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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY IANSAN
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2008
sports trivia of the day
Q: According to rivals.com, one of two teams had the top recruit class every year from 2004-2007. What were the two schools?
rivlas.com
A: Florida and Southern California. USC coach Pete Carroll and his Trojans dominated the recruiting game for the last four years by pulling in 22 five-star prospects.
sports fact of the day
www.nfl.com
In 2004, the top ranked prospect in the nation was Palestine, Texas running back Adrian Peterson, who committed to Oklahoma. Peterson went on to rush for more than 4,000 yards in a three-year college career and won last year's NFL Rookie of the Year award by averaging 5.6 yards per carry for the Minnesota Vikings.
"It is tiring. I'm just trying to get it over with and move on. Of course, you're looking at all the top colleges in the country, so it's going to be hard."
quote of the dav
— 2008's nationally top-ranked recruit Terrellle Pryor, who announced he would not sign a letter of intent on January 1.
of intent on signing day.
athletic's calendar
TODAY
TOMORROW
Men's golf, Hawaii-Hilo Invitational, All day, Kona, Hawaii
Softball vs. Central Arkansas, 8:30 a.m., Orlando, Fla.
Softball vs. North Carolina State, 12:30 p.m., Orlando, Fla.
Swimming & Diving vs.
lowa State, 6 p.m., Ames,
lowa
Men's golf, Hawaii-Hilo invitational, All day, Kona, Hawaii
Track & Field, New Balance Collegiate Invitation, All day, New York City
on tv tonight
Men's college basketball:
West Virginia at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m., ESPN
Mind if I play through?
— Clemson at Virginia, 6 p.m., ESPN2
Indiana at Illinois, 8 p.m., ESPN
Xavier at Louis, 10 a.m., ESPN
UCLA at Washington State, 9:30 p.m. FSN
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NBA:
Cleveland at Houston, 7 p.m., TNT
- Chicago at Golden State, 9:30 p.m., TNT
Brazil's Silva Gilberto, left, reacts as Ireland's Liam Miller goes for the ball during the Ireland vs. Brazil international friendly soccer match at Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday.
>> NFL
League sees new prosperity while seeking to address issues
BY TIM DAHLBERG ASSOCIATED PRESS
Roger Goodell was working the room, going from table to table and shaking hands with almost anyone lucky enough to have a ticket to the NFL's Super Bowl postgame buffet in downtown Phoenix. He had a smile on his face, and a lot to be happy about after a game that kept the country tuned in all the way
through the very last Bud Light commercial.
It wasn't just the game that made the commissioner happy, though it would have been hard to write a better script than Eli Manning leading the New York Giants to a last-minute touchdown to beat the big, bad New England Patriots. Nearly half the country watched at one time or another, making it the most watched Super Bowl ever and further cementing the NFL's position as America's favorite sport.
Good times indeed for a league that seems to have everything going its way. In an increasingly fragmented sports landscape, the NFL
is the proverbial 500-pound gorilla, flush and fat with no real challenges to its dominance.
A half century after the Giants and Baltimore Colts played the iconic championship game that ushered in the league's new era, people can't get enough of pro football. Things are so good that not only are the owners getting rich but they're letting the players enjoy some of the fruits of success, too.
Los Angeles still doesn't have a team, but it doesn't seem to matter anymore. There are billion dollar stadiums going up in Dallas and New Jersey, and the league is so determined to expand even further that there will be games played in both England and Canada next season.
Goodell has gotten generally good marks himself for his performance since taking over the league, and he hasn't hesitated to crack the whip for misconduct on sidelines and in strip clubs.
Still, issues remain, and they can't all be blamed on one Pennsylvania senator who picked just the right time to issue a good sound bite. None threaten the league's runaway success by themselves, but Goodell might be wise to address them all by the time preseason camps open.
So here is a to-do list for the offseason:
Arlen Specter want to make it a federal case? Why does Belichick always look like he just ate some bad oysters?
Inquiring minds want to know, and this is one scandal that won't go away simply because the NFL wants it to.
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Stop the supersizing of players. The amazing thing about the NFL isn't that the players are freakishly big and strong, but that no one seems to know how they did it. Unlike baseball, no one seems to care, either, even when stars such as Shawne Merriman and Rodney Harrison are suspended for performance-enhancing drugs. Suspensions are rare, though, meaning a lot of players are either getting away with being juiced because the testing is not all that good or that they are just naturally 6-foot-2 and 275 pounds of solid muscle.
Put Spygate to rest. The commissioner's initial reaction in fining Bill Belichick $500,000 and taking away a first-round pick from the Patriots for cheating was right on, but since then there have been more questions than answers. Why were the tapes destroyed? Why didn't anyone from the NFL talk to the cameraman himself? Why are there new rumors that the Patriots taped the 2002 Super Bowl practice of the St. Louis Rams? Why does Sen.
Figure out something to do with former players who need help. This is an issue shared jointly by the league and its players' association, both of which have not been overly sympathetic to the plight of disabled players.
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