The Official England Youtube Channel - Official Match Highlights - England 2 Hungary 1 - 11 August 2010

FATV - Steven Gerrard scored twice in four second-half minutes as England came from behind to defeat Hungary in their first outing since their World Cup campaign, England were unlucky to concede a goal which on replays appears to have not crossed the line. Hart (Manchester City), Fielding (Blackburn), Loach (Watford); Cahill (Bolton), A Cole (Chelsea), Dawson (Tottenham), Gibbs (Arsenal), Jagielka (Everton), G Johnson (Liverpool), Terry (Chelsea); Barry (Manchester City), Gerrard (Liverpool), A Johnson (Manchester City), Lampard (Chelsea), Milner (Aston Villa), Young (Aston Villa), Walcott (Arsenal), Wilshere (Arsenal); Bent (Sunderland), C Cole (West Ham), Rooney (Manchester United), Zamora (Fulham). 11th August 2010, Wembley



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Football Chant - An Encouragement For Your Team

Generally chant means a song and football chant means chant or a song sung at football matches. They are used to encourage the team, to generate or build the self-confidence, as it is a general trick that more you encourage or motivate a person or a team, more it performs with enthusiasm and confidence. Today football has become a thrill game and a form of regulated war among the nations.

Chant is sung from many years back, it is like a tradition. But today it becomes a medium to show your support to players not even in football you can talk about any game whether it is cricket, baseball, basketball, etc. it is like a tradition which has to be followed.

Nowadays there are many varieties in football chants are available, even the famous playback singers are hired to sing the football chants at a great cost. It is become a kind of profession now, many teams play song about their rivals or competitors even if they are not playing them. Also, they can be historic, dating back formation of the club, adaptations of popular songs, or spontaneous reactions to events on the pitch.

Sometimes chants are affectionate as well as malicious too. People at the stadium and even who saw on the television, started singing and waving their hands and scarves, swaying with music, becomes a supportive part of the game. Previously people use to shouting chirping up, and purging abuse and foul language to the opposition except singing. Slowly and suddenly the chants or songs came into this field even whistling and clapping were used before and today as well.

Now everybody wants that there should be song that represents their country only, their own club Anthem and any new song that could be used as a verbal weapon in front of opposition party.

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City Talk: Eli Silverman

Join Doug in this episode as he welcomes Eli B. Silverman, Professor Emeritus from John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY and co-author, with John Eterno of Molloy College, of a survey of retired police officials who were asked about the effectiveness of CompStat. CompStat is the NYPD's accountability process designed to map crime and identify problems. According to Prof. Silverman's survey, however, CompStat's reported decline in crime in NYC may not be as wonderful as it seems. The survey study will be included in the forthcoming book "Compstat Unveiled: The Naked Truth" which Prof. Silverman is writing with Prof. Eterno. City Talk is a talk show on New York City politics and civic affairs, hosted by Doug Muzzio. Watch more at www.cuny.tv/series/citytalk.



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Viva Futbol Volume 44

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What It Was Was Football-- Short Film

Short Film-- A visual recreation of Andy Griffith's classic radio comedy routine.



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The Florida Gators Football Team

The Florida Gators football team, of the Southeastern Conference, was the 2008 national champion. The Florida Gators are well-known to all sports fanatics and the stadium they play in, the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium is known as one of the hardest places for the competition to play. With Urban Meyer as the head coach and with Tim Tebow, a Heisman Winner, the team can definitely fight its way to the top next year and another championship win wouldn't be far out of reach. In 2008, the University of Florida Gators beat the Oklahoma Sooners at the Orange Bowl to capture their second championship in three years.

With the great leadership shown by Urban Meyer I believe that a win is in the cards for the school, especially if they start the season strong. They have an excellent coach and they have a lot of returning players as well as some guys who have signed up with the team that were specifically recruited. This coming fall, the Gators have the potential to win it all again with Tim Tebow throwing for them again.

