Posts Tagged ‘college’
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Here is the eighth most important thing I learned this year:
Wins Galore – Last week Sports Illustrated honored college basketball coaches Pat Summitt and Mike Krzyzewski as its sportspeople of the year. I recently heard Coach K tell a story on Sirius XM about his 1989 Duke team. Christian Laettner had a bad [...]
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Saturday, December 10th, 2011
Tonight on ESPN, the Downtown Athletic Club will announce the 77th recipient of the Heisman Memorial Trophy – awarded each year to the ‘outstanding college football player in the United States.’ Right now, players you’ve likely never heard of are participating in the 112th renewal of a contest that best exemplifies what the sport is [...]
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The NFL draft begins tonight – which means a few young men barely of drinking age will wear $1,000 suits and smile broadly for the ESPN cameras, rejoicing that they are instant millionaires… and fortunate not to be selected by the Oakland Raiders.
A peculiarity of this annual rite of football passage is how personnel directors [...]
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010
The countdown of the Top 10 lessons I learned during 2010 is almost complete. Here’s #2:
Humility Dose– For a decade my beloved Texas Longhorns were a mainstay near the top of the college football rankings. This year, an ugly seven losses. Fallout? Offensive coordinator and special teams coaches fired; defensive coordinator [...]
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
The latest entry in ESPN’s terrific ‘30 for 30′ film series is “The Best That Never Was” about former University of Oklahoma running back Marcus Dupree. It chronicles his meteoric rise to becoming the most highly recruited high school player ever, immediate success as an unstoppable freshman for the Sooners, fall from grace, career-ending injury [...]
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Brothers United
Saturday, December 10th, 2011Tonight on ESPN, the Downtown Athletic Club will announce the 77th recipient of the Heisman Memorial Trophy – awarded each year to the ‘outstanding college football player in the United States.’ Right now, players you’ve likely never heard of are participating in the 112th renewal of a contest that best exemplifies what the sport is [...]
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Tags: 101st airborne, air, Army, bain and company, beat, Blanchard, college, college football player, colonel. After, Davis, doc blanchard, fighter, football, Force, gridiron legends, heisman memorial trophy, Joe Bellino, Navy, navy fighter, Pete Dawkins, Roger, Roger Staubach, today, United States, year