Harvin states "Cutting still feels awkward"

PacificNW-Sooner — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:09:50 -0000

Florida star receiver Percy Harvin said he is 90 percent healthy Monday as the No. 1 Gators prepared to face No. 2 Oklahoma on Thursday, nearly six weeks after he suffered a high ankle sprain against Florida State.

Harvin practiced for the second straight day but said he will not be tackled this week before the FedEx BCS National Championship Game. He began running routes and catching passes last Tuesday.

Percy's injury caused him to miss Florida's final game of the regular season, a 31-20 victory over then-No. 1 Alabama in the SEC title game.

"Cutting still feels awkward," Harvin said at media day Monday.

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I've been wondering about this, and like hearing it... reducing his cutting and maneuverability will make him less a weapon.

McFarland chooses Sooners

PacificNW-Sooner — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:11:11 -0000

Jamarcus McFarland chooses Sooners!!

excerpt:

One of the nation’s top football prospects has chosen his college destination.

Jamarkus McFarland, a 6-foot-3, 290-pound defensive tackle from Lufkin High School in Texas picked Oklahoma over Texas, L.S.U. and Southern California.

But the battle really came down to those enduring rivals, Oklahoma and Texas. Thayer Evans tracked the recruiting battle for McFarland from July until his decision on 12:01 a.m. on Christmas, a wild ride that took McFarland from a Hummer stretch limousine in Los Angeles to a party in Dallas with free booze, drugs and girls taking off their clothes. (McFarland, an honors student who is also his class president, described it all in a term paper for school.)

McFarland’s decision didn’t come easy, but a grueling few months that included teary conservations with his mother came to an end when he called the Oklahoma defensive line coach Jackie Shipp. When he told Shipp that he was coming to Norman, Shipp told McFarland to hold on and then began screaming.

In the end, Evans’s story shows how Shipp and Oklahoma Coach Bob Stoops did a better job of wooing McFarland’s family than Mack Brown and his assistants at Texas did.

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Merry Christmas!

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Harvin states "Cutting still feels awkward"

McFarland chooses Sooners