All-Americans

FIRST TEAM Offense
Quarterback - Tim Tebow, Florida.
Running backs - Darren McFadden, Arkansas; Kevin Smith, Central Florida.
Wide receivers - Michael Crabtree, Texas Tech; Jordy Nelson, Kansas State.
Tackles - Jake Long, Michigan; Anthony Collins, Kansas.
Guards - Duke Robinson, Oklahoma; Martin O'Donnell, , Illinois.
Center - Steve Justice,Wake Forest.
Tight end - Martin Rucker, Missouri.
All-purpose player - Jeremy Maclin, Missouri.
Kicker - Thomas Weber, Arizona State.

DefenseEnds - Chris Long, Virginia; George Selvie, South Florida.
Tackles - Glenn Dorsey, LSU; Sedrick Ellis, Southern California.
Linebackers - Dan Connor, Penn St, James Laurinaitis, Ohio St Jordon Dizon, Colorado
Cornerbacks - Aqib Talib, Kansas; Antoine Cason, Arizona.
Safeties - Craig Steltz, LSU; Jamie Silva, Boston College.
Punter - Kevin Huber, Cincinnati.

SECOND TEAM Offense
Quarterback - Chase Daniel, Missouri.
Running backs - Ray Rice, Rutgers; Mike Hart, Michigan.
Wide receivers - Mario Manningham, Michigan; Harry Douglas, Louisville.
Tackles - Ryan Clady, Boise State; Sam Baker, Southern California.
Guards - Robert Felton, Arkansas; Anthony Parker, Tennessee.
Center - Jonathan Luigs, Arkansas.
Tight end - Fred Davis, Southern California.
All-purpose player - Felix Jones, Arkansas.
Kicker - Austin Starr, Indiana.

DefenseEnds - Vernon Gholston, Ohio State; Lawrence Jackson, Southern California.
Tackles - Terrill Byrd, Cincinnati; James McClinton, Kansas.
Linebackers - J Leman, Illinois; Curtis Lofton, Oklahoma; Ali Highsmith, LSU.
Cornerbacks - Brandon Flowers, Virginia Tech; Malcolm Jenkins, Ohio State.
Safeties - Patrick Chung, Oregon; William Moore, Missouri.
Punter - Durant Brooks, Georgia Tech.






The AP ALL-AMERICAN TEAMS CAME OUT, usually I do not have a beef with who is picked. Normally if you had a good year you will be on it. And sometimes a player below you will be ahead of you in the teams. And thats fine too but when you do something as ridiculous as put Mike Hart on 2nd team all-american i have a big problem with that. Especially when he is ranked #24th in the nation in rushing. Chris Wells of Ohio state is ranked #10 in the country in yrds. And doesn't even get mentioned in any of the All-American teams. What is the fascination with Hart, he is undersized, gets hurt and doesn't lead his team to victories. You can argue Ohio State was a better offensive team. But that is far from the truth, Michigan had a better QB, better Wide Receivers, Tight Ends. And yet he only ran for 1200 yds, the so called key to Michigan winning. I would say Chris Wells meant more to the Buckeyes than did Hart. Well ran for 200 yds more. Here is the numbers and you decide


NCAA Division I-A Rushing Leaders: 2007



10. Chris Wells, Ohio St 254 attempts 1463 yds 5.8yds per carry 14 Tds



24. Mike Hart, Michigan 233 attempts 1232 yds 5.3 yds per carry 12 Tds

Tressel Ball

For those college football fans that are not fans of Ohio State have a hard time understanding or taking a liking to the way Tressel coaches. Now a days its all about how many passing yards, the big highlight plays, and putting up 40pts per game. Tressel aka Senator Tressel brings back the old school football days. Running the football, playing top 5 Defense and field position. Sure Tressel isn't the flashiest of coaches but he expects execution from his players. And yes sometimes it doesn't work against teams like Florida and Illinois with the spread offense but everybody has their bad days. And I'm sure his record will only improve against those types of teams when he gets more chances to play them.

