Category: Sport
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The 2010 NFL draft is in the books. Seven USC players were drafted and five more signed as free agents. How will your favorite former Trojans fare in the pros? Neon Tommy offers a post-draft analysis.
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Mock drafts done just days before real drafts have about a 25 percent accuracy rate. Mock drafts done a year in advance are an exercise in futility. Yet sports editors demand them because they know there’s an audience for them, even if they aren’t worth very much. Which brings us to the first 2011 first-round…
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Alabama is loaded on offense, but could a re-tooled defense and brutal schedule prevent the Tide from repeating? Stewart Mandel answers that and much more as the Mailbag returns.
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Taylor Mays vented that former USC coach Pete Carroll didn’t prepare him to be drafted in the first round.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — While the Tennessee Titans have plenty of defensive holes to fill in the 2010 NFL draft, their woeful return game also needs an upgrade — and that was the focus on Friday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Clausen turned out to be a first pick, after all.
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IRVING, Texas (AP) — Once Dez Bryant was within reach, the Dallas Cowboys made sure they grabbed him.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Tim Tebow doesn’t know when he’ll start in the NFL. He can’t wait to begin repaying Josh McDaniels, though.
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There’s no telling where USC safety Taylor Mays would have landed in last year’s NFL draft had he left after his junior season. He was thought to be a top-10 pick, but perhaps scouts would have found the same flaws that led to his free-fall this…
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Here’s a prediction: California defensive end Tyson Alualu is going to surprise some folks and end up a top-10 NFL draft pick. Little late on that one, eh? Alualu was the first Pac-10 player drafted Thursday night — which was projected by no one — going 10th overall to the Jacksonville Jaguars, while Bears teammate Jahvid Best was the…
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Because it’s Friday, you are obliged to watch a video of new Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly trying, and failing, to catch a pass from a robot quarterback: Kelly was scouting the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department’s Robot Combine this week in advance of tonight’s second annual Robotics Football Game, featuring such mecha-stars as Robocinco,…
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Jimmy Clausen: The Notre Dame QB wasn’t picked in the first round. In the months-long battle between Kiper-McShay battle over Clausen, Kiper (who had Clausen as the 4th best prospect in the draft) loses. Teams that could be looking at a QB tonight include: Cleveland, Oakland, Buffalo, Jacksonville and maybe the Vikings. It’s not like…
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