News and links roundup for 4/30

by On the Banks on Apr 30, 2010 7:00 AM EDT

If you're looking for a football fix with spring practice over, Keith Sargeant is divulging a few tidbits here and there.
Tom Dienhart from Rivals is spreading some fairly elaborate Big Ten expansion rumors. Speaking of which, Joe Paterno seems to change his story about why Penn State never joined the Big East every time that he's asked.
There probably won't be much gloating today on the Rutgers side about Syracuse playing Colgate for its second FCS game next year. Maybe now they understand some of the causal context that leads to making that kind of decision, and honestly it's their own business. Brian Bennett linked a piece from the Daily Orange on Doug Marrone's numerous player defections that is pretty good however.
Randy Edsall reportedly said that the Big East football coaches want to give Notre Dame an ultimatum. Guess it makes sense now that the Gator Bowl is no longer an option.
Courtney Greene tweeted last night that Zaire Kitchen will be trying out at the Giants' rookie mini-camp this weekend. Shamar Graves is in Chicago for a tryout too.

San Francisco's GM reviewed Anthony Davis highlights with the press. Spread fans should take note that playing in a Pro Style offense was touted as a major plus in AD's favor.

Ian Rapoport has one more Devin McCourty story with some added details from his recent blog posts.

With the Chicago Bears trading LB Jamar Williams, that could open up a roster spot for Kevin Malast considering that he's been getting some looks on their second team.

Kenny Britt showed up to Tennessee's minicamp p out of shape, prompting Daniel Jeremiah to question Britt's work ethic. Not sure about that, although it does seem like Kenny's personality is a cross between Manny Ramirez and Toki Wartooth at times.

There's a weird story out of Dallas, where the Cowboys' draft board was somehow leaked (which has actually happened now for a few consecutive years). Intrepid minds have discerned that Dallas had Devin McCourty with a 2nd round grade, and Anthony Davis all the way down in the 3rd. While reading that story, I also saw that someone had graded all the pre-draft mocks for accuracy, and once again Rick Gosselin from the Dallas Morning News comes in as the best in the business.

New Jersey college presidents were in Trenton yesterday to testify on the proposed higher ed budget cuts. Pres. McCormick didn't say anything on UMDNJ.

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Not to throw cold water on the Big11Ten thing about Dienhart

but this story was pretty quickly discovered to be misinformation (about those 5 teams joining the B10 being “imminent”).

BHGP on here had a good post about it. Basically, the story was broken by WUMO or WOMU or something like that, which is a student-run NBC affiliate in Mizzou’s TV market, and it was just about completely false. But because it appeared on an “actual” news channel’s site, a lot of people ran with it. Mizzou’s AD said that absolutely nothing had changed, and hadn’t heard from B10 at all.

We are gonna shock them with 5,000 mega watts of raw ROO POWER.

by psuwxman on Apr 30, 2010 7:20 AM EDT reply actions

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