Nfl Combine Results 2010

Nfl Combine Results 2010, In the recent NFL Combine Results news this 2010, Eric Berry told media confidently that he is the best and ranked first overall in the entire draft. He really looked fast and fluid running his 40-yard dash with a worth-of-praise official time of 4.47. Now that’s fast!

All the defensive backs are running their 40-yard dashes at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and two of the highest rated players, Florida’s Joe Haden and Tenessee’s Eric Berry, each had an up and a down in their runs.

Berry showed that he has good upper body strength too, managing 19 reps in the bench press and showed smooth hips when changing direction in the field drills.

Standing at an impressive size of 5?11 1/2? and 211 pounds, Berry has been compared to Ravens All-Pro safety Ed Reed. He also told the media during his interviews that he would rather make a play intercepting a pass rather than making the huge hit.

Haden on the other hand, who is the top cornerback, ran a very disappointing 40-yard dash time with an official 4.57.

Yes, I know. 4.57 is fast indeed. But even though a 4.57 is still considered pretty fast, a cornerback needs to run as close to 4.4 as possible.

And why? Because they need speed at their position to be able to run with wide receivers and recovery speed in the secondary is important as well.

Haden disappointed in his vertical leaping ability, while Berry is proving that he is indeed worthy to be included in the top 10.

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Saints Win Super Bowl

Saints Win Super Bowl, The NFL’s New Orleans Saints wrapped up an impressive 31-17 win over the Indianapolis Colts to clinch their first ever Super Bowl, and thus, causing Bourbon Street to explode in pandemonium. But thousands of miles away here on the left coast in Los Angeles, many USC football fans joined the “Who Dat Nation” in celebration as former Trojan running back Reggie Bush played a role in the team’s victory.

But even with so many members of the Trojan Family celebrating Bush’s contribution toward the Saints’ Super Bowl win, I can’t help but sit back and laugh. Personally, I would consider myself a fan of the Heisman Trophy winner. After growing up a USC football fan in Los Angeles while watching the Trojans real off 34 straight victories with Bush in the backfield, how could I not be? But nevertheless, the fact that so many Trojan fans are running around Southern California proclaiming that “Reggie won the Super Bowl” is a tad bit misleading.

In all honesty, Bush was hardly a factor in the game. There were no breathtaking punt returns. No breakaway touchdown runs. No highlight reel jukes. By all accounts, it was a rather vanilla performance by number twenty-five, and you don’t have to go further than the stat sheet to understand that.

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Brangelina Split up Rumors Run Rampant

Brangelina Split up Rumors Run Rampant, Rumors about the breakup of most sought after Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are making headlines these days.
Media reports are rampant that both the stars planned to split up and they also started consulting lawyers in this regard. A divorce lawyer would assist them in distribution of children and assets worth$ 205million, reports said. According to a Daily, Jolie and Pitt have signed the split deal.

Ravens Vs Colts Score

Ravens Vs Colts Score, Playing keep-away from Peyton Manning is always a priority against the Indianapolis Colts.

Holding the football and a six-point lead at Indianapolis in November, Belichick kept the Patriots on the field for a fourth-and-2 at the New England 28 with just over 2 minutes remaining. The first-down try failed, and Manning quickly produced a touchdown and a 35-34 victory.

The Baltimore Ravens hope to avoid a similar situation Saturday night in their playoff game against the Colts. Their plan is to deprive Manning of the ball early enough so that it won’t matter if he gets it late.

Offensive coordinator Cam Cameron has the personnel to make the plan work – especially against an Indianapolis defense that ranks 24th in the NFL against the run. In last week’s 33-14 rout of the Patriots, Ray Rice, Willis McGahee and Le’Ron McClain helped Baltimore total 234 yards rushing in 52 attempts.

The yardage the Ravens gain on the ground will be significant, but time of possession is even more important against Manning and the Colts.

“My favorite thing is to look up at the clock and watch it go tick, tick, tick,” Ravens defensive coordinator Greg Mattison said. “You know what? I can’t be a real bad coach when I’m not out there calling defenses, right? So when Cam’s running the football, I’m the most excited guy there on that sideline.”

Rice should be getting plenty of touches in the first half. Baltimore won’t entirely abandon the passing game, but establishing a ground attack is clearly a top priority.

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New York Jets

It was a do-or-die day for the Jets. With losses by all the right teams at 1 p.m., the Jets knew they would be kicking it off against the Colts late this afternoon with control of their playoff destiny somehow back in their own hands. But that was the rub. All they had to do to maintain that control was to beat the 14-0 Colts in Lucas Oil Stadium. And a Jets loss would eliminate them from the playoff picture. With that as a backdrop, the Jets turned to the longest play in franchise history and the first career touchdown by a ninth-career defensive lineman, not to mention a short day of work by quarterback Peyton Manning and his first-team friends, to stun the Colts, the NFL and more than a few of their fans with a 29-15 road triiumph over the now 14-1 Colts.