Along with its returning stars, Florida has the nationally 10th ranked recruiting class to help secure its chances at another championship run. With star underclassman Percy Harvin going to the NFL draft, Coach Meyer landed five-star receiver Andre Debose from Sanford, Fl. Debose will have an immediate impact and the loss of Harvin won't be as painful. "He's as good as there is," Meyer said. "I think he's the best player in America. You watch him on film, for what we do, for our style of offense, for what we need right now with the departure of Percy Harvin... that's a crucial element. We're not going to change our offense."

Andre Debose isn't the only attention grabber the Gators roped in this year. They brought in the highest rated outside linebacker and 10th overall prospect with Jelani Jenkins of Olney, Md, who runs a 4.4 40 yard dash and also has a 4.0 grade point average which will help ensure he won't be academically ineligible. Jenkins will more than likely be a captain before long. They also brought in the nationally ranked 2nd best defensive tackle with Gary Brown from Greensboro, Fl, who accrued more than 40 sacks over his final two seasons at West Gadsden High. As if Florida hadn't beefed up their defense enough with these two, they got Jon Bostic from Wellington, Fl, the nationally ranked 5th best inside linebacker and the son of former Detroit Lions defensive back Jon Bostic Sr. However, with the return of star senior middle linebacker Brandon Spikes, Bostic likely won't get much playing time right away.

Despite losing a pair of commitments, receiver Nu'Keese Richardson and cornerback Marsalis Teague, to SEC East rival Tennessee, Florida is looking good. With a retention that shows all 11 starters on defense and seven starters on offense, including quarterback Tim Tebow and linebacker Brandon Spikes returning for their senior seasons, the Gators have the best chance at being National Champions in 2009.

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Why Teams Have NFL Throwback Jersey

We know from the history of authentic jerseys that uniforms came long way from the 1920's to the present times. With a lot of teams and available uniform designs, most teams now practice having a NFL throwback jersey during games played at Thanksgiving.

What are NFL throwback jerseys? A throwback jersey is a variation of a certain football team's uniform that bears a likeness to some of the uniforms in the past. Although throwback jerseys are now popular in football, it was however started during to 1980's by the game of baseball.

After being introduced by baseball, leagues for hockey and even basketball also started using them. NFL throwback jersey on the other hand, was only launched in football during the 1994 season. This was because the league then was celebrating season number 75.

Since plastic helmets had already replaced leather helmets, players chose instead to simulate them instead of actually using them. Since there is a rule that requires teams to put numbers at the back of jerseys, in order to be more consistent with the idea of NFL throwback jerseys. Teams did their best to match the fonts.

Since the practice of using large numbers at the front of jerseys started on later, some teams had small number printed on the right shoulder of their throwback jerseys. This was to reflect the style that was used earlier.

However, using throwback jerseys was that easy to use. The Dallas Cowboys for example was criticized in the design of their NFL throwback jersey. The Dallas Cowboys donned uniforms using a design from the 1960's but retaining the design for their helmets. The Dallas Cowboys though has now opted to used their original design for the helmet, which was just a plain star. The New York Jets also did the same thing.

Although the National Football League said that teams could wear their throwback jerseys at some point only during the regular season, some teams started wearing them until the end of the football season.

However, because of the popularity of throwback jerseys with fans, the National Football League, in 2002, eventually gave the team permission to use their throwback jerseys as an alternate. Some teams have actually used this rule. The San Diego Charger, to cite an example, uses their throwback jerseys two times per season. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers however, has not worn their pre-1997 throwback jersey design after deciding to change the color for their team. Some say that this was done in order to forget their dismal performance during the 1976 to 1996 seasons.

As you can see, wearing throwback jerseys is not just something that teams do to be called fashionable. Teams often do this to remember history or a big event. The Pittsburgh Steelers for example wore a design that reflected the uniform they used during the 60's when they commemorated their 75 seasons in the National Football League. Some teams also wear particular throwback designs when playing against certain teams. When playing against the Miami Dolphins for example, the New York Jets played wearing a replica of their of Titans design.

Whatever reason a team may have, seeing them go to the field wearing their NFL throwback jersey always makes everyone, players and fans alike, nostalgic.

