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STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi State didnt have to look far to find its new athletics director, hiring Bulldogs baseball coach John Cohen on Friday.Cohen has coached college baseball for more than two decades and has been Mississippi States coach since 2009. The Tuscaloosa, Alabama, native has never been an athletics director, but was named associate athletics director at Mississippi State when his baseball contract was extended during the summer.The 50-year-old Cohen will replace Scott Stricklin, who left to become the athletics director at Florida in September.Cohen said hes grateful for the opportunity and has wanted to be an athletics director for a long time. He called Stricklin a really an incredible person who helped him get ready for the job.I just kept finding myself gravitating toward those athletic directors, those guys who would share information and talk about the future of intercollegiate athletics, Cohen said. I have to admit to you, I got hooked.Terms of Cohens new deal as athletics director were not released.Cohen led Mississippi State to the College World Series championship series in 2013 before the Bulldogs fell to UCLA. He also played baseball at Mississippi State from 1988-90.Cohen isnt the only athletics director in the Southeastern Conference who comes from a baseball background. South Carolinas Ray Tanner coached the Gamecocks to back-to-back national titles in 2010 and 11 before becoming the schools athletics director in 2012.Mississippi State President Mark E. Keenum said that the school hired a search firm to assist with finding Stricklins replacement, but that they kept coming back to Cohen as the best candidate for the job.We identified a number of truly outstanding collegiate athletic directors and senior associate directors from across the nation, Keenum said. It was a very exhaustive process and it led up to this past weekend. But we kept coming back to John Cohen. More than just leading our baseball program with great success, hes also been very involved in helping lead the entire department.Cohens first task will be hiring a new baseball coach to replace himself.I told our team, `You are not going to get a coach as good as John Cohen, you are going to get one that is better than John Cohen, Cohen said. We are on that job now.Jerseys NFL Cheap . Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek defeated Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 (4) on the indoor hard-court at Belgrade Arena. The victory improved the Czech pairs impressive cup doubles record to 14-1. Jerseys Cheap Wholesale . Nathan MacKinnon, Jamie McGinn and Jan Hejda also scored for the Avalanche, who won despite being outshot 38-23. MacKinnons goal, also on the power play, came with just over a minute remaining. http://www.wholesalejerseysnfl.net/ . Booth picked up 65 caps after making her national team debut in 2002 at the age of 17. She most recently played for Sky Blue FC of the National Womens Soccer League. "It just felt like it was my time to move on," she said in a phone interview from her hometown of Burlington, Ont. Cheap Jerseys . -- Stanford squashed Oregons national championship hopes again, schooling the Ducks in power football. Jerseys NFL Wholesale . Vettel, who has already clinched his fourth straight F1 title, enters the finale with a chance to equal Michael Schumachers 13 victories in a year and match the record of nine consecutive wins by Alberto Ascari in the 1952 and 1953 seasons.Team USA, assemble!Hundreds of members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic team converged on the nations capital and crowded into Georgetown Universitys McDonough Arena on Wednesday night for the Team USA Awards, which celebrated the U.S. dominance at the Rio Olympics.The athletes received their Olympic rings, shown off here by Olympic swimming gold medalists Abbey Weitzeil, Kathleen Baker and Dana Vollmer.Some individual members of Team USA also received recognition for their outstanding performances in Rio. The awards were determined by a combination of fan voting and a panel of journalists from the Olympic and Paralympic Games.Katie Ledecky, who won four gold medals in Rio, was named Team USA female athlete oof the Games.ddddddddddddymnastics Final Five was named Team of the Olympic Games.And the womens sitting volleyball team, which was the first U.S. team to win a gold medal in the sport, was named Team of the Paralympic Games. Here are some players ?posing with all-around gymnastics champion Simone Biles.The athletes followed up the Wednesday night festivities with a Thursday morning tour of the White House and a meeting with ?President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on the White House lawn.Sean Hurd is a digital media associate at ESPN. Follow him at @seanahurd ' ' '