The Jets’ record is now 8-7, and with the losses by Miami, Baltimore and Jacksonville at 1 p.m. and by Denver at 4:15, now all they have to do to reach the playoffs in Rex Ryan’s first year as head coach and Mark Sanchez’s first year as their starting QB is to defeat the Cincinnati Bengals in what in all likelihood will be their last game at the old Meadowlands.

Brad Smith opened the final 30 minutes with a bang that could be heard echoing around the suddenly silenced Lucas stands. Smith took Pat McAfee’s second-half kickoff 6 yards deep in his end zone, threaded his way up the field, skipped out of last-gasp tackle attempts by McAfee and Tim Jennings, and jogged into the end zone with a 106-yard kickoff-return TD — the longest play of any kind in Jets franchise history.

But more important than the record book was the scoreboard. The Jets had taken the lead at 10-9 for the first time today.

Then, as some Colts beatwriters suspected, Indy coach Jim Caldwell decided to continue his team’s quest for perfection with his own rookie QB under center. Curtis Painter, Indianapolis’ rookie QB from Purdue, replaced the healthy Manning with 5:36 left in the third quarter and a 15-10 lead.

And almost as quickly came the Jets’ next crushing return. Painter, dropping back from his 20 for only his second pass attempt as a pro, was stripped of the ball by Calvin Pace from the blind side. Mike DeVito made sure TE Tom Santi didn’t recovery the ball in the air. Then Marques Douglas pounced on the ball as it crossed the goal line for his first career touchdown and only the Jets’ second defensive TD of the season.

Add on Mark Sanchez’s perfect-touch toss to Indiana-bred TE Dustin Keller for the two-point conversion, and the Jets were back on top, 18-15, with 16:29 left on the clock.

Jay Feely, who struggled along with his field goal team on three opportunities in last week’s loss to Atlanta, hit his second three-pointer of the game from 43 yards out for a 21-15 lead with 13:23 left to play.

Then with the Indy defense giving way, Thomas Jones sliced for 29 yards to the Colts 1-foot line, then took three shots before getting across the goal line. Add Sanchez’s two-point toss to Braylon Edwards and it was 29-15, Jets, with 5:38 to play. Dwight Lowery’s interception put the icing on this strange, tasty cake.

The Colts, with Manning, WR Reggie Wayne, TE Dallas Clark and other frontliners on the bench, and their blue-clad faithful not exactly cheering the closing effort from the stands, fell from the ranks of the unbeaten. This was the second time in a little more than 13 months that the Jets had taken down an undefeated opponent at home — remember Tennessee on Nov. 23, 2008?

But of course that was merely a footnote to this sometimes surreal but really energizing triumph by the Jets. Now everything is riding on the Jets taking care of one more week of regular-season business by beating the Bengals and making it onto the AFC postseason grid.

Indy got the better of the field position early on, moving to its 45 before punting — with Jets CB Dwight Lowery making his first pass breakup in eight games on a third-down throw to from Manning to TE Dallas Clark.

But McAfee’s dandy punt with bite pinned the Jets inside their 20, then the Colts started their next drive at their 46 and moved crisply to Joseph Addax’s 21-yard burst up the middle for the game’s first points. At least the Jets minimized the damage when Bryan Thomas penetrated, reached up and blocked Adam Vinatieri’s extra point try.

The Jets’ next drive didn’t produce points but at least the visitors moved into home team territory — albeit briefly before David Clowney, on a reverse, was tackled for a 14-yard loss by LB Philip Wheeler.

The Horseshoes’ offense again maneuvered like the well-oiled machine it is in a march to the Jets’ 4. But from there Addai was stopped twice for no gain (the second time when Manning unsuccessfully quick-snapped to try to catch the Jets with 12 men on the field) and Manning-to-Reggie Wayne fell incomplete, so Adam Vinatieri drove a 22-yard field goal through the uprights 3:14 into the second quarter for a 9-0 lead.

The rest of the half was of a similar pattern, with the Jets struggling to advance the ball consistently and the Colts moving well but stalling with Manning slightly off-target.

But the Green & White changed that pattern with a drive through the two-minute warning. First, Thomas Jones bulled for a yard on third-and-1, then Sanchez hit Braylon Edwards on a quick slant and Jerricho Cotchery on a stop route to move the chains twice more. And suddenly Shonn Greene slashed off right tackle for 21 yards to the Colts 21.

