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Syracuse quarterback Eric Dungey has adapted well to coach Dino Babers and the fast-paced offense hes installed. And Dungey has turned more than a few heads with his success in the new system.Syracuse (4-4, 2-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) leads the ACC and ranks fifth nationally in passing offense, averaging 357.1 yards per game, and he leads the conference with 328 passing yards a game.Im just trying to do my part, said Dungey, leader of an offense thats on pace to produce the most prolific passing season in program history. In a 28-20 win at Boston College two weeks ago, he threw for a career-high 434 yards and three touchdowns, his sixth 300-yard passing game of the season.The Orange are coming off an important bye week. Theyve had two weeks to get ready to travel to No. 3 Clemson on Saturday. The Tigers (8-0, 5-0 ACC), one of five undefeated teams remaining in college football, are coming off a 37-34 triumph at Florida State .Despite consecutive victories over then-No. 17 Virginia Tech and Boston College that rescued a fading season, the Orange are listed as 28-point underdogs against Clemson , ranked second in the seasons first College Football Playoff rankings.Still, they relish the chance to shine in the national spotlight.Weve been the underdog all season, Dungey said. I think we were supposed to win just one game, but its cool. Really no pressure on us. The pressures on the other team.Its a huge statement if we beat them. We just have to focus on doing our job.Babers garnered national attention with his stirring speech in the Carrier Dome locker room after the big win over the Hokies. This week hes using a different tack.The really cool thing about football is that the balls not round, and it doesnt bounce correctly all the time, Babers said. If we can get a couple of bounces our way, then maybe, maybe we get a chance. Maybe.But dont bet the house on it, brother.Understandable sentiment since the game will be played in Death Valley. Its also the sign of a master motivator.Thats Coach B., Dungey said. I love to prove people wrong. Thats one of my favorite things. At the end of the day, its just going to be us lined up against another team.Its going to be loud, but at the end of the day the field ... is the same size. Coach says you cant let the stage get too big.Last November against Syracuse, Clemson quarterback DeShaun Watson made sure the unbeaten Tigers stayed on track for a shot at the national championship, accumulating 461 total yards and accounting for three touchdowns in a 37-27 victory over a team that finished 4-8.It seems different this time for the Orange.Last two games have built our confidence a little bit, raised the bar, raised the standards,said Syracuse wideout Amba Etta-Tawo, who tops the conference with 1,034 yards receiving and seven TD catches.Added linebacker Zaire Franklin: Its just a different vibe in the locker room. Our outlook is looking a lot different. Im not looking at it as a big statement. Im just looking at it as beating a very good team on the road. 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The recently retired Stern was elected Friday to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and will be enshrined with the class of 2014 on Aug.RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Latest on the Rio Games (all times local to Rio de Janeiro):10.00 p.m.The Court of Arbitration for Sports ad hoc division has already registered 11 appeals -- predominantly involving Russian athletes excluded from the Olympics amid allegations of state-sponsored doping -- in seven days since setting up in Rio de Janeiro, the same number it handled in the entire period of the last Summer Games in 2012.The CAS released a statement Monday saying the cases of Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev, both Olympic medal-winning swimmers, had been adjourned and a decision on the future conduct of the hearing would be made Tuesday.CAS said the hearing of another swimmer, Yulia Efimova, was also adjourned to Tuesday, when the request by Daniil Andrienko and 16 other Russian rowers to be allowed to compete in Rio will also be heard.The CAS said a decision in the appeal of the Russian Weightlifting Federation against its suspension was likely on Wednesday.Morozov and Lobintsev are seeking to overturn their bans, claiming the suspensions are invalid and unenforceable.The swimmers were implicated in a report by World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren that detailed state-sponsored doping in Russia across more than two dozen summer and winter sports.The IOC executive board decided not to ban the entire Russian Olympic team from the Rio Games but ordered all individual sports federations to apply new criteria to decide which athletes could be allowed to compete.