Ha, ha ha ha....what do we do in between college football games, and after the pro football teams playoff?
Tinker Town: "The cold, cold, winter snow. Freezing to our touch. Sometimes snow is a lot of fun to be in when the weather is not so cold. But when the temperature drops very low. The snow feel like death itself. The warmth of our body's heat only extends out inches. Telling us to go inside, or die. Frozen clear clean threw. But then again."http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Game Center: Texans @ Patriots
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Patriots win in familiar fashion
In Week 14 the Patriots blew out the Texans 42-14. The result was much the same in the divisional round of the playoffs as Tom Brady and Co. once again took care of business in convincing fashion.-------------
Game Center: Seahawks @ Falcons
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Another mind-blowing finish
The Atlanta Falcons finally got their elusive playoff victory under Matt Ryan and booked an NFC title berth against the 49ers, but only after the Seattle Seahawks had given them a real scare.----------------------------------
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LSU Football - Geaux Tigers!!!
| NFL Video | Video (47 sec): Trindon Holliday takes the 2nd half kickoff 104 yards for the TD |
| Associated Press | Holliday treat: Trindon becomes 1st player to return punt, kick for TDs in playoffs |
| Tiger Bait | Westlake TE Jacory Washington commits to LSU |
| Sports NOLA | OT William Clapp, TE Jacory Washington commits to LSU for 2014 |
| The Advocate | LSU gets two commitments for 2014 class |
| Starkville Daily News | Mississippi State moves into new home |
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Jaguars no longer want Tebow
Jaguars GM David Caldwell discusses Tim Tebow.
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Updated Jan 11, 2013 5:07 PM ET
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP)
Tim Tebow won't be playing for his hometown team.
The Jets are likely to release the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner and Jacksonville native during the offseason, and many believed Tebow would land with the Jaguars.
But new general manager David Caldwell nixed that idea at his introductory news conference.
''I can't imagine a scenario in which he'll be a Jacksonville Jaguar - even if he's released,'' Caldwell said.
And Caldwell won't get any pushback from his new owner.
Shad Khan, who made a run at Tebow last year, said it was Caldwell's call.
''It's not my decision,'' Khan said. ''I want to do whatever to help this team win. Who the players are is really the general manager's and coaches' - it's a football-side operation decision.
It's really not my decision.''
What has changed for Khan in the 10 months since he wanted Tebow?
''I'm telling them to take a look at Tebow and they're saying, `We're going to go in a different direction,''' Khan said. ''That's the difference.''
Despite all the hype, the Jaguars passed on drafting Tebow in 2010 because former general manager Gene Smith didn't view him as a franchise quarterback.
But after Khan took over last year and the Denver Broncos started quietly shopping Tebow, Khan told Smith to look into acquiring the left-hander.
The Jaguars increased their offer several times. By the end of negotiations, Jacksonville had offered a fourth-round pick and agreed to pay $3 million of the $5 million in advance salary the Broncos had already paid Tebow. The money the Jaguars offered was better than the little more than $2.5 million the Jets agreed to pay, and the draft pick was nine spots higher than New York's fourth-round selection.
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Alabama stars to enter NFL Draft
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Updated Jan 11, 2013 2:24 PM ET
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP)
Alabama tailback Eddie Lacy, cornerback Dee Milliner and right tackle D.J. Fluker are entering the NFL draft after helping lead the Crimson Tide to a second straight national title.
It's another exodus of talented underclassmen for a team that has won three of the past four national championships. Most of the four first-round picks in each of the past two drafts that left Alabama were underclassmen.
''I appreciate what they've done for the University of Alabama but we also acknowledge the fact that from a business standpoint, these guys are making good decisions about their future and what they can do,'' coach Nick Saban said.
Unlike recent groups of departing juniors from Alabama, only Milliner is pegged as a sure first-round pick.
He was a Jim Thorpe Award finalist and unanimous All-American after recording two interceptions and 22 pass deflections. He and guard Chance Warmack, who was a senior, are projected as the Tide's top current prospects.
''I think while I was here, I met all the goals and team affirmations that I set for myself as a freshman by winning a championship, becoming an All-American, just being part of a team that always loved to win,'' Milliner said. ''I think I fulfilled all my goals and am ready and prepared to go to the next level.''
Lacy was MVP of the national championship game against Notre Dame after rushing for 140 yards and scoring two touchdowns. He said he wasn't 100 percent healthy all season until the title game Monday night, but Lacy still ran for 1,322 yards and 17 touchdowns while averaging 6.5 yards per carry.
Lacy thinks he ''made a pretty solid statement'' in the title game, when he made a spin move into the end zone on a TD catch and on another run pushed 248-pound linebacker Danny Spond away with one hand.
Lacy was recruited in the same class as Trent Richardson, last year's No. 3 pick by Cleveland, but redshirted and then spent two seasons as a backup. He's not widely projected to follow Richardson and 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram into the first round. Lacy said he was projected as a second- or third-round pick in feedback from the NFL, but was impressive in the finale. Ordinarily, Saban only recommends projected first-round picks leave early.
''I'm fully supportive of what Eddie's doing,'' Saban said. ''It's a little bit of a different situation than we've had in the past, but it's a little bit unique as well. Every one of these situations is unique to that particular individual and what his situation is. ''
The 6-foot-6, 335-pound Fluker started 35 games for the Tide and was a second-team Associated Press All-American.
''I certainly feel like this year has been his best year as a player, and I feel that he's made a good decision about what he wants to do,'' said Saban, adding that Fluker has improved as much as any player on the team.
