House leads Furman against UNC Greensboro after 26-point game
Greenville, South Carolina; Saturday, 12 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Furman hosts UNC Greensboro after Tom House scored 26 points in Furman's 96-72 win over the Mercer Bears.
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- Chicago Tribune
Benet senior Emma Briggs doesn't drive yet. Committing to Furman, though, she knows where she wants to go.
As Benet's Emma Briggs begins her senior year, she still requires a ride to school every day. But she knows exactly where she's going. 'I was giving her grief about not having her driver's license yet,' Benet coach Joe Kilbride said. 'She's young for her class, but she's always been very mature. She's very well-spoken and emotionally mature.' Briggs won't turn 17 until December, but the versatile 6-footer already has her life plan mapped out. 'I think that being a basketball player, we are always very prone to injuries,' she said. 'We are always aware of that, so I want to be an orthopedic surgeon. I want to be a part of other athletes' recovery from basketball injuries.' So Briggs considered academics in her search for a Division I program, and she committed to Furman this week. 'That was one of the things that attracted her to it is that academically it's very good,' Kilbride said. 'She had a number of schools interested in her, including several Ivy League, but Furman kind of fit what she was looking for. 'They seemed to really value what she brings as a player, so I think it's going to be a great fit from that perspective.' Briggs was playing with her AAU team in a tournament in Rock Hill, South Carolina, which is less than 100 miles from Furman's campus in Greenville. Furman's coaches were in attendance. 'I was injured for most of those games, but I went on a visit right after, and they offered me on the visit,' Briggs said. 'I had a great time on my visit, so that was definitely one of the deciding factors. 'It's also near where my parents are going to move when I graduate, so anywhere close to that was helpful.' The Briggs family will be relocating to Charlotte. 'It's like two hours away,' she said. 'So it's close enough that they can come to home games.' Briggs is the second member of Benet's senior class to commit to a Division I program, joining Richmond-bound guard Bridget Rifenburg. Both are four-year varsity players and have similar skills. 'I think Bridget and Emma are both wings in college, but in high school they are so versatile,' Kilbride said. 'Both of them are like the definition of this positionless basketball you keep hearing people talk about. 'They can guard multiple positions. Offensively, they can play multiple positions.' That will be a key for the Redwings (29-3), who don't have a lot of size. Briggs and Rifenburg will probably be post defenders but could play anywhere on offense. 'We're planning to run some stuff where both of them would be initiating it, almost like the Nuggets do with (Nikola) Jokic,' Kilbride said. 'Because both of them are really good ball handlers, they're great going downhill. They're good passers.' Briggs, who averaged 10.0 points, 7.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists last season, is coming off a third straight summer of competing for Great Britain in the FIBA EuroBasket tournament. This year, she helped Great Britain finish sixth in the B Division of the women's U18 tournament in Lithuania. 'Playing for Great Britain, I think she's gotten a lot of exposure playing against different players,' Rifenburg said. 'She's gotten so good at playmaking, and she's a really good passer. 'That helps so much because being a defender, it's hard to know what she's going to do. It kind of keeps us on our toes, and I think that makes her really dangerous.' Rifenburg isn't surprised that Briggs aspires to be a surgeon. 'She's extremely smart,' Rifenburg said. 'She's a critical thinker, and I think she definitely looks at basketball that way too. 'She's very unselfish on the court and even in the classroom. If I'm ever struggling at math or need help at anything, she's always there to help me. She's a great person on and off the court.' Briggs said she's excited for her final season with the Redwings, who are aiming to return to the state semifinals after losing to Waubonsie Valley in a Class 4A sectional championship game in each of the past two seasons. 'Especially now that me and Bridget are seniors, we're going to put everything out,' Briggs said. 'Coach Kilbride said that good teams are made of unselfish players and great teammates make great leaders. 'So I think me and Bridget have to be those leaders who are unselfish and are looking out for the team in general. We're not the type of people to be selfish on the court. I think we'll do great this year.'
