University of Alabama Walk of Champions

University of Alabama Walk of Champions. September 11, 2010 Alabama vs. Penn State



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Larry Johnson: Kansas City Chiefs Running Back

A native of La Plata, Maryland, Larry Alphonso Johnson Jr. was born on November 19, 1979. Currently playing in the position of running back for the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, Johnson is the son of a defensive line coach at Penn State University. He was selected during the 2003 NFL Draft and is simply known as 'LJ' by teammates and fans.

As is the case with many of today's NFL players, Larry Johnson began showing an interest in football at an early age. With his participation beginning at State College Area High School in Pennsylvania, Johnson rushed for 2,159 yards. In 2002, Johnson continued his football career as he rushed more than 2,000 yards at Penn State. Following this impressive season, Larry Johnson was recognized with the Doak Walker Award, the Maxwell Award and the Walter Camp Award. Upon his college graduation in 2002, Johnson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Integrative Arts.
The year following graduation, Larry Johnson was selected in the NFL Draft and began his successful career with the Kansas City Chiefs. After only a few years with the team, Johnson has already garnered a lot of media and fan attention.

By the end of the 2005 NFL season, Larry Johnson had played nine consecutive games where he rushed for over 100 yards and had more than proved his running ability on the field. As a result, Larry Johnson was named the 2005 MVP for the Kansas City Chiefs and is thought to be a strong contender for the featured running back during Kansas City's 2006 season. As the new season approaches, fans and opposing players will eagerly await to see how the team unfolds as Larry Johnson is once again poised to take the field. Will this be his year to start as the featured running back? Nobody knows for sure, but all eyes will be tuned in to find out.

Bruno (Ali G) in Alabama

sasha baron cohen's other character... bruno the homosexual



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MLK Legacy

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

March on Washington Speech, August, 1963

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest was born on January 15, 1929, the second of three children. His father was a Baptist minister and served as pastor of a large Atlanta church, Ebenezer Baptist, which had been founded by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, maternal grandfather. Martin was ordained as a Baptist minister at age 18.

He attended public elementary and high schools as well as the private Laboratory High School of Atlanta University. King entered Morehouse College at age 15 in September 1944 as a special student. He received a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1948. In the fall of that year, King enrolled at Crozier Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, and received his Bachelor of Divinity degree three years later. King's public-speaking abilities-which would become renowned as his stature grew in the civil rights movement-developed slowly during his collegiate years. He won a second-place prize in a speech contest while an undergraduate at Morehouse, but received Cs in two public-speaking courses in his first year at Crozer. By the end of his third year at Crozer, however, professors were praising King for the powerful impression he made in public speeches and discussions. King was awarded a doctorate by Boston University in 1955. Throughout his education, King was exposed to influences that related Christian theology to the struggles of oppressed peoples. At Morehouse, Crozer, and Boston University, he studied the teachings on nonviolent protest of Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi. King also read and heard the sermons of white Protestant ministers who preached against American racism. Benjamin E. Mays, president of Morehouse and a leader in the national community of racially liberal clergymen, was especially important in shaping King's theological development.

While in Boston, King met Coretta Scott, a music student and native of Alabama. They were married in June 18, 1953 and would have four children. In 1954 King accepted his first pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, a church with a well-educated congregation that had recently been led by a minister who had protested against segregation.

He had been a resident in Montgomery less than one year when Rosa Parks defied the ordinance regulating segregated seating on municipal transportation. King was soon chosen as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), the organization that directed the bus boycott. King's serious demeanor and consistent appeal to Christian brotherhood and American idealism made a positive impression on whites outside the South. Incidents of violence against black protesters, including the bombing of King's home, focused media attention on Montgomery. In February 1956 an attorney for the MIA filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking an injunction against Montgomery's segregated seating practices. The federal court ruled in favor of the MIA, ordering the city's buses to be desegregated, but the city government appealed the ruling to the United States Supreme Court. For 12 months, makeshift car pools substituted for public transportation. At first the bus company scoffed at the black protest, but as the economic effects of the boycott were felt, the company sought a settlement. Meanwhile, legal action ended the bus segregation policy. On June 5, 1956, a federal district court ruled that the bus segregation policy violated the Fourteenth Amendment, which forbids the states from denying equal rights to any citizen. The boycott ended, and it thrust into national prominence a person who clearly possessed charismatic leadership, Martin Luther King, Jr.

By the time the Supreme Court upheld the lower court decision in November 1956, King was a national figure. His memoir of the bus boycott, Stride Toward Freedom (1958), provided a thoughtful account of that experience and further extended King's national influence.

King, urged by prominent black Baptist ministers in the South to assume a larger role in the struggle for black civil rights following the successful boycott, accepted the presidency of the newly formed Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -an organization of black churches and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation. As SCLC's president, King became the organization's dominant personality and its primary intellectual influence. He was responsible for much of the organization's fund-raising, which he frequently conducted in conjunction with preaching engagements in Northern churches.

