Out of Bounds Show PodcastI threw out my Top-5 on the Out of Bounds show, ESPN 105.9 this week. Just like any ranking, this is fluid, and subject to change at any time day or night. Here we go…. 1) Johnny Football – Explosive, accurate, smart. And he’s gamer – JF thrives in the spotlight. 2) Aaron Murray –…
Tracy Wolfson was about four feet from Kevin Ware when the unthinkable happened Sunday afternoon. “I didn’t see the actual fall,” Wolfson said. “Everyone was watching the game. The fall isn’t what you’re looking at. I heard him when he hit the ground. I was probably one of the first people who realized what took…
Auburn’s football program is facing blockbuster allegations of paying players, racism, and changing grades to keep players eligible after a website story on Wednesday. It was posted on Roopstigo.com by Selena Roberts, a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated and former columnist at the New York Times. You can read the full version by clicking HERE. In March 2011,…
Her calls went straight to voicemail. Her texts went unreturned. By mid-morning on March 11, 2011, the mother of Auburn University star safety Mike McNeil felt the shudder of a parental alarm go off in her mind. Where was Melodie Campbell’s son? His college roommates hadn’t seen him. He was absent from team workouts. He…
When he was the star quarterback at Ole Miss, Eli Manning went to his favorite restaurant in Oxford with his family every Friday afternoon before games. Now that he’s a two-time Super Bowl MVP, “Easy” Eli still finds time to visit Ajax Diner, the down-home soul food restaurant with the Christmas tree lights on Courthouse Square. “He just gave…
The Oregon Ducks began spring practice Tuesday under new coach Mark Helfrich. The team’s former offensive coordinator, who was promoted to head coach in January after Chip Kelly left for the Philadelphia Eagles, called his first practice at the helm ”weird, at points.” Oregon is coming off a 12-1 season that was capped with a victory…
A year ago today, Arkansas’ coach chose to ride a motorcycle down a country road near Fayetteville without a helmet and with a woman who was not his wife. There have been bigger April Fools, but the list has to be a short one. Smack in the middle of spring practice, more than the fortunes of the coach…
Kevin Ware did the hardest part. Lying on the court in what had to be immeasurable pain, bone jutting out of the skin below his knee, Ware exhorted his Louisville basketball teammates to win the Midwest Regional in his absence. That moment of wherewithal ranks among the most amazing things I’ve seen in a sporting…
Gunner Kiel, a former five-star quarterback recruit who recently decided to leave Notre Dame, visited the University of Cincinnati this weekend as he seeks a new school. Kiel attended the UC scrimmage at Paul Brown Stadium on Saturday and also was in town Friday, highly placed UC sources said. One source said the Bearcats believe…
It was as horrifying and gruesome an injury as we’ve seen on a basketball court. As Louisville’s Kevin Ware lay prone near the Louisville bench, a bone sticking out of his leg after a Theisman-esque right leg injury, his teammates dissolved into tears and grief. Coach Rick Pitino wiped away tears. Teammate Chase Behanan walked…
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