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INDIANAPOLIS -- It was quite a week for Roger Penskes IndyCar team.Last Tuesday evening, the majority of Team Penske was at the Hilbert Circle Theater in Indianapolis as Simon Pagenaud, Will Power and Helio Castroneves were presented trophies and checks to celebrate their 1-2-3 sweep of the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series championship.Barely 12 hours later, the driver who finished fourth in the standings was announced as the newest Penske team member. After an impressive five-year apprenticeship under Sarah Fisher and Ed Carpenter, 25-year-old Josef Newgarden is now part of the The Captains juggernaut.We figured he was better off being on our side than on the other side, quipped Team Penske president Tim Cindric.On the surface, this looks like a classic case of the rich getting richer. Penske dominated the 2016 season, with Pagenaud, Power, Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya combining for 10 wins and 11 poles in 16 races.Newgarden was one of the few drivers who challenged or beat Penskes experienced quartet on a regular basis, and he did it with what is often perceived as one of the IndyCar Series smaller teams.The way the young Tennessee native built Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing into a contender and Ed Carpenter Racing into a winner was what caught Penskes eye. Newgarden is the complete package -- smooth and fast when hes in the car, and media, fan and sponsor savvy when hes not.Hes shown me hes a winner and hes shown me he can handle himself on the racetrack and off the racetrack, said Cindric, who has been Roger Penskes top racing lieutenant since 2000. Thats really the core ingredient for us, because our environment is not for everybody.We want people that can drive race cars and represent our organization and those that we represent in the right way. It felt like he fit that mold.With Newgardens contract with ECR coming to an end, its no surprise that he attracted a lot of attention in the free-agent market. But going to Penske wasnt always a certainty.Since Kevin Cogans star-crossed 1982 campaign, Roger Penske has been reticent about hiring young drivers. The few exceptions have included Helio Castroneves (24 when he started with the team in 2000), Sam Hornish Jr. (25 in 2006), and on the NASCAR side, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano.Now Penskes IndyCar team is trending younger, with Newgarden taking over the No. 2 car from 41-year-old Montoya. Castroneves turns 41 in December, while Power is 35 and newly-crowned champion Pagenaud is 32.Penske didnt necessarily want to replace Montoya, and has in fact offered the experienced Colombian an Indianapolis 500 seat with the potential of a yet-to-be-announced sports car program as well. But like two years ago, when Pagenaud became available, Penske and Cindric felt they had to act quickly.You have to decide if youre going to make a place for somebody like that, or if youre going to race against him for a while, Cindric said.?As we look at it, we wanted somebody that we could build on for the future.Newgarden is set to make his first run in a Penske car Monday at Road America. The team will run all four drivers in a test scheduled long before Penske decided on a driver switch.I think hes a really good fit for Penske, commented new teammate Power. Obviously hes very well spoken, hes American and the main thing is he is fast. I think it will be very good for the team.Testing is actually very restricted, so I think it will be great for him to get to know these guys because thats important, he added. From a team perspective, its really the only test we get to do until February or something just before the first race. So its a very important day.Team Penskes association with Pagenaud has certainly worked out well. After a mildly disappointing 2015 campaign in which he learned and adapted to the Penske environment, Pagenaud was the class of the IndyCar Series field in 2016, claiming five race wins and seven poles.Even though he quickly emerged as a team leader, Pagenaud did it without incurring the wrath of his older teammates. His humility as the IndyCar Series titlist was reflected in his remarks at Tuesday nights championship celebration.It looked easy this year but it definitely wasnt, he said. Its been a long road, but it was worth it. My story is of many challenges and goals impossible to reach. My family owned a supermarket in a small farming town ... how could I get to here?When I came to the U.S. in 2006, that was the key point of my career, he added. I spoke barely any English, and I told my dad I have to win, because there is no point to keep going if Im not good enough for this. Otherwise Im back in the supermarket once again.Pagenaud won the 2006 Formula Atlantic championship with a $2 million prize package that put him in the Champ Car sanctioned IndyCar series in 2007. But Champ Car folded at the end of the year, sending the Frenchman into an unexpected four-year detour in sports cars.It turned out to be a blessing. Pagenaud was tutored by Gil de Ferran, who won two IndyCar championships and an Indianapolis 500 for Team Penske. It was de Ferran who pointed Penske and Cindric in Pagenauds direction.A series of IndyCar Series race wins for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports convinced Penske that Pagenaud