In January 1960, he resigned his Montgomery pastorate and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where the SCLC had its headquarters. SCLC sought to complement the NAACP's legal efforts to dismantle segregation through the courts, with King and other SCLC leaders encouraging the use of nonviolent direct action to protest discrimination. These activities included marches, demonstrations, and boycotts. The violent responses that direct action provoked from some whites eventually forced the federal government to confront the issues of injustice and racism in the South. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States.

In 1963 Wrote 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' arguing that it was his moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws, in the every year he had Delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech to civil rights marchers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In 1964, King became the first black American to be honored as Time magazine's Man of the Year and also won the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway; Accepting the award on behalf of the civil rights movement, Dr. King said, "Sooner or later, all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.". King's efforts were not limited to securing civil rights; he also spoke out against poverty and the Vietnam War; throughout 1966 and 1967 King increasingly turned the focus of his civil rights activism throughout the country to economic issues.

He began to argue for redistribution of the nation's economic wealth to overcome entrenched black poverty. In 1967 he began planning a Poor People's Campaign to pressure national lawmakers to address the issue of economic justice. After his assassination in April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by a sniper then realized named James Earl Ray and sentenced for 99 years imprisonment. The FBI had believing that King had been associating with Communists and other radicals, but King became a symbol of protest in the struggle for racial justice; and at last President Ronald Reagan signs legislation designating Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday in 1983 (the 3rd Monday of every new year).

King's nonviolent doctrine was strongly influenced by the teachings of Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi. Unlike the great majority of civil rights activists who have regarded nonviolence as a convenient tactic. King followed Gandhi's principles of pacifism. In King's view, civil rights demonstrators, who were beaten and jailed by hostile whites, educated and transformed their oppressors through the redemptive character of their unmerited suffering.

The SCLC helped the students organize the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), at a meeting held at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, to coordinate the protests. As a direct result of the sit-ins, lunch counters across the South began to serve blacks, and other public facilities were desegregated.

An important interplay of action and response developed between government and civil rights advocates. And it was this interplay that did so much to quicken the pace of social change.

The most critical direct action demonstration began in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 3, 1963, under the leadership of Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The demonstrators demanded fair employment opportunities, desegregation of public facilities and the creation of a committee to plan desegregation. King was arrested and, while imprisoned, wrote his celebrated "Letter from a Birmingham jail" to fellow clergymen critical of his tactics of civil. King was arrested more than seven times during his many civil rights campaigns throughout the South.

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 Americans from many religious and ethnic backgrounds converged on Washington, staging the largest demonstration in the history of the nation's capital. The orderly procession moved from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, where King electrified the demonstrators with an eloquent articulation of the American dream (I have a Dream) and his hope that it would be fully realized. In one of the most famous passages from the speech, King declared:

"When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all God's children, black men and white men, Jews and gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual 'Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last'"

Quarterback Training - Passing Accuracy

I am a former NFL quarterback and today I want to talk about some more quarterback training.

Recently I had a chance to speak with Coach Rob Spence the quarterback coach for Syracuse University. I asked him what he qualities he looks for in a high school QB when out recruiting. The number one skill he looks for is passing accuracy.

We talked about the ability to throw at set targets when they have passing workouts. He talked about aiming at the left shoulder or right shoulder or the chin on the receivers face.

So quarterbacks should concentrate during your throwing workouts on accuracy. Not how hard you throw it!

Make sure when you go through your passing tree throwing routine to imagine throwing to your correct target.

When throwing to your right aim for the left shoulder if the receiver is running an out or comeback or flag. And aim for the right shoulder if your receiver is running a slant or hitch, post route or a go route.

The same is true if you are throwing to your left. Everything is just the opposite. So concentrate on all of your quarterback training throwing workouts on passing accuracy.

If you are in high school quarterback I recommend throwing no more than three times per week. If you are a QB who is under 8th grade, don't throw more than 2 times per week.

Just for the record coach Spence guided Toledo offense when he coached there to over 474 yards per game and over 35 points per game!

If you want more information please go my quarterback training website listed below.

College Football - Any Day That Michigan Loses and Michigan State Wins is a Great Day

Ah "how sweet it is" as Jackie Gleason used to say on "The Honeymooners" comedy sitcom in the late 1960s.

Any day that Michigan loses a football game and Michigan State wins a football game is a great day. When Michigan State beats Michigan (as happened today, Saturday, 10-25-08) it is a glorious day.

That would be because Michigan State had not beaten Michigan at the Big House in Ann Arbor since 1990, 18 years ago. The Spartans finished 8-3-1 that year, became Big Ten Co-Champions at 6-2, and beat Southern California 17-16 in the John Hancock Bowl. The coach was George Perles.

Michigan State's last victory over Michigan was a 26-24 win at home in 2001.

