Bisons Upset Bruins in Battle of the Blvd

It's called the Battle of the Boulevard and it was a war right down to the last minute.

Thank you to Brent High for giving us the tickets and great seats. The arena was packed and rowdy for this rivalry between Nashville college neighbors, Belmont and Lipscomb. Underdog Lipscomb used the home court to their advantage and pulled off the upset 73-68.

It was a very physical game with losts of scrambles for loose balls, bodies on the floor, and fouls. Lipscomb's power man Adnan Hodzic dominated the inside with rebounds and points. But Belmont still would have won if their big man Jon House had made his many close shots and lay-ups. How can you miss that many times from that close to the rim? When the buzzer sounded the Lipscomb students rushed the court and are probably still celebrating.

This is Jarrett Dillard, wide receiver from Rice University. He was really nice and easy to talk to. This year Jarrett set the NCAA record for most career touchdowns with 60. He let me throw him some passes which was pretty cool.

Most Memorable Moment: Beating rival University of Houston 42-28.

Most Memorable Touchdown: My first one…I was hot dogging a bit going into the end zone and then my celebration was cut short when the play was called back because of a holding call on a lineman. I was really disappointed. After that whenever I scored I just handed the ball to the ref—no hot dog stuff.

Most Memorable Catch: The pass from Cameron Presson.
Your all-time favorite NFL player: Jerry Rice
The player in the NFL you'd most like to score a touchdown on: Pac Man Jones

Countdown to NFL Draft: Training for the Combine

Matt Toy from D1 Sports in Franklin http://www.d1sportstraining.com/ invited me back again this year to watch, meet, and interview the players who are in town training for the NFL Combine which starts next week in Indy.

I really enjoyed it last year and I followed the players through the combine on TV, the NFL draft, and their rookie season. Not all the players got drafted or made a team roster and that’s sorta sad. But for the ones that did it was fun to watch them play on TV or read about them in magazines or internet. Some became starters and played really well this past year. Others are trying to break into the starting line-up.

My favorite moment today was throwing passes to wide receivers Jarrett Dillard (that’s him catching my long pass!) and Lucas Taylor.

I also got to meet Gary Estwick, sports reporter for The Tennessean newspaper who covers the Titans. He told me about how he became a sports broadcaster and reporter and he gave me some great tips on interviewing players and for improving my blog. Everybody was super nice to me. D1 Sports has a blog and it now has a link to my blog which is really cool of them. Check out their blog at http://www.d1sportstraining.blogspot.com/

Over the next few days I'll post some photos and some of my interviews with the players.

Here's the whole list of players

2008-2009 D1 Combine Class:

Julian Arthur, TE – University of California
Will Davis, DE - University of Illinois
Casey Dick, QB - University of Arkansas
Jarrett Dillard, WR - Rice University
Xavier Fulton, OL - University of Illinois
Darius Hill, TE - Ball State University
Jeremiah Johnson, RB - University of Oregon
Jerome Johnson, LB - Nevada-Reno
Troy Kropog, OT - Tulane University
T.J. Lang, OT - Eastern Michigan University
Bret Lockett, S - UCLA
Kaluka Maiava, LB - University of Southern California
Ryan McDonald, C - University of Illinois
Brandon Pearce, OT - University of Memphis
Anthony Scirrotto, FS - Penn State University
Brannon Southerland, FB - University of Georgia
Ryan Stanchek, OG - University of West Virginia
Lucas Taylor, WR - University of Tennessee
Brandon Underwood, FS - University of Cincinnati
Ellix Wilson, LB - University of Tennessee
DeAndre Wright, CB - University of New Mexico

Cam's Super Bowl Prediction

Steelers 24
Cardinals 17