One more Colts foray got to the Jets 44 before McAfee punted, then Jones and the Jets ran out the clock. At least it was a one-score game at 9-3. And at least the Jets got the ball first to start the second half.

Game Notes

Brad Smith became the sixth different Jet to return a kickoff for a touchdown under ST coordinator Mike Westhoff. The Jets have 12 KOR TDs under Coach Westy since 2002. … Smith became the first Jet since Leon Johnson vs. Tampa Bay in 1997 to return the second-half KO for a score. … The Jets scored two two-pointers in the same game for the first time in franchise history. … Sanchez’s two deuce completions don’t count on his efficient 12-for-19, 106-yard, no-TD, no-INT passing line.

Jones went over 100 rushing yards a 5-yard run after the two-minute warning. … Bryan Thomas’ blocked PAT was the second rejected kick of his career and was the Jets’ first blocked PAT since Josh Evans turned around a Steve Christie extra point at San Diego in 2002. … Vinatieri is 35-for-38 for his career on field goal attempts vs. the Jets, with all but today’s 22-yarder coming as a Patriot from 1996-2005.

Sound Of Music

TORONTO — They climbed ev’ry mountain to headline “The Sound of Music,” and now Elicia MacKenzie and Janna Polzin are preparing to take on the next summit of their careers. It’s been a year and a half since the pair rose from the ranks of relative obscurity to national stardom on the CBC-TV reality competition “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” and subsequently as the leads in the Toronto musical “The Sound of Music” (MacKenzie full-time, Polzin part-time).

Now that the stage show is drawing to a close on Jan. 10, both say they’ll likely break down when they say “So Long, Farewell.”

“Things don’t hit me until they actually happen, so I think I’m going to be bawling at the time, but right now I’m not thinking of it yet in that way,” MacKenzie, 24, of Surrey, B.C., said in a recent interview.

“It just doesn’t seem real that I’m not going to be able to be getting up on stage and singing all these songs every night anymore.”

MacKenzie has been the primary Maria in the show since it opened to critical acclaim in October 2008, performing in six shows a week and winning a Dora Award. She landed the role of the spirited nun-turned-governess by beating out thousands on the CBC-TV series in July 2008.

Polzin was the runner-up on the TV show, and was later announced as MacKenzie’s alternate, performing in two shows a week.

“I just hope I’ll be able to control my emotions,” said Polzin, 26, who hails from Woodstock, Ont.

“I hope I’ll be able to think as the character onstage instead of thinking as Janna: ‘Oh God, this is the last time I’m doing this, or the last time I’m going to see this.”‘

MacKenzie, a wide-eyed brunette who has a diploma in performing arts from Capilano College, recalls being “really nervous” and feeling “a lot of pressure” when she first stepped into Maria’s pinafore.

These days, she feels like she’s come into her own. “There is still that pressure but I’m a lot more comfortable,” she said.

For Polzin, a sprightly blond musical-theatre graduate, the experience has given her a sense of belonging in Toronto’s theatre industry. “You hear the cliche, ‘You have to wait for your big break,’ and I definitely think this was mine.”

Both said they were surprised and saddened when they heard that the show would be ending in the new year.

“We were hoping and expecting that it would go a little longer, so it was a little bit of a shock to us all,” said MacKenzie.

“I could tell, obviously we weren’t filling our seats as well as we did when we first opened but that kind of comes with the territory,” said Polzin. “I am a little upset because it’s such a great show that everyone seemed to respond really well to. But the fact of the matter is that people just don’t feel comfortable spending the money on theatre right now.”

MacKenzie already has an enviable gig lined up for when the show ends: The lead role in the Toronto production of “Rock of Ages,” a five-time Tony Award-winning show that opens April 20, 2010.

Polzin doesn’t have a full-time gig awaiting, but she does have a couple of smaller theatre projects. She also wants to mount an art show featuring her own paintings.

“I think that’s one of the frustrating parts about coming out of the reality show is that people expect that because you’re a face they know and because you’ve gotten one lead that means that offers are going to be pouring in,” she said.

“Well that’s not the reality of our business, you still have to work just as hard.”

