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The high school football coach disarmed a student who brought a gun to Parkrose High School. Keanon Lowe, the former Oregon wide receiver who disarmed a student that brought a gun to Parkrose High School in Portland, has been awarded the Citizen Honor Award by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Lowe is one of six recipients of the award for 2020, which is given to those who "exemplify the values embodied in the Medal of Honor: courage, sacrifice, commitment, integrity, citizenship, and patriotism." It is the highest civilian honor in the nation. The recipients will be honored at a later date. In May 2019, Lowe was working as a football coach and security guard when he approached a student who arrived with a shotgun. Lowe disarmed him and hugged him. The coach helped prevent a possible tragedy and no one ended up being hurt. The encounter was detailed in a story by Greg Bishop in the Aug. 26-Sep. 2, 2019, issue of Sports Illustrated . Lowe is currently the head fo...
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How college football programs and prospects are making the most of an unusual recruiting season High school football players across the country face daunting new obstacles in figuring out their prospects for the college game, and whether their first choice of college feels the same way about them. Sports Illustrated Director of Football Recruitment and college football recruiting analyst John Garcia Jr explains how technology is allowing recruiter and recruit to get creative amidst the COVID-19 outbreak.
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We crunched 10 years’ worth of data to determine—based solely on the numbers—which college programs have the right to brand themselves the modern ‘U.’ Part II: Linebacker U. We determined each “Position U.” by measuring what every college should strive to do, in sports and beyond: Prepare students for professional careers. For the full explanation of our scoring system, scroll to the bottom of this article. Penn State has long been known as Linebacker U., but Sean Lee, now a rotational player in Dallas, is the program’s last “great” linebacker still active in the NFL. In fact, aside from Lee and NaVorro Bowman, no Nittany Lions linebacker who entered the league since 2010 has been a starter for any NFL team for more than a season. That leaves the Linebacker U. competition to two SEC powerhouses: Alabama and LSU , who have each put a dozen linebackers into the NFL since 2010. For our project, we considered linebackers to be off-the-ball (aka “stack”) LBs, as opposed to stand-up ed...
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Louisville? Oklahoma? Auburn? An analytic look at what college program can rightfully brand itself the 'U.' Welcome to Position U., where we set out to determine which colleges have the right to brand themselves the "U" at eight different positions. And we decided to do it by measuring what every college should strive to do, in sports and beyond: Prepare students for professional careers. In order to make it modern, we used a 10-year data set. Dipping further back would mean going across different coaching eras at the college level, as well as including a lot of players who are no longer active in the NFL. (We did run an unofficial 20-year data set for the quarterback position, which you can read about at the bottom of this article.) We came up with a scoring system that balanced not just the quantity of players programs put into the NFL, but the quality of those players' careers. One measure we used is draft position—an inexact but still relevant measure of a...
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UCLA cornerback Darnay Holmes isn't letting the coronavirus impede his ability to stay in shape and stay focused on getting drafted. It takes special dedication, work ethic, and mental strength to graduate from college in two years. It’s even more of an accomplishment to graduate in two years while playing Division I. That’s exactly what UCLA cornerback, Darnay Holmes, set as his goal in high school. He achieved that goal just 24 months later. Holmes admitted maintaining success on the field while also sustaining success in the classroom was “definitely a grind but definitely prepared me to be who I am today.” That same mindset of setting a goal and working tirelessly to achieve it, is also helping Holmes set his sights on his rookie season. As for his first year as a professional football player, Holmes told Sports Illustrated he’s “ready to be a sponge, be a player that is going to be around the veteran players…be a leader of my group…also be somebody that makes an impression...
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Former Stanford defensive tackle Solomon Thomas is trying to help players at his alma mater find inner peace on the football field. A calm British voice gives instructions over the speaker system at Stanford’s football field. Scan down through the body now, before shifting your attention to the breath. The Stanford players are all frozen in place with their eyes closed. Some are lying down on their backs on the grass. Others are sitting up cross-legged. The California summer sun beats down on their sweaty brows. This moment of stillness in Stanford’s fall camp practice is a far cry from the loud hip-hop music that typically blares from the speakers as the players are constantly in motion. This is Stanford football’s daily camp meditation, a five-minute transition between the warm-up running and the rest of practice. Imagine a ray of sunlight slowly moving down from your head, and filling up the rest of your body. Your shoulders, your arms, your finger tips… In advance of the 201...
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Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby acknowledged the possibility that football games could be played behind closed doors. Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said there is a chance football games could be played without fans this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. Bowlsby addressed the media on a conference call on Thursday and said the Big 12 is already looking at how the virus could impact the upcoming football season. "It's hard to forecast those things," Bowlsby said, per Stadium's Brett McMurphy . Bowlsby added that the conference will monitor the pandemic over the next 60-90 days to decide if the upcoming football season should be delayed. The season is set to start on Sept. 3 when Oklahoma State hosts Oregon State, and the conference's plan, for now, is to play the season as scheduled. Bowlsby said he does not think any spring football practices or games will take place, and a conditioning period for athletes will be needed once sports return. "Is t...
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The NCAA will allot a significantly lower amount of money to member schools this year than expected. The first financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic came home to roost on college sports Thursday, when the NCAA announced a massive slashing of revenue distribution for 2020. The NCAA Board of Governors voted to allot $225 million to member schools, a 62.5% decrease from the expected $600 million. The shortfall is attributable to the cancellation of the NCAA’s biggest money maker , the men’s basketball tournament, plus all other canceled championships in winter and spring sports. “As an association, we must acknowledge the uncertainties of our financial situation and continue to make thoughtful and prudent decisions on how we can assist conferences and campuses in supporting student-athletes now and into the future,” said Ohio State president Michael Drake, chairman of the NCAA Board of Governors. Of that $225 million allotment, $53.6 million will go to the Equal Conference F...
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