The Spartans huge win Saturday pushed their record to 7-2 for just the 3rd time in 40 years. First-year coach Rich Rodriguez and his Wolverines are having their worst season since 1962, when Michigan finished 2-7 and tied a school record for losses. The Wolverines now have lost 4 games at home this season for the first time in 4 decades, and 4 in-a-row overall for the first time in 41 years.

Michigan, which has college football's winningest program, now has to win its final 4 games-three of which are on the road, including one at Ohio State-just to be eligible to play in a 34th straight bowl game.

Michigan State's victory was even sweeter because a blown call by a replay official gave Michigan a touchdown in the first quarter to tie the game at 7. Had the Spartans not ultimately won, the Wolverines would have benefited from a touchdown it did not score when Brandon Minor's 19-yard catch near the end zone was declared out of bounds.

A replay official upstairs in the stands overturned a correct ruling on the field, giving Minor a TD because his foot hit a pylon on his way out of bounds. The NCAA rule book states that "A player or an airborne player who touches a pylon is out of bounds".

The replay official clearly blew the call, which was so blatant, so stupid and so unnecessary it makes you wonder if the replay official in question is a University of Michigan graduate.

The game was tied at 21 when the 3rd quarter ended. Michigan State's Javon Ringer scored his second TD on a 3-yard run midway through the 4th quarter, and Brian Hoyer's 3rd TD pass meant the Spartans outscored the Wolverines 14-zip in the last quarter, lifting Michigan State to a 35-21 victory over the once-mighty Michigan Wolverines.

Ringer, Michigan State's Heisman candidate, picked up 194 yards rushing and 2 touchdowns on 37 carries (5.2 yards per carry). Hoyer was 17-for-29 for 282 yards and a season-high 3 TD passes, one a 61-yarder to Blair White. White finished with 4 catches for 143 yards, an outstanding game for the walk-on junior wide receiver.

The Spartans out gained Michigan 473-252, their highest total in a win at Michigan Stadium in a half-century and their most lopsided victory in the rivalry since they beat Michigan 34-0 at the Big House in 1967.

Michigan State also out rushed Michigan in its victory Saturday, 167-84, a fact that is significant since the team that has rushed for the most yards has won 35 of the last 38 games in their rivalry.

The Spartans next host Wisconsin, a 4-4 team that beat Illinois 27-17 Saturday. Should Michigan State beat Wisconsin and Purdue at home, the Spartans would then be 9-2 when they travel to Penn State for their final regular season game.

After Saturday's victory over the Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio and his Spartans deserve to bask in glory for at least 15 minutes before they turn their attention to those nasty Wisconsin Badgers, who will arrive at Spartan Stadium all too soon.

Copyright © 2008 Ed Bagley

Mississippi State vs Alabama--Game 11

Highlights of Alabama's 32-7 victory over Mississippi State. Video Copyright the Creative Media Department for University of Alabama Athletics.



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LSU QB JaMarcus Russell makes a nice throw against Alabama

Russell throws the ball back across the middle while rolling out to his left.



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The Florida Gator Mascot - A Match Made in Heaven!

The Florida Gator mascot is actually a match made in heaven! The Florida Gators actually have two mascots not just one. Albert E. Gator and Alberta Gator are the happy "mascot" couple who represent the University of Florida Gators. But it wasn't always that way.

Before Albert and Alberta became a couple, the original Florida Gator mascot was a real live alligator! It only seemed fitting that an alligator should be chosen since Florida is said to have over a million alligators in the state. Now that's a lot of alligators!

But eventually the live alligator was replaced in 1970. Albert E. Gator became the official mascot of the Florida Gators. He did a great job but definitely got quite lonely out there on the field - so enters Alberta in 1986. She was a perfect match for Albert and from that point on it was definitely a match made in heaven! They are very rarely seen apart and the fans just love them.

Albert keeps a very close eye out for Alberta at the games. Its been said that at one game, the opposing teams mascots got a little carried away with their megaphones and hit Alberta in the head. Albert stepped right in and saved the day. What a guy!

These two really do make the perfect "Florida Gator mascot". The Florida Gator fans love to see Albert and Alberta come out on to the field and cheer their team to victory. Lets hear it for Albert and Alberta! Go Gators!

State of Alabama Libraries

Former Tuscaloosa Public Library Director Nancy Pack talked with University of Alabama journalism students about state of Alabama libraries



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Alphas from Alabama St. @ Tuskegee Homeocoming 2007

The Alphas from Alabama State at Tuskegee University Homecoming 2007



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Magic City Classic Stingettes 2009

Say Yes pt2



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Bessie Benson Steppers

Watch Bessie Benson Get Down at Dorm Step Show Competition



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Jerry Rice - 1983 Draft Day Picks

Jerry Rice was born on October 13, 1962 in Crawford, Mississippi. Although Rice never had the physical abilities of some other great athletes, he always had the work ethic and determination to get the job done. For this reason, Rice is widely regarded as the best wide receivers to ever play the game. And many people feel that he is the greatest football player of all time regardless of position.
In high school Rice played on the defensive side of the football, and was good enough to make the All State team. But although he accomplished a lot in high school, no NCAA Division I football programs offered him a scholarship.

