Saturday, March 28, 2009

News for the day 03/28/09

For the Spartans, Football Tactics Work
New York Times - Spartans discussed their “war drill”, in which players suit up in football pads to grab rebounds in a no-frills scramble. ...

UCF review finds football training normal
The Associated Press - — The University of Central Florida football program's conditioning activities are rigorous "but within the range normal to other Division I football ...

Former University of North Texas football player student is found dead
Dallas Morning News - Germaine Lance Dawson, 21, who played football for four years at UNT, had a single gunshot wound to the head when he was found in a white SUV near a ...

Professional football in LA? Only if we learn to relax
Los Angeles Times - Perhaps the risks are just too great for LA to have its own professional football team. Researchers at Good Samaritan Hospital here have analyzed the number ...

Prep Notebook Prosser football coach Tim Moore resigns -Seattle Times -Tom Moore has found a way to blend the two things he covets most — family and football. But to do so means Prosser must find a new. ...

Unfair BCS under pressure to change -Salt Lake Tribune -The truest pursuit of change in college football, and self-flagellation, got some good company this past week when Orrin Hatch and Herb Kohl, ...

Murphy no longer on K-State football team
Kansas City Star -Kansas State wide receiver Deon Murphy, who would have been a senior this season, is no longer on the Wildcats’ football team, the university confirmed ...

He's back: Penn State, Paterno open spring drills
The Associated Press - "I think we got a lot of work ahead of us, but I don't think it's situation where we can't be a good football team," he said. ...

UM football coaches step back to watch team scrimmage
MLive.com -by John Heuser The Ann Arbor News With the University of Michigan football team's season opener more than five months off, there will be plenty of time ...

Source: Three SMU football players win appeals; two denied
Dallas Morning News - Three of the five football players who appealed decisions by SMU to release them from their scholarships have won their appeals, according to an athletics ...

Quarterbacks show Loeffler’s impact
GatorCountry.com - He’s only been on the Florida staff for two and a half months, but already there are changes in the way Tim Tebow delivers the football and the way backup ...

WVU football signs Pa. recruit
SportingNews.com - MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- Pittsburgh high school defensive end Will Clarke has signed a letter of intent with West Virginia. Mountaineers coach Bill Stewart ...

Bad anchoring caused football players' boat to flip
(CNN) -- A fishing boat carrying two NFL players and two other men capsized last month because it was improperly anchored, a Florida agency reported Friday. ...