Since taking over the reins of the Ohio State football team in 2001, Tressel has guided the Buckeyes to an overall record of 73-15, six bowl appearances, including four BCS games(soon to be 5), five 10-win seasons, four Big Ten titles and one national championship. Tressel is 2nd behind Pete Carroll in wins since 2001, Carroll comes in with 65-12 record not counting this year. Carroll has brought 2 Nat'l titles. So to those who hate on the way tressel coaches shouldn't hate because it isn't flashy he does what he has to do to give his players best chance to compete and win.

And to those who hate on the ohio state schedule, they tend to forget past 2 years we have competed against Texas a top 5 program. And have USC on our schedule coming up other top programs play teams well below their level. Look at michigan playing app st, LSU playing tulane, Alabama vs UL Monore. So to all those saying we play a soft schedule we are not the only team in the NCAA that does this. Your goal is to go undefeated and compete for a National Title.





Who Dey

All I can say is I am completely ....I dont even know

56-10 patriots over the bills.

wow.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=273212561

Siena pulls the upset over Stanford... and people questioned syracuses win over them?

I realize the travel involved pry helped siena..but still a big win...

Impressed with ....
VT - defense continues good play.
Michigan - with their poor play, just as i expected.
Michael crabtree, what a play, what a play...how is that play overturned...13-7 early lead for texas tech

michigan ohio state game

These two storied programs are showing why a lot of people have no respect for the big ten.

Slow, pound em and boring football.

Saying that, I'm enjoying...
7-3 ohio state so far with a few minutes left in the first half.

Scariest? Maybe not but def sexiest....

Great article about the least scary mascots at schools.

Being an orange fan...I'm not worried about scary...only sexy.

http://www.collegenews.com/feature.php?newsid=2421

Ramblin On.....

NFL History

November 16, 1980 Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards and four touchdowns in a 38-30 loss to the Minnesota Vikings. Check out all the stats from his nine year career.

For those of you that know little about me, there isn't much to me except that I love sports. During football season I literally watch sports all weekend long, and yet still maintain a girlfriend. When I hear someone or anyone for that matter talking football, I get goosebumps, feel butterflies, am giddy like a school girl....you get my point. But I just love to talk football from formations, to stats, trends, players, stadiums, all of it.


If you were to ask me what intrigues me about the NFL I would answer back with the QB position as it is related to African Americans. As a tot I was a Washington Redskins fan (not by choice, I didn't know any better). That's where the love started those Redskins teams under the guidance of Joe Gibbs were simply magnificent. They displayed great defensed led by players such as Dexter Manley (my all time favorite), Darrell Green, Charles Mann, Wilbur Marshall, and many other. But as a kid I really didn't care about that too much I was all about the offense and at that time the Redskins had it all with the best WR's the posse (Clark, Monk and Sanders), the best offensive line --The Hogs (Bostic, Joe Jacoby, Russ Grimm, Mark May, and others). I saw running backs like Earnest Byner, Gerald Riggs, and Timmy Smith...talk about smash mouth football. Gibbs had one plan in mind -- Run the ball down the opposing teams throat. Now that I have rambled on. Its time to get to that moment when I first saw "IT".


The 'IT' that I am referring to as the events that took place on the evening of January 31, 1988. I was a 7 year old kid getting ready for Super Bowl XXII. I had spent most of the day in the back yard tossing the football to myself acting as if were Doug Williams trying to lead the Redskins past the Broncos. I quickly realized that I was not Doug when my mom came out and asked "Who are you out here talking to?" And told her to buzz off and that we were down by 6 with 1:30 on the clock, no timeouts inside our own 10, and we had to win the game.


That night I saw something spectacular, I saw sports history. Doug Williams not only became the first black (and only one so far) to hoist the Lombardi trophy, but they way in which he did it really stands out in my mind--throwing 4 TD passes in a single quarter.WOW!!! I had never wanted to be a QB until I first saw Doug Williams play the position on the last regular season game that season when he came in for at the time my boy....JAY SCHROEDER.


