Westfield honors linebacker's career
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Hard work and dedication paid off for Waltham's Dave Granados, who has been honored at Westfield State College with the 12th Player Award for varsity football.
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MARSHFIELD -- Ramon Judkins was exhaling deep breaths of joy, relief, and awe all at once. The Beverly Hills running back did more than pull his weight for the Normans, shifting and sprinting around Marshfield defenders en route to 162 yards on 21 carries last night at Anderson Field before nearly 2,000. But the star of the game did not ...
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GLENDALE, Ariz. - Two tables to the left of Patriots cornerback Asante Samuel, veteran Ty Warren is explaining how precious it is to make a trip to the Super Bowl. A few tables to the right, running back Laurence Maroney is telling everyone how much he plans to enjoy his first trip to the championship game, because "you never know ...
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The Olympic speed skating medalist Joey Cheek will not be able to play on Princeton Universityâs sprint football team because he is considered a professional athlete, the Ivy League has ruled. The ruling stemmed from Cheekâs decision to retain an agent for paid speaking engagements that draw on his status as an Olympian, the university said. Cheek, a 27-year-old freshman, would have gained publicity for sprint football, which has a weight limit of 172 pounds. Five teams â Army, Cornell, Navy, Penn and Princeton â compete in the Collegiate Sprint Football League.
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Clinton Portis's blocks garner even more attention from his teammates in the meeting room than his 112-yard rushing day against the Jaguars.
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Coming into last night's showdown with undefeated Tri-Valley League rival Holliston, the Medfield Warriors had reason to be confident. They had been averaging more than 30 points per game, and they had the league's leading scorer in halfback Bryan Lee.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The non-contact jersey had been ditched earlier in the week. Running back Laurence Maroney was tired of hearing his teammates' barbs, and felt it was important to return to game action, to feel the speed, to take that first hit.
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Florida defensive tackle Clint McMillan struggled to recall a college athlete like Arkansas running back Darren McFadden. So he turned to the pros.
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Newly acquired wide reciever Antwaan Randle El, on of the NFL's most well-liked, affable players, has a zest for life that spawned legions of supporters around the league.
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Ed Steele, who has built top-ranked Broad Run into an area softball powerhouse during a 16-year career that boasts six region titles and one state crown, will be honored with the coveted Morgan Wootten Award on Tuesday.
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Patriots left guard Stephen Neal is a good listener. Neal yesterday remembered instructions from coach Bill Belichick that when a player is running after an opponent who is going toward the end zone, he should knock the ball toward the end zone because it'll be a touchback if it goes through it.
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Patriots coach Bill Belichick gave a thumbs-up to the team's kicking game in Sunday's 17-13 victory over the Chicago Bears.
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Roberto Duran, a world champion in four weight divisions over a career that spanned five decades, and Olympic gold medalist Pernell Whitaker, another four-division champion, were voted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Thursday.
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In his ninth year with the Patriots, Tedy Bruschi has continued to defy description. Is he a defensive lineman in a linebacker's body? Or is he a linebacker with a defensive lineman's demeanor?
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A talented team like Holliston has multiple options on offense, but with the game on the line late in the fourth quarter last night it went to the player it has gone to in clutch situations all season: Matthew Bellomo. Bellomo rushed up the middle for the winning touchdown on fourth and 1 with just more than five ...
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Southern California senior Matt Grootegoed on Thursday was named one of three finalists for the Butkus Award, which is presented to the nation&#39;s top college linebacker.
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FOXBOROUGH - In a joyous on-field celebration following yesterday's AFC Championship game, linebacker Tedy Bruschi was embracing Bill Belichick. Even then, Belichick still found the time to offer some analysis.