davis, DE, Chattanooga---=First Team Offense=QB -- Al Cobb, VMI, Jr.RB -- Derrick Craine, Chattanooga, Sr.RB -- Detrez Newsome, Western Carolina, Jr.OL -- Isaiah Pinson, The Citadel, Jr.OL -- Brett Niederreither, Mercer, Sr.OL -- Armando Bonheur, Samford, Sr.OL -- Corey Levin, Chattanooga, Sr.OL -- Jacob Revis, Chattanooga, Jr.OL -- Anton Wahrby, Wofford, Sr.TE -- Tyler Sexton, Western Carolina, Sr.WR -- Karel Hamilton, Samford, Sr.WR -- Aaron Sanders, VMI, Sr.---=First Team Defense=DL -- Joe Crochet, The Citadel, Sr.DL -- Ahmad Gooden, Samford, So.DL -- Keionta Davis, Chattanooga, Sr.DL -- Miles Brown, Wofford, So.LB -- Tevin Floyd, The Citadel, Sr.LB -- Nakevion Leslie, Chattanooga, Sr.LB -- Tyson Dickson, Western Carolina, Sr.LB -- Daniel Riddle, Western Carolina, Jr.DB -- Dee Delaney, The Citadel, Jr.DB -- Trey Robinson, Furman, Sr.DB -- Jamerson Blount, Samford, Sr.DB -- Lucas Webb, Chattanooga, Jr.---=First Team Specialists=PK -- Henrique Ribeiro, Chattanooga, Sr.P -- Ian Berryman, Western Carolina, So.RS -- Dane Forlines, VMI, Sr.--=Second Team Offense=QB -- Devlin Hodges, Samford, So.RB -- Tyler Renew, The Citadel, Sr.RB -- Lorenzo Long, Wofford, Sr.OL -- Ryan Bednar, The Citadel, Sr.OL -- Josh Cardiello, Chattanooga, Jr.OL -- Andrew Lewis, VMI, Sr.OL -- Nathan Dalton, Western Carolina, So.OL -- Dequan Miller, Wofford, Sr.TE -- Sam Walker, Mercer, So.WR -- Kelvin McKnight, Samford, So.WR -- Spearman Robinson, Western Carolina, Sr.---=Second Team Defense=DL -- Tosin Aquebor, Mercer, Sr.DL -- Isaiah Buehler, Mercer, So.DL -- Xavier Forrest, Samford, Jr.DL -- Vantrel McMillan, Chattanooga, Sr.LB -- Carl Rider, Furman, Sr.LB -- Ryan Francis, VMI, Jr.LB -- Dylan Weigel, VMI, So.DB -- Cedric Nettles, Chattanooga, Sr.DB -- Fred Payne, Western Carolina, Sr.DB -- Malik Diggs, The Citadel, Sr.DB -- Trey Morgan, Western Carolina, Sr.---=Second Team Specialists=PK -- Logan Howard, Western Carolina, So.P -- Austin Barnard, Samford, Jr.RS -- Chandler Curtis, Mercer, Jr. Wholesale NBA Jerseys Authentic . 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So, too, was the International Olympic Committees refusal to ban Russia outright from the Rio de Janeiro Games.But swimmer Yulia Efimova is a poor poster child for Russias deceit.Yes, the 24-year-old is Russian. And, yes, she did positive in 2013 for a banned steroid, DHEA. That doesnt, however, automatically make her a doper. Three arbitrators, none of them Russian, who heard Efimovas case and banned her from competition for 16 months were clear about that.They ruled that she clearly was not intentionally cheating and she did not intend to enhance sport performance.Instead, they determined, Efimova was negligent. The legal supplement she bought at a store near her home in California contained DHEA. It even said so on the label. But Efimova naively believed the store clerk who told her the product was OK and did not read the label herself, they determined.Foolish, then, but not Lance Armstrong.The arbitrators noted that Efimova impressed them as sincere and honest and appropriately remorseful for her mistake. She did not seek to blame others for her rule violation and she accepted responsibility for her actions.These all-important nuances got drowned in the Olympic pool.The Cold War-ish narrative of a feisty 19-year-old American, Lilly King, striking a blow for clean athletes by staring down and beating the Russian was too appealing to let all the facts get in the way.Another U.S. swimmer, Cody Miller, even went so far as to liken his teammates defeat of Efimova in the 100-meter breaststroke to the movie Rocky IV, where Sylvester Stallones boxer knocks out juiced-up Soviet monster Ivan Drago.BOOOOM!! Miller tweeted. AMERICA PREVAILS!!Get a grip.Howard Jacobs, the California lawyer who represented Efimova in her 2014 case heard by the doping panel for swimmmings governing body, FINA, says ire against her is misplaced. Wholesale Basketball Jerseys. Its not that everyone who tests positive is evil, he said in a phone interview. There are very few athletes who take the time to understand anti-doping until they are actually thrown into an anti-doping case because of a mistake that they make.For the record, FINA also cleared Efimova for the six times meldonium was found in her drug-test samples in February and March this year. The Latvian-made heart drug was routinely taken by East European athletes before the World Anti-Doping Agency banned its use at the start of the year. But the science behind the ban was incomplete and WADA subsequently issued new guidelines allowing athletes to be cleared in some cases.FINA said the amount of meldonium in Efimovas samples was very low and that its doping panel concluded that she wasnt at fault.WADA could have challenged FINAs decision and appealed but did not, judging that the federation handled the case correctly.Those are the rules.Efimovas rivals may not like them. They may not like her. But should they ever run afoul of those same rules, theyll also want a fair shake and likely be on the phone to lawyers like Jacobs.When they hear stories about contaminated supplements, they think its all BS, he said. They dont believe it until it happens to them.If swimmers need a target, they should aim at FINA instead. The federation awarded Russian President Vladimir Putin its highest honor, the FINA Order, in 2014 for what it gushed was his great contribution to strengthen the fraternity between nations, improve the lifestyle and education of the youth in Russia and promote a healthier society.That coziness, always inappropriate, now looks just horrible in the wake of the Russian state-sponsored doping scandal.The next time King takes to the Olympic pool -- she and Efimova race in 200-meter heats on Wednesday -- it would be good to hear her take a stand on that.---John Leicester is an international sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jleicester(at)ap.org or follow him at http://twitter.com/johnleicester ' ' '