From Doug Williams to Warren Moon to Randall Cunningham (awww) to Donovan Mcnabb and Michael Vick the dynamics of the quarterback position has drastically changed from pop Werner football all the way to the NFL.


Man this is a lot. The point I was trying to get across is I love sports, and as I get older I have grown to appreciate all the history with all the leagues, teams, stadiums. Its all just so fascinating to me. It should be a college major or something...



if the (3-6) Falcons beat the division leading (5-4) Buccaneers this weekend to push the win streak to 3, can we start talking playoffs?????

Current BCS

As an avid College Football Fan I've never really had an issue with the current BCS system. I've heard all the complaints and rumblings about how it is unfair and should go to a playoff format. I was one to think nothing of it because usually the top 2 teams who made it deserved it. But after witnessing the so called flaws in the system this year, my views have changed. How can you penalize a team that goes the whole year and doesn't lose till the very end of the season. When you reward a team who lost in the beginning of the year to move up in the rankings.

Everyone is subject to a bad game but it shouldn't hurt them based on when they lose, a loss is a loss no matter when it is. The team who lost late in the season could very well be the best team in the country but because they lost at the end of the season their title hopes are shot. I know the playoff system whenever comes out may take a at least 5yrs to implement.

The playoff system could go either two ways, have the system a 4 team playoff top 4 teams in the AP & ESPN poll make it. Or use the current BCS formula and the top 8 teams make it, and the regular BCS bowls gets to host a playoff game. And the winner takes all, who knows if a playoff system will work or will get put into place but something needs to be done to increase the level of play and move viewers.

Who Dey gonna beat them bengals

Orenthal James Simpson

A rather funny article out of the NY Post about the everyday life of whats its like walking around as the "Juice" the second greatest Bills running back and murderer.

Later, at the baggage claim, the disgraced athlete "noticed a kid in a Bills jersey and was like, 'Yeah, Buffalo Bills, baby.' "

great quote from the article....hahaha.

Marbury fits in with this site

A great article I just read, I thought i'd pass it along to you. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=jy-marbury111507&prov=yhoo&type=lgns


I'm not going to get heated about it, I am just demanding the Knicks rid themselves of Marbury and Isiah before I spend another penny or any amount of time on them. I've been to two Knicks games and Marbury did great in both games. I just would rather see the knicks blow up their entire roster and start with drafting an entire team from scratch.

Tryouts at noon on friday.

Radford Basketball

Radford 68 Presbyterian 54

The Radford Universtiy Mens basketball team recieved its first win of the season with a 68-54 decision over the Presbyterian Blue Hose last night in front of 2.600 Highlander supporters at the Deadmon Center.

This was the first win for new first year head coach Brad Greenberg (brother of current VT mens coach Seth Greenberg) . "The crowd had a tremendous impact on the game and they motivated our players," Greenberg said. "It was fantastic to have so many students come out and support the team. I was overwhelmed and I hope they had a wonderful evening and I hope they come back for more of our games."

Radford was led by Junior Martell McDuffy who lead all scores with a game high 21 points. Sophmore Amir Johnson recorded a double-double in the win with 11 points and a career high 10 assists for the Highlanders.

“We played really hard for 40 minutes. I think a lot of guys had a big impact on the game,” Greenberg said. “I think it was nice to see the guys that got in work hard and they got rewarded for it.”

The Blue Hose from Presbyterian shot 8-13 from behind the arc in the first half to lead 33-29 at the break. Radford fought back in the second half with a 12-0 run midway through the period to put the Highlanders up by 11, with them never looking back.

“It is a cool feeling,” Greenberg said of his first win. “I don’t have enough coach talk in me to say otherwise. I hope to feel like that more often.”

