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Louisville safety Calvin Pryor predicted the Cardinals would “shock the world” against Florida in the Sugar Bowl.
Brave words that he and his teammates backed up from start to finish.
Terell Floyd returned an interception 38 yards for a touchdown on the first play, dual-threat quarterback Teddy Bridgewater directed a handful of scoring drives and No. 22 Louisville stunned the fourth-ranked Gators 33-23 in the Sugar Bowl on Wednesday night.
Shaking off an early hit that flattened him and knocked off his helmet, Bridgewater was 20 of 32 passing for 266 yards and two touchdowns against the heavily favoured Gators. Among his throws was a pinpoint, 15-yard timing toss that DeVante Parker acrobatically grabbed as he touched one foot down in the corner of the end zone.
Rashad Greene of the Florida State Seminoles celebrates after he scored a six-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter against the Northern Illinois Huskies during the Discover Orange Bowl at Sun Life Stadium on January 1, 2013 in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Photo by Chris Trotman/Getty Images)
Playing in the rain: Running back Eddie Lacy of the Alabama Crimson Tide carries the ball upfield during the game against the Missouri Tigers at Faurot Field/Memorial Stadium on October 13, 2012 in Columbia, Missouri.
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Nearly three months after Penn State said it wanted to settle “privately, expeditiously and fairly” with the boys Jerry Sandusky sexually abused, lawyers for the victims from his criminal case and other potential claimants say the school has not followed up with concrete action.
The attorneys told The Associated Press in recent days that had very limited contact with the university and, if that continues, more lawsuits may follow the four now under way.
“I believe there has been a window of opportunity, which is closing, despite enormous patience by the lawyers who represent the victims,” said Philadelphia attorney Tom Kline, who represents a young man who testified during Sandusky’s criminal trial he was fondled in a school shower in 2001.
Kline and the other lawyers told the AP that they will not wait indefinitely for the university to propose a settlement process stemming from Sandusky’s conviction in June on 45 counts of sexual abuse of 10 boys. The former assistant football coach awaits sentencing and will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Loved ones and teammates of a Tulane University football player who fractured his spine while making a tackle will face an agonizing wait to learn how serious the injury is and whether it will leave him paralyzed.
Senior safety Devon Walker was in stable condition and recovering in an intensive-care unit after a three-hour surgery to stabilize his spine at St. Francis Hospital, said Dr. Greg Stewart, Tulane’s director of sports medicine.
“These kind of injuries take 24, 48, sometimes 72 hours to fully declare themselves,” Stewart said before the surgery. “We don’t know what the long-term implications and outcomes are going to be.”
Signs and flowers are seen at the statue of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, before the annual spring football scrimmage in State College, Pennsylvania April 21, 2012. Paterno died on January 22, 2012.
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Students leave notes on a cardboard cutout of former Penn State Football coach Joe Paterno in the Pattee and Paterno Libraries on the campus of Penn State on January 24, 2012 in State College, Pennsylvania. Paterno, who was 85, died due to complications from lung cancer on Jan. 22. Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images
Paterno’s legacy is not so simple
Bruce Arthur: True to the final months of his life, Joe Paterno came to a complicated end. He was fighting lung cancer, everybody knew that. But the Penn State student news site OnwardState.com reported Saturday night that the iconic ex-football coach had died; the report multiplied on Twitter before being quickly quashed by a family spokesman. People in State College, Pa., had already been quietly speculating that he had died Saturday morning. As he did when he was a coach, staying in charge of Penn State until the age of 84, Joe Paterno made everybody wait.
And when he died Sunday morning Joe Paterno was 85, and his legacy was what was left, and it was no longer simple.
Here is a gigantic orange mascot getting tackled by West Virginia’s Darwin Cook, and subsequently throwing up in the garbage can at the Orange Bowl.
(Source: sports.nationalpost.com)
There is a winning kicker at the bottom of this pile
Somewhere. The Michigan Wolverines pile on kicker Brendan Gibbons #34 after Gibbons kicked a successful 37-yard game-winning field goal in overtime against the Virginia Tech Hokies during the Allstate Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
