Like political junkies obsessing about the presidential race, sports writers are already making their choices known.
For now, Tim Tebow ranks fourth on this ESPN guy's list. (T-Bow had a big game against Kentucky last week.) Now, here's what Sports Illustrated had to say about the home scholar: "Not only is he the nation's top-rated passer (177.5), but he's also on pace to rush for 1,000 yards. Tebow would be the first sophomore to win the 72-year-old award."
Tomorrow: Florida plays Georgia at 3:30 ET. The game will be televised on CBS.
The "most prolific rusher in college football history" happens to have a homeschooling background. He's Danny Woodhead from North Platte, Nebraska, and he plays for Chadron State College which is also located in Cornhuskerland. Danny has a 3.72 GPA (math ed. major), but upon graduation he may be headed to the NFL not the classroom.
Sports Illustrated profiled him in the latest issue.
The smile-inducing intro: "When he (Danny) was five, he scrawled numbers on the backs of his cowboys and Indians and then spent hours moving the plastic figures around the floor of his bedroom in make-believe games. Once when his mother suggested that he find a more creative outlet for his energies, he drew a football field on the living-room carpet with a green marker."
The carpet artiste is the first football player at Chadron State to be offered a full-ride scholarship.
SI's "Video Faces" features two HEK's in two sports that don't garner as much attention as activites that draw tens of thousands to stadiums: table tennis and racquetball.
They sure can get carried away with their football in Oklahoma.
Mike Gundy, who coaches the Oklahoma State Cowboys, launched the rant heard round the virtual world. What a performance. Give the man an honorary ESPY.
He was (over)reacting to this rather silly column by Jenni Carlson, although she does insinuate that the QB is a mama's boy. When the brouhaha receives closure, Mrs. Reid might be poised to become the next Wilma McNabb.
The coach calms down, and the public learns that he uses his phone as much as he reads the newspaper. (Hardly ever.)
One suggestion: Oklahoma's education resume needs work. Since he's in the teaching-mentoring-bellowing business, Coach Gundy should call a press conference and throw a good ol' boy fit over the Oklahoma Education Association's stranglehold on schools. It costs a ton of taxpayer money to keep students this clueless, and the coach could perform a much-needed public service getting mad about a real injustice.
Update: Pat Fiorde, of ESPN, has an opinion on Gundy's favorite quarterback: "For the record, Reid is 21 years old. He was old enough to vote in the 2004 presidential election or to die in Iraq. But few people are afforded the means to grow up more slowly than major-college athletes."
Exactly. (But it's still a silly column.)
Another update: Whitlock the Great sticks up for Gundy and Reid.
And while we're on a roll examining the sports/school culture, the Great Whitlock on the Jena 6.
Catch the crazyX Games 13? Even if watching daredevil BMX bikers isn't on your "to do" list, it's the season to revisit this New York Timesarticle. The colorful piece showcases those who bypass brick and mortar schools not to avoid bullies, promote religious values, or achieve better academics. Instead, homeschooling reigns as the convenient lifestyle choice for, say, a teenage professional skateboarder, who can command six figures, but is still bound by the ruling class' anti-free market compulsory education strictures.
The money quote: "As athletes get younger and these sports get more competitive, you have to stay in the game,' said Circe Wallace, a retired snowboarder turned action sports agent. "I've been in this business 15 years, and it's always been those with parents that understand the freedom and flexibility of home schooling that go the furthest."
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