The win makes Radford 1-2 on this young season. Their next game will be at home Saturday night against Big South foe Gardner Webb who beat Kentucy at Rupp Arena last week 84-68. Tipoff will be at 7 pm at the Deadmon Center.

Games from last night

Davidson vs UNC.

Dell Curry was always a favorite of mine for some reason and seeing his son play is great. If he would of played better or like he did at some times for the whole game, I think a lot of people would of been waking up to see the number 1 team with a big fat L. Ellington might be the best player on UNC. What a great dribble and shot.

Lakers vs Rockets.

I'll be honest with everyone. As soon as T-MAC got hurt, shortly after my xbox 360 dying for the third time, I just about called it a night. Bonzi Wells impressed, Luke Walton didn't. I had trouble watching this game. Yao ming is boring, I've never seen a big man get blocked or dunked on so much in his prime. Mutumbo made me chuckle with his finger wave...and then got dunked on shortly after. Lakers win. Rockets season hanging in the balance of an MRI.

Is anyone else as excited as I am for the Bills Patriots game this Sunday?

Master D NFL Power Rankings

Week -- 10

1. New England Patriots -- As long as Brady is firing touchdown passes to Moss during the day and hanging with his boo (Giesle Bunchen) at night he get the top spot in my book.
2. Green Bay Packers -- They showed a little something with a run game last week.
3. Dallas Cowboys -- Romo for president???!!!???
4. Pittsburgh Steelers -- flying below the radar
5. Indianapolis Colts -- can manning and company recover after a woeful sunday night performance.
6. Detroit Lions -- Still waiting for Roy Williams to show up had a big game last week though he did put up most of his stats after the game was well in hand (6 catches 45 yds 2 TDs)
7. Jacksonville Jagurars -- this team can play some defense and play mistake free football on offense. Reminds me of the 2000 Ravens.
8. Tennesse Titans -- VY is for real. With his legs and LeDale in the backfield the Titans are the new Falcons with a defense.
9. Cleveland Browns -- This team is really coming together especially the Offensive Line, and if it werent for Brady I would say that Anderson deserves some serious MVP consideration.
10. New York Football Giants -- i hate this damn team and everything about them. Except that Plaxico is from the Va Beach.
11. Buffalo Bills -- Like Mr. Foss said and also Dikta "This is the hardest playing team in the NFL" that alone is good enough for 4 wins a season. I say the Bills scare the Pats, but lose and end up stealing the AFC wild card from San Diego
12. San Diego Chargers -- I am convinced that Norv Turner is only good at one thing.....running teams into the ground. Sorry SD.
13. Seattle Seahawks -- Not sure that Hasselback throwing the ball around like Farve is a good thing not when you have Shaun Alexander in the backfield. But heck it worked on Monday night.
14. Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- Still not sold on this team. Garcia just keeps on winning.
15. Washington Redskins -- Never sure what team is going to show up.. They have all the pieces (even QB) to win it all.. What Campbell cant be like Roethlisberger?
16. Arizona Cardinals -- Id like to see them make the playoffs but I dont think anyone in the league is scared of a team led by Kurt Warner
17. Houston Texans -- Major injuries to Andre Johnson, Matt Schaub, and Ahman Green has turned this 2-0 early season contender to a comatosed giant. watch out if they wake up.
18. Atlanta Falcons -- Confused. Perplexed. Baffled. Bamboozled. All the emotions of a Falcons fan....just keep on winning so we dont have to add suicidal to the list.
19. Baltimore Ravens -- one word.....OFFENSE. Note to Billick, Let me qb the team.
20. Carolina Panthers -- Who the hell does David Carr think he fooling with them white gloves.
21. Chicago Bears -- Heres a thought let Devin Hester play qb.
22. Denver Broncos -- another preseason dissapointment for one of the smartest coaches in the league.
23. Philadelphia Eagggles -- all i keep thinking about when i hear Philadelphia Eagles is Andy Reid and "drug emporium"
24. New Orleans Saints -- 4-1 in their last five games. but I'm still not buying this team as any sort of play off threat.
25. Kansas City Cheifs -- "You play to win the game...Hello?" I think my favorite coach in the NFL Mr. Herman Edwards.
26. Minnesota Vikings -- Huge offensive line, AP's and thats about it. Probably already dreaming of Brian Brohm
27. Cincinnati Bungels -- one word....DEFENSE.....can anyone play it there in cincy
28. St. Louis Rams -- The injury bug just might land them a top 10 pick and a new coach.
29. San Fransico 49ers -- think its time to scrap the Alex Smith project.
30. Oakland Raiders -- I think Raiders fans have suffered enough.....bring in JaMarcus and lets see what he can do.
31. New York Jets -- Probably the most boringest team to watch....
32. Miami Dolphins -- 0-16 anyone?

