We should have a reverse-eatng contest.

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Paula Abdul doesn't fit into either of those categories.

Sure she does, every time Stephen sees her on American Idol, he goes,"Yummy." And then Wena knocks him on the head a few times with a rolled up Advertiser, making that forehead grow to more epic proportions

Don't know if you guys read some of the newer blogs on HA, but there is one called Wassup Wit Dat! Anyways, the blog host had an acronym that fit this quote ... SOS (slapped or snapped). First time I heard that and thought that was pretty funny.
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Also there is returning first-team all-conference performer Kevin Welch, a 6-foot-2 outside hitter who is among the multi-sport athletes that dot the roster. Welch played football, basketball and volleyball at Corona del Mar High and he began his collegiate athletic career on a football scholarship at the University of Indiana.

Welch returned to volleyball last season and proceeded to pound 292 kills, which ranked second among conference hitters. With a future as a libero, Welch is being recruited by USC and Hawaii, Turner said.

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video link above is to colt's highlights from today's college football challenge.

cut out all the other stuff, so its all colt all the time.

enjoy!

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Y' know, if Jason had taken that job here, not only would he be sitting next to the Princess, but he'd also see me.

Say 2 Hail Mary's and go back to your studies.

Actual my favorite beverage is Tila Tequila.

A select group of draft-eligible quarterbacks have generated a vast majority of the attention this winter. Matt Ryan, Brian Brohm, Andre Woodson, Colt Brennan and even John David Booty get mentioned most often when discussing this year’s draft class.

Flacco’s stock is soaring, and the Dolphins are interested in the 6-foot-6, 232-pound accounting major. He certainly fits the classic quarterback mold Dolphins football operations exec Bill Parcells covets so much.

Although Parcells wasn’t at the Senior Bowl last week, the Dolphins interviewed Flacco there and came away highly impressed — maybe enough to take him in the second round.

The Dolphins also are high on Ryan. Who isn’t? But it’s debatable whether they should use their No. 1 overall pick to acquire Ryan or use it on a greater need and grab Flacco later.

Flacco cleaned up among the quarterbacks who participated: top-rated passer Ryan (Boston College), Brennan (Hawaii), Booty (USC) and Chad Henne (Michigan).

Flacco easily won the long ball competition. His throws of 74 and 71 yards were the best two tries. He said he would have hit 80 yards with a tighter spiral.

He also won the quarterback scramble, an obstacle course of sorts. He runs the 40-yard dash in about 4.9 seconds but looked surprisingly nimble for someone his size. Flacco also finished third in the accuracy competition.

The Dolphins also are high on Ryan. Who isn’t?

The early recruiting phenomenon has taken away a lot of drama that once was national signing day.

But not this time around for Texas fans.

UT's most faithful are likely to be glued to their televisions when Ventura (Calif.) St. Bonaventure running back Darrell Scott announces his commitment live Wednesday at 11:50 a.m. Dallas time on ESPNU and streamed live on ESPN.com.

Scott has narrowed his college choices to Texas and Colorado, said Roger Sonsini, an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at St. Bonaventure.

Scott, the No. 6 recruit in the nation on Rivals.com and the top-rated running back, has given few interviews during the recruiting process.

Scott had an in-home visit with Longhorns head coach Mack Brown and assistant coaches Bobby Kennedy and Major Applewhite last week. Kennedy was back in California on Tuesday for a second visit.

Sonsini said "whatever has been said between Darrell and Texas is between them."

Sonsini did tell Orangebloods. com this week that Texas is in the lead, a sentiment UT recruiting experts shared entering the weekend.

"He continues to list Texas as his leader," said Jason Suchomel of Orangebloods.com. "After doing two in-home visits Texas feels pretty comfortable, but Colorado is still in the picture and trying to make a late push."

Sonsini said Friday that Colorado coach Dan Hawkins was expected to get an in-home visit with Scott that night. "They'll do their last spiel and wait for an answer on Feb. 6," said Sonsini, an off-campus assistant who is a retired police officer.

New UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel visited St. Bonaventure on Tuesday and made a last-ditch attempt to get Scott to consider the Bruins. But Sonsini said Friday that Scott has no interest in UCLA.

Martin forward Greg Wiernas did his best imitation of Darryl “Chocolate Thunder” Dawkins Friday night. Wiernas’ dunk during pre-game warm-ups was so hard, it shattered the rim. No words for this … well, maybe one – impressive.

The game was rescheduled for Saturday following the rim-rocking performance (enter comedian’s rim shot here).

There wasn't a lot of quibbling among the Press-Telegram's board of experts over who the top college football prospect in the Western senior class is.

Darrell Scott, who rushed for 2,433 yards and 32 touchdowns while leading Ventura St. Bonaventure High to CIF Southern Section and State championships in December, was selected No. 1 on six of the seven ballots cast, finished with 208 of a possible 210 points, and heads the Press-Telegram's 32nd Best in the West team.

Scott, who is expected to sign a national letter of intent on Wednesday with either of two Big 12 Conference members, Colorado or Texas, is one of 20 players on the BIW first team.

Most recruiting analysts consider the 205-pound Scott, who rushed for more than 5,000 yards and 60 touchdowns in two seasons at Moorpark High before relocating to St. Bonaventure, to also be the most promising running back prospect nationally, as well as regionally.

But the overall quality of prospects found in California (where 13 of the first-team choices go to school) and surrounding states (two from Colorado, and one each from Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington) received, as usual, a consensus and figurative thumbs up.

"Some might look at this class as being down, because it's not a strong year for quarterbacks and sometimes quarterbacks define a 'good' class for a lot of people," said Super Prep Magazine publisher Allen Wallace, who is also the National Recruiting Editor for the Scout.com network of Web sites.

