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USAIN BOLT and Other Athletes that Can Play Another Sport

Usain Bolt told the Olympic press in London that he would like a tryout with Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United


By Shivam Amin 

Usain Bolt made global headlines Sunday night with a breathtaking performance en route to gold in the 100 meters. However on Monday he shocked a gathering of media when he said that he would like a tryout with Manchester United of the English Premier League. At 6'5 with speed that is incomparable to anyone in the world it would be intriguing to see how Bolt would preform on the pitch. The thought of Bolt wearing a Man U kit got me to thinking about other athletes that could make the two sport transition a success.

THE STARS

LeBron James, Football

LeBron James tosses the pigskin at Cowboys Stadium

I would have shown LeBron in the Browns uniform from the State Farm commercial, but I am from Cleveland and that only makes me sad. I'm no hater, so you can see the youtube video here. This is probably the biggest no brainer out of any current athlete in the game right now. LBJ is built like a cyborg and he never gets hurt (don't let a fake elbow injury his last season in Cleveland fool you), so basically he is indestructible. Line him up at WR/TE and he would instantly become the best in the game. He is 6'8 260 lbs with the speed of a point guard in the NBA which would translate to the fastest TE and above average WR speed. Any jump ball in the endzone would result in a touchdown if you put it remotely close. If the NBA season last year would have been scrapped it would have been interesting to see if he would have actually came over to the NFL. In high school at St Vincent St Mary he was first team All-State (sophomore year) at WR which is unheard of especially in a football hotbed like Ohio. If you were to give LeBron some time to learn the ins and outs of volleyball there is no doubt in my mind he would be unstoppable in that as well, I only say this because the Olympics make you think "what if" when you watch an event. (NOTE: I think it is pretty evident that a number of NBA players can make the jump to the NFL, but I doubt that anyone would dominate the league the way LeBron would)



 Joe Mauer, Football

Hi I'm Joe Mauer

Following a loss to Oklahoma in the 2000 BCS National Title Game, spirits were still high in Tallahassee. Daggumit! Bobby Bowden reached the National Title Game two years in a row (beating Virginia Tech in 99') and they were the class of the ACC. But there was a kid in St. Paul who Bowden was ready to hand the quarterback reigns over to and his name was Joe Mauer. Mauer was from the same high school (Cretin-Derham Hall, a private high school in St. Paul, Minnesota) as Chris Weinke (Heisman winner and 1999 National Champion for the Florida State Seminoles) and the pipeline from Minnesota was set. (Check out Mauer's high school resume. You can see why he was the talk of the town) After his senior year in baseball it was rumored that Mauer could go as high as the number one pick in the MLB amateur draft. With his hometown Twins having the number one pick how could he turn down being the savior of the city at the age of 18? What happened next is history: Mauer chose to play baseball, went number one overall, three batting titles, three gold gloves, 2009 AL MVP, and multiple endorsements (Head & Shouders, Pepsi, Playstation 3, and ESPN to name a few.) I remember the whole Mauer saga as it was going on as a kid. I would think to myself who the hell would pass up being the QB at FSU to play baseball? Then the lucrative two hundred million deals started to be made in the MLB and I saw things more clearly. It is often said that the position of quarterback is the hardest position to play in sports, something I wholeheartedly agree with. I also think that Mauer could have done it based on his upbringing and already stellar professional career in the majors. He was not just the top high school baseball player in the country, but also the top football player and an elite basketball player too (All-State First Team his junior and senior season) at 6'5", 220 pounds, Mauer had a cannon arm and great mobility in the pocket (some nice throws from a young Mauer) He has the prototypical body to play QB in the NFL, tall, strong armed, and mobile. It would have been amazing to think what the NFL would look like today if Mauer would have been as good of a quarterback as he is a catcher.



THE OMISSION

Calvin Johnson, Basketball

Listen, I get it, 6'5 240 lbs, 4.33 40 yd dash, 10.23 100 yd dash, 11 foot broad jump, 43 inch vertical, yadda yadda yadda. That doesn't mean he can ball out in the NBA. There are so many other factors that come into play regarding the transition to the NBA:

Can he dribble
Can he shoot
Can he pass
Can he defendIn regards to his size and speed: there are physical freaks who flunk out of NBA 101 right away (see Jonathon Bender.) The transition from basketball to football is an easier leap to make compared to the transition of football to basketball. But could you imagine a volleyball team of LBJ and Megatron???