NFL Power Rankings

The Foss NFL Power Rankings. Week 10.

At the top spot it's no surprise, the patriots are number 1. After that, throw a few darts to pick the top 5. And then it gets easy.

1. New England: 9-0 - The most dominate team I've seen. They make me sick.
2. Dallas Cowboys: 8-1 - The win over the Giants was huge. Romo proving his worth.
3. Pittsburgh Steelers: 7-2 - I don't know if I really think this team is 3rd. Good win.
4. Indianapolis Colts: 7-2 - Injuries will hurt. No pun intended.
5. Green Bay Packers: 8-1 - Getting closer to not being just a good NFC team. Impressive win.
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The next 5

6. New York Giants: 6-3 - Are they due for another slide this year? I tend to say no.
7. Jacksonville Jaguars: 6-3 - Great victory, tough to win in Ten.
8. Cleveland Browns: 5-4 - Despite the loss and the 5-4 record, I like them.
9. Seattle Seahawks: 5-4 - Going to win their division if they can get to 8 wins.
10. Detroit Lions: 6-3 -4 more wins and Kitna is right. I see 3-4, making him one short.
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Best of rest

11. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 5-4 - Front runner for their division. Not saying much.
12. Washington Redskins: 5-4 - This team is declining quick. Did gibbs switch to Toyota?
13. Buffalo Bills: 5-4 - only above chargers because of win streak.
14. San Diego Chargers: 5-4 - is it me or does this team look like a shell of itself from last year.
15. Tennessee Titans: 5-4 - I was high on them last week, if they win they move back up.
16. Arizona Cardinals: 4-5 - Too inconsistent. I like warner and his robot arm.
17. Philadelphia Eagles: 4-5 - If they win this week, i'm on the bandwagon again.
18. Chicago Bears: 4-5 - The bears qb situation mirros the bills situation. Gross, Los....man.
19. Denver Broncos: 4-5 - I don't know what to think. I know they are better than the rest.
20. New Orleans: 4-5 - I think they are better than this. The loss shocks me. Division winner.
21. Kansas City Cheifs: 4-5 - Make em 4-6. I think they realize it, why croyle gets the nod.
22. Cincinnati Bengals: 3-6 - Scary team if they can punch it in the red zone. (8-8 finish?)
23. Minnesota Vikings: 3-6 - I like this team. Injuries don't. let the losses pour.
24. Houston Texans: 4-5 - How are they 4-5? Simply amazing.
25. Oakland Raiders: 2-7 - Why did I watch the bears raiders game.
26. St. Louis Rams: 1-8 - Finally, some offense.
27. Atlanta Falcons: 3-6 - I will move them up if they win again.
28. Carolina Panthers: 4-5 - They will be lucky to finish 6-10.
29. San Fran. 49ers: 2-7 - If I wasn't a fan of Nate Clements...
30. New York Jets: 1-8 - I like their talent. Great coach. Horrible qbs.
31. Miami Dolphins: 0-9 - Beck is 26? Rookie?
32. Baltimore Ravens: 4-5 - Until they show me something. The 49ers and panthers are trying to steal this posistion.