Either Way It Goes, The Real Loser In All Of This Will Be Cameron Newton

On my way home from my basketball game last night, I got a phone call asking me had I heard about Cameron Newton. Immediately I was like wow when they started explaining that the word circulating around the NCAA via Mississippi State University is that Cameron Newton was being shopped by a middle man to play college football before this season.

According to an ESPN.com report Thursday,Newton was being shopped by a middle man and his services had been offered to the Bulldogs. The claim is that they were told they were getting a discount for quarterback Cameron Newton because he supposedly liked their coach. The true rate, according to the Website, was $200,000. It was set by a recruiting middleman named Kenny Rogers. (Possibly the Gambler or maybe the Gunslinger)

Mississippi State didn’t bite. Newton went to Auburn, has become the Heisman Trophy favorite and turned a reeling program into a potential BCS champion. Auburn isn’t commenting other than to assert Newton is still eligible to play. Newton’s family said they neither received any money nor authorized anyone to sell out their son. (No manumission papers have been found either so there may be some truth to this)

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My 20 Guarantees for the 2010 – 2011 NFL Season

Every year the NFL off season and pre season bring many teams hope. Usually that hope is usually smashed for all but one team at the end of the season. Too many people make guarantees and players eventually buy into those guarantees and start making guarantees themselves. I hear player after player and organization after organization make promises to their teams and fans that they should know have no possibilities of delivering on.

Well today I am going to go ahead and crush the dreams of most of the teams and players in the league. I am about 90% confident in what I am about to say. If you disagree please let it be known. I have big shoulders, I can take it.

The List:

1. The New York Jets will not win the Super Bowl, in fact they will be a wild card team lucky to advance to the second round of the playoffs.
2. The Dallas Cowboys will not be the first team to host a Super Bowl and play in it too. They aren’t as good as they are being advertised.
3. Chris Johnson will not get 2500 yards from scrimmage. In fact he will probably spend at least 3 games out due to injuries suffered from trying to achieve such a feat.
4. Brett Favre will not lead the Minnesota Vikings to the Super Bowl this year. He is over-hyped and last season was a fluke.
5. Lovie Smith will be fired as Chicago Bears head coach before January 10, 2011. Call me crazy but the writing is on the wall.

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Why Winning the Heisman Does Not Equal Success in the NFL

Every year we watch college football with the excitement and intrigue of a 12 year old who is finding their way into adulthood. Year after year we watch player by player get decorated with awards that many feel they deserve. Funny thing is very few players live up to the hype when they reach the NFL. Let’s take the last few Heisman winners that have finished their college careers and see how successful they have been on the next level.

2007 Tim Tebow – Third String QB Verdict still out

2006 Troy Smith – Third String QB cut recently by Ravens

2005 Reggie Bush – Backup overpaid RB never will play to potential

2004 Matt Leinart – Career backup QB cut recently by Cardinals

2003 Jason White – Undrafted No Longer in NFL

2002 Carson Palmer – Has had a couple of good seasons but average career

2001 Eric Crouch – Moved to Safety No longer in NFL

2000 Chris Weinke – Backup QB No longer in NFL

1999 Ron Dayne – Backup RB No longer in NFL

This list says a lot. It is amazing that only one out of all these players have been successful. College football is a game that displays a certain amount of irony. The offenses that the college teams run are all flavorful and full of variety and there is coaching that allows individuals to do things that garner recognition. The Pro game is dictated more towards skill. The offenses are all pretty much the same since the game recycles coaches over and over but that is a topic for another day.

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So You Think You've Got Game... Don't Hate

It's been a while since I've written something about athletes and women. Well today is that day. I was having a discussion with one of my friends the other day and he was hating hard on some ballers who had nice looking women. I asked him why he was hating and he said that they only had those women because of who they are. In his words, "If they weren't millionaires, they wouldn't be able to get those women." In essence I was feeling the hate. So my advice to him:

Don’t hate the player, hate the game

In today’s world of celebrities and athletes, that mantra holds just as true as ever. We are just as likely to see our favorite players on the cover of Newsweek as we are ESPN the Magazine. And we aren’t talking about the likes of Shawn Kemp or Travis Henry trying to single-handedly overpopulate the planet. We are talking about QUALITY. Thats right QUALITY women. 

There are several pro athletes that get the crème de la crème when it comes to the women of the world. I don’t understand why people hate. If a playa can do it then more power to it. Today we will take a look at athletes who are getting it done with the ladies.

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NFC South: Where Ground and Pound Meet the Air Bound

Day 6 of breaking down the divisions takes us to the ever popular NFC South, where the food is better than the teams and the teams are pretty darn good. The NFC South hosts the best combination of football that you can ask for. You have two teams that line up and play smash mouth football and two teams that spread you out and throw the kitchen sink at you. However they all have one thing in common “defense”. Every team in this division will hit you in the mouth and hit you in the mouth hard.

The Atlanta Falcons are the most revamped team in the division the past few years. They went from a team that just wore you down running the ball to a wide open attack. They have a good mix of speed

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