Adam Gutes

Teacher and Statistician, but being an uncle is my favorite job. Fan of sports, cards, education and learning #AutismAwareness

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Cool day at Clarke High School. @emeadowschools

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@RutgersMBB Pikes, thinking of you and your family. You’ll defeat this in no time. #FCancer

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@Inside_Lacrosse @NCAALAX As a statistician, I found the fluorescent ball helped tremendously with the amount of snow we got in the northeast @caasports

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@MindsetShift247 Sepak Takraw

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Suffolk County Class AA champs for the second time in the last three years

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About time, Cody. Time to get to work #Yankees

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@ADRWC 18

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@ParkerThune G2 07 Nothing better!

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Sending a free shirt to a follower who likes and RTs! Comment your size!

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They called a Gordie Howe hat trick a goal, an assist and a fight. I'm calling a hit, a run and an error a Volpe #Yankees

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@LindseyPelas I think she’s alive and scared to reach out through traditional means. Maybe social media will help her

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Excited to hear with the ___ pick, the _____ select Michael Oliveto, Catcher/OF, Hauppauge High School!!! #MLBDraft25

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Heaven in the Bronx with ⁦@GGutesNewsday⁩ ⁦@eboland11⁩

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@TowsonTigers Nice words, Spiro!

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@jerseymikes FREE SUB

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I was a senior at Towson during @Towson_MLAX run to the final four. I heard from guys on the team talking about this and how the refs would never figure it out. 2001 team was special.

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I’d never seen Dave Urick mad. And he was pretty livid. He was pretty livid at me.

It was a coaches convention, and as I walked past the trio of Urick, Bill Tierney and Dave Cottle, he pulled me over to talk about this cover.

Justin Berry had been dominating face-offs. He pretty much carried Towson to a Final Four. He did so with a stick that had an uncanny light bulb shape as you can see in the second photo. Narrow at the base.

People think of Urick as the guy who won all the D3 titles. But his additional, thankless behind the scenes role was as the NCAA’s authority on stick dimensions.

We learned that Barry was heating and pinching the throat, but leaving the head regulation width where referees have to measure. So it passed the on field inspection.

Mike Keegan interviewed him about it, and the “Face-Off Flambe” cover was born.

I recall being pretty defensive until he explained that in the rulebook it says you can’t manipulate the stick from factory settings. So even though it can’t be detected by a referee, our cover line of “It’s simple. It’s legal. And it works” was indeed out of line and understandably offensive to the guy in his shoes. The refs couldn’t catch it. But it certainly wasn’t legal.

It’s only a problem that could have existed at that moment in time. Soon the manufacturers would simply build the narrow throat into store-bought designs.

Stick complexity makes the sport beautiful. It also complicates things. Players beta test innovations by bending the rules and then manufacturers patent them. It’s how it’s always been. The Gaits bent their handle. The committee outlawed it. And then Brine created the offset patent to replicate the effect.

I love Dave Urick. In this instance, we made his job harder. He had his finger in a crack in a dam, trying to keep sticks fair. Rest in peace Coach… And a hearty reminder to double check the rule book when writing articles about stick tech.

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With 18 games against six of the ACC's seven preseason top 25 teams, @HokiesBaseball boasts the league's toughest conference schedule.

@FridayStarters offers other superlatives on the @ACCBaseball schedules ⤵️

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RIP Greg Gumbel @StonyBrookMBB was invited to the CBS studios prior to the Selection Show. He asked questions, laughed with us and was genuinely interested in our journey

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@VincentJAccardi Thinking of you and your wife, Vin

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@TowsonTigers A great man. Huge impact on my life as an undergrad at Towson! Condolences to the Runk Family