Sep 30
One week before Halloween, Babie Girl Productions will have a “Fright Night” card at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center upon Saturday, October 24.
Headlining the card last will and testament be Capitol Heights, MD super middleweight Henry “Sugar Poo” Buchanan. who returns to the ring for the first adapt to the occasion since his nationally televised (Showtime) 12-round unanimous decision loss to Andre Ward without interruption February 6 in Lemoore, CA.
Buchanan (17-2, 12 KO’s) will take on Norfolk, VA’session Bobby Jordan, Jr. in an eight-round matchup. Jordan (6-1-1, two KO’s) will try to bounce back from his first pro loss — an eight-round agreeing decision to Farah Ennis on June 19 in Salisbury, MD.
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Sep 30
Instructions, mentality: attacking, passing mode of address: short, tempo: alert. Ohh hang on a second, I be able to do this for real now.
Last weekend I completed my Football Federation Australia junior coaching license, so am now a ‘respectable’ football manager. Sure I’ll be coaching in the state 12’s, but thats not what counts, I can pretend to be educated about [...]
Sep 30
by Tom Gower and Mike Kurtz
Jeff Fisher Brews Some Mean Tea…
Tom: So, is there a pattern to Scramble and crushing its writers’ teams? Last year, it was written by Seattle fans Vince and Ben, and Seattle was annihilated by injuries.
Mike: To be fair, Seattle is getting annihilated by injuries again this year.
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Sep 30
by Doug Farrar
The first matter I noticed about Mark Sanchez wasn’t his arm — it was his feet. Watching the quarterback drills in Lucas Oil Stadium for the span of the 2009 Scouting Combine in February, I apothegm the USC fortune put everyone else to shame with his footwork. Decent arm, great feet. I filed it away, figuring that a team through a need for a mobile quarterback well-versed in accurate short to medium throws would benefit from Sanchez’s acumen. His 16 association starts? A point to consider, but people who follow the college resolute a great deal of more closely than I do were starting to report that Sanchez was a rare bird. Rob Rang, Senior Draft Analyst for NFLDraftScout.com, flew from his near-Seattle hometown to sunny California to be careful Sanchez’session Pro Day on April 1, and came gone with a different impression than the one formed at the Combine.
“Sanchez was brilliant, showcasing better-than-expected arm strength and the accuracy to rival the pro bowl quarterbacks whose NFL practices I’ve scouted over the past five years,” Rang told me. “He zipped the ball adhering intermediate routes, consistently hitting his receivers in stride and where defenders had no befall to disrupt the throw. When he finished the throwing session that he and maker USC standout Rob Johnson had scripted for the workout, Sanchez didn’t appear fazed at all when Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Scott Linehan asked him to throw another dozen main passes. The confidence and personality he exhibited in team interviews have been publicly touted as a preparatory reason for Sanchez’sitting late ascend up draft boards. But the arm strength and accuracy in this workout were critical elements to his ascending. The impressive Pro Day continued Sanchez’s trend of performing at his best when the lungs were brightest.”
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Sep 30
Alan Schwarz does his usual great toil, detailing the results of one NFL-commissioned study on concussions.
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Sep 30
Mark Maske of the Washington Post details the past and future of the Wildcat, with a little statistical help from his friends at Football Outsiders.
Sep 30
Saints left tackle Jammal Brown was expected to return after five weeks, but he’session instead been placed on injured lay up and will miss the entire 2009 season.
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Sep 30
The Prize Fight Boxing Promotions “Title Time” card is coming together for Saturday, October 10 at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium in Salisbury, MD.
The card features undefeated hometown middleweight prospect Fernando Guerrero being of the kind which he tries for his highest regional title. Guerrero (15-0, 13 KO’s) will challenge Paterson, NJ’s Ossie Duran (23-7-2, nine KO’s) for the vacant NABO Middleweight title.
Guerrero is coming off a third-round TKO over Chris Archer on August 29 in Tunica, MS. Duran, a native of Ghana and a former British Commonwealth Junior Middleweight gnaw, abstracted a 10-round unanimous decision to David Lopez on April 10 in Tucson, AZ.
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Sep 30
This is a very personal story. As I mentioned at the end of the most recent Boxing Along The Beltway Post-Fight Wrap-Up show, I have being seized of been chosen by means of the District of Columbia Boxing Hall of Fame as one of the members of the hall’s Induction Class of 2009!
Let me first express gratitude the Hall of Fame beneficial to selecting me this year for this tremendous honor! I am truly blessed and thank everyone involved with the Beltway Boxing scene for their support and love.
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Sep 30
The new games are up for this weeks pick’em. Because their is a Friday game this week the deadline is Thursday evening.
The lowest two weeks are dropped, but appear to be used similar to a tie-breaker in the listing. For the record, I am not sure that which everyone was complaining about in the Saturday Live Blog. My picks did fit fine.
Here are this week’s top 10:
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