"(Dayne) Crist is a good prospect (at quarterback) but there isn't the handful of them that you usually see out West, especially in the other (non-California) states.

"But I see a class with a couple of terrific running backs (Scott and Polk), a couple of fantastic offensive linemen (Kalil and Smith) and a deep group of (quality) defensive backs."

There isn't a junior anywhere who is as nationally acclaimed as the player who has started for coach Bruce Rollinson's varsity since he was a freshman.

The 6-foot-3, 220-pound Barkley completed 63 percent of his passes for 3,560 yards and 35 touchdowns before the Monarchs were upset in the second round of the CIF Southern Section's Pac-5 playoffs.

Barkley picked up Gatorade National Player of the Year - regardless of class - and committed to USC a couple of weeks ago, more than a year before he will actually have the opportunity to sign a letter of intent with the Trojans.

A year from now, the debate isn't likely to center on whether he's the best high school quarterback in the country but more so on how
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he compares to the likes of a couple of other players who came out of Orange County (Matt Leinart at Mater Dei and Carson Palmer at Santa Margarita) before going to USC and winning the Heisman Trophy.

"He's got Carson Palmer-like arm strength," said Greg Biggins, the recruiting editor for Studentsports.com.

Biggins also helps organize and run the Elite 11 Camp every summer in Orange County, which annually attracts the best high school quarterbacks in the country, where they are tutored by college and NFL standouts.

"He's poised, smart and well respected by all of the other players," Biggins added.

Manti Teo (Honolulu Punahou): Not only will he be the No. 1 prospect out of Hawaii but the linebacker is projected by some as the top overall defensive prospect in the class of 2009.

"They may only show you just a part of the overall picture of what kind of player a kid can be," said Allen Wallace, the founder and publisher of Super Prep Magazine and the National Recruiting Editor for Scout.com, and one of seven voters for the Press-Telegram's annual Best in the West team, of the combines, "but they are a big help."

They provide a platform in which guys like Kalil and Smith, who might go Friday nights on end during their seasons blocking under-sized and or under-talented opponents, can pit their skills against like-sized and like-talented athletes.

"And those camps and combines give someone like me the opportunity to see players from other states (besides California) in the same location, being timed and measured and going head-up in drills," said Wallace, who is based in Laguna Beach. "I remember I saw Everson Griffen and Kristopher O'Dowd (2007 BIW selections from Arizona) at a Nike Camp at USC and you can see that their times (over 40 yards) and sizes are legitimate instead of looking at them (on video) and trying to guess."

They provide the opportunity, for example, for a cornerback to line up against some of the best receiving prospects in a region and have his abilities be gauged by college coaches and fellows like Wallace and Rick Kimbrel, whose ratings are highly valued by those who follow recruiting - including college coaching staffs.

"I'd still much rather watch guys play 'real' football," said Kimbrel, the Western Recruiting Analyst for the Rivals.com network of Web sites. "But they (the combines) give you the opportunity to watch players like Kalil and Smith match up against players who are close to their size, instead of watching them block (during games) 190-pound defensive ends."

"You don't worry too much about some of the guys' technique (fundamentals)," said Greg Biggins, another BIW voter and the National Recruiting Editor for Studentsports.com, "because that is something that can be taught.

"But, in watching them in the drills and 1-and-1 stuff, you can get a feel for how competitive a kid might be."

And, in some instances, players can use the combines and camps for specific purposes.

Such was apparently the case for Ventura St. Bonaventure running back Darrell Scott, the top vote-getter on the 2008 Best in the West team.

Scott ran over his competition at Moorpark High as a sophomore and junior (before transferring after his junior season) and was being heavily recruited by colleges across the country.

But there was some debate among scouts as to how fast he was.

"You would watch him run in games (in person or on video highlights) and you weren't sure how really fast he was, because he is so smooth that (at times) it wouldn't appear as if he was moving very quickly," Biggins said.

So, last spring, Scott showed up at the Scout.com Combine at the Home Depot Center with hundreds of other players from the west.

"So he showed up, and stripped down to his shorts, T-shirt and (football) shoes, ran a 40- (yard dash) and was clocked at 4.32 seconds - running into the wind - then put the rest of his clothes on and left," said Tracy Pierson of Scout.com's Bruinreportonline.com.

The evaluating of Scott was over.

"He answered that question (as to his speed)," said Brandon Huffman, West Coast Regional Recruiting Analyst for Scout.com.

It used to be that projecting high school athletes' ability to play football on the college level could only be done by showing up in the bleachers of a high school stadium on Friday night with binoculars in hand, threading a projector and watching film of game action, or by popping a videotape into a VCR and mastering a remote control.

The first option is still quite useful (and, in reality, indispensable) for scouts, but the latter ones have been refined in the digital age with the use of DVDs, flat screen monitors and hand-held visual display devices.

The other option is watching athletes up close and personal, performing drills, of the individual or "1 on 1 variety", in offseason "combine" or "camp" settings.

Even if you're not watching them play "football", per se, in those combines and/or camps, much can be taken away from observing them that can help in the evaluation process.

And that's why, over the course of the past five years or so, the scouting combines - usually held in the spring and early summer - have become a valuable tool for those who rate high school talent as either a hobby or a primary endeavor of employment.

But I really got tired of sitting still for 3 hours. My fault for not walking around during half time.

Saw Shaq wearing those ultra-big white shoes!

anyway, why we talking basketball.

it is still football season. why we are just sitting around waiting for the next commit. in particular coming from the north shore.

d1--you into bible stuff?

i would have loved to seen the beast in the hawaii uniform.