LEFTOVERS:

Tony Romo, Golf


The only reason people give a shit that he tries out for the US Open every year is due to the fact he is the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. End of story.

Carl Crawford, Football

Had a scholarship to play QB at Nebraska, would have loved to see him run the option.



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The Genesis Project: Pendleton "Snapback" Caps

"Following up their successful floral snapback line of NFL caps, The Genesis Project is back with another line – this time showcasing Pendelton Navajo fabrics. Utilizing leagues including the NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL this time around, the collection contains a sense of nostalgia with an added twist. The Genesis Project Pendleton Caps can be purchased online for between $130-$275 USD"

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Nike SB: Lost in Trainslation (Video)

"The Nike SB Benelux team took a two-week trip by train across Europe. Starting in Amsterdam they then made their way to Vienna, Budapest, Sofia and finally Istanbul, stopping in each city to get some great footage. One of the best sequences throughout the video arguably features riders Tim Zom, Niell Brown, Jarne Verbruggen and Kevin Tshala, skating a metal mini ramp in the city of Sofia." Dope Video

Players, Owners and US

Derek West
Head Writer

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Owner’s associations and players unions. Players unions and owner associations...This year we came close to not only not having an NFL season, but not having an NBA season as well. And a lot of people want to know why. At the end of the day the NFL Owners Association and the NFL Players Union were eventually able to come to an agreement and give us as fans a full season. We weren't quite as lucky with the NBA. We will still get about a 75% season, which works perfect for LeBron James because he only plays 3 quarters...but I digress.

People will offer all sort of opinions of what the issues between the two sides are, or were. But in my opinion it comes down to one lone idea. Greed. Plain and simple. Any way you look at it owners wanted more money, players wanted more money, and when the dust settled it was us as fans who would have wound up losing had there been a lockout. Well us as fans and the hundreds of thousands of people who count on professional sports organizations as employers.

beastmode

That's why I believe in addition to the Owners Associations and Players Unions there should also be a League of Fans. The name is of course up for discussion. This Fan Committee would be made up of normal people with normal jobs who would act as a sort of voice of reason within these negotiations. Normal people who can look the owners and players in the face and say: "Really? No, really?!" Are you guys really arguing over whether you as an owner are going to make 3 billion instead of 3.5!? And are you as players really complaining because you're only going to make 15 million this year instead of 16? Really!?"

As a fan I think sometimes it's important to bring these people down to reality and remember a few things. One of those things being that to the owners: You own a professional sports team! I guess maybe you've become so disconnected from reality that you lose sight of that at times, but you're living a dream! And to the players: You play sports for a living! You get to be the guys that we all wanted to be in 2nd grade! You're someone's idol, and hero.

Hello Bob Kraft...

Now I'm sure both sides would argue that there are more details than what I have highlighted here. That there are things going on behind the scenes that we as fans don't know about, but guess what? That's the situation at every job. So can you honestly look at Frank the bus driver from Lansing, Michigan in the face an tell him you aren't going to have a season this year so tough luck about the season tickets he worked overtime for 4 months to purchase because you didn't get your extra million? Or billion? If you guys can look at us as fans and say that, then you don't deserve to have us watch you play.

That would be the other function of this Sports Syndicate, it would be to remind the players AND owners that at any given time we could stop buying season tickets. We could pull out fantasy league memberships. We could stop watching your games. We could stop buying your licensed apparel. We could basically remind you of that lesson we all learn as kids: YOU DONT BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU. In short we could bring your industry to a bitter and destructive halt. And then where will you be? You'll be a bunch of old white guys with nothing do to but manage your kids pee wee league, and a bunch of tall ass dudes working at Safeway or Kenny's Shoes.

some fans live and die with the team.. and still don't
get the respect from owners

Of course the only problem with my Fans Union is that eventually it would become as corrupt and greedy as the system we were trying to balance out. I suppose it's just the nature of the beast. In summation I think that perhaps the next time there are whispers of a lockout, and negotiations screech to a halt, everyone stop and remember that at any given time, should we as fans become organized, we could take it all away.

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WELCOME TO OHIO STATE URBAN MEYER!!

ITS OFFICIAL! According to The Columbus Dispatch, ESPN and other news Sources Urban Meyer is now a Buckeye.

Former Florida coach Urban Meyer has taken the head coaching job at Ohio State, sources confirmed to ESPN on Monday.