With no other options, Rice decided to attend Mississippi Valley State University, an NCAA Division I-AA program. In 1983 Rice had a great season, and set many records along the way. He had 102 receptions, 1,450 yards, and was named to several All American teams. He followed this up with an equally good season as a senior in 1984. All of his college football accomplishments led him to being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in August of 2006.

Rice was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers with the 16th pick of the first round in the 1985 NFL Draft. Although Rice struggled with drops during his first year in the NFL, he turned some heads. He finished the season with 927 yards on 49 catches. And ever since that first season Rice was off and running. At the time of his retirement he held many NFL records including receptions, receiving yards, touchdown receptions, touchdowns, all purpose yards, and many more.

It is safe to say that Jerry Rice is the best wide receiver to ever play the game of football. In addition to his great football skills he had the heart of a champion, and the work ethic to match.

The Persistence of Keynesian Macroeconomics [Jeffrey M. Herbener]

Lecture by Jeffrey M. Herbener presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute's 2005 Mises University held in Auburn, Alabama. The internationally renowned instructional seminar presented annually since 1985, featuring 60 or more classes, seminars, and plenary lectures on Austrian economics is the basis for a solid education in economics. mises.org Jeffrey M. Herbener is an American economist of the Austrian School. Besides serving as an economics instructor at Pittsburg State University, Herbener has also taught at Washington and Jefferson College and currently holds the position of professor of economics at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. Herbener is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama and is associate editor of their Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Related links mises.org mises.org DISCLAIMER: The producer of this audio presentation, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, has given permission under the Creative Commons license to publicly repost as long as credit is given to the Mises Institute and respective guidelines are followed. More info at: creativecommons.org This YouTube channel, LibertyInOurTime, is in no way endorsed by or affiliated with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, any of its lecturers or staff members.



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Laffy Taffy

Just me dancing to Laffy Taffy



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Inflation and the Bolsheviks | Yuri N. Maltsev

Recorded at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit, 1 November 2008; Auburn, Alabama. Yuri N. Maltsev received his MA in history and social sciences at Moscow State University and his PhD in economics at the Institute for Labor Research in Moscow. He currently is a professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin.



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Football at the University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame was founded by Father Edward Sorin, CSC, who also became the school's first president. Originally intended to be an all-male institution, it had graduated its first women enrollees in 1972. To date, the school now has about 47% female population. The Catholic heritage is visible through its architecture, made obvious by the Basilica of the Sacred Heart plus a lot of chapels and religious icons around the campus.

Known for its sports program, Notre Dame has gained popularity specifically for its football team. Their teams are members of the NCAA Division I and are called the Fighting Irish since the 1920s.

Eleven national championships have been awarded to the university. The school has a line up of famous college coaches, the best ever. During its first three years, Knute Rockne was the coach where it got the national championship. Frank Leary followed for the next four national championships. Ara Parseghian followed in two years, and then it was Dan Devine and finally Lou Holtz.

Aside from having been awarded the national championships, seven of this team's players have garnered the Heisman Trophy. Notre Dame and Boston Colleges are the only two Catholic universities that compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Its stadium has a capacity of 80,795 and is used by the team for its home games.

The other team who has gotten a higher percentage of wins in the NCAA history is Michigan. Fighting Irish and USC tied for the most Heisman trophy, where both got a total of 7 trophies. Seventy-nine players were named to the All-American and 48 players and coaches were the university's representative tor the College Football Hall of Fame. Then of the teams players were in the Pro Football Hall of Fame for which they ranked second to USC in this respect.

More than any other collegiate program in the country, the university's Football program has produced more players that have played on the National Football League, which is entirely a feat. Four hundred sixty-three former NDU players had continued on to play in the NFL per the latter's report in 2008.

There is no doubt that Notre Dame is indeed one of the best American universities that produces the best American football players.

Bo Jackson - Auburn

Bo Jackson is probably the best athlete to come out of Auburn University and is arguably one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century. Were it not for a horrific January, 1991 hip injury the Heisman Trophy winner with world class sprinter speed who was an All-Star in both the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB) might have gone on to truly rewrite the definition of an all-around athlete. As an aside few people realize Jackson was also a state champion decathlete in his youth.

The Alabama native born Vincent Edward Jackson was described as a restless child with qualities not unlike those of a wild boar with an abundance of energy. Over time the comparison to a wild boar stuck and as Jackson aged the nickname was shorted simply to Bo. Growing up in McCalla, Alabama Bo excelled at sports with perhaps his most notable prep level accomplishment being that in his senior baseball season he hit an astounding 20 home runs in 25 games. Projected over a 162 game major league baseball season that rate would produce a mind blowing 130 home runs (roughly doubling the current record).

