Saturday, January 2nd, 2010RealClearSports: Terrelle Pryor Proves He’s a QuarterbackBy Art Spander PASADENA -- Isn’t this what he was supposed to do? Wasn’t Terrelle Pryor rated the best prep football player in the land a couple of seasons ago? Didn’t everyone contend when Ohio State picked up Pryor it picked up a national championship? Or at the least a BCS bowl game win? It hadn’t worked that way. Until Friday night. Until the first evening of 2010. © RealClearSports 2010 |
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009RealClearSports: Harbaugh Turns Stanford Into a WinnerBy Art Spander STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford didn’t as much play football as endure it. It was a place kids went so they could get into medical school or create Google, not get into the NFL. There was a reason it was nicknamed Harvard of the West, besides the academics. Then a coach named Jim Harbaugh arrived a couple of years ago with the stubborn idea kids who had brains could also be kids who had athletic ability. He was going to recruit people who not only could score on the SATs but also on the field. |
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