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Stephens Leaves UT; Simms, Bray Move To Front

Senior quarterback Nick Stephens informed Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley on Thursday that he is leaving the team.

“In light of the way the first eight practices have gone and some of the competition we’ve created, he doesn’t want to be here and risk not playing his senior year,” Dooley said. “Nick is in his fifth year and has been trying to get on the field his whole career. He just felt it was too risky to go through another season, because he just wants to play.

“We hate to lose Nick but I certainly understand it. It’s a fifth-year quarterback who hasn’t played. You go play football to play, and I understand the emotion of it.”

That leaves Matt Simms or Tyler Bray, both of whom joined the Vols at the start of this semester, as the likely starter come September.

Wyoming Second Major Scrimmage Today

Laramie, Wyo. (April 8, 2010) The second of three major scrimmages for the Wyoming Cowboy Football team will take place this Saturday, April 10. Saturday’s practice will begin at 9 a.m., with the scrimmage portion of Saturday’s practice to begin around 9:30. If the weather cooperates, the scrimmage will take place in War Memorial Stadium, otherwise it will be held in the Indoor Practice Facility located on the northeast corner of War Memorial Stadium.

On Friday, April 9, the Cowboy coaching staff will conduct a free coaches’ clinic for high school coaches. That clinic will begin at 8 a.m. with registration in the Rochelle Athletics Center and will run through Friday afternoon’s Cowboy practice.

Saturday’s scrimmage is expected to consist of an estimated 60 plays down from approximately 100 plays that were run during the first major scrimmage of the spring

10 U-M Athletes NSCA All-Americans

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – Eight University of Michigan football players from the 2009-10 season, one baseball player and one men’s track and field athlete were named All-American Strength and Conditioning Athlete of the Year Award recipients from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) on March 31.

Former football players Stevie Brown (Columbus, Ind./Columbus East) and Brandon Graham (Detroit, Mich./Crockett Technical) were joined on the list by senior Steve Schilling (Bellevue, Wash./Bellevue), juniors David Molk (Lemont, Ill./Lemont Township), Brandon Herron (Stafford, Texas/Dulles), Mike Martin (Redford, Mich./Catholic Central), Junior Hemingway (Conway, S.C./Conway), sophomore Mike Cox (Dorchester, Mass./Avon Old Farms), fifth-year senior Nick Urban (Whitehall, Mich./Whitehall) from baseball and junior Frank Shotwell (Medina, Ohio/Medina) from men’s track and field.

“The advantages of strength training and conditioning cannot be denied in collegiate athletics,” said Robert Jursnick, executive director of the NSCA. “These student-athletes attest to

10 U-M Athletes NSCA All-Americans

“The advantages of strength training and conditioning cannot be denied in collegiate athletics,” said Robert Jursnick, executive director of the NSCA. “These student-athletes attest to

Humanitarian Bowl Clinches 4-Year Deal With WAC & MAC

BOISE, Idaho – Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl executive director Kevin McDonald today announced the signing of agreements that set the stage for a four-year relationship pitting top teams from the Mid-American Conference (MAC) against top opponents from the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).

Qualifying teams will be selected according to each conference’s criteria for bowl participation. The MAC is committed to send its third selection of bowl eligible teams based on the MAC bowl selection process to the Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl.
<br The WAC is committed to send one of its top teams, based on its bowl-eligible teams’ regional drawing strength for fans of the Boise-based game.

“Over the past several years the WAC and MAC have demonstrated a very high level of national success on the football field ” said WAC Commissioner Karl Benson. “Last season the two conferences were awarded nine bowl berths. We look

USU Football Turning Up The Speed At Spring Practice

LOGAN, Utah Speed. A magical word when it comes to football. It’s what scouts recruit, and what every coach can never have too much of. When talking football with the coaches and wide receivers of the 2010 version of the Utah State Aggies, you’d be hard-pressed to overlook the amount of times speed comes up in a conversation.

From the head coach to the offensive coordinator down to the strength and conditioning coach, everyone notices a big difference with the group of wide receivers this spring for the Aggies.

USU strength and conditioning head coach Evan Simon spoke highly of the wide receiving corps. “The speed of our team is definitely above and beyond what it was last year. The coaching staff did a great job of recruiting players that can not only play the game at this level, but also that have natural speed

Media Conference With Mike Lombardi

We used to have this draft in 17 rounds, and then it went down to 12 in one day, and that was an exhausting day. And I think the new format is going to be incredible because it’s going to give teams some time to reflect, refocus and then regenerate an idea or a plan that they didn’t have in a long, long day of a 12‑round draft that got eventually cut down to eight and then seven rounds.

So I’m looking forward to it. I think there will be a lot of trades, a lot of movement, and I think there will be a lot of action each day because of the break of time to reflect. This draft, like all drafts to me, Coach Walsh told me back in 1984 every draft is a good draft; all we need is about 12 players to make

Media Conference With Gil Brandt

Let me tell you my introduction to the draft. We used to draft in a ballroom, first of all, in Philadelphia because of the Commissioner’s office was there, and at the time we had 12 teams, and all 12 teams would have a table set up there, and the interesting thing was, of course, that some teams came in with Street & Smith football magazines, other teams came in with newspapers, the Billings Gazette and so forth, and that’s how they did their draft.

And then one intriguing thing was they all had rolls of quarters, and the rolls of quarters were because in those days all we had was pay phones, and they would come in and they would call Pappy Lewis as an example at West Virginia and say, you know, I need an offensive tackle; who’s the best guy you played against this year.

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Jimmy Clausen Closes Out The Pro Day Season

Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen will work out for NFL scouts today in his last significant chance to try to answer the questions at hand and get himself into the draft’s top 10.

Clausen has had some elbow trouble in his throwing arm in the past that teams have taken a look at as well.

He did return to South Bend last month to attend the “pro day” workout of many of his former Irish teammates, something that was noticed by the team officials on hand.

But today is the day for Clausen. It will be his chance to look and act the part of a franchise quarterback.

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