Kim Richards

Kim Richards was one of the most popular and adorable star child actresses of the 70s. Kim was born on September 19th, 1964 in Mineola, New York to Kenneth L. “Ken” Richards and Sharon Kathleen “Kathy” Dugan. She made her TV commercial debut at four months in a diaper ad. By age four and a half Kim had already appeared in 20 TV commercials. Richards made her television series debut in 1970 on the show “Nanny and the Professor” (1970). Kim later had substantial recurring roles on the TV programs “James at 15? (1977) and “Hello, Larry” (1979). Richards achieved her greatest enduring fame as spunky psychic alien girl Tia in the terrific Disney family feature Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and its equally solid sequel Return from Witch Mountain (1978). Kim was likewise memorable as an obnoxious little brat who gets brutally killed in John Carpenter’s fantastic urban action cult gem Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). Among the TV shows Richards has done guest spots on are “Disneyland” (1954), “The Rockford Files” (1974), “Police Woman” (1974), “Little House on the Prairie” (1974), “Family” (1976), “Alice” (1976), “CHiPs” (1977), “The Dukes of Hazzard” (1979), “The Love Boat” (1977), “Diff’rent Strokes” (1978), “Project U.F.O.” (1978), “Magnum, P.I.” (1980) and “Medical Center” (1969). Kim was reunited with her “Witch Mountain” co-star Ike Eisenmann for the hilariously horrible made-for-TV horror howler Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) (TV) (Richards did a delightful career interview for the recent DVD of this film). A very cute kid, Richards grew up to become a strikingly beautiful woman. Kim played more mature adult roles in the mid 80s movies Meatballs Part II (1984) and Tuff Turf (1985) in which Richards gives an especially sexy performance as a teenage gang leader’s brash and enticing girlfriend. Richards took a hiatus from acting to raise her four children Brook, Whitney, Chad and Kimberly. After a regrettably lengthy absence from the big screen, Kim Richards made a welcome and triumphant comeback with a fine portrayal of Christina Ricci’s bitter estranged mother in the excellent Black Snake Moan (2006). She’s the sister of fellow actress Kyle Richards — they appeared together in The Car (1977) as James Brolin’s daughters — and Kathy Hilton, who is the mother of Paris Hilton.

Jesse Owens

Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards have been voted as Jesse Owens Athlete of the Year. Nike presented the Jesse Owens Athletes of the Year Fan Vote and fan voting results have been declared. According to the results, Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards have been selected as the best athletes of the year by their fans. The fan votes declared that the two athletes deserve the 2009 Jesse Owens Athletes of the Year awards. Both the winners will receive their awards on December 5 when the Jesse Owens Awards and Hall of fame induction ceremony will be held. The ceremony will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of USA Tracks & Fields (USATF). The meeting will be held at Indianapolis from 2nd December to 6th December.

The candidates for the awards were listed on the USATF website i.e. www.usatf.org. The male and female nominees were listed separately. The male nominees included renowned athletes such as Kerron Clement, Trey Hardee, Tyson Gay, Bernard Lagat, and LaShawn Merrit, Christian Cantwell, and Dwight Phillips. The female nominees included Allyson Felix, Brittney Reese, Jenny Barringer, Carmelita Jeter, and Sanya

Richards. The voting continued for more than a week and more than 18,000 votes were casted by the fans. Gay and Richards dominated the votes hence declared the 2009 winners.

The Jesse Owens Awards organization also chose two voters randomly. These voters will be given prize packages which include an autographed shirt of Team USA, a Team USA medal, and Nike bag.

Jesse Owens Awards were created by USA Tracks & Fields in 1981 to pay homage to Jesse Owens who was an American Athlete and have won four gold medals in single Olympics championship. The Jesse Owens Awards is the highest honor and accolade of USA Tracks & Fields.

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Shyne

We remember it like it was yesterday, we were waiting to see if the computers would stop working when….in December 1999 Sean Combs accompanied by smoking hot then girlfriend Jennifer Lopez and upcoming Biggie sounding rapper Shyne all taken into custody after a shooting a Club New York, with Shyne eventually receiving a 10 year sentence in June 2001.

“It’s a blessing that he’s coming home…I spoke to him like a couple of weeks ago and he sounded like he was in good spirits. I know he can’t wait to get home. I know he is definitely going to heat the whole scene up. He was definitely one of [many] talented young artists that I had the pleasure to work with. I’m quite sure he’s been using his time wisely and has some heat,” Diddy said in a recent Hot 97 interview.

Today unconfirmed sources say he will finally be leaving prison.

Should/Will Shyne return to the music business???

Green Bay Newspaper

MINNEAPOLIS – Brett Favre figured the best place for him before Monday’s game was in the locker room, away from what he knew would be a circus on the field at the Metrodome. Her

But as the Minnesota Vikings quarterback sat alone and the clock ticked closer to game time, when he would face his former team, the Green Bay Packers, for the first time, he experienced something he hadn’t felt in years.

“The only thing I could say was I was about as nervous as I’ve ever been before a game,” Favre said. “I didn’t think I would be. As the week progressed, I felt fine. As I got to the hotel (on Sunday), it kind of dawned on me.”