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VAL DISERE, France -- In the absence of established stars like Lindsey Vonn and Tina Maze, new faces are breaking through on the womens World Cup circuit.Especially Ilka Stuhec.The Slovenian won a World Cup Alpine combined race on Friday for her third victory this season -- having never finished higher than fourth before this year.Sitting in third spot after the mornings downhill, she ended up .12 seconds ahead of Michelle Gisin and .16 clear of Soffia Goggia following the slalom on the Oreiller-Killy course.Stuhec was fourth in the overall World Cup standings, while Goggia was up to second with her fifth podium in seven races this season. The Italian also had a career best of fourth before this season began.That was not the only thing these two skiers have in common. Their careers were hampered by multiple knee operations: Five for Stuhec and four for Goggia.Reflecting on those injuries, Stuhec said: I wouldnt change a thing, even though sometimes it was really, really hard. I learned a lot about myself and people around me.Goggia said injuries helped to forge her character.Its the hunger I have at the start gate. Im aching for more, always, she said. I can be really satisfied with who I am. The last injury three years ago was really heavy and it took two years for me to come back. Tough times, but Im here now.There should be plenty more points on offer for both, considering the situation in womens skiing.Vonn, the four-time overall World Cup champion, was recovering from a broken arm, while Maze -- the 2013 World Cup champion -- has retired. Two-time World Cup winner Anna Veith (nee Fenninger) was working her way back from a serious right-knee injury.Goggia, who was behind American slalom specialist Mikaela Shiffrin in the standings, played down her chances.Its a big goal, Goggia said. But at the moment not mine.Stuhecs two other wins this season were in downhill, both in Lake Louise.But prior to this year, she had finished only twice in the top five with a best of fourth in super-G three years ago.She changed her skis this summer, and her training.Most of the summer I spent with the mens speed team in Slovenia, Stuhec said. I tried to catch them every day and I was really building my confidence.Maze is Slovenias most famed skier and Stuhec never really became close with her.Honestly, I cannot say we are really friends, Stuhec said. Because she was most of the time separate from us, working alone.Gisin, meanwhile, clinched her first career podium. Her previous best was sixth last weekend in slalom in Sestriere.The Swiss skier was the younger sister of Dominique Gisin, who shared the 2014 Olympic downhill title with Maze.Big sister was watching from the bottom of the slope and burst into tears.She is helping me through so much, said Michelle Gisin, whose older brother Marc Gisin is a World Cup racer with a career best of fifth in downhill in January.Defending overall World Cup champion Lara Gut of Switzerland had a bad day, however.Sixth after the downhill run, she went off course midway through the slalom run.I know what (went wrong), Gut said. But I dont think its the right place to explain.Gut was third in the overall standings, 14 points behind Goggia and 105 behind Shiffrin.Shiffrin skipped Val dIsere and will return on Tuesday for the giant slalom in the nearby French Alpine resort of Courchevel.Gut will look to score heavily on Saturday in the downhill and on Sunday in a super-G. 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St.Louis Blues Gear . -- Ohio States Urban Meyer has never had any issue acclimating to the biggest stages in college football. COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Clemsons athletic department reported 15 violations to the NCAA in the past year, including three by the defending Atlantic Coast Conference football champions.The school released its infractions report Tuesday after an open records request by The Associated Press.None of the violations is considered serious. All but one of them is classified as a Level III infraction. Level III infractions are those the NCAA considers isolated or limited in nature; provide no more than a minimal recruiting, competitive or other advantage; and dont include more than a minimal impermissible benefit.Clemson detailed its NCAA violations from Aug. 1, 2015, through this past July 31.Three of the violations involved the football program, which starts the season ranked No. 2.One came from an accidental FaceTime call placed by coach Dabo Swinney to a prospect before the allowable date of Sept. 1. Coaches cant place any phone calls to the prospect from Sept. 1-15 as punishment for the infraction.Another violation in football came last October and involved two players who dropped engineering courses and were not enrolled full-time, as required by the NCAA. Clemson declared both players ineligible, conducted rules education with all athletes and paid a $500 fine. The NCAA restored the two athletes eligibility.The final football infraction came this past January when the staff gave excess travel reimbursement to several prospects after their official visits.ddddddddddddThe school said the staff wrongly thought it could round up the travel reimbursement amount to the nearest dollar.The staffer involved received a letter of admonishment, although the school said it did not try to collect the overpay from prospects because of the minimal amount of the over-award.The first-year baseball program of coach Monte Lee had three violations.Lee, who led the Tigers to the ACC Tournament title last May, was admonished for an infraction from last September when he responded to a text from a 2018 prospect before Sept. 1 of the players junior year of high school. Lee, the school said, thought the prospect was set to graduate in 2017. When informed otherwise by the player, Lee stopped all communication with the prospect and reported it to the compliance office.Lee and his staff must also refrain from communicating with the player for two weeks starting Sept. 1.Last August, an assistant coach on Clemsons mens golf team impermissibly brought in an outside consultant to work with two players on the course and teach a three-session with the whole team. The mens golf team was made to take three days off from all countable athletic activity for three weeks. ' ' '