Couch Potatoes: Top Ten Least Active
100 Lexington, KY
99 Indianapolis, IN
98 Jackson, MS
97 Charleston, WV
96 Oklahoma City, OK
95 Tulsa, OK
94 Little Rock, AR
93 Nashville, TN
92 Laredo, TX
91 Birmingham, AL 

“I just see his legs,” said Estenor, 21, a child of Haitian immigrants from Palm Beach. “The car is crushing him. He’s not moving. I’m thinking, ‘Oh, God, this guy is going to die.’ ” “I tried to lift the car, and when I first tried, it didn’t budge. I backed up. I don’t know. But I felt this energy come, and I lifted it. I don’t know how, but somebody pulled him from the car.” 

Over the past 25 years, Duke has seen 15 players taken in the lottery (top 14 picks), only 26.6% of them (4) have scored at least 13.1 ppg over their careers. The Wall Street Journal reports thats the scoring average for all non-Duke lottery picks over the last quarter of a century.

Blue Devils guards like Jay Williams, Bobby Hurley and Trajon Langdon have been astonishing failures in the pro game.

At walk’s end was the main community water source — a two-tiered catch basin collecting a trickle of milky, almost opaque water from up the hillside. The top basin was for drinking water, the lower one for washing clothes. 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Richt will reach out to Bulldog fans to help fix the water issues

Roth said he found out Friday that his father had turned in his resignation to make the trip to Omaha. He said he wasn’t worried about his father finding another job. “He didn’t burn any bridges. … He’ll be OK. The Gamecock Nation will help us out,” Michael said with a laugh.

The father turned down all interview requests about his odd decision.

Passing by Holuba Hall, where several football players were conducting unsupervised workouts, Paterno stopped to watch for a few minutes without speaking to anyone, he said. Suitably impressed, he returned to his office where he reported to the coaching staff that at least one player had looked good and caught his eye. “You know you broke a rule?” someone said, pointing out that coaches aren’t permitted to watch players working out before the start of practice in August. Penn State spokesman Jeff Nelson said the university will report the incident to the NCAA.

ESPN’s Rece Davis was taping an interview for a future special on Paterno when he owned up to his mistake.

- Hummingbirds can be conceived and born in the time (18-23 days) it takes college football’s Bowl Season and March Madness to crown a champion

- The NFL and MLB playoffs last between 24-and-29 days, just enough time for a Peacock to be conceived and born, not the kind at NBC.

-  Not many American’s watch the Cricket World Cup, but a Kangaroo could be created and come to life in the time (42 days) it took to complete the 2011 event.

- Alligator shows are pretty popular on TV these days, thats good for the NBA and NHL. The 54-to-63 days it takes them to finish the postseason, is enough time to create a baby alligator.

- Champions League Soccer is the real winner, they have a postseason that goes between 92-to-102 days, long enough for a Snow Leopard to be conceived and born.

“I had nothing to do with any decision that he made,” Van Pelt said in a telephone interview. “I didn’t inform him what to do. I didn’t tell him, ‘Here’s what I think.’ None of that.”

The Miracle urged fans to retire unwanted sweaters, which then would be donated to those in need. Fans who donated were eligible for a chance to drive a sports car.

“He was on Skype the other day and told a couple recruits he could go four more years,” Penn State quarterbacks coach Jay Paterno said of his father.

“I am not doing anything wrong,” she said.  “I mean, I have a job, I work all the time.  My son’s had a car since he was 18-year-old.  What’s the difference?  Everybody has a car.  It doesn’t matter to me.  My son is what matters to me.  I wish everybody would understand that.” 10 Investigates did find court records that showed that Thomasina Pryor has had some recent financial challenges, but she was adamant that she could afford the car payments and insisted that paying for her son’s cars was worth the cost.

“It turned out pretty good,” he said. “But baseball is probably my first love.”

The St. Petersburg Times reports Fisher tossed the first pitch out at the Rays game on Monday.

“I stood in that locker room two hours on Pro Day and the head coach didn’t come down and say hello or nothing,” Sapp told WINZ’s Finsiders. “Let’s stop talking about this Al Golden reaching out and telling everyone is welcome. It’s bull.”

Singler is projected a second round pick of the Los Angeles Clippers, according to NBADraft.net

IMG is planning to sell licensed Wooden-branded memorabilia and apparel, and develop media properties such as films or television shows that highlight his coaching philosophy.

“We’re going to be doing that, we hope, in the very near future, and getting a better feel for their interest in all of this,” Emmert said following a speech at the Indiana Economic Club in Indianapolis. “I’ll be responding directly to their letter in the coming days, and we’ll have a better feel for what’s really on their mind.”

“Most played…I don’t know, I want to say Katy Perry, “Fireworks.” It’s intense.”

Ja’Juan also talked about his favorite pregame ritual.

“Well, I take a doodoo. Before every game I doodoo. Well, that’s the only thing I do. That’s one thing I have to do before every game, or I won’t feel energy, and I’ll just feel slow. When I do I just feel light on my feet and everything, and I feel faster, so that’s what I do.”