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(subtitled) World Cup Champions: Spanish Football Team on board Plane

"para chuparla" Spanish National team in the plane heading back home to Madrid, Spain after their World Cup win in South Africa 2010 ft. david villa, pepe reina, sergio ramos and more



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Project: Rant - RANT 077: Dropped Head Baby

This guy is so steamed he could make his own latte. Actor: Jose Villareal. www.projectrant.com Real online rants recreated in video with professional actors.



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Witness - Witness - Mitumba: The second-hand road

Mitumba, how the trade of second-hand clothes is known in Africa, is a revealing modern day story of how globalisation connects us all in millions of unseen ways, and how one person's disposable goods are someone else's new possessions.



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NCAA Football Picks - Find Out What College Football Team Will Put Money in Your Pocket This Season

Our Football insiders for College Football Picks report that the Pittsburgh Panthers are the team to watch in the 2010 College Football season as sports bettors should jump on them early and often. This team is stacked on offense and defense with skill players that will be playing on Sundays. The Panthers finished the 2009 season going 10-3 and lost a chance to go to a BCS Bowl game losing to #3 ranked Cincinnati 45-44 after leading until the final 2 minutes of the game.

The Panther offense will be lead by Dion Lewis, one of the best running backs in the country who you will hear mentioned in the Heisman race by the end of the season. Lewis is a dynamic running back that was not highly recruited but stormed on the College Football scene rushing for 1,799 yards and 17 touchdowns in his freshman year ranking #2 behind former Heisman trophy winner Tony Dorsett for Pitt's single season rushing record. Our Football insiders for NCAAF Picks project that Pittsburgh will be one of the top scoring teams in the nation this season as they run a pro-style offense with a fullback and tight end rather than the traditional running back spread.

Sophomore Bill Sunseri who has a strong arm and good mobility will start his first season at quarterback for the Panthers. Our football insiders for NCAAF Picks report that Sunseri will have the best tandem of tackles in the Big East Conference to block for him upfront and a big target at tight end as 6 foot 5 Jonathan Baldwin caught 57 passes for 1,111 yards last season.

Pitt's defense will still be the weak part of this football team again this season but they do have studs on their defense that will be playing on Sunday's. They have a pass rushing duo in Jabaal Sheard and Greg Romeus who has become one of the best defensive ends in the country. Pitt also has one of the Big East best safeties in Dom DeCicco who had 88 tackles and three interceptions last season.

This defense has to come together as a unit but the Panther offense that scores at will and pounds opposing defensives on the ground will take a lot of pressure off the defense and enable them to succeed. Take advantage of the betting numbers the odds makers will post early in the season when making your College Football Picks before the public is aware of this talent and realizes Pitt is a dangerous team that no one in the country will be able to stop.

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SPECIAL1 TV (EP15-HQ)The lads pick the BEST OF SEASON 08/09

(Original transmission date 31st May 09)........... I'm onsetanta sports first appeared at the beginning of December 2007 & has been a cult football comedy hit ever since. At first the show was a solo effort with The special one in the studio alone & taking calls from various other football faces & Managers (with the exception of a certain Dave from Newcastle). In due coarse Two more regulars were drafted in by Jose in the shape of Sven ("IT") & the boy Wayne (Rooney) This move bought a massive comical boost to the show & helped increase it's popularity. In autumn 08 a certain Mr Fabio Capello (cabbage man) came into the show as THE BOSS much to Jose's disgust. But he has seldom been seen since a certain election defeat to Jose. (Do not cross the special one). In early January 2009 setanta stunned the shows millions & millions of Fantastic fans by announcing that IOSS was to end the following weekend.....for no apparent reason. DAVE LENNON (Director of this channel) went Ballistic & started an online campaign to save this special show. After 10 days of this campaign it was announced through a special episode (EP00 on this channel) that the show was to return with a new name "Special 1 TV". The fans rejoiced & I slept properly for the first time in ten days. The whole thing had been a cheap marketing ploy (as stated by Sven in EP01) to accommodate a new sponsor (pools4all.com). However - this youtube Director got his reward when his campaign & his name were given a rather ...



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Football Special Teams Punt Coverage Used by Big East Football Team

I was talking with a friend of mine who is a Big East Head Coach about Special Teams. Specifically, punt coverage.

