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Interesting Butkus Watch List

HE HATE ME — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:09:14 -0000

Interesting Butkus Watch List

"Pac-10 fans probably will find the Butkus Watch List curious.

Or lazy.

Or clueless."

Couple of Questions

HE HATE ME — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:56:19 -0000

Long time lurker, first time poster...albeit I did comment on a post once...anyways on to my question which I think has been overshadowed because of the AI rumors: What is the status of the Zach Randolph to Memphis trade? Is Dunleavy or Memphis having second thoughts? I also read that Miami wanted to use Memphis' cap space to acquire Carlos Boozer. Link Here. Will that impact the potential to unload Randolph? Thanks in advance and I apologize if this has already been answered.

Peace

CBH is King of the Hill in the PAC-10

HE HATE ME — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:35:13 -0000

CBH is King of the Hill in the PAC-10

Of course we all already knew that.

The "Standard's" New Reality...

HE HATE ME — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:10:09 -0000

...they've become very average.

Looks like Xavier's Sean Miller is going to opt to stay in Xavier rather than taking the head coaching position at the "standard" of the Pac-10. Xavier is a good program, but I'm sure the MSM guys will be puzzled over how Miller could choose to stay at Xavier over the "rich tradition" at Arizona. We'll see who they go after next.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4045199

SuC Player Showing typiclal SuC Class

HE HATE ME — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:29:47 -0000

SuC Player Showing typiclal SuC Class

Couldn't find the HTML code to embed the video but about the 50 sec mark you'll see that SuC class and sportsmanship. If it already has been posted I apologize.

Another OL Commit - Juco

HE HATE ME — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:12:05 -0000

Another OL Commit - Juco

I don't know much about him, but he's a much needed OL at 6'5", 295 llbs. Scout has him as a 2 star prospect and Rivals has him as a 3 star.

http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=88364

UCLA group discovers humungous prime number

HE HATE ME — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:31:01 -0000

UCLA group discovers humungous prime number

I know we at BN are about the athletics, but big ups over to the academic side too.

Why Trojies get migraines...

HE HATE ME — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:07:47 -0000

Why Trojies get migraines...

...no seriously, that's why they get migraines.

Chris Horton having impressive camp

HE HATE ME — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:11:40 -0000

Matt Mosley over at the WWL designated former Bruin standout as the "Newcomer to Watch" for the Washington Redskins this year

Newcomer to watch

If you watched the Hall of Fame Game, you kept seeing No. 48 come across your screen. In the first few minutes of the game, seventh-round rookie Chris Horton fielded an onside kick and sacked Colts quarterback Jim Sorgi. He's a safety out of UCLA, but Horton will probably make his biggest impact on special teams.

Cerrato said that Horton has been showing up on film ever since the beginning of camp. "He's constantly around the ball," he said.

Its tough for 7th rounders to make a team, but performing on special teams and showing up on film is a great way to impress the coaches. Here's hoping that Horton makes the team and is a contributor to an up and coming Redskins' team.

Nice WWL article on Darius Savage

HE HATE ME — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:15:57 -0000

Bumped. A cool story that deserves more attention. GO BRUINS. -N

Darius Savage is another fine UCLA athlete who has become successful in different sports. The WWL wrote a nice article about him describing his hectic schedule

There were times during his first spring as a UCLA student when Darius Savage's hectic schedule overwhelmed him. A member of both the football and track and field teams for the Bruins, Savage would spend many of his days darting between two practices: first enduring a couple hours under the hot Southern California sun in full pads at spring football practice, then throwing a discus and shot put around for a few more hours at outdoor track practice. Oh, and there was that little matter of completing all his school work at one of the more demanding universities in America.

Bob Palcic supports Savage's ambitions in both football and track and field.

"I think things have changed across the country not only at the collegiate level, but at the high school level," says Bob Palcic, Savage's offensive line coach at UCLA who also coached Ogden. "We've become so one-sport specific. Coaches always want kids to focus on one sport year-round, and I'm certainly not for that. I always encourage [young] kids to play more than one sport. I hear Darius has a chance at [eventually] making it to the Olympics as a shot putter. I don't want to stand in the way of that."

-emphasis added

They also list past UCLA athletes who excelled in more than one sport.

At UCLA, Savage is simply the latest in a long line of gifted multisport athletes. The names of past Bruins who shined in more than one sport reads like a who's who of legendary multisport athletes: Jackie Robinson, who in 1940 became UCLA's first four-sport letterwinner as a member of the baseball, basketball, football and track and field teams; James Owens in the '70s, a 1976 Olympian in the high hurdles and a future NFL running back; Jackie-Joyner Kersee in the '80s, who in addition to her track and field exploits scored over 1,000 points for the Bruins' basketball team; and Jonathan Ogden in the '90s, a sure-fire NFL Hall of Fame offensive lineman who like Savage also threw the shot put and discus. One could make the argument that UCLA is the historical epicenter for two-sport athletes.

The rest of the article talks in length about the coming end of the 2-sport athlete in college and is all in all a good read. There is also a short blurb of one of my favorite Bruins of all time and his struggles as a 2-sport athlete.

Another recent UCLA athlete who managed to ably balance two sports was Danny Farmer. The all-time receiving yardage leader in UCLA gridiron history, Farmer also won two national championships as a member of the men's volleyball team. An L.A. native, Farmer followed in the footsteps of his father George -- the last Bruin to play three sports (football, basketball and track) in the same school year back in the late '60s. Truth be told, though, Danny had wanted to go somewhere else and carve out a different path than his father. But in the end, Danny's determination to play both football and volleyball at the collegiate level raised too many red flags among coaches at other schools, so UCLA became his only option.

Go Bruins.