Oregon CB Walter Thurmond’s career as an Oregon Duck is over. Oregon’s best defensive back, and Jim Thorpe watchlist candidate, injured his knee during the opening kickoff Saturday against California, a game that Oregon won convincingly 42-3. An MRI was done earlier today and it was decided that Thurmond would need to undergo season ending surgery. Thurmond has had an illustrious career at Oregon and had a strong start to the 2009 season by scoring two touchdowns in three games. One...
USC’s Stafon Johnson is out of surgery and is expected to make a full recovery. The RB underwent a 7 hour surgery procedure last night to repair a crushed neck and larynx sustained when 275lbs. of weight landed on his throat while bench pressing yesterday. Paramedics gave Johnson a tracheotomy that helped him breathe. Dr. Gudata Hinika, trauma medical director at California Hospital Medical Center, said that someone smaller would more than likely have died from the injury, and that he credits Johnson’s...
Texas Texas coach Mike Leach is making some changes in Lubbock. No, Texas Tech isn’t making coaching adjustment on the football field, but rather with his players’s twitter accounts. Leach has banned members of the Red Raider football team from twittering. The change in his policy comes after TT linebacker Marlon Williams twitted that he wondered why he was expected to be on time for a team meeting when his linebacker coach himself was running late. Leach and company...
New Mexico coach Mike Locksley has tensions high in Albuquerque this season, and I’m not just talking about on the gridiron either. The first year head coach was issued a verbal reprimand after getting into a fight with his assistant coach. Locksley and WR coach J.B. Gerald had gotten riled up during a coaches meeting when Locksley grabbed Gerald’s collar and punched him the the mouth. Gerald told police what had happened and that Locksley had split his lip. New Mexico...
USC RB Stafon Johnson was injured earlier today during a weight lifting incident. Johnson was bench pressing when the weight slipped from hands and landed on his throat. A source from USC said that Johnson was coughing up blood and bleeding out his nose immediately after the incident. Johnson was taken to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery. Johnson is USC’s second leading rusher on the year and is their main goal line back. He has a team high 5 TDs...
Say what you want about Conference -USA, but the Houston Cougars are kicking some tail and taking names. The Cougars beat Texas Tech 29-28 in a late-night thriller yesterday in Houston. Case Keenum led Houston to a 4th quarter surge that was enough to secure the victory. Head Coach Kevin Sumlin is in his second year as coach but he’s compiled a very impressive resume so far, not including yesterday’s win vs. Texas Tech, and a Sept. 26th road...
Baylor starting QB Robert Griffin will miss the rest of the season with an isolated tear in his knee. This comes as heartbreaking news to the Baylor community as Griffin is the heart and soul of their offense. Griffin went down during the first quarter of Baylor’s game after he was stopped on a fourth down play. Griffin had a phenomenal freshman campaign for the Bears last year and earned Big XII Offensive Player of the Year by the conference’s coaches....
In an act of poor sportsmanship, a Tennessee assistant coach rudely rips a sign out of fan’s hand.