Despite being a second round draft pick by the New York Yankees right out of high school Bo Jackson instead chose to attend Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama located about 120 miles west of his McCalla home. During his stint at Auburn University from 1982 to 1985 Bo not only excelled at baseball (batting.400) and football (winning the Heisman Trophy) but even gave thought to becoming a member of the US Olympic track team when his times in the 100 meter dash indicated that he could have a promising career as a world class sprinter. Ultimately the notion of pursuing sprinting was dropped because it did not offer the same type of financial incentives as football or baseball.

After serving as an exceptional athlete at Auburn during the first half of the 1980s Bo Jackson would go on to take the professional sports world by storm throughout the remainder of the decade while playing baseball for the Kansas City Royals as an outfielder and football for the Oakland Raiders as a running back. The year 1989 was the pinnacle of the sports career of Bo Jackson when he was selected to the MLB all-star game (where he won the all-star game MVP award) and the NFL pro bowl in recognition of his accomplishments on the grid iron during the 1989 football season. Sadly a NFL playoff game hip injury on January 13, 1991 eventually resulted in the need for a hip replacement and although Bo made a short comeback in baseball for all intents and purposes the injury ushered in the end of what might have otherwise been the most prolific athletic career in history. Due to his career shortening injury Bo Jackson is often only a footnote in sports history but when considering his collegiate and dual sport professional success it is fair to say Bo Jackson was the American athlete of the 1980s just as Michael Jordan was of the 1990s and Tom Brady or Tiger Woods arguably were of the 2000s.

In May of 2009, twenty years after his illustrious 1989 sports year when Nike "Bo Knows" advertisements were everywhere, the Alabama son came home to Auburn to pass along the lessons he learned during his lifetime to a new generation by giving the commencement speech to the 2009 graduating class at Auburn University.

Football Recruiting Questionnaire - How to Make Sure Football Coaches Read Yours

When most high school football players begin making contact with colleges, one of the first things they do is to go online and fill out a football recruiting questionnaire. Just about every college football program in America has a questionnaire you can fill out online.

While completing the football recruiting questionnaire is not a mistake, I don't think it should be the first step you take. The primary reason is because every other high school football player trying to make it to the college level is doing the same thing. Everyone who is trying to make it to the next level of football is simply going online and filling out the questionnaires.

To set yourself apart from the crowd, you need to doing something different. Although all coaches put these questionnaires on their websites, I'm not sure how often they even look at them. If they are getting too many of them completed, they probably never even get around to reading them.

Instead of doing the football recruiting questionnaire first, I suggest:

1. Decide what level of college football is right for you
2. Make a list of colleges that compete at that level of competition
3. Develop your football athletic resume
4. Develop a letter to send them out to coaches
5. Mail your letter and your resume to the coaches on your list

Getting a personal letter and a resume from you is a much better way of getting the coach's attention. Once they read your letter and resume, they will often write back and then ask you to fill out their football recruiting questionnaire. When that happens, they will actually be anticipating your questionnaire instead of you being just another generic one they received.

You should market and promote yourself to college football coaches. However, don't start with the online football recruiting questionnaire as most football players do. Start the process with a letter and your resume. You will get many more responses from coaches that way.

Alabama St 2005 "War"

ASU



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Boise State University Information

In the capital city of Idaho, a US state, is situated Boise State University. In 1932, Episcopal Church founded Boise state university as a junior college. In 1965-69 are the years, when the university gained acceleration and started with bachelor degree courses and higher education. In 1974, it gained university status and was named what it is called today.

At the south bank of Boise river is located the beautiful campus of the university. With more than 170 buildings, the campus is situated across 175 acres of land. There exist provost department that oversees all the academic activities and programs. It is also responsible for the quality of faculty and academic excellence. Institutional accreditation and accountability also come under this department. The largest academic unit of the university is college of arts and sciences. Various bachelors, masters and doctoral programs are provided in the university. Departments, Interdisciplinary programs and research units are the three basic units of arts and science colleges. Among various departments, there are art, biology, English, geosciences, mathematics, literature, music etc.

If student wants to undergo interdisciplinary programs, he or she can go for environmental studies too, with either B.A. in environmental studies or Minor in environmental studies. For research oriented people, various research units are available in the university. These are- Bio-molecular research center (BRC), Environmental science and Public Policy Research Institute (ESPRI), GeoSpatial research Facility(GRF), Center for Geophysical Investigation of Shallow subsurface(CGISS), Permian research institute(PRI), etc.

The university is deeply involved with community activities also. Different events, activities and internships are carried out. The university claims to create real world learning opportunities through these community based programs. The internships include workshops or practical training sessions with local businesses or agencies, with or without wages. There is also service learning associated with non-profit organizations. Applying the knowledge in the world beyond university is the opportunity given by internships. Mentor's guidance and work experience are the major breakthroughs attained through these internships. The Boise state university also provide4s learning opportunities through service learning. Students, faculties, community and agencies are all benefited by these service learning programs.

