WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN
8. T&T calls in five collegians
Five collegians were called up by Trinidad & Tobago World Cup coach Leo Beenhakker for the Soca Warriors’ training camp Feb. 1-6 in Florida.
Getting a look are George Mason senior Anthony Noreiga (selected by the Kansas City Wizards in the MLS Supplemental Draft), Liberty junior Osei Telesford, Connecticut sophomore Julius James and South Florida freshman Kevon Neaves. Also called up was Liberty’s Darryl Roberts, the 2002 Big South Player of the Year who sat out the 2005 season with a broken collarbone.
* BEST OF THE WEB: Text is way to go
College recruiting has gone high-tech as college coaches are using text-messaging – the favorite communications tool of many teenagers – as a means of contacting perspective recruits.
At rising East Coast women’s power Lehigh, Coach Manny Oudin spends 30 minutes sending messages to recruits on his busiest days.
With restrictions on phone contacts, coaches are turning to text messaging -- considered electronic transmissions by the NCAA – to communicate with players.
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