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Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix silenced a lot of doubters in 2024 when he led the team to the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade. The biggest question coming into 2025 is, "Can he keep this up?" Nix is doing everything in his power to make sure the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Nix released a nine-minute video documenting two days of his offseason training on Monday, giving fans an inside look at what he has been doing to perform better than he did last season. The video, "The In Between: Bo Nix," shows Nix doing various throwing, workout and sprinting drills, all aimed to help Nix remain in top physical form going into 2025. What the video doesn't show is the extra effort Nix put in aside from these sessions. Nix reached out to NFL legends such as Drew Brees, Peyton and Eli Manning and worked with longtime throwing guru Tom House to help improve his form and his habits. "The in between is what nobody really sees, and to me, it's the most important part of the journey," said Nix in the video, speaking about the offseason. "It reflects what you're going to do in the season. So if I don't train hard, if I don't train correctly, if I don't train with the end in mind, I'm just going to go out there and kind of waste time. And yeah, it'll be difficult, it won't be fun in the moment, but when you get in the game, it makes those training moments more special." Nix's training and leadership will be a boon to a hungry Broncos organization with Super Bowl aspirations. You can watch the full nine-minute video below: Social: Follow Broncos Wire on Facebook and Twitter/X! Did you know: These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans. This article originally appeared on Broncos Wire: Denver Broncos: Bo Nix shares behind-the-scenes video of training
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With phenomenal final round, Mark Burden wins Golfweek Super Senior National Championship
A week ago, playing casual golf with his son Owen, Mark Burden's game felt out of whack. 'I just played like a dog and I couldn't figure it out,' said Burden, 68, a financial adviser for Northwestern Mutual who lives in Atlanta. But the pendulum swings fast in this game. When Mark and Owen later went to the range to hit a few balls, Owen, who played college golf for Furman from 2018 to 2021, spotted something in a golf swing he knows better than maybe anyone. 'He said, 'Your swing is too short, make a full swing,'' Burden said. 'I made a full swing and I started hitting solid shots and that was it.' A few days later, Mark Burden teed it up at the Golfweek Super Senior National Championship at the Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta, roughly a half hour from his home. He spent 36 holes within sight of the lead and on Thursday, he had his breakthrough. Burden erased a three-shot deficit with a five-hole streak of birdies on his front nine, kept that momentum after the turn and won the tournament with a final-round 67. At 2 under for the week, he finished three shots ahead of Mark Benefield of Peachtree Corners, Georgia. Burden, who had written down the word 'focused' as a guiding principle for his day, rolled in a 35-footer on the par-4 fourth for his first birdie. 'You go from, 'Let's just kind of get that down there,' to, 'OK, that's a good sign,'' he said. He stuck his approach to 6 feet on the next hole and dropped that for birdie, too. At the par-3 sixth, he felt like he was between clubs, but he chose the lesser club, a 6-iron, and committed to an aggressive shot. That, Burden said, was a turning point: Choosing to commit to a shot rather than backing off and trying to feather something in. After birdies at Nos. 7 and 8, Burden parred No. 9, prompting his playing competitors to joke that they could talk to him again without fear of pulling him out of whatever reverie he might be in. Burden stayed in it, with the back nine unfolding similarly albeit with a few missed opportunities for birdie – including at No. 10 where he hit it to three-and-a-half feet but missed the birdie putt. As he made his way through his round, the first one in which he's broken his age, he thought of his family. In 2017, Owen posted an opening 64 out of the blue at the Bubba Conlee, a top national junior tournament Memphis, on his way to a tie for first. As his own birdies piled up, Burden later told his son, he reminisced on that round. Burden's wife Maura hangs on live scoring when her husband competes, and Burden knew she'd be going nuts. The couple's older son, Quinn, who ran track at the University of Georgia, was just pumped for his dad. A year ago at this event, Burden joked to Golfweek that he was merely an interloper on this senior circuit and that is at least partly true. Burden does not play a national senior schedule but does tee it up in Georgia State Golf Association events throughout the year. He played college golf at Duke and has qualified for three USGA events in a long love affair with the sport that began in his hometown of Clinton, Iowa. Friends of Burden's who played high-impact sports like basketball and football have long since left behind a feeling Burden relished as he made his way around the Golf Club of Georgia on Thursday. 'I just enjoy competing, I'm not trying to turn back the hands of time,' he said. 'I have this great opportunity to still compete.' The Golfweek Super Senior, Legends and Super Legends National Championship draws as strong a field of players 65 and older as any senior event on the calendar. Behind Burden and Benefield, Richard Kerper and Emile Vaughan tied for third at 2 over. Greg Goode, the top-ranked super senior in the Golfweek Senior National Amateur Rankings, led for much of the week but dropped to a tie for fifth after a closing 75. Robert Allen II of Johns Creek, Georgia, narrowly edged Robert Parmar of Ocala, Florida, in the Legend division. Allen was consistent with rounds of 75-74-74 and won his division at 7 over. Notably, Bev Hargraves, the 2024 Golfweek Legend Division Player of the Year, finished tied for sixth in the division but holed out at the par-3 sixth for a major highlight in his day. For Sam Robinson, winner of the Super Legend division by three shots, the final round at the Golf Club of Georgia provided an opportunity for three Virginia Tech golf team alumni to tee it up together. Robinson got to play the final round with fellow former Hokie golfers John Osborne (who finished second in the division) and Bill Engel. On Thursday afternoon, Robinson, 75, was more interested in touting that performance and long friendship than anything he did individually on the course this week. 'This is probably the best field that the super legends has fielded this year from top to bottom and the fact that you had three Virginia Tech Hokies in the final group was pretty outstanding.' Robinson's victory is his third in national senior competition this year. He won two Society of Seniors tournaments in the spring: the Jack Hesler in January and the Spring Classic in February. 'Each win has its own little trauma that goes along with it,' said Robinson, although there was little of that for Robinson over the past 36 holes. He made only one bogey and 17 pars in a second-round 73 and had six birdies and one bogey in a final-round 67. He missed only one green on Thursday and had 31 putts. 'I hit the ball really well all three days and the difference was just I got more comfortable with the greens each day,' Robinson said. Mostly, the experience factor came into play for Robinson in that the more he plays in events like this, the more he learns to play his own game. 'I've actually gotten to where if I'm playing good, I kind of do that and it helps,' he said. 'Doesn't necessarily help you win but it sure helps you stay calm out there and the fact that you know that you're not looking so far ahead that you get ahead of your skis.' For the first time this year, a senior invitational also took place. Greg Kennedy of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, defeated Todd Doss of Mandeville, Louisiana, on the second hole of a playoff after both finished 54 holes at 2 under.