This particular article is about the spread punt.

The spread punt is the easiest to teach. It can be broken down into five S's.

If you can get those five things down, I think you can build your base for putting in the punting game. Here is more detail about the five S's:

• Punting and Punt Coverage

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Our punter lines up 15-yards deep. You must have a snapper that can get the ball back to him. If we can get the snap and kick away in 1.9 seconds, I feel very good. If the kick is away in 2.0, we have done our job. We break that down on the snap at .8 and 1.1 for the kicker. It is difficult to block the kick if you can get the ball away in 2.0 seconds.

Let me give you the two rules for the center on our spread punt:

• The center blocks away from the punter or to the right or left call.
  
  
  
  


• If a man calls (3-3) he can release.
  
  
  

The personal protector is expected to count the defenders. He counts from our left to the right. He must declare which way he wants the center to block. Here are the rules for the personal protector on our spread punt:

• The personal protector is responsible for the overload player. The personal protector will always go away from the center on a 44 call.
  
  
  
  


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  Only count those players whose feet are on the line of scrimmage with linemen or in a threatening position.
  
  
  

• The personal protector reads left to right.
  
  
  
  


• The personal protector scans if there is no man to pick up.
  
  
  
  


• The center is always counted.
  
  
  

The magic number is

Again, 8

We have five defenders to our left side. We have three defenders to the right side. Left tells the center to block to the left.

The center snaps the ball then steps back to get width that keeps a seam from forming. Everybody still takes a zone step to help the player to the inside. Once the wall is formed and secure, the blockers drive out on their primary defender. The left slot has number one. The left tackle has number two. The left guard has number three. The center will always have number five in anThe center snaps the ball and then steps back to get big or wide to keep a seam from forming. Everyone still takes their zone steps and to help the player to his inside.

For example, the guards help the center, the tackles help the guards, and the slot helps the tackles. Once the wall is formed and secure, then you drive out on your primary defender. The left slot has the number one, left tackle has number two, the left guard has number three, and the center has number four to the left. The right guard has number three, the right tackle has number two, and the right slot has the number one man. The personal protector has the fourth man to the right side. If we call three it is automatic man blocking. If you are in a 33 protection you can release the center. You have them outnumbered. You are able to block them man-on-man but you never change your steps. three they yell twist alert.

It may be conceived as man protection, but you still take the zone steps. If the defense is running a three-man rush on one side, then they are going to try to run some type of game on the overloaded side. If we get a three-man, we communicate it from the guard outside to the tackle and to the slot back. When our blockers hear

This is an overload situation. The personal protector has number four to the left. We only count the players who have their feet on the line of scrimmage. We do not count stacked outside linebackers.

This is where zone and man protection come together. I have made it clear in our special teams meeting if you are on the punt team you had better get your three steps down. You handle yourself relative to the zone element. You must zone the area and stay square. You must use good three-step mechanics. Now, from there everyone is working together. If two defenders come at the blocker he is going to help inside with his hands before he works out to his primary man. The three steps help take the pressure off the man inside. After we take the three steps, then we set up to take on the primary rusher.

Most of the blockers tend to rush the block. Most of the time they want to go get their man. If they do that they leave the inside man on an island. If the slot man goes out after the number four man outside, he leaves the tackle on his own against the number three man. If the number four man comes inside, the tackle has to take on both number four and number three rushers. The tackle cannot let number three go because he has to help out inside. I try to overemphasize the zone steps before we talk about the man steps. If you talk about the man steps they'll want to one-step set and jump their man. It goes against the principles of the three-step set and keeping the shoulders square.

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Out of Town Tournaments For Youth Football Teams

Out of town youth football tournaments are an excellent end of season treat for many youth football teams. Pop Warner, AYF and other organizations have regional and national title programs that are the goal of many youth football coaches in those leagues.

When I played youth football, our team traveled to Las Vegas, Kansas City, Nashville and Atlanta to play in tournaments. It was a great way to see how we stacked up to competition outside Nebraska. I still can recall those memories, losing just one of those games in overtime in Las Vegas to an all-star team from California.

