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SPORTS July 15, 2012 GOLF D4 SPEAK UP! D5 D8 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL ABQjournal.com/sports Nothing doing Cubs pitcher Ryan scoreless streak reaches 33 innings D3 GREG Albuquerque native Jarrin Solomon, an ex-UNM All-Amercan in the 400 meters, is excited he will be competing for Trinidad and Tobago in the games. By Ken Sickenger Journal Staff Writer lying into London under the Olympic radar suits Jarrin Solomon just fine. He plan to fly out that way. An Albuquerque native who graduated from La Cueva High and UNM, Solomon generated the kind of buzz that surrounds many American Olympians as the London Games approach. Want proof? A recent Time magazine story listed New Mexico as one of five states not sending any athletes to London.

To be fair, the oversight is understandable. Solomon, 26, is not a member of Team USA. Instead represent Trinidad and Tobago in the relay in early August. Jarrin carries dual citizenship because his father, Mike Solomon, is a native of Trinidad. Still, roots are firmly planted in New Mexico.

definitely believe I represent Albuquerque and UNM because where all of this Jarrin said this week, via email from Cardiff, Wales. people in Albuquerque and at UNM have always supported me and watched for me on the world scene. I want to put Albuquerque on the map as a place for Should his relay team medal, Jarrin would bring his coveted prize home to Albuquerque. He moved in with his mother, Susie Solomon, in the Northeast Heights while training for the Games and is saving to buy a PSU Deserves Harshest Penalty Gutting Program Is the Answer By Tim Dahlberg The Associated Press oe Paterno is dead and so is what was left of his good name, shredded to pieces by investigators who seem terribly impressed by anything the coach once did on Saturday afternoons. Jerry Sandusky will spend what is left of the rest of his life in prison, paying for crimes so despicable they are hard to even comprehend.

Some former Penn State administrators could be heading there, too. After Louis damning report, they might want to think twice about taking their chances before a jury of their peers. The cult allowed to fester at State College has been exposed, with a once-proud university looking like a backwater institution where worshipping at the statue of Joe was more important than protecting young boys exposed to horrors that will haunt them the rest of their lives. family can protest all it wants, but there is no way to spin this: He hurt a place where his word was gospel, and it may be decades before anyone outside Pennsylvania hears the words and immediately think of naked boys being abused in the same showers used by the young men who brought the university glory on the football field. His name has already come off a Nike child care center in Oregon.

His statue outside Beaver Stadium should come down next. Unfortunately, not enough. Nothing may ever be enough to make up for what is arguably the worst scandal to hit college athletics. There is no way to turn back the clock, no way to give back to the victims, now grown men who testified against See SANDUSKY on PAGE D5 COMMENTARY Inside Paterno amended his contract the same month he testified before a grand jury D5 Journal Staff Report CALGARY, Alberta Sydni Blanchard is up to her old tricks again north of the border. The 23-year-old Albuquerque native stood in first place in barrel racing through Friday at the venerated Calgary Stampede.

Riding horse Clancy, she negotiated the pattern in a week- fastest 17.28 seconds on Friday, thus setting herself up for the lead and the big money today, when the semifinals and finals take place. second trip to Calgary, and her debut last year was stunning. The daughter of Kandace and Paul Blanchard swept all six rounds, including the four elimination rounds, semifinal and final. It is a feat that had never been achieved in any division at any previous Stampede. JOURNAL FILE Sydni Blanchard with her horse Shotgun.

Blanchard is competing at the Calgary Stampede this weekend. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON COURTESY OF SOLOMON FAMILY Ex-UNM star Mike Solomon, father of Jarrin, was an Olympian for Trinidad and Tobago in 1976 and 1980. 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS COURTESY OF SUSIE SOLOMON Jarrin Solomon, who recently excelled for the Lobos, recently beat his best time in the 400. Albuquerque Barrel Racer Leads at Calgary Stampede Coming Monday LeighAnn Scribner of Edgewood is a state champion cowgirl two years running. By Greg Cote The Miami Herald IAMI Cross- generational arguments in sports are the best because it is impossible to end them with a satisfactory or even logical answer, meaning nobody ever can be proved right or wrong.

think this might discourage debate, but it hardly stops fans who are in the mood to play what-if. Or athletes who are in the mood, apparently. one thing if you or I are chewing over whether the 2012 U.S. Olympic basketball team could beat the 1992 quite another when the stars of those teams are the ones starting the fight Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan jousting, each arguing for himself, his team, his era. Typically a much greater gap than 20 years is involved in this kind of historical discussion.

You know: One minute minding your own business at the Quill Swill Pub and the next minute you are drawn into a beery debate on whether Babe Ruth whom we only know as always seeming portly and pigeon-toed in grainy footage could go yard on a Justin Verlander fastball. Or whether a 1962 Jim Brown, if beamed forward a half century, would be as great running against NFL defenses. (You know the line of argument has officially veered off track when you are challenged to debate Secretariat vs. Usain Bolt over three furlongs.) Best to just douse such fires with Coach Agrees With Kobe COMMENTARY But Dream Team has the gold; this version, not yet See COACH on PAGE D4 Duke City Native and Ex-Lobo Standout Is To Run for Trinidad and Tobago See SOLOMON on PAGE D4.