NFL COMBINE

Well its in progress, the poking, prodding, measuring,timing, testing and scrutinizing of the participants in this years NFL Combine. Vince Youngs 16 on the Wonderlic seems to be the talk of the town, its rumored that he scored a 6 and the test was misgraded and retaken. Here are some of the results from the combine.

Backers and DB's

TE's and Dline

RB's QB's and WR's

Oline and RB's

Some Pac Ten 40 times include Maurice Drew 4.39 , John Alston 4.40, Derek Hagan 4.42, and Jerome Harrison 4.47.

Marcedes Lewis recorded a 37 in vertical leap.
Haloti Ngata put up 37 reps of 225.

'Your Fired' : Stanford Tree is Fired

The Stanford Tree was fired after being busted getting drunk during the CAL-Stanford basketball game in Berkeley last week. The mascot blew a .157 in a breathalyzer test. Cal won the game 65-62.

Former Husky Nate Robinson Wins Slam Dunk Contest

Former Washington Huskie Nate Robinson won the NBA slam dunk contest Saturday with a little help from former Champion Spud Webb. Webb and Robinson are the only two sub 6 ft tall players to ever win the contest. Robinson leaped over Spud for the contest clinching Dunk. Andre Iguodala , a former Wildcat also finished in the top 4. The Allstar game is Sunday.

National Recruiting

My Top 5 Recruiting Ranking:

1 USC
2 Florida
3 UGA
4 Florida State
5 Oklahoma

Click on links below to check the various recruiting rankings:

Scout 2005/2006 Recruiting Rankings

Rivals 2005/2006 Recruiting Rankings

College Football News Recruiting Rankings

ESPN Recruiting Rankings

Pac Ten Recruiting

With the 2005/2006 recruits getting signed, its once again USC at the top. The Trojans continue to rake in the top tier high school footballers from up and down the state of California and from around the nation. Pete Carroll has done a great job at keeping the cupboard full and utilizing and developing great talent from great recruits, the Trojans loaded up and running backs and Db's.
In an attempt to beef up the lines and compliment the skill positions with some muscle, the Bruins went heavy on O and D linemen. Jeff Tedford continues to turn the CAL program around once again hauling in some speedy, athletic prospects including some highly touted running backs to tutor behind the already talented Marshaun Lynch and Justing Forsett.Bob Stoops brought in some big muscle for his Dline as well as some Jucos in his seemingly second straight solid class. And rounding out the top 5 , Arizona State gets even more talent in its already heavy arsenal of skill position talent, landing highly touted running back and recievers, ASU also went heavy on DBs.
My Top Five Recruiting results:

1 USC

2 UCLA

3 CAL

4 Arizona State

5 Arizona

Colin Curtis : Cancer Survivor

For Arizona State's Colin Curtis, the fierce competition on the diamond is hardly a life or death affair, the Arizona State Sophomore was diagnosed with testicular cancer his Freshman year in high school and underwent extensive surgery in 1999 to remove it. Curtis was a sparkplug last season for the Sun Devils and really came into his own down the stretch and into the postseason. This year the Arizona State Slugger leads the Devils in batting and truly the sky seems to be the limit.

SuperBowl XL

Well another NFL season in the books and another Super Bowl as well. This years superbowl between the underdog Pittsburg Steelers and NFC juggernaut Seattle Seahawks was a game without an identity. The entire week leading up to the game very little was heard or seen of either teams, in fact there was more chatter on Brett Favre's possible retirement than Super Bowl XL. Not until Wednesday did things heat up in the media when Joey Porter and Jerramy Stevens began to exchange billboard material. Seattle came out strong early but was unable to put points on the board after marching up the field on a couple of occasions. Pitt scrapped its way back in the game when Ben Roethlisberger scrambled way out of the pocket and hit Hienz Ward for first and goal. Pitt then came out and quickly scored in the second half on a 76 yd TD run by Willie Parker (the longest in Superbowl history). Pitt was seemingly set to run away with in until Roethlisberger threw an interception to Kelly Herdon and it was returned to the Pittsburg 10, but in the end, Pitt wore out Seattle and won 21-10. There were 11 pac ten alums on the field 5 from Pittsburg (Marvel Smith ASU, Tommy Maddox UCLA, Travis Kirschke UCLA, Chidi Iwuoma CAL and Troy Palamalu USC) and 6 from Seattle (Maurice Morris ORE, Jerramy Stevans UW, Robbie Tobeck WSU, Marcus Trufant WSU and Lofa Tatupu USC). If you caught the introduction of the previous Superbowl MVPs and happened to wonder, yes there were a few notables missing, Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw were apparently not offered enough cash to participate!
A few things I got from the game. The AFC was by far the superior conf this season (Pitt #6 seed beats NFC #1 Seed Seattle). Pitt, Denver and Indy were all better than Seattle. The pregame motown jams sucked. The commercials sucked this year (2 million for a 30 second add and that was the best they could muster). The Stones sucked (enough of those guys already). The broadcast did go smoother than the past few years, this years game was like an hour shorter than last years. Anyways, I'll take the bowl games over the superbowl any day of the year.