What are these tournaments like and as a youth football coach should my teams play in one? Coaching youth football means having a lot of influence on deciding to take these games or not.

There are more independent youth football organizations than Pop Warner and AFL combined and the independents play in various youth football tournaments throughout the USA. The tournaments vary in size and quality as does anything in life. That is one of the big advantages of the Pop Warner National Tournament, you know that the weekend will be a quality event and the rules will be enforced.

Most of these tournaments are done over the Thanksgiving Holiday and your team plays 2-3 games. Your football team is put in a bracket based on pre-set age and sometimes weight restrictions. Most tournaments have gone to unlimited weight with running back weights, with a few still having some total weight restricted divisions. The tournament host then puts teams into brackets based on record, perceived strength, historical league strength, coach preference, average age and sometimes average weight is considered as well. Most tournaments have very heavy restrictions as to verification of birth certificates and roster (no all-star teams) and most do weigh-ins the day of the games.

Back in my day, we lived in a different society and lived under different rules. We would play youth football teams from all over the country right here in Omaha at seasons end. The opposing players would stay in our homes during their stay.Our family made some life long friends through this process. I will never forget flying to Las Vegas in 1973, this being the first exciting plane ride for about 90% of our players.

Staying with families gave us a chance to bond with the other players and experience how they lived. In 1972 my team partner Joe Dukich and I got to stay with a black family in Kansas City and made some great friends. Of course in todays world, staying with families to get this type of experience and save money on hotel costs would be out of the question.

Since then, my personal youth football teams have played in tournaments in Iowa, Kansas, Omaha and Kearney Nebraska and Florida. Where we played had a lot to do with how much money we had available, as traveling costs a lot of money. Back when I played, we sold raffles and would go out in groups on Friday and Saturday nights to local bars and bowling alleys to sell tickets. Each player had a quota to sell and the coaches got sponsors as well, again a different era, different rules. But of course there were no lodging or food expenses back then due to the players staying with host families, so we didn't have to raise as much money.

My personal teams have not been able to play in the big Florida Thanksgiving tournaments based on several factors, one being money. The other is daylight savings time hits the first week in November or so and that means it gets dark around here at 5:30. We have never had a practice field with lights and we often see very cold temperatures and even snow at that time of year. The only time we could practice would be on weekends or in gyms. Gyms aren't the best places to have a football practice and it's also the time most basketball teams here start gearing up. We have not been able to secure gym time from any of the public schools in the area and even if we did, you can't run your football plays all out in a gym.

Based on these factors, we have been limited to youth football tournaments that are earlier than Thanksgiving like the ones in Omaha, Council Bluffs Iowa, Kansas City Kansas (Johnston County) and the Snapper Bowl in Panama City Florida. The Omaha tournament is put on by a very sharp person "John" from Omaha's Nebraska Midget Football League. It is very well run and organized and runs over a weekend. This youth football league invites teams from their league and others in the Midwest to participate. We are quite often the only local team not from their league invited to participate. We have won that tournament's "A" Division Title a number of times. Monte O'Hara runs a very nice tournament with outstanding sportsmanship, officiating and pagentry, in Council Bluffs, Iowa with some games played at the University of Nebraska at Omaha stadium with field turf and under the lights. We have always done real well there as well and are often the only Nebraska team invited to play. The Lil Vikes tournament in Omaha is one we won several times and had great experiences 3 of the 4 years we played and were the only Omaha team outside their league invited on several occasions. The Kearney, Nebraska tournament was a great experience, with the opposing team taking our kids on a hayrack ride and even taking up a collection for us at the church services we shared. We won that one in the sleet and the pictures of our kids and theirs arm in arm after the game, all smiles covered in slush is one for the ages.

The Johnston County Kansas Youth Football Tournament is in the Kansas City area and often gets well over 100 teams from the Midwest to play. I've taken my youth football teams to play in that tournament for over 15 years and done real well, we won just last season. It is well run of late, the sportsmanship was good and the organizers did an excellent job. A great place to stay is the Great Wolfe Lodge Indoor Water Park and Hotel about 30 minutes from the fields. We had an incredible team swim party there after our big win this last season.

