By: Alyssa Pradella Ponte Vedra High School I just finished interviewing the Jacksonville Jaguars equipment manager Drew Hampton, which enabled me to relax and find my comfort zone before interviewing my favorite football player, Maurice Jones-Drew. Jones-Drew was scheduled to arrive for 9AM, but didn’t show up until almost a half hour after. I anxiously, [...]
By Alyssa Pradella Ponte Vedra High School My emotions and nerves were running wild. I felt as if I was about to play in the Super Bowl and World Series. The butterflies were rumbling in my stomach. I was very intimated at the sheer fact of eventually being in the same room as the Jacksonville [...]
By Matt Valentine After a dominant victory over Virginia , USC has claimed the top spot in The Associated Press Top 25 Poll. While former No. 1 Georgia opened its season with a glorified scrimmage against an FCS team (Formerly Div 1-AA) USC took a long trip across the country and battled it out against [...]
Program Information Don Bosco Prep Football-Established 1956 10 State Championships (1968, ’70, ’73, ’85, ’90, 2002, ’03, ’06, & ’07) Members of the NNJIL since 1981 (14 championships) 8 consecutive NNJIL championships Finished season nationally ranked 4 times since 2002 4 State Championship since 2002 New Jersey team of the year 4 times since 2002 [...]
Head Coach Greg Toal 2008 marks the 10th season of Greg Toal’s tenure as the head coach of Don Bosco Prep Ironmen. In the previous nine seasons Coach Toal has compiled an astounding record of 95 wins and only 9 losses. The Ironmen have played in eight of the last nine state championships games, winning [...]
By Gus Ornstein I spent the majority of my professional career as a back up QB and found it to be one of the most difficult positions to be in each and every week. If you are the starter you know exactly how to prepare and you have a routine each week because you know [...]
The “New Draft System” (C. McGrath/Getty Images) By Tom Marino scout.com Lead NFL Analyst Posted Jun 4, 2008 Former pro scout Tom Marino believes it’s time to change the way the way collegiate players enter the NFL, beginning with the NFL Scouting Combine through the six weeks following the NFL Draft. Learn more about [...]
We call this place football4America. Yeah, baseball beats us to the National Pastime, but we all know which is the number one sports in the hearts and minds of Americans. Football. Did you watch the football combine on the NFL network? Have you been checking the sports pages to see who has signed your favorite [...]
Up Close with Maurice Jones-Drew
So…What does an NFL Equipment Manager Do?
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