Ohio State will hold a news conference at 5:15 p.m. ET at the Fawcett Center to introduce its new coach. It did not mention Meyer, a native of Ashtabula, Ohio.



Meyer, who led the Gators to two national championships before stepping down to spend more time with his family amid ongoing reports of health concerns, had worked as a game analyst this season for ESPN. But he asked to be taken off his assignments for the network this weekend as reports swirled of his imminent hire by Ohio State, a program with a glittering past that has suffered through a difficult year of NCAA violations, suspensions and a 6-6 record.



Columbus will be the fourth stop in the 47-year-old Meyer's coaching career. He had a 104-23 record over 10 seasons with Bowling Green, Utah and Florida. From 2001-10, he had five 10-win seasons, the two BCS titles with the Gators and a 7-1 record in bowl games -- including the Gators' 41-14 victory over unbeaten and top-ranked Ohio State in the 2007 title game.



Sources told WKMG-TV in Orlando last week that Meyer will receive a seven-year, $40 million contract.



Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and other university officials did not respond to requests for comment.




A team meeting set for Sunday night was moved to Monday afternoon before the news conference to allow Meyer to meet his players.



Earle Bruce, who was the head coach at Ohio State when Meyer was a graduate assistant in the mid-1980s, has remained a close friend and confidant of Meyer through the years. He said he had no concerns about Meyer's health issues.



"Well, if he'd had a heart attack and his heart was bad, I'd be worried about that," the 80-year-old Bruce said on Monday, according to The Associated Press. "I'm not worried that he was stressed out over the game of football because he was thinking too much and not doing some things (exercising) that would have kept him straight.



"I think he got everything back under control by sitting out a year. I think he missed football. And he's good at it."



Alabama coach Nick Saban, who played at Kent State and coached at Toledo in the Buckeye state, said he was happy for Meyer.



"I'm sure he's excited about it, and I'm excited for him that he has an opportunity to go back to his home state and be the head coach here," Saban said. "I think it's a wonderful opportunity and I think he'll do a great job."



Meyer takes over a program that is likely facing NCAA sanctions and was crippled by the resignation of coach Jim Tressel, who was forced out nearly six months ago amid a tattoo-parlor scandal involving star Buckeyes quarterback Terrelle Pryor. The Buckeyes completed their only season under interim Luke Fickell with a 40-34 loss to Michigan on Saturday that snapped a seven-game winning streak to their rivals and left them with a 3-5 record in the Big Ten.



Wolverines coach Brady Hoke underplayed the role of the head coaches in the rivalry.

"I've known Urban, he's a good football coach, a good guy and I welcome him in," Hoke said on Monday. "But it's still Michigan and Ohio and neither one of us is going to play the game."

Meyer inherits a program still facing NCAA sanctions. But he also inherits a young team led by a freshman quarterback, Braxton Miller, who would seem to be a perfect fit for his spread offense.

Missing several top players because of NCAA suspensions stemming from the tattoo mess, the Buckeyes were hit with more suspensions when three players accepted $200 in cash for attending a charity event and others were forced to sit out or had their existing suspensions extended for being overpaid for summer jobs.

Ohio State's .500 record marked the most losses at Ohio State since John Cooper's 1999 team also went 6-6 overall and 3-5 in the Big Ten.

The Buckeyes had already lost their string of six Big Ten titles when the school was forced to vacate the 2010 season for the NCAA violations. The school also has self-imposed two years of NCAA probation, offered to return $339,000 in bowl revenue from 2010 and to give up five scholarships over the next three seasons.

Ohio State is awaiting final word from the NCAA's committee on infractions. The committee tagged Ohio State with a "failure to monitor" label -- second only to a lack of institutional control on the list of most egregious charges against a university. The school could still be hit with a bowl ban, a loss of more scholarships, or other penalties.

One of Meyer's broadcast partners and close friends is former Ohio State linebacker Chris Spielman.

insert foot into mouth... lol

"He enjoyed what he was doing, but I think he also had the bug to start coaching again," said Spielman, who added he would not be an assistant coach under Meyer as some have speculated. "We just kind of talked about the pros and cons of both throughout the year. He weighed all the options and there were jobs out there that definitely captured his interest and certainly Ohio State was one of them. He decided that it was the best move. This was just an opportunity that he couldn't pass up."