was ready. The Frenchmans early adoption of black slacks and fashionable loafers didnt hurt his cause either.Everybody at SPM was like, Why are you wearing black slacks? Just relax and put your jeans on! he related. I said, You know, Im trying to be professional. But in reality, I was hoping Roger might notice me.It must have worked.Now Newgarden must adapt to the traditional Penske black slacks dress code. But it shouldnt be a problem, because hes certainly given every indication that he is Penske material up to now.As a still relatively young guy in the sport, its an amazing opportunity, Newgarden said.?I think its a great place where I can learn new experiences, try and grow as a driver, and kind of open up my whole role within the group and try and just become better within the sport.I hope it pushes me to a new level, he added. Im probably going to figure some things out about myself I didnt know and hopefully those are good things; the bad things, Ill try and fix them pretty quick.?But I think its going to be a great change. Cheap Patriots Jerseys Authentic . Once again Jordan Cieciwa (@FitCityJordan) and I (@LynchOnSports) go head to head in our picks. 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TUCSON, Ariz. -- Arizona coach Sean Miller called it a typical November game.For his 10th-ranked Wildcats, that meant another blowout over an overmatched opponent.Lauri Markkanen scored 22 points to lead six Arizona players in double figures in Arizonas 95-65 rout of Sacred Heart on Friday night.Fellow freshman Rawle Alkins added 18 points for the Wildcats (3-0). They led by as many as 25 points in the first half and 39 in the second.Arizonas Dusan Ristic had 13 points and a career-high 15 rebounds.Quincy McKnight had 22 points -- 20 in the second half -- and Joseph Lopez 15 for the Pioneers (1-2).November is a month of learning, Miller said. Players are learning, theyre learning each other, theyre learning our system, but the coaching staff is learning on what kind of combinations of players work well, who can do what, what we need to teach and do a better job of.The game was part of the Las Vegas Invitational, as is Monday nights game against Northern Colorado. The Wildcats move on to Las Vegas to play Santa Clara next Thursday.If a team plays four games in a tournament, it gets an extra game on its schedule.The much bigger, quicker Wildcats never trailed turned the game into a blowout in a hurry, despite having a miserable night from 3-point range.The Wildcats were 1 for 15 on 3s before Markkanen made two in a row late in the second half.Miller said the Wildcats are just now learning how good the Finnish freshman Markkanen is on offense.There were times when he was open and the ball didnt find him, Miller said. Then all of a sudden it did and he went on his own personal 8-0 run. ... Lauris efficient. Hes not going to take bad shots. That was about as easy of a 22-point night as Ive seen.Miller noted his team committed seven turnovers, just one in the first half. Point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright didnt have a turnover in his 30 minutes on the court.A pair of Arizona newcomers got the McKale Center crowd rocking with some high-flying plays.In consecutive plays, freshman Kobi Simmons had a backcourt steal and two-handed dunk and junior college transfer Keanu Pinder knoocked the ball away in Sacred Hearts backcourt and got the dunk on a lob pass from Parker Jackson-Cartwright at the other end, and Arizona led 43-18 with 4:17 left in the first half.ddddddddddddRistic had 10 rebounds in the first half, one shy of his career-best for a game. The Wildcats led 49-25 at the break.Sacred Heart coach Anthony Latina lamented his teams 17 turnovers, which resulted in 25 Arizona points.When you play a team that good, you cant give them free points and we did, he said. Now, fortunately we dont play a team that good the rest of the year, unless we make the NCAA Tournament.BIG PICTURESacred Heart lost last seasons league MVP Cane Broome, who transferred to Cincinnati. The Pioneers have some talent but nowhere near enough to stay with Arizona on the road.The Wildcats did what they are supposed to do. They wont really have a challenge until the Las Vegas Invitational matchups next week, when they face Santa Clara and either the winner or loser of the Butler-Vanderbilt game.PAC-12 POUNDINGSIt was the first meeting between the schools and the first for Sacred Heart against a Pac-12 team since playing Washington on Dec. 22, 2004. The Pioneers lost that one 114-55.The Wildcats pounded a Northeast Conference team for the fourth time in the last five seasons.They beat Bryant 100-60 in the 2011-12 season, Farleigh-Dickenson 100-50 in 2013-14 and Mount St. Marys 78-55 in 2014-15.SHAQ IN THE HOUSENBA great Shaquille ONeal was one of those in the crowd at sold-out McKale. He was in town for a visit by his son Shareef. The younger ONeal, a 6-foot-8 junior forward at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California, is a five-star recruit. Baylor and UCLA also are chasing him.UP NEXTSacred Heart: The Pioneers make the second and final stop on their trip west when they play at Santa Clara Monday night.Arizona: The Wildcats complete a three-game home stand against teams from lesser conferences when they face Northern Colorado on Monday night. ' ' ' |
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