Along with educational opportunities, within the campus, there are also Bronco stadium for football, Morrison center as a performance hall, Albertson's library, Student union building and Taco Bell Arena for basketball, gymnastics, wrestling and different concerts. With the student number around 19, 540, BSU offers 190 fields of study along with 201 degrees.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Beta OOP Probate Show.4

2007 Probate Show Chapter President Greeting



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Alabama "Crimson is" Commercial

UPDATED November 27, 2007 Auburn fans may want to spend their money elsewhere. Read the news story below. Auburn fans upset about Bromberg ad School described as a `Cow College' Tuesday, November 27, 2007 ROY L. WILLIAMS News staff writer Bromberg's is apologizing for a tongue-in-cheek advertising campaign that offended some Auburn University fans with references to tobacco-chomping relatives and burped versions of the school's fight song. The Birmingham jeweler received phone calls and e-mails from upset Auburn fans over an ad that described the school as a "Cow College" and mentioned "tobacky spittin'" grandmothers. Bromberg Executive Vice President Frank Bromberg III said Monday the Auburn ad and a similar one targeting Alabama fans still living in the Bear Bryant era were meant in jest. "The point of the ad was to show that true love conquers all, even if one person is an Alabama fan and the other is an Auburn fan," Bromberg said. Bromberg, a University of Alabama graduate, said the jeweler didn't get complaints from Alabama fans. That's because the Auburn ad was mean-spirited, said Auburn graduate Kara Kennedy, who works as director of external affairs at Samford University' School of Business. "Bromberg's just offended half of the state, and that's not good marketing," added Kennedy, who has worked in public relations for over a decade. "They've lost me as a customer." The Auburn ad reads: "Whoever said love conquers all' obviously wasn't in love with a Cow College ...



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The Yellowhammer - Our State Bird

One day my wife Kay and I had an interesting revelation. We have lived in Alabama our entire lives and we both enjoy watching birds of all types. We realized we had never seen our state bird. It started like this, "Kay, have you ever seen a yellowhammer?", to which she replied, "I don't think I have, Have you? What does it look like?" Well, this happens to be our state bird and even the University of Alabama has a cheer based on this elusive bird. We both agreed we had never seen this rare and special bird. An investigation had begun!

What we ran into next was, well, confusing. All we had was a state official drawing of our bird. When we found an official Yellowhammer picture, it looked nothing like this or other state drawings. Imagine our confusion when a small, very pretty yellow finch was found having this name. It was called Old World Yellowhammer, but surely the bird hadn't changed that much! Comparing this bird to our official state pictures - they could not be the same. Back to digging we went.

This time we read the history of how the yellowhammer became our state bird. It was during the Civil War that a group of soldiers from Alabama arrived with fresh uniforms that had bright yellow insignias. They were jokingly called Flicker Flicker - Yellowhammer. The name stuck for most Alabama soldiers after that. We now had a hint -Flicker. Our state bird is a type of Flicker. A woodpecker.

It turns out, Yellowhammer continues to be a nickname. There is no such bird officially. There is the Yellow Shafted Flicker also known as the Northern Flicker. It is found from Maine to Florida and yes - in all parts of Alabama. What we thought of as a rare and special bird, is really quite common. We enjoyed our searching, but came to find this bird was what we had always called a woodpecker! This woodpecker is a little different. If you sometimes see a group of three or four birds similar to robins from a distance, hopping around and eating on the ground, they could be the Yellowhammer. A favorite food for these woodpeckers are ants. And yes, it turns out, we had been seeing our state bird all our lives!

College Football 2007 - 6 Top 25 Teams Lose and Nosedive, 4 Others Join the Top 25 Poll

As predicted, no less than 6 AP Top 25 teams lost in college football's third week, two of them-Louisville and Nebraska-dropped in the rankings and four others-UCLA, Georgia Tech, Arkansas and Tennessee-dropped right out of the poll. Life in big time college football can be a little unsettling.

Four more-Alabama, Kentucky, South Florida and Missouri-moved into the Top 25 for the first time.

No. 9 Louisville finds itself now No. 18 after being upset by Kentucky 40-34. Kentucky is now 3-0 and No. 21 after its victory, the Wildcats' first win against a top-10 team since 1977, 30 years ago. The loss by Louisville should come as no surprise. The Cardinals beat up on AA Murray State 73-10 (as they should have) and then gave up a whopping 42 points to Middle Tennessee before winning 58-42 (that is a porous defense).

Louisville is still overrated. If you do not think so, check this out: Middle Tennessee was rated No. 141 among 119 Division 1-A schools by Sagarin going into its game with Louisville. Good grief, talk about beating a lousy team. It makes you wonder, how good is Kentucky?

