Stanford vs. USC-Andrew Luck Lays out Shareece Wright (Impressive tackle by QB) gpoppa11 2010-10-11 | Stanford vs. USC-Andrew Luck Lays out Shareece Wright Impressive tackle by QB Andrew Luck On behalf of QBs everywhere, Andrew Luck brings the pain Saturday night, the quarterback Andrew Luck decided to join the hit parade at the expense of end zone-bound USC cornerback Shareece Wright at the end of the first half. USC recovered Wright's fumble, but wasn't able to turn it into points before the break, a key point in the Cardinal's eventual 37-35 win on a last-second field goal: With Luck and Trojan QB Matt Barkley taking turns carving up the defenses for 675 yards and six touchdowns between them, the game was destined to go to the offense that touched the ball last.
2010 CIF Finals - Argos RB Josh Webb - Acrobats gpoppa11 2010-12-14 | YAHOO! News.... Football player's acrobatic airborne scores A high school running back makes like a gymnast to pull off back-to-back remarkable plays. Amazing , TD, conversion land California team a title There have been plenty of amazing, acrobatic touchdowns across the nation this year. Yet a playoff game in California still might have turned in a 2010 first: A complete somersault en route to a game-winning end-zone celebration. As reported in the Orange County Register, the player who pulled off the feat you see above is Garden Grove (Calif.) High running back Josh Webb, who took his airborne leap a bit farther than usual in the final two minutes of the Argos' CIF-SS Southern Section Final victory over Beckman (Calif.) High. Just before Webb hit the goal line, he went up to get above the last line of Beckman's defense. Webb made it, but not before being forced to take his acrobatic aerial act to a new level, completing a full somersault before landing on his back, pulling Garden Grove to within a point of the Patriots, at 30-29. "My coach is like, 'We're giving you the ball, get over the top,'" Webb told the Register. "I wasn't going to let anyone stop me."
College hoopsters impressive dunk: High Point guard Shay Shine gpoppa11 2010-12-06 | College hoopster's impressive dunkA guard chases down a pass and then makes a much taller player look silly with an explosive move. When two-sport star Shay Shine graduated from DeSoto County High School in Arcadia, Fla. in 2008, longtime basketball coach Kip Rhoten summed up his star guard to the DeSoto Sun Herald in one brief sentence."I've had better basketball players, but I've never had a better athlete," he said.Shine offered a glimpse of the athleticism his high school coach once raved about on Saturday night when he unleashed a vicious fast-break dunk that landed him the No. 1 spot on SportsCenter's top plays.Late in the first half of a 76-73 victory over UNC Asheville, the 6-foot-2 High Point junior chased down an outlet pass, drove straight at the rim and threw down a one-handed slam over the top of a 6-foot-10 defender who foolishly slid over to take a charge way too late.The dunk was the most memorable highlight from Shine's best performance of the season thus far. Shine scored 19 points and had seven steals, six assists and five rebounds, helping Big South contender High Point improve to 4-3 on the season and remain undefeated in conference play.
NEW!!! Keion Bell SHUTS Down Pepperdine Dunk Contest; Jumps Over 7 People 360 Reverse Eastbay gpoppa11 2010-10-18 | New Oct. 2010 Phenom Keion Bell Amazing DUNK! Six-foot-3 junior guard Keion Bell positioned three teammates and four others from tallest to shortest between the free-throw line and the rim, strolled out to mid-court and then took a running start at the basket. Amazingly, he cleared all seven with only the help of a slight push-off, finishing with a one-handed slam to the delight of the crowd at Pepperdine's Firestone Fieldhouse.
Obama Scolds Protesters at Rally in Boston gpoppa11 2010-10-17 | An angry President Obama Scolds Protesters at Rally in Boston, where protesters were screaming about Aids funding
Chile Miners Rescue Video: Joy as capsule raises trapped men to surface gpoppa11 2010-10-13 | Chile Miners Rescue Video: Joy as capsule raises trapped men to surface. The 69-day ordeal that made history and captivated the world ends with the 33rd rescue!Cheers greet the rescued men as they emerge from a 2,000-foot shaft, ending a months-long ordeal. Rescued first was Florencio Avalos, who wore a helmet and sunglasses to protect him from the glare of bright lights. He smiled broadly as he emerged and hugged his sobbing 7-year-old son, Bairon, and wife, then got a bearhug from Chilean President Sebastian Pinera shortly after midnight local time.
RESCUE DRILL REACHES TRAPPED CHILEAN MINERS gpoppa11 2010-10-09 | Escape Tunnel Reaches Trapped Chilean Miners! SAN JOSE MINE, Chile — A drilling rig punched through to the underground purgatory where 33 miners have been trapped for 66 agonizing days under the Chilean desert, raising cheers, tears and hopes on Saturday. Champagne sprayed and hard hats tumbled off heads as rescue workers pressed close to the drill, hugging each other and shouting for joy. Down in "Camp Hope," where the miners' relatives waited, people waved flags and cried as one man energetically rang a brass bell even before the siren sounded confirming the escape shaft had reached the miners.
Governor Charlie Crists Comically Bad first pitch - Embarrassing! gpoppa11 2010-10-08 | Charlie Crist's first pitch was just a bit outside! This is Embarrassing - Tampa Bay Rays pitchers James Shields(notes) and Chad Qualls(notes) weren't the only Floridians having trouble with their deliveries on Thursday. Check out Gov. Charlie Crist's errant first pitch before the Rays' 6-0 loss to the Texas Rangers in Game 2 of the ALDS. Video: Charlie Crist's first pitch was just a bit outside
Johnny Depp suprise school visit in London as Captain Jack Sparrow gpoppa11 2010-10-08 | Hollywood star Johnny Depp took "show and tell" to a new level at a London school when he turned up in full pirate regalia after a fan wrote to him seeking help to stage a "mutiny," according to media reports. Beatrice Delap, 9, wrote to Captain Jack Sparrow, Depp's character in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, asking for help with an uprising against teachers at Meridian Primary School in Greenwich, south-east London. Depp, is in south-east London filming the fourth "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie "On Stranger Tides"