In 2003 two Screaming Eagle teams played in the Snapper Bowl in Panama City Florida, which is 6 hours closer to us than Daytona. We had an academic contest that year for our 14 teams that involved weekly school academic accountability reports filled out by their teachers. Two hard working teams won the contest and they had the time of their lives staying on the beach in Destin, Florida. A local "Angel" footed the bill of about $26,000 for two buses, lodging and food. Since we had no way to practice after Daylight savings time, the Snapper Bowl people (Harold Creel) arranged for us to play a game in the first week of November outside the context of the base tournament. The two Eagle teams that won the academic contest unfortunately were our 2 least competitive teams, so one played and lost in overtime and the other got beat by 4 scores. My personal team failed to win the academic contest and we were expecting at the time anyways, so it worked out for the best.

If you are planning an end of season trip, now is the time to get going on planning and raising funds.

Some other suggestions include being on your absolute best behavior and send a thank you note to the organizers signed by all your players. We often get invited back and even fees waived because of the overt sportsmanship our teams practice while playing in these youth football tournaments. Mr Creel from Florida was in awe of the overt sportsmanship of our players and fans, in his words we were "Too Good to be true." We had a great time and made great friends. If you win big and ugly you won't get the red carpet rolled out for you. Just last year I had three moms from the other team in Kansas City track me down after our game and just rave about how we were the best sportsmanship team they had seen in over 15 years of coming to the tournament. That was in a game we could have easily won by 40 plus points against a team twice our size. We always get invited back.

Several teams from our youth football league play in the top unlimited national tournament in the country in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is held over Thanksgiving weekend and features teams from all over the country. Here is the Bowl web site:
http://www.thenationals.net/football.htm. The reason I think this is a stronger bowl than Las Vegas is, we have seen teams from Omaha that have been beat by teams from our Omaha league go down and win the Las Vegas tournament. There are several very competitive Omaha teams from our League that have the resources to play in Daytona, they have lighted practice fields, plenty of money and one even has an indoor practice field. There are some benefits from being a suburban team. There are various divisions in the tournament, with the Omaha teams usually participating in the "Top Gun" Division, the best of the best. The KWAA Panthers and Omaha Thunder have won that Division four times in the last 10 years at the 13-14 age group and in 2006 the Thunder won another National Title in the 13-14 age Division.

When coaching youth football in tournaments you have to pace your team, as you will play 2-3 games in 2 days. You have to have your backups ready to play early and often and have plenty of players cross trained at other positions. You will see every imagineable offense, defense and even some good trick football plays.

The trip will be a blur of activity, managing the team, the hotel and activities and then scouting your opponents. At many youth football tournaments the games are spread out all over town, a real nightmare, try to avoid those. At Johnston County and others, all 10 fields are in one spot, so you don't have to worry about directions or scouting, it is a youth football mecca with 20 teams playing at once.

If you have the chance to coach a youth football team that travels to out of state tournaments, do it, they can be a blast. You will be helping create life long memories for your youth football players.

See how good your team really is and enjoy the experience.

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Manchester United Champions League Season 07/08

Manchester United on their way to moscow



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Top 3 Big 12 Teams For the 2009 College Football Season

We are yet to see some powerful teams from Big 12 North because so far it seems like forever since the teams of the South have dominated the Big 12. There is no hope of that changing anytime soon however because the gap in the potential of the two division is only increasing if anything. So just like all the recent years, the great teams for the Big 12 are all part of Big 12 South.

With teams like Texas, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech - it seems like the south is the place to be in college football this year. It is definitely the best division there is right now.

That also means that the winner of the South title is going to win the Big 12 championship title without a doubt. What happens in South is what we actually have to see, as usual. So let's take a look at the power packed south teams that have been placed on the top 3 list for the Big 12.

Texas Longhorns - They are amongst the favorite picks for many an expert and analyst this season. But some of them also place them slightly behind their rival Oklahoma. However, there are still those who believe that they still have a better chance of winning the Big 12 that all the others. Their quarterback Colt McCoy is quite capable of matching Oklahoma's Sam Bradford. With McCoy being supported by his buddy and wideout Jordan Shipley, the 'Horns may have a good chance of winning this time round. The entire Offensive line up is back as well. Once coach Mack Brown finds a suitable tailback to stabilize the ever turbulent backfield, the 'Horns will prove to be an unstoppable force in their current line up.