No. 14 Nebraska is now No. 24 after being dominated by USC on the Cornhuskers' turf, 49-31. USC gained 313 yards rushing and held Nebraska to 31. USC remains No. 1 in all polls from here to parts unknown.

No. 15 Georgia Tech was upset by No. 21 Boston College 24-10 and fell out of the poll.

No. 22 Tennessee was swamped by No. 5 Florida 59-20 and dropped out of the poll.

Moving into the AP Top 25 this week was No. 16 Alabama which tuned back then No. 16 Arkansas, 41-38, after twice blowing 21-point leads. It was a dramatic win for the Crimson Tide, who put on a defensive stand and a last-minute drive culminating in a final, 4-yard, game-winning touchdown pass with 8 seconds left.

I have said to keep your eyes peeled for Nick Saban, a quality coach in his first year at Alabama. Saban led LSU to the 2003 BCS National Championship while competing in the same SEC conference. Moving into the Top 25 was the No. 24 South Florida Bulls who were idle this week after beating AA Elon 28-13 and upsetting then No. 17 Auburn on the road, 26-23, in overtime.

I have already taken Alabama and South Florida off my list of teams that will be in the Top 25 before the season is over. Last week I predicted that Alabama, South Florida, Washington, Arizona State and Michigan State will crack the AP Top 25.

Missouri beat Western Michigan 52-24 for its 3rd straight win and moved into No. 25 in the poll. The Tigers have also beaten Illinois 40-34 and Ole Miss 38-25. After this weekend's games, Sagarin rated Illinois No. 63, Ole Miss No. 75 and Western Michigan No. 111. I will let you know if Missouri is any good after they play and beat a team worth beating. Washington, still unranked, led No. 10 Ohio State 7-3 at the half and had the momentum to pull off an upset for the second straight week (the Huskies upset No. 22 Boise State a week earlier).

Unfortunately, a 39-second stretch in the 3rd quarter cost Washington dearly. First, the Buckeyes' Brian Robiskie beat freshman cornerback Vonzell McDowell down the sideline for a 68-yard touchdown.

Then another freshman, Curtis Shaw, fumbled on the ensuing kickoff return trying to get more yardage after the initial hit. Ohio State scored on the turnover, taking a 17-7 lead and eventually winning 33-14 in a game that was much closer than the score. I believe Washington is still a team on the rise and will bounce back this week as it starts Pac 10 play with a road game at UCLA. UCLA was ranked No. 11 before playing Utah over the weekend and getting the snot kicked out of it, 44-6, and falling out of the poll.

Arizona State, still unranked, won its 3rd straight by moving by San Diego State 34-13 (rated No. 106). First year Coach Dennis Erickson has also topped San Jose State 45-3 (rated No. 147) and Colorado 33-14 (rated No. 67). Arizona State starts its Pac 10 campaign this weekend at home against Oregon State.

Another first year coach, Mark Dantonio at Michigan State, won his 3rd straight game in hand-to-hand combat with Pittsburgh 17-13 (ranked No. 53). The Spartans led 14-7 at the half but frankly underwhelmed me with their performance.

After watching Michigan State sprint to a 42-0 lead in their opener midway through the second quarter in a 55-18 thrashing of UAB (ranked No. 125), scoring touchdowns in their first 6 possessions, I expected more against Pittsburgh. They got by Bowling Green 28-17 (ranked No. 65) in a not-so-impressive showing, but should have done more.

Pittsburgh brought some defense to the game. Remember that the Panthers' Head Coach Dave Wannstedt was an offensive tackle at Pitt and former NFL Head Coach of the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins, both known for their defensive teams. For Michigan State to remain on the rise, the Spartans needed to best Pitt by two touchdowns and to be impressive they needed to beat them by four touchdowns. Neither happened.

MSU travels to Notre Dame on Saturday (9-22-07). The Irish are winless in 3 games and currently one of the worst teams in the nation. They have yet to score an offensive touchdown this season, have allowed 23 sacks (46 teams did not allow 23 sacks in all of last season), and rank dead last (119th) in 3 categories among Division 1-A teams--rushing, total offense and scoring offense.

The Lord will have to help Michigan State more than Notre Dame should the Irish upset the Spartans. So who is moving up impressively this week? Try Steve Spurrier's South Carolina Gamecocks, from No. 17 to No. 12 by leveling AA South Carolina State 38-3; and the Oregon Ducks, from No. 19 to No. 13 by ripping Fresno State 52-21.

So who remains vastly overrated? Try No. 7 Texas. The Longhorns topped Arkansas State 21-13 (rated No. 74) at home, defeated TCU 34-13 (rated No. 39) at home and then barely got by UCF (University of Central Florida, rated No. 64) 35-32 on the road. Texas spotted UCF 32 points (this is defense?) and won by a field goal.

