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Senior linebacker Ben Heeney tackles a Texas Tech player on October 5, 2013. Heeney is among a number of college football players on the watch list for the 2014 season.
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Jayhawks named to watch lists
BLAIRE SHEADE
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Kansas senior linebacker Ben Heeney and punter Trevor Pardula were both selected to different national recognized watch lists last week.
Heeney is on the 2014 Bronko Nagurski Trophy preseason watch list, which is given to the National Defensive Player of the Year by the Football Writer Association of America. Heeney also landed on the Chuck Bednarik Award watch list on Monday, which is voted on by NCAA football coaches, sportscasters and sportswriters that
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The Nagurski Trophy is named after Hall of Fame fullback Bronko Nagurski who played for the University of Minnesota and the Chicago Bears. Nagurski was a three-time NFL champion and was named to the 1930s All-Decade Team.
Last season, Heeney led the Jayhawks with 87 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss, and led the Kansas linebackers with three interceptions while playing in 10 of the 12 games. He finished with 10 or more tackles in six of those 10 games.
A linebacker hasn't won the Nagurski Trophy since former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Teo in 2012. Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh was the last Big 12 player to win the award in 2009.
Finalists will be announced Nov.24. The winner of the Nagurski Trophy will be announced Dec. 8 in Charlotte, N.C.
Pardula, who transferred to the University last season from De Anza Junior College, is one of 25 collegiate punters on the Ray Guy preseason watch list for the nation's best punter, Athletics announced Wednesday. The list is created by football writers, FBS
coaches, sports information directors and past award winners.
The award is in honor of the first punter elected into the NFL Hall of Fame, Ray Guy, who graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi and played 13 seasons for the Oakland Raiders. He won three Super Bowls and was selected to seven Pro Bowls.
Last season, Pardula was named All-Big 12 honorable mention for averaging 43.7 yards per punt with a career-best 78-yard punt against Louisiana Tech University. He finished the season with 24 punts over 50 yards and 25 punts that landed inside the opponent's 20-yard line.
A Big 12 Conference punter hasn't won the Ray Guy award since 2008 when the award went to Oklahoma State University's Matt Fodge. Last season, University of Memphis' Tom Hornsey won the award by punting 29 balls inside the opponent's 20-yard line and averaged 45.2 yards per punt.
The Ray Guy award will be presented Dec. 12.
— Edited by Emma LeGault
NBA
James announces return to Cleveland, Blatt says Wiggins will stay
"I'm coming home."
Those are the three words from LeBron James to Sports Illustrated Senior writer Lee Jenkins that were released on Twitter late Friday morning.
He comes to the team with an All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving, who will only be in his fourth season in the NBA, along with other young talent: the former Texas forward Tristan Thompson and former Syracuse guard Dion Waiters among others. He will also join former Kansas star and first overall pick in this year's NBA Draft, Andrew Wiggins.
Wiggins has not yet signed a deal with the Cavaliers, something that may give the Cavaliers the ability to trade him. Rumors that Cleveland would exchange Wiggins
to the Minnesota Timberwolves for forward Kevin Love circulated Thursday, but multiple media outlets, including ESPN, reported Saturday that Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt said Wiggins does have a future with Cleveland.
In James' statement in Sports Illustrated, he said he's looking forward to playing with Irving, Thompson, and Waiters, but does not refer to Wiggins or the Cavaliers' first overall draft pick in 2013, Anthony Bennett.
James hasn't yet signed any contract, but has said he will sign with Cleveland. Reports in the weeks leading up to today have said he wants a maximum deal, which will limit what players, if any, they would sign in addition to James.
James will likely sign a deal after Sunday, because he will be going to Brazil to attend the Germany-Argentina World Cup Final.
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