According to the experts, Ohio State is the team to beat in the Big 10. There is a lot of hype around the Buckeyes and coach Jim Tressel this season. When you look at this team, all of this season’s fate rests in the hands of sophomore Terrelle Pryor (So. 6’6 235 lbs.). The question remains, can he do it? Pryor had a strong freshman year leading the Big 10 with a pass-efficiency rating of 151.3 in conference play and...
It’s time for the Big 10 to change tradition. It used to be that no Big 10 team played after the Ohio State-Michigan game just before Thanksgiving. However, this concept has been slowly changing as more teams are breaking tradition. During the Big Ten media day on Monday, there was chatter about adding an open date during the season to allow for an additional game to be played after Thanksgiving to help reduce the long layoff between the conference’s regular season...
There will be a lot of buzz opening day at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field come kick-off this September. Georgia Tech Heisman hopeful Jonathan Dwyer (Jr., 6’0, 235 lbs.) was named the 2009 Preseason ACC Player of the Year in a vote by the media who attended the league’s annual Football Kickoff at the Grandover Resort in Greensboro, Ga. Last season, Dwyer was named the 2008 ACC Player of the Year beating out Clemson’s C.J. Spiller. He...
Penn State lands its 14th 2010 recruit in top TE Kevin Haplea from North Hunterdon High in Annandale, New Jersey. Haplea (6’4, 230 lbs.) also considered Florida State, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, and North Carolina. He will be a perfect fit for the Nittany Lions as they will lose their top two TEs at the end of this season. To prepare for the 2010 season, Haplea plans on graduating high school early and will attend Penn State this January. On...
Texas A&M will be down a WR this season. WR Roger Holland (Jr. 5’10, 175 lbs.), from Houston, Texas, will miss his second straight season due to the lingering effects of multiple concussions he suffered during his college career. Texas A&M coach Mike Sherman announced today that “we’re not going to play with him.” “We’re going to sit him down and see how he does a year from now.” His status will be reevaluated in 2010.
The NCAA, along with the four pro sports leagues, sued the state of Delaware in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (09-cv-00538) this past Friday to prevent Delaware from implementing sports betting. Governor Jack Markell and the Director of the Delaware State Lottery Office, Wayen Lemons, were the named defendants in the suit. The complaint states that Delaware’s sports betting plan “would irreparably harm professional and amateur sports by fostering suspicion and skepticism that individual plays and final scores of games may have been influenced...
Randy Bates, Northwestern’s linebackers coach, was recently hospitalized after suffering a bruised lip that required 4 stitches after trying to break-up a fight. Earlier last week, he saw two unfamiliar people on his property in the Evanston-Skokie area. He politely asked the two strangers to leave. In response, they turned on Bates causing him to sustain injuries. The incident occurred at approximately 10:20 pm. The Skokie Police Department are searching for two male suspects, one believed to be between 17-19.
Stanley Hunter (#17) pressuring Russell Wilson Clemson LB Stanley “Buster” Hunter (So., 5’11, 225 lbs) has decided to hang-up his helmet due to his on-going battle with epilepsy. The medication is not doing what it is supposed to do, and the seizures provide too great of a risk for Hunter to continue his football career. Coach Dabo Swinney has been “concerned” about Hunter’s battle and already limited him in spring and summer workouts. Hunter was a top LB prospect from Spartenburg, South...