Oklahoma Sooners - Their Heisman winning quarterback Sam Bradford is making a return this season and it is quite certain that he is looking for payback. The Sooners had a great season last year only to be stopped at the end by Florida during the BCS championship. Before that they were making it look easy but then Florida completely routed them during BCS, proving again that the Sooners lack in the defense section. Bradford is banking on the fact that tight end Jermain Gresham is returning. Gresham is fully ready for the NFL, making him a powerful player in the team. The tailback DeMarco Murray is also another one to watch out for.

Oklahoma State Cowboys - They are a great team for the ACC or the Big East even and will route the field completely to make it to the BCS bowl. However, they are up against the 'Horns and the Sooners in the Big 12 and that is what stops them every year. They may still breakout this season with their great offense trio made up of wideout Dez Bryant, tailback Kendall Hunter and quarterback Zac Robinson. Robinson makes for an experienced leader and together the Cowboys have a fighting chance of winning it or at least making it to the finals.

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Only An Excuse? Hogmanay 2007 (Part 2 of 3)

As another year trundles towards the touchline, Scotland's premier football comedy team put on their shooting boots for one last kick at the national obsession.



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Ray Lewis & Ed Reed Fitness Routine

Optimum Fitness by Monte Sanders



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A Different Kind of Football in Mexico

Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, Mexico, October 2, 2005. This monstrous arena is packed to the rafters with 103,467 hysterical fans waving the Mexico flag in various sizes and shouting, "Ole!" in unison. They are eagerly anticipating the inevitable clash between two bitter rivals that are hoping to put on a good show and, at the same time, emerge as the winner in this frenzied spectacle. As the players come storming in, the cheers grow to a fever pitch. Everybody stands to sing the national anthem while the great Mexico flag is raised. The coin toss follows in order to determine which team will kick off. The stage is set for the mayhem to begin as usual here in Mexico, except this time, instead of a regular association football game, it's another kind of football-American football, that is. In fact, the San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League are playing a regular season game much to the ardor of the Mexican audience. Well, isn't it a bit strange, don't you think?

On one hand, it is kind of strange, since Mexico is a predominantly football, or in this case, soccer country. And as a matter of fact, Estadio Azteca, or Azteca Stadium, has been the principal venue for some of the most exhilarating and memorable matches in the history of soccer like the 1970 classic "Game of the Century," where Italy defeated Germany, 4-3, in extra time, and the 1986 quarterfinal between Argentina and England, where Diego Maradona majestically executed the "Hand of God goal" and the "Goal of the Century." On the other hand, it is not strange at all because American football has been around in Mexico since the early 1920s and has been a fledging minority sport played mostly in the colleges and universities. And this has resulted in various leagues that have been faithfully organized through the years. The National Student Organization of American Football, or ONEFA (Organización Nacional Estudiantil de Fútbol Americano), for one, is a Mexican college league that has been thriving since 1978. Meanwhile, the Organizacion Mexicana de Football Americano, or OMFA, is a league made up of 10 teams from all over Mexico, which annually compete for the league championship and occasionally compete against semi-pro football teams from the U.S. There is also the Mexico national American football team, which competed in the American Football World Cup, held every four years since 1999. Mexico has finished second in the two editions it participated in, in 1999 and 2003.

But although American football has already taken root and has fruitfully flourished in Mexico, don't expect it to surpass or even match soccer's firm grip in the country. It will always be thought of as an engaging alternative pastime whose popularity has its own moments, like on that particular day in 2005, when the Arizona Cardinals eviscerated the San Francisco 49ers, 31-14, and thousands of people went totally loco watching it.

Pollux Parker is an adventurer who loves discovering secret island getaways in each country he visits. Pollux also likes to collect Mexican Flag and cheap Mexican Flag.

