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Jevon Kearse, good luck charm?
That’s how Jacksonville Jaguars running back Fred Taylor sees it, reciting earlier in the week a list of Kearse’ achievements during his first season with a football team:
1996: Kearse, a freshman, and Taylor win the national college championship with the Florida Gators.
1999: Kearse wins the NFL’s Defensive Rookie of the Year award with the Tennessee Titans, who reach the Super Bowl.
2004: In Kearse’s first season with Philadelphia, the Eagles advanced to the Super Bowl.
2008: In his first season back with the Titans, Kearse is playing for the league’s last unbeaten team.
“That stat doesn’t help us out,” Taylor said last week, “but it sure works in their favor.” And he was right. Sunday, Kearse and the Titans improved their record to 10-0 with a 24-14 victory over Taylor and the Jaguars.
Trivia time
Which school did Florida defeat in the 1997 Sugar Bowl to clinch the national championship?
“Will Notre Dame fire Charlie Weis ?”
That’s the question asked by the satirical website SportsPickle.com, which offered the following responses:
“No — they almost beat USC three years ago and they are good enough to almost beat them again.”
“Yes — do you have any idea the massive, ongoing costs of heating a hot seat large enough to fit that man ?”
“No — they are losing on the field, but they are winning where it matters: in the classroo... man, I almost got that out with a straight face.”
“Yes — he is taking way too long to set up a massive cheating system like he had in New England.”
“No — but they will get him to resign with a severance package of savory pies.
Good news for some fans
The St. Louis Blues are responding to the tough economic times with a fan bailout plan. At every remaining Saturday home game beginning Nov. 29, the organization will call the seat number of a fan and pay that person’s mortgage or rent for four months, up to $ 4,000 total.
The team, however, has yet to announce any St. Louis Blues bailout plan.
What’s in a name?
Apparently everything when it came time to name this season’s Great Northwest Athletic Conference soccer player of the year.
The award went to Western Washington University midfielder Matt Pele.
Trivia answer
The Gators defeated Florida State, 52-20.
And finally
From Jerry Greene of the Orlando Sentinel, on the just-completed World Series of Poker: ‘There’s something wrong when the poker season is longer than the NBA season.’
--Mike Penner