When told that this interview was actually going to run on the web, Story didn’t back down from his game prep.

“Well, I mean, that’s what it is. I doodoo and then listen to Katy Perry.”

The 37,000 tickets distributed for the game to Tiger fans through the LSU ticket office is the most ever for a regular season away game for the school, surpassing the 31,000 sold for the Tulane game in New Orleans in 2007 and 25,000 for the 2010 season opener against North Carolina in the Chick-fil-A Classic in Atlanta. As a result of the 37,000 tickets being sold to season ticket holders, tickets for the Cowboys Classic game against Oregon will not go on sale to the general public through LSU, Broussard said. Broussard added that ticket requests from LSU season ticket holders for the Oregon game had already surpassed the school’s allotted amount of 37,000.

Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas is 460 miles away from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It will take Tigers fans 7 hours and 34 minutes to make the road trip to see the LSU vs. Oregon game.

Keep in mind during the 2010 college football season these teams finished in the bottom ten in attendance. They would need several home games to sell 37,000 tickets.

Ball State 8,947

Akron 10,185

Idaho 12,730

Buffalo 12,981

Bowling Green 13,306

Florida Atlantic 14,025

Western Michigan 14,225

San Jose State 14,474

Western Kentucky 14,577

Miami (Ohio) 15,519

Silver Star Merchandising Ltd., an Irving-based company launched last year by the family of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones , has signed a 10-year-deal to be the exclusive maker and distributor of off-field jerseys, hats and other athletic-themed apparel for the University of Southern California. The deal, which takes effect July 1, is the first major college pact for Silver Star Merchandising, said president Jerry Jones Jr., the son of the team owner.

Iger went on to note that ESPN holds the rights to air nearly 300 NCAA football games, which would serve as contextually appropriate replacement programming in the event of the NFL season being scuttled. “We will see some extremely, extremely improved pricing for ESPN’s college football games. CPMs will be up, rates will be up,” Iger said. “They’ll probably expand their format so that they’ll add more inventory in order to take advantage of that. So the significant increases we’ll see not just in college football but in other ESPN programming will offset, at least somewhat, the impact of a [lockout].”

It was also noted that ESPN has the least to lose among the NFL’s network TV partners.

Under terms of its rights deal, ESPN’s Monday Night Football carries the lightest spot load of the NFL’s TV partners, with ad sales adding up to around $175 million. By comparison, Fox last season had the most skin in the game, having generated more than $975 million in ad dollars with its Sunday NFC package.

The settlement, spelled out in financial statements but unbeknown to most in the member schools and conferences, gives it sole ownership of a trademark that has been the subject of several legal disputes and challenges over the years. While large on its face, the eight-figure amount accounts for less than 2½% of the association’s $700 million-plus budget.

The NCAA makes close to 90% of its yearly income from the college hoops party.

Television rights and marketing fees, almost all derived from the annual three-week Division I tournament, account for 86% of the NCAA’s annual revenues, and it scrupulously polices any unauthorized use of “March Madness.”

The Dallas Cowboys, who have have made a bid to supply licensed apparel for Ohio State, according to an article by the Columbus Dispatch. The reporter, Marla Matzer Rose, wrote that this isn’t the first time the Cowboys have made overtures to universities in an effort to secure their business. They have already finalized a licensing deal with USC, according to Rose.

The show will give viewers a look at the hurdles UTSA has cleared to launch a new football program in San Antonio. “UTSA Football: The Birth of a Program” will premiere at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 14 on Fox Sports Southwest. It will be the first of six 30-minute episodes that will chronicle the Roadrunners as they prepare for their historic first game on Sept. 3 against Northeastern State.

“Well, I don’t know,” Newsome said tonight during a conference call with season ticket holders. “I’m enjoying it. I’ve got a young quarterback, a young back, a stud defensive tackle. Terrell Suggs has been here for seven years and is only 27 years old. “I’m still enjoying this. I’ve got a great working relationship with the owner, the president and the head coach. I’ve got a great building to come to work. Now that they’ve got Nick Saban, they don’t need me. Nick is running everything. Now that Nick’s down there, it allows me to stay up here and enjoy this.”

In a May 3 letter, Varney asked National Collegiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert if he attempted to establish playoffs before the championship game, as is the case in other sports.
“Serious questions continue to arise suggesting that the current Bowl Championship Series system may not be conducted consistent with the competition principles expressed in the federal antitrust laws,” Varney wrote.

The IRS has been dragged into this battle to get rid of the BCS and add a new college football playoff system.

Playoff PAC, a political action committee that wants the sport to adopt playoffs and scrap its system of using polls and computer rankings, filed a complaint in September with the Internal Revenue Service. The group said the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar Bowls are violating their tax-exempt status by providing excessive compensation to executives, spending undisclosed amounts on lobbying and intervening in political campaigns.

“The facts and circumstances of this case reflect more on the University’s inability to monitor some of the activities of its coaches, rather than a failure to control its institutional athletics compliance responsibilities,” Boise State wrote in its roughly 1,500-page response to the NCAA, obtained Tuesday by the Idaho Statesman.