How to Maintain Your Football Team's Fan List

The postman carries as much mail back as he delivers. What is amazing, is how same organisations continue to send mail to the same address even when they receive bundles of it back. What does that tell us about such an organisation? They do not understand the dynamics of society. They do not understand that a list needs maintenance. All they are doing in the meantime is to enrich the post.

The following steps could go a long way in keeping your football club's fan list clean, current, accurate and relevant:

1. A list becomes outdated as soon as it is compiled

True, a list becomes outdated as soon as it is compiled. I have lived in flats before and I have witnessed movement hardly seen in other areas. Every month end tenants come and others go. But those that have gone generated mail and no sooner had they started receiving it than they moved on. People change jobs and others pass on. All these factors point to a need to continuously maintain your mailing list. If you do not do so they will be a lot of wastage.

2. Incomplete Data

Lists are often characterised by mistakes and incomplete data. Some people for one reason or another can never write information correctly or fully. Check out for this and try to correct it in order to avoid wastage.

3. Duplication

Scan your lists for duplication of fans. It is very irritating to some people and wasteful to your football club to send out the same information to one person several times. Clean the list and get rid of duplicate data.

One way you can sniff out this data is to filter similar names with a bit of variance and check to see whether the address is the same.

4. Segment your list

Your information and marketing will be most relevant and will receive the desired objective if it is sent to only the relevant people. For example you have a football match in Pretoria and you want to market it to your fans directly, it would be most fruitful to only appeal to those who can economically and geographically make it to Pretoria. It would be very wasteful to communicate with an unemployed fan based in Port Elizabeth (1,500km away). This person can not geographically and economically make it for this match, however much he loves the club.

5. Grow your list

It is very critical for your marketing team to use every working moment to grow your club's fan list. Every unregistered fan that they come across in one way or the other should be registered and communication initiated.

This helps in growing your fan base and the stronger the relationship you grow with these fans the more they act as fan evangelists and recruit new fans for your team.

Success in the business of football is about getting the business of fans right. When this happens all other factors can easily fall into place. To get the business of fans correct, you must know them by name and create a relationship with them. It is therefore imperative to work on your fan lists aggressively.

Give your football club a chance to succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Fans are the corner stone of football business success, but they are the most ignored. We can help you change this for your benefit and the benefit of your club. Visit our website and learn more about how to grow your fan base, football marketing and fan relationship management: http://www.footballmarketing.biz

Islamic Football Team in Dubai - NFL to Expand

The National Football League in the United States is currently expanding overseas, just as the World of International Soccer is growing in the US. Soon there will be a European Team in the NFL and there are secret talks right now in Dubai to produce a team there as well. The Islamic Football Team in Dubai, will soon show all the world and especially the greatest nation ever created in the History of Mankind, that the Muslim World is not weak.

The Dubai Consortium being put together now, has plenty of money to recruit the greatest athletes around the world and throughout the Middle East to put together one very hard to beat team. Is the United States of America ready to lose it's strangle hold on Football? Can the US Football Fan handle being beaten by Dubai or a team in Europe? Football is not a hard sport to learn and the human talent needed to win is common amongst all people of the World.

Speed, agility, strength, pre-cognition and will are possessed by humans around the globe. Soon, there will be an announcement that there will be a new Islamic Football Team in Dubai, as the NFL is about to Expand. Dubai will soon have the tallest building in the world, the finest resorts and perhaps the greatest football team that has ever stepped foot on the field, playing in a World Class Stadium, and the likes of which have not been seen since the Roman Coliseum. So tell me, football fans, are you ready for that?

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GOM Blocking Scheme For Youth Football

I begin by detailing one of the more talked about blocking assignments some coaches are using in youth football. Each play you plan to use can only have success if the blocking schemes are solid and executed correctly. As a coach it is your job to make sure all of your linemen understand which defender they are required to block on each and every play.

The rules change depending on the situations, of which a few are explained below:

The Specific Offensive formation we are using The individual Offense scheme we are using If this is a run or pass play How the Defensive team is aligned Scouting report What kind of ability does our team have this year How much talent our opponents have Listed above are just a few of the major factors you must take into account when deciding the suitable blocking assignments