Paw Prints – The Daily UConn Roundup – 12/13

Paw Prints The Daily Roundup

UConn Football links

Future Schedules List? ND On Sked In 2010? [Desmond Conner – Hartford Courant]

Will Mike Box Stay Or Go? [Desmond Conner – Hartford Courant]

Bowl Game Expenses Are High, But Postseason Helps Recruiting [Hartford Courant]

PapaJohns.com Bowl Facts [Hartford Courant]

UConn Women’s Basketball links

Tell Me What You Think After You See This (Delaware News-Journal) [John Altavilla – Hartford Courant]

Why Doesn’t Tina Play More Minutes? [John Altavilla – Hartford Courant]

Test Time For Huskies [Rich Elliott – Connecticut Post]

Q & A with Jennifer Rizzotti, Hartford women’s basketball coach and former UConn All-American [Connecticut Post]

Teams on losing end of UConn routs still reaping benefits [Connecticut Post]

UConn routs box [Connecticut Post]

UConn’s Coulda, Woulda, Shouldas [Hartford Courant]

UConn Men’s Basketball links

Journey almost complete for Majok [New Haven Register]

Study: College refs bring biases to the floor [The Republican-American]

Other UConn related links

It’s the ticket prices [John Silver – Journal Inquirer]

Bay Watch – Bye Bye Boston For Bay??

Bay Watch

There’s nothing like spending a nice day at Fenway Park getting some tickets for the 2010 season and coming home to this news.

According to FOXSports.com, Boston Red Sox free agent outfielder Jason Bay has rejected the latest offer from them and has pretty much written them off according to his agent Joe Urbon.

“We don’t agree with their evaluation of the player,” Urbon said. “Frankly, we have other offers on the table that are of greater interest to Jason.”

And according to WEEI via David Lennon of Newday’s Twitter, a mystery team has gone to five years and he says it’s not the Mets.

It’s not the end of the world that Bay may not end up back in a Red Sox uniform.

What it does though is make it a little more difficult to fill his spot in the lineup. The Red Sox need some pop in their lineup to protect Big Papi and now that may not happen. There is an option out there in Matt Holliday but he could be too expensive for the Red Sox.

So now we wait and see what transpires with all of this.

And after Christmas at Fenway and this news about Bay, can we hope to have a  Happy Holliday or a Happy Halladay?

Editor’s note: I haven’t had a chance to download the video or pictures I took at Christmas at Fenway on Saturday. I will get to it on Sunday and post it up.

Ingram Becomes First Heisman Trophy Winner From Alabama

Alabama running back Mark Ingram stands with the Heisman Trophy after being named the 75th Heisman Trophy winner on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009 in New York - AP PhotoIn what was the closest vote in the history of the Heisman Trophy, University of Alabama Crimson Tide running back Mark Ingram was named the 75th winner of the Heisman Trophy.

He is the first winner in the storied history of Alabama football.

Ingram finished with 1,304 points,  just 28 points ahead of Stanford Cardinal running back Toby Gerhart. Texas Longhorns quarterback Colt McCoy finished third while Nebraska Cornhuskers defensive stud Ndamukong Suh finished fourth. Florida Gators QB, the 2007 Heisman winner, finished a distant 5th.

Ingram rushed for 1,542 yards and 18 touchdowns in leading the Crimson Tide to the SEC title and also the  National Championship game against McCoy’s Longhorns.