The mammoth Fluker, who wears a size-22 shoe, said in a statement that leaving early ''is never an easy decision when you are playing at a place like Alabama.''
''"These four years in Tuscaloosa have been the best four years of my life and I appreciate everyone who helped me along the way,'' he said.
Quarterback AJ McCarron, All-America linebacker C.J. Moseley and guard Anthony Steen have already said they're returning for their senior seasons. Saban didn't rule out other juniors possibly declaring for the draft before Tuesday's deadline.
The Tide does have promising players who have logged plenty of playing time behind Lacy and Milliner, especially. Two freshmen - tailback T.J. Yeldon (1,108 yards, 12 touchdowns) - and cornerback Geno Smith saw significant action.
''You've got people that are going to go to the NFL each year and you've got people behind them that are going to do the same things when their time comes,'' Milliner said.
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Why Les Miles likes that LSU players leave early for NFL
Glenn Guilbeau, USA TODAY SportsLSU has 10 players declaring early for the NFL draft, not counting Tyrann Mathieu. Les Miles is fine with that, even if it costs him stars such as Barkevious Mingo, Chris Faulk and Kevin Minter.
Story Highlights
- 10 LSU players declared early for NFL draft, setting school, possibly national record
- Coach Les Miles says number shows strength of program
- Tyrann Mathieu, kicked off team before season, not counted but also going pro
Instead, a perfect storm of talented third- and fourth-year juniors and the new collective bargaining agreement in the NFL led to a LSU-record 10 underclassmen on the 2012 team entering the 2013 NFL draft over the past two weeks. It may be a record for any school in a single season.
"I like the fact that we send guys to the NFL early and recruit guys with the potential to go to the NFL early," Miles said last week. "I want every guy that I recruit to have the opportunity to play a long, extended career in the NFL. I'd like to develop them."
EVEN THE INJURED: LSU's Faulk enters after lost season
Miles has been one of the nation's best recruiters since coming to LSU in 2005. He signed his highest-ranked classes ever in 2009 and 2010, and those players make up his 2012 junior class. Rivals.com ranked those two classes No. 2 and No. 6 nationally. They included a bevy of stars who helped lead LSU to a 34-6 record the past three seasons with a 13-1 record, a Southeastern Conference championship and a Bowl Championship Series title game appearance a year ago.
The 2009 class included defensive tackle Michael Brockers and cornerback Morris Claiborne, who were selected in the first round of the 2012 draft as juniors, and wide receiver Rueben Randle, who was drafted in the second round last year. Others who became starters and/or major contributors were defensive ends Barkevious Mingo and Sam Montgomery, offensive tackle Chris Faulk, defensive tackle Bennie Logan, middle linebacker Kevin Minter, safety Craig Loston, tailback Michael Ford, offensive guard Josh Williford and defensive tackle Josh Downs.
These hot-shot classes are nothing new for Miles. His 2006 class was ranked seventh, '07 class fourth and '08 class 11th by Rivals. That wealth of talent allows him to redshirt even highly regarded recruits, such as Mingo and Montgomery. Both players project to be high draft picks, with Mingo slotted in the top 10 and Montgomery the top 20, according to NFL Draft Report's Mike Detillier. Faulk, who may have been a first-round pick before a knee injury ended his season after one game, Logan, a possible first-rounder, and lower-round prospects Minter and Ford also redshirted as freshman in 2009.
"There is no one reason," Ford said. "Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be in the NFL. I feel like my best chance to get in the league is now. I feel like I've maximized my potential at LSU." Read more...http://www.usatoday.
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Marcase: What's LSU football worth? Millions and millions more
John Marcase
For The Town Talk
Or how LSU stacks up in the SEC?
Fortunately, Ryan Brewer, an assistant professor of finance at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus has put a value on major college football programs. The Wall Street Journal published Brewer's findings this past week.
The good news for LSU fans is the Tigers fared better in Brewer's rankings than they did in the final polls this season.
Brewer, who based his formula on such items as revenues, expenses and cash flow, estimated the LSU football program is worth $471.7 million.
Not bad.
Until you consider the Tigers trailed SEC brethren Florida, Auburn, Georgia and Alabama in the rankings.
Texas was considered the most valuable program at a staggering $761.7 million. Perhaps ESPN was justified in starting a Longhorn Network for Texas.
Michigan came in second at $731.9 million, followed by Florida ($599.7M), Notre Dame ($597.4M) and Ohio State ($586.6M). No word on if the Buckeyes' value would've been higher had Terrell Pryor and his teammates paid for some of those tattoos they received for free.
Keep in mind Brewer's calculations are just that. His own.
Forbes recently published its annual listing of college football's Top 20 most valuable teams. Texas was No. 1 in those rankings, which looked at football revenue. Texas was valued to be worth $133 million by Forbes. Michigan ($120 million) was second, followed by Notre Dame ($103M), LSU ($102M) and Georgia ($99M). The SEC's Alabama, Florida, Auburn, Tennessee and Arkansas round out the top 10.
LSU places high annually in the Forbes rankings mainly on the strength the Tigers' home games have on the Baton Rouge economy. It notes only Notre Dame has a greater local impact.
And if you've spent any time milling around Tiger Stadium on game day, it's easy to believe LSU generates $8.5 million for the local economy each home game.
By comparison, the New Orleans Saints are estimated to be worth $971 million in Forbes' annual rankings of the value of NFL franchises. Yet, the Saints' estimated value places them no better than No. 23 in the Forbes rankings. Read more...http://www.thetowntalk.
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