Last year, Sam Bradford might have been the number one pick in the NFL draft. With little quarterback competition and his shiny Heisman, he was a strong prospect. He decided, however, to come back for one more year with the Sooners, a decision also made by Tim Tebow of Florida and Colt McCoy of Texas.
Only Bradford isn’t having quite the same season as Tebow and McCoy are having. In fact, I’m beginning to wonder if he wasn’t REALLY naughty when he was a kid, and this is some kind of karmic joke. Bradford got hurt early in the season, and …read more

The entire Connecticut campus was celebrating their homecoming win over Louisville when the unthinkable happened – one member of the team was stabbed outside of a school-sponsored dance. The fire alarm went off in the building, and Jasper “Jazz” Howard was one of the students to head outside, and while there, a confrontation led to him being stabbed. Despite the best efforts of two teammates that were with him, Howard died from the wounds.
As of now, the police have not made any arrests, and they’re asking that any students who might have pictures or videos of the fight to come …read more

Normally, I don’t report on injuries and legal trouble in the off-season…basically because I’d be working around the clock to tell you about them all. I wanted to mention how Texas star Sergio Kindle crashed his car last week, which he made public today.
Apparently, Kindle was texting while driving, and when looking at a message, he lost control of his car and crashed into an apartment building in Austin. The crash caused just under $9000 worth of damage, but no one was hurt. Sources say that after the crash, he pushed his car out of the building and drove home.
That’s …read more

The streak is dead.  I had increased my max bench press for the last 3 workouts, but I pushed my luck today with a late workout and came up short on 307 lbs.  I could have gone for 302, but I didn’t feel like adding the ultra tiny 2.5 lb plates to each end of the bar.  Plus, I’m usually one to go for the gold rather than play it conservative when it comes to weight lifting.
Fortunately, I had a spotter to help me out once the bar got stuck two inches off my chest.  Anytime you think you might …read more

Normally, I don’t post about the deaths of former players – everyone dies eventually – but I wanted to make a special note of the passing of Kyle Woods. Our thoughts are with his family right now. He was 49.
Woods was a defensive back who played for Baylor. Originally from Dallas, Woods was paralyzed from the neck down when he fractured his neck making a tackle at practice one day. This happened when he was just 19, back in 1979.
Since then, Woods has become a part of Baylor’s athletic family. The same year he was injured, former Baylor coach Grant …read more

This is why we love Freddie so much. Embroiled in a “row” over Fredalogate following comments from Michael Vaughan, we were all waiting to hear what Fred had to say about it all. Stoic as ever, Fred shrugged it all off. After meeting Vaughan for lunch, Fred’s outlook on the whole issue was, for want of a better expression, “Am I bovvered?”. The answer, was ‘no’.

“We’ve known each other for a long time,” he added. “There is a lot of history there, and something like this, which is a storm in a teacup, isn’t going to affect that. I’ve …read more

Andrew Flintoff will have another operation on his ankle, which looks set to put him out for a considerable amount of time. Rumours have been floating around that he may even be forced to stop bowling and concentrate on a career as a batsman. Other rumours say that the earliest he’ll be back in action for England will be against India, some 2 months away. With Simon Jones also in the news recently for all the wrong reasons (his knee is swollen), Peter Moores isn’t have the luckiest start to his career as England coach.
Perhaps some time off will …read more

Oop. You know it’s bad when you start typing an entry and you’ve already used it before. Well, it did save me a few characters typing when the autocomplete thingy did it for me. But yes, Vaughan, bless him, has injured himself again. This time it’s his finger after copping one on the hand from Stuart Clark in the County Champs match against Hampshire. He’s set to be out for up to a month, which would mean missing at least the first test against the West Indies.
One wonders if this is a blessing in disguise. Well, not necessarily even in …read more

The first week of the World Cup came chock full of shock, surprise and unexpected things. Ireland beating Pakistan, Bangladesh beating India, Flintoff getting dropped from the England side, and, of course, the sad news about Bob Woolmer. All things were ‘go’ from the off. But things have settled now as the major teams in the contest start to assert some authority over the so-called minnows. The West Indies continued their run of form, dishing out a beating to Zimbabwe, Australia stuffed The Netherlands, India thumped Bermuda and as I write South Africa are on course to beat Scotland and …read more

And I’m not referring to the injury to Little Jimmy Anderson*, which will conceivably keep him out of the World Cup, but instead an amusing piece by Ian Ward on Sky Sports last night, commenting on England’s training.
“Yeh, Ravi Bopara has a slightly tight hamstring… oh, and a wasp landed on Kevin Pieterson, and stung him, which he quickly flicked off on to Paul Collingwood, which stung him as well.”
Frightening stuff. Let’s hope neither of them suffer from anaphylaxis, especially considering England’s first match of the group stages of the World Cup is also their most important. Never fear, though, …read more