Week four’s games featured our first handful of conference matchups, some great individual performances and one instant classic featuring two top 10 teams. Here is this week’s wrap-up from the top 25
While many of this weekend’s games were just tune-ups for showdowns to come, there were several great battles to keep things exciting, including Michigan’s last-second win over Notre Dame, South Carolina’s shootout victory over Georgia and Auburn stuffing Mississippi State at the goal line to win their 17th straight game.
With that, here are the highlights from the top 25 and other games of interest this week:
What a long, strange trip it’s been this NFL offseason. It seems like only yesterday the news was filled with talk of a lockout and threats of a fall and winter without football. It’s now all in the past with nothing left to worry about but the fate of your favorite team.
Good and bad
The college football season is underway. Week one was mostly a humdrum affair, with Notre Dame and TCU suffering the biggest upsets among ranked teams. Here’s a complete look at how the top 25 did:
#1 Oklahoma 47, Tulsa 14
Junior walk-on RB Dominique Whaley rushed for 131 yards and four touchdowns in the top-ranked Sooners’ season opener. Any chance Tulsa had in the game vanished
In her first public statement regarding the tragedy, Jenny Stone, the widow of the firefighter who fell to his death at a Texas Rangers game last week, thanked the Rangers organization, and said that Rangers star Josh Hamiliton remains her son's favorite player.
Her husband, Shannon Stone, who was attending the game with their six-year old son Cooper, was trying to catch a ball tossed to him by Hamilton when he tumbled over the railing at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
A grieving college football player was removed from a plane at San Francisco International Airport and arrested Wednesday after he refused to pull up his sagging pants. 20-year-old of the University of New Mexico was in San Francisco to attend a friend's funeral, but ended up in San Mateo County Jail
Jokes at the expense of LeBron James were quick to hit the internet Sunday night after the Miami Heat fell to the Dallas Mavericks for the NBA Championship.
The Mavericks scored its first ever NBA champio
Dirk Nowitzki had been a one-man wrecking machine throughout most of the 2011 NBA playoffs.
But on the night his Dallas Mavericks clinched their first-ever NBA championship by defeating the Miami Heat 105-95, he had a lot of help from his teammates.
Things got a little strange at the Davis County Sheriff's Mounted Posse Junior Queen Contest in Framingham, Utah after an outbreak of horse herpes forced the contestant to show off their equestrian skills on stick ponies.
Although equine herpes poses no threat to humans, the deadly disease is highly contagious among horses, and the animals are generally quarantined during outbreaks. (Which is why live horses weren't available for the Junior Queen Contest.)
The process of filling the 36 spots on the Dallas Cowboys' iconic cheerleading squad began this weekend, with 300 lovely and ultra-fit ladies attending an open tryout in Dallas.
The squad won't be finalized until closer to the 2011 NFL season (assuming labor issues don't wipe the season out, anyway).
In an interesting twist of fate, jockey John Velazquez rode three-year-old horse Animal Kingdom to victory at the 137th Kentucky Derby, held Saturday at Louisville's historic Churchill Downs.
Velazquez was originally scheduled to ride Uncle Mo before the horse was scratched due to a stomach virus. Luckily for him, Velazquez was quickly snatched up by owner Barry Irwin, who needed a replacement after Animal Kingdom's original jockey, Robby Albarado, had his nose broken by a horse kick on Wednesday.
Jim Nantz, who's been calling the Masters for CBS for the past 26 years, likes to refer to the tournament as a "tradition like no other."
While this has always seemed to be a bold, hard-to-justify statement, when one looks back at the last 25 years of action at Augusta one can't help but conclude the championship does at least have a tradition of producing some pretty memorable moments involving some of golf's biggest names.
We've compiled a list of our five favorite Masters moments of the last 25 years below:
