by Jamaar Hawkins, recruit757 The Hotbed Youth All-American game was played yesterday in the Florida sunshine at Bolles School in Jacksonville. The game featured 70 of the top middle school athletes in the country, including a few from the Hampton Roads area. Among the top AYF programs in the Tidewater region, the 757 Colts sent…
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by John Zenor, AP Sports BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Florida Gators got big plays from star cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III, quarterback Treon Harris and two of their lesser known teammates to give them a win over ECU. Harris threw an 86-yard scoring pass to mostly unheralded receiver Ahmad Fulwood, and Hargreaves intercepted a pass…
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by Nathan Epstein, a special contribution to recruit757 PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – It wasn’t quite the first season LaKendrick Ross hoped for, but it was a start. With only two seasons of football under his belt, one at I.C. Norcom High School in Portsmouth and one at Virginia University of Lynchburg, Ross spent last season…
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by Jamaar Hawkins, recruit757 Ocean Lakes linebacker Jahvoni Simmons helped his team capture its first state championship in school history to end the 2014 year. The University of Virginia commit began the 2015 year as a member of Team Highlight in this year’s Under Armour All-America High School Football Game. The game was played Friday…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 The rewards for winning the state title are plenty. Lake Taylor was widely recognized for their talent in the voting for the VHSL’s 4A All-State Teams. The Titans went 15-0 and captured their second state championship in football in three years. Keep in mind that players recognized from Salem are from…
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by Andy Hilton, recruit757 There are a ton of standout underclassmen, and for the All-757 Freshman /Sophomore teams we’ve tried to catch them all. Quite often, great young players need seasoning and get buried on the depth chart. Opportunities come during the season as injuries mount. Some players stand out so greatly that they earn playing…
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by Ralph D. Russo, AP Sports Ohio State is looking for its first national title since 2002. Oregon is seeking its first, period. Pac-12 champion Oregon and Big Ten champion Ohio State will meet in Arlington, Texas, at the home of the Cowboys on Jan. 12 in the first College Football Playoff championship game. “It’s perfect,” Oregon…
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by Paul Newberry, AP Sports NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Urban Meyer had barely sat down after the Sugar Bowl when someone told him the score from the other semifinal game. He started to bolt from his chair, feigning a sense of urgency with another game left against a team that wiped out the defending national…
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Chris Moller started playing football midway through high school and fell in love with it quickly. He converted from playing soccer and earned a scholarship as a placekicker at Morgan State in Baltimore. Now that he’s playing football in college, he’s seeing life a whole different way. Here’s his experience in his own words. –…
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by Ralph D. Russo, AP Sports PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Marcus Mariota and Oregon turned an avalanche of Florida State mistakes into a mountain of points and the Ducks rolled past the defending national champions 59-20 Thursday to turn the first College Football Playoff semifinal into a Rose Bowl rout. Mariota and the second-seeded Ducks…
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