Source: ESPN

JAY-Z OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES BROOKLYN NETS

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Jay-Z officially announces that the New Jersey Nets are now officially the Brooklyn Nets. He’ll be opening the new arena in Brooklyn with a couple kick off concerts.

Wale Talks to ESPN'S Skip Bayless about Lebron

Wale stopped by ESPN's first take this morning and had an in depth convo with Skip Bayless about his thoughts on Lebron... pretty interesting

If Michael Vick Were WHITE?? Are they Serious??



We're clowning on the Picture more than anything...lmao Sometimes ESPN means well, but things go too far.... I laugh everytime I look at it.. hahaha If you choose to read the article you can here....ESPN ARTICLE

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The DEATH of an Era & The BIRTH of a New one (Ohio State Edition pt 1)

They always say GOOD things come to an end, but they NEVER say Good things always come to an end WELL. This was the case for The OHIO STATE BUCKEYE Football program. It's so easy to point fingers now and blame every little thing on the Players, the Coaches, the fans & even the Columbus business Community. The Media is doing this now and Ohio State Nation is taking it's lumps. Embarrassment arise, Egos Bruise, Shame surfaces...

Pryor's new car that showed up
to the team meeting

Now a major Magazine does an entire piece on you to reveal EVERYTHING that went on  and knocks you down even more...

Rumors start swirling that EVERYTHING these kids get are given to them..

The NCAA Punishes the future of program growth..

Greats start losing their jobs... ETC ETC ETC..

Lets face it, it's going to get VERY BAD before it gets better..


So What Now??


Well changes are happening before our eyes and they suck. A Great man lost his job Yesterday. A man who's Passion and Dedication for The Ohio State University can never be duplicated. Jim Tressel Will be missed. Not only because he was such a great coach, but because he was such a well mannered man who represented the Buckeyes well. All this info coming out now could damage his rep and Legacy. However to us he will be known as the coach that never gave mercy to Michigan! 3640 days!

 but the show MUST GO ON! We have to search for a new leader and move forward with our heads high and moving forward...

SO WHO IS NEXT?!


here are two candidates that are rumored to be interested or targeted next for the job in 2012.

First off the Interim coach..


LUKE FICKELL


Pros: Coach Fickell has been a player and a coach for the Bucks. At age 37 he is young enough to relate to the players. He started coaching in 2000 as a DL coach for the Akron Zips then came to the Bucks in 2002 as a Special Teams coach. He has also coached LineBackers in that tenure which has been one of OSU's Pride and Joy Positions and he was also the co-Defensive Coordinator.

Cons: Has Coached UNDER Tressel & has never been the head guy of a Program until now. Young enough that players may feel they can take advantage. Associated with the Scandal, Has learned Tressel ball and Nobody knows or can Play Tressel ball as well as...well Tressel.

Notes: Some Say he can earn the Job if he can Savage 9+ wins this season. We don't see it because he is too associated with the Scandal. I think if Gene Smith is still the A.D he has a good chance to become the coach. If not, it's not looking good.

URBAN MEYER


Pros: An Ohio Guy who Started his Coaching Career with Ohio State. Has won National Coach of the Year. Has two National Titles (06, 08) (one of those vs. The Buckeyes) His winning percentage(.842) through 2009 Ranks First nationally among active college football head coaches. Overall 104-23 Bowls 7-1. Has only been a head coach for 10 years. On pace to be one of the Greatest ever, if he chooses to coach again.
Cons: Health has made him stop coaching then come back and then stop again. Some say a top tier coach will not accept the OSU job until the NCAA sanctions are over and decided which makes OSU's Timing and Urban Meyer's timing off. There were a significant amount of players who were arrested under Urban's watch @ UF. 30+ players arrested more than 40 times in 5 years. Leads the nation.

Notes: Some say Meyer decided to quit Florida for Health and to spend time with his Family. But then takes an ESPN job that is time demanding kind of contradicting. He has bought a house in The Columbus Area as well. However his daughter tweeted out this...

Others include Bo Pelini, Mike Leach, Mark Dantonio..etc etc.. Names are going to be thrown out like crazy. However the next guy to come in will have to be the clean up guy and have to deal with the Sanctions of the NCAA..It's going to be a LONG YEAR. As always we will keep you posted.

But To OSU Nation.. Keep your Head up, and let the haters hate. People will jump off the bandwagon and you will see all the Fake fans and New Fans more clearly. But all in all stay Positive...

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