2009 Heisman Trophy Voting
Player 1st place Total
Mark Ingram 227 1,304
Toby Gerhart 222 1,276
Colt McCoy 203 1,145
Ndamukong Suh
 161 815
Tim Tebow 43 390

2009 Football Writer’s Association of America All-American Team

2009 FWAA ALL-AMERICA TEAM
OFFENSE
QB Colt McCoy, Texas 6-2 210 Sr. Tuscola, Texas
RB Toby Gerhart, Stanford 6-1 235 Sr. Norco, Calif.
RB Mark Ingram, Alabama 5-11 215 So. Flint, Mich.
WR Freddie Barnes, Bowling Green 6-0 206 Sr. Chicago Heights, Ill.
WR Golden Tate, Notre Dame 5-11 195 Jr. Hendersonville, Tenn.
TE Dorin Dickerson, Pittsburgh 6-2 230 Sr. Imperial, Pa.
OL Zane Beadles, Utah 6-4 305 Sr. Sandy, Utah
OL Rodney Hudson, Florida State 6-2 285 Jr. Mobile, Ala.
OL Mike Iupati, Idaho 6-6 330 Sr. Anaheim, Calif.
OL Russell Okung, Oklahoma State 6-5 300 Sr. Houston, Texas
C Maurkice Pouncey, Florida 6-5 318 Jr. Lakeland, Fla.
DEFENSE
DL Terrence Cody, Alabama 6-5 365 Sr. Fort Myers, Fla.
DL Jerry Hughes, TCU 6-3 257 Sr. Sugar Land, Texas
DL Gerald McCoy, Oklahoma 6-4 297 Jr. Oklahoma City, Okla.
DL Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska 6-4 300 Sr. Portland, Ore.
LB Pat Angerer, Iowa 6-1 235 Sr. Bettendorf, Iowa
LB Greg Jones, Michigan State 6-1 228 Jr. Cincinnati, Ohio
LB Rolando McClain, Alabama 6-4 258 Jr. Decatur, Ga.
DB Eric Berry, Tennessee 5-11 203 Jr. Fairburn, Ga.
DB Joe Haden, Florida 5-11 190 Jr. Fort Washington, Md.
DB DeAndre McDaniel, Clemson 6-1 210 Jr. Tallahassee, Fla.
DB Earl Thomas, Texas 5-10 197 So. Orange, Texas
SPECIAL TEAMS
K Kai Forbath, UCLA 6-0 192 Jr. Pacific Palisades, Calif.
P Drew Butler, Georgia 6-2 203 So. Duluth, Ga.
RS C.J. Spiller, Clemson 5-11 195 Sr. Lake Butler, Fla.

Paw Prints – The Daily UConn Roundup – 12/12

Paw Prints The Daily Roundup

Just a quick update. This will be the only post for a while today. I’m off to Fenway Park for Christmas at Fenway with some friends. I do plan to take video while I’m there.

UConn Football links

5 things to know about the Huskies [The State]

Man arrested in UConn stabbing faces new charges [Connecticut Post]

UConn Women’s Basketball links

No Surgery For Doty [Rich Elliott – Connecticut Post]

Delle Donne’s Home Debut A Huge Success [Delaware Sports Information] [John Altavilla – Hartford Courant]

Huskies’ Doty decides against surgery [Roger Cleaveland – The Republican-American]

Husky rewind: UConn women over Hartford [Connecticut Post]

For Rizzotti, It’s About Value [Hartford Courant]

UConn Men’s Basketball links

Calhoun Cancer Challenge Ride and Walk, June 12 [Mike Anthony – Hartford Courant]

Coombs-McDaniel and Trice to get a shot; Can they make a shot? [Mike Anthony – Hartford Courant]

John Calipari after the UK-UConn Game [Mike Anthony – Hartford Courant]

2010 Red Sox Rookie Development Program Invitees

Every year the Boston Red Sox hold a Rookie Development Program that  helps the Red Sox prospects and expected rookies with their transition to playing in the big leagues and their expectations from the Red Sox. The program will take place in January 2010.

This year, the Red Sox have invited 11 players to the program:

  • RHP Casey Kelly
  • RHP Randor Bierd
  • RHP Kyle Weiland
  • RHP Junichi Tazawa
  • RHP Ryne Miller
  • LHP Felix Doubront
  • C Luis Exposito
  • SS Jose Iglesias
  • SS Yamaico Navarro
  • OF Che Hsuan Lin
  • OF Ryan Kalish

Source: Full Count