Another overrated team is No. 9 Wisconsin. The undefeated 3-0 Badgers' big time wins came against Washington State 42-21 (rated No. 48), UNLV 20-13 (rated No. 96) and AA The Citadel 45-31 (rated No. 129). They gave up 31 points to a AA team going nowhere.

Wisconsin is going down, it is just a matter of time. Soon the Badgers will be playing Michigan State, No. 10 Penn State at Penn State and No. 8 Ohio State at Ohio State. I want to see this ferocious Wisconsin offense against the Buckeye defense, ranked No. 3 nationally in total defense and No. 5 in scoring defense.

For the record, No. 1 USC is currently ranked No. 41 in total defense and No. 45 in scoring defense. This helps explain why the Trojans handled Idaho 38-10 (rated No. 116) and No. 24-ranked Nebraska 49-31 (rated No. 18). No. 2 LSU is ranked No. 1 in total defense and No. 1 in scoring defense. This helps explain why LSU has stomped Mississippi State 45-0 (rated No. 46), then No. 9 Virginia Tech 48-7 (now rated No. 31) and Middle Tennessee 44-0 (rated No. 109).

So what else is noteworthy? Indiana, Connecticut, Purdue, Penn State, Texas A&M, Rutgers, Florida, Kansas, Arizona State and Hawaii have all gone 3-0 against either cupcake teams or weak competition. The jury is out of these teams until they actually play a decent or worthy opponent.

In other results, the Duke Blue Devils ended their 22-game losing streak, longest active in Division 1-A, by edging Northwestern 20-14. Florida International now has the longest losing streak with 14 after losing to Miami (FL) 23-9.Boise State hosted Wyoming and won by 10, 24-14. Good for Wyoming, losing by only 10 in an away game to the mighty, high-scoring Boise State Broncos.

Mike Price's UTEP team was outscored in the 4th quarter and lost to New Mexico State 29-24 to go 1-2 on the year. It is a real blessing that we will be getting into conference play this weekend so we can really begin to access who has it going on and who does not.

AA games may be interesting at times (like Appalachian State's 34-32 upset of Michigan in their Big House), but it tells you little about a team. Now the nonsense slows to a trickle and we get down to business.

Copyright © 2007 Ed Bagley

ASU The Way You Make Me Feel

ASU vs. UAB 5th Quarter!



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Ignite Corvallis Chris Nordyke, State Farm Insurance

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Online MBA Course - Start Earning One From the University of North Alabama

If you need an online MBA course from a business school that strictly accentuate on professionalism, you should consider earning one post-graduate business degree via University of North Alabama (UNA) which produces business intellectuals including Dalen Keys, who is the chief technology officer of Dupoint Displays, and David L. Kennedy, who is the vice president for Coca Cola and executive vice president of Columbia Pictures - both of them were avid learners and they strived through the dynamic business world.

This reflects its high reputation as UNA was ranked as a top tier public university in the Southern Master's category of the 2008 U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges in the year 2007. At such ranking, you will expect experienced full-time professors with myriad experiences in business, teaching and consulting areas. All of them hold doctorates and are seriously involved in research studies that make them withstand to the competitive and dynamic business world.

Basically, UNA offers online MBA course that is designed for four concentrations which are Professional, Information System, International Business and Health Care Management. These designated online programs are enhanced by 'Tegrity' software in order to capture and archive lectures in forms of audio and Powerpoint format in which you can view and listen to it at your convenience.

Most of the times, you are required to engage in students online discussion to discuss related case study regarding the topics that you have learned during the lecture. In addition, DVDs are occasionally used to capture and deliver lectures for later review, particularly for prerequisite courses.

It only takes two years to complete the course and it is affordable in which it is notably less expensive than other fully accredited programs. Tuition fees only cost $900 per course as UNA candidates are required to complete 11 courses within certain period of time.

Online Degrees explained by Andrew Jackson University

You've heard a lot about it, but what is so great about online degrees? Online education allows you the freedom to learn anywhere, at any time. There is no driving to and from campus, and class times fit into your schedule. A motivated person, armed with a laptop or mobile device can attend class in any location they please. That is where Andrew Jackson University gets its mantra: TAKE EDUCATION ANYWHERE. But what about degree mills? Degree mills are unaccredited, unlicensed schools who issue diplomas without the authorization of a state or recognized accrediting body. Each state licenses universities to issue degrees. AJU is authorized by the state of Alabama to issue degrees. What gives those degrees validity is accreditation. Accreditation is the process by which a recognized organization approves all aspects of a school, therefore establishing their credibility. AJU is accredited by the Distance Education Training Council, which has been recognized by the US. Department of Education for over 70 years, giving your diploma the validity you need when entering the work force. Confused? Don't be! Andrew Jackson University is glad to answer any questions you may have about online education or accreditation. Contact us at 800-429-9300, visit us at aju.edu, or email us.



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