Humpday: Dart Practice
Nobody thought Jaxson Dart would shoot up NFL Draft boards a month ago, but look who's rising. LOVB Salt Lake womens' volleyball is here, and Bobby Wagner's still playing.
BREAKING NEWS» Guess who’s getting the last laugh?
That's right; Jaxson Dart is, bruh. He who led Ole Miss to a blowout win over hapless but also ranked Duke in the Should've Been In The Playoff Bowl — unlike Alabama — is now the odds-on favorite to become this year's Jayden Daniels, the kid who came out of nowhere last year to emerge as the No. 1 pick at the NFL Draft.
Don't say we didn't tell ya so because we did, a long friggin‘ time ago. Go back and read the archives or my book that outlined in painful detail how Dart will sacrifice his body for the greater good and rotate its axis like a helicopter if necessary. The coach who coached Jaxson up through Litttle League and high school told me that his “kid stood to make millions” [he can call Dart that since he really stood alongside Dart’s old man and coached several Darts in Little League].
My coach friend also said Dart, who threw for 4,279 yards and 29 touchdowns, will “make an NFL owner happy.” When I asked why, he said Jaxson is “a football junky,” that his intelligence on and off the field is “off the charts” and kids like that — save for Andrew Luck perhaps — do very well in the league because “there is a tremendous amount of information a QB must learn in a very short timeframe.” Also, that Dart — who’s been on the Honor Roll all four years of college — “would not be the kind of kid who would let anything else get in the way.”
We all know how Lane Kiffin, Dart’s current coach, has or hasn’t been strutting around at the Duke’s Mayo Bowl and whatnot like a single man, but that’s beside the point. Or maybe it isn’t?!
In a way, my coach friend said, you must be married to the game. I’d compare it to this: You need to be studious like a Steve Young but athletic; if ever there were a QB I look at and say, hmmm he looks like No. 8, it’s Dart, who ran for 495 yards and three TDs.
Remember that Steve Young worked his way up to stardom on the 49ers; his rise wasn’t automatic. We’ll all get to be witness to what my coach friend was talking about the week of February 1 when Dart, who’s thrown for 11,970 yards and 81 tuds and ran for another 1,497 and 14 scores, suits up at the Reese’s Senior Bowl. «
I LOVE LOVB Salt Lake Volleyball
Some People Say » That womens’ sports are a joke and that they don’t belong in the grand scheme of sporting events. I am not one of these people; I actually think that they’re more enjoyable and entertaining than most of the sports played by men. Case in point: go ahead, watch LOVB Salt Lake Volleyball, Utah’s latest pro sports team, and tell me that Lander Barton’s sister Dani Barton couldn’t beat the brakes off of just about any man:
In addition to the former Utah Utes star Barton, Salt Lake has Roni Jones-Perry (in above photo) of BYU and Casanova, the latter which will achieve legendary status as a one name wonder. By the way, Salt Lake won their inaugural game 3-1 at Atlanta. You can catch LOVB SL at home games at Bruin Arena on the campus of Salt Lake Community College and at the nearby Maverik Center. «
Overthink This Photo 📸
📷 » Utah State Athletics
The Utah State Aggies basketball team lifted themselves into immortality when Ian Martinez, said purveyor of shot, let it fly. After about 10,000 seconds, the ball Martinez shot finally made its way down to earth, where it rolled around the rim 67,590,976 times before falling in. Don’t even say you haven’t seen this before; you most certainly have if you’ve ever played at the local stake center. Anyways, *snaps watermelon gum* Martinez completed the four-point play by knocking down a free throw and Utah State hung on for an 83-81 win over big, bad Boise State. «
Tail Waggin’
RUMORS » Word on the street was that Bobby Wagner was through. He returned to Seattle to play for my beloved Seahawks, the team I’ve followed since Steve Largent ran his body through head-on collisions across the middle when he wasn’t toe-tapping sidelines.
I should’ve known that the NFL’s active leader in career tackles with 1,838, and my favorite Seahawk ever on the defensive side of the football, would play in this his 13th NFL season.
He did, with the Commanders, giving yours truly a reason to cheer for Washington even though my father’s Dallas Cowboys memorabilia-strewn household would’ve forbidden it.
For Wagner, this season has been a godsend, one that he’s continued competing in though his body is getting up there in years. The Utah State Aggie collected a team-high eight tackles, including 0.5 sacks, and recovered a fumble in Washington’s 23-20 comeback win over Tampa Bay in the NFC Wild Card round.
For his efforts, Wagner was named one of NBC’s Players of the Game. He currently ranks fourth all-time in tackles in NFL history and needs 10 tackles to pass the late Junior Seau for third all-time. Washington will play at Detroit in the NFC Divisional round this Saturday. «
#WhatAreWeDOING Playoffs [Most-voted candidate advances to next round; two candidates per week]
» #1 Candidate: Once upon a time in Derpland, there were these derps that derpyderped and … set their fellow derpyderpledge on …
… On FIRE! This is not some simulation. Though I’m sure that there probably were acts of simulation taking place at the place at which this “alleged” incident occurred.
» #2 Candidate: We’ve all seen this before…man with drone thinks he’s God’s gift to life itself, helps innocent bystander, however, bystander has a GUN!
Just mind ya business! Jeesh.
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Thanks for reading; be safe and be well. I’ll see ya next time. «