Posts Tagged ‘senior year’

Is Madden Nation Up For Yooooomoma

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

So I realize that not all of the details have been released with the online league capabilities, but I was just wondering if some of you guys would like to start one. If you do post here and when it comes out we can try to set something up. Re-sign Nnamdi and fix the front [...]

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Verna Jarrett (Virginia Mayo)”White Heat,” 1949

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Southern Californias Mayo was selected Thursday by the Minnesota Timberwolves as the third overall pick in the draft. During his senior year at Huntington High School, Mayo led the team to its third straight Class AAA championship title and was named West Virginias boys basketball player of the year. West Virginias Alexander went to Milwaukee [...]

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Tyler Hansbrough: The Ladies Man

Friday, June 27th, 2008

It gives credence to the adage that the longer a player stays in college, the further down the NBA Draft he slides. You cant buy happiness, and if Hansbrough is happy in Chapel Hill playing ACC basketball and having a big senior year and enjoying college life and graduating on time, then thats reason enough [...]

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Hard Times At Douglass High

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

On any given day Frederick Douglass High School manages a 83% attendance rate. Many, if not most students skip their first class. Half to two thirds of the freshmen will drop out by their senior year. One student passed the state Algebra exam. In 2004 only ten percent of FDHS students passed the state reading [...]

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High School King

Monday, June 9th, 2008

However, the uniform was mostly older classes, and there were enough funky folks there that it was cool. And, hey, it threw off expectations of me. And it was very helpful to have thrown off expectations that evening, when they showed Serafine’s film. Apparently, as many people in her clique have known for decades (well, [...]

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Letroy Guion College Stats

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Many experts thought Guion should have returned for his Senior year as opposed to declaring for the NFL Draft. I’m not crazy about his pick at all. He really really fell off he was once regarded as a top 10 pick. As the complete Tight End, Carlson probably deserves to go in round one, but [...]

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New NCAA Rule Permits NBA Teams To Pay For Underclassmen Workouts

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

That’s good, because not one upperclassman did much to the surprise of Pete Webster, entering his 14th season as head coach of the York boys. Senior Jake Posternak, who played No. 1 singles last year for the Wildcats, decided not to play this season. “I didn’t expect that,” Webster said. “Jake decided not to play, [...]

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