---9:10 p.m.IOC President Thomas Bach has issued another defense of his handling of the Russian doping scandal, saying the decision not to exclude the entire Russian team from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics was based on human rights and justice.Bach used his speech at Monday nights opening ceremony of the IOCs general assembly to address the continuing criticism of the Olympic bodys response to evidence of state-sponsored doping in Russia.He said individual athletes cant be punished for the wrongdoing of their government.Bach said justice has to be independent from politics and added that whoever responds to a violation of the law with another violation of the law is destroying justice.---6 p.m.Rafael Nadal is ready to play in the Olympics after being sidelined with a wrist injury for more than two months.The 14-time major champion hit for two hours with fellow Spaniard David Ferrer on Monday on a practice court at the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro.Nadal hasnt played since pulling out of the French Open on May 27 before his third-round match because of an injured left wrist.Wearing a sleeveless blue shirt and white cap, Nadal had a white bandage on his left wrist but showed no signs of injury he hit all-out with Ferrer under a hot sun. He was watched closely by his coach and uncle, Toni Nadal, and Spanish team coach Conchita Martinez.Nadal declined to talk to reporters after the session, saying he would speak on Tuesday. Ferrer said Nadal looks very good.Nadal is scheduled to carry the Spanish flag at the opening ceremony on Friday night at the Maracana stadium.He won a singles gold medal for Spain at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but missed the 2012 London Games with a knee injury.---3:40 p.m.The split between Olympic leaders and global anti-doping officials over the Russian doping scandal continues to escalate.The World Anti-Doping Agency fired back on Monday, a day after IOC President Thomas Bach suggested the agency was to blame for the last--minute chaos over the participation of Russian athletes in the Rio de Janeiro Games.ddddddddddddach said the agency should have acted sooner on evidence of state-sponsored doping rather than release the damning report by Canadian investigator Richard McLaren so close to the games, which open on Friday.While it is destabilizing in the lead-up to the games, it is obvious, given the seriousness of the revelations that he (McLaren) uncovered, that they had to be published and acted upon without delay, WADA President Craig Reedie, who is also an IOC vice president, said in a statement Monday.---1:55 p.m.Russias sports minister says a decision is expected in the next two days on which athletes will be allowed to compete in Rio de Janeiro.Vitaly Mutko spoke during a visit to Paris-based UNESCO on Monday where he presented a report on what is being done in Russia to fight doping -- after the World Anti-Doping Agency accused the Russian government of directing a vast cover-up.Mutko insists there is no state system of doping in Russia.The IOC wont allow Russians to compete in Rio if they had previously been banned for doping, were implicated in the alleged cover-up or had not been tested often enough internationally.---1:45 p.m.The head of World Sailing is promising a launching ramp that collapsed a few days ago will be ready on Friday -- three days before the sailing competition starts at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.The launching ramp, one of two being used at the Marina da Gloria venue, broke apart on Saturday. Organizers are blaming strong waves and poor design.Andy Hunt, the head of World Sailing, says if it was absolutely necessary, we could still carry on competition, but it would just be logistically very difficult.Rio organizing committee spokesman Mario Andrada says the new ramp will be slightly smaller than the one that broke. He says that ramp was maybe a bit too big.---1:25 p.m.The United States will have a second member on the International Olympic Committees executive board.Former Olympic ice hockey gold medalist Angela Ruggiero was elected as chair of the IOCs athletes commission on Monday, a position which automatically gives her a seat on the policy-making board.Ruggiero will replace Claudia Bokel, a former Olympic fencer from Germany whose four-year term is expiring at the end of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.Ruggiero will join Anita DeFrantz on the 15-member board. Her elevation comes at a crucial time for the U.S., with Los Angeles bidding for the 2024 Olympics.Los Angeles is competing against Paris, Rome and Budapest, Hungary. The IOC will select the host city in September 2017.---12:45 p.m.The chief spokesman for the Rio Olympics says, I can guarantee in the name of Rio 2016 that the athletes can compete in safety.Mario Andrada was responding Monday to the publication of the latest water study by The Associated Press, which found severe viral contamination in all outdoor aquatic venues for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.Some of the worst pollution is in Rios Guanabara Bay, which will host the sailing competition. Andrada says: We could and should have done a little better. But it does not remain a threat to the athletes. The athletes will compete in safety.Rio dumps at least half of its untreated sewage into the water surrounding the city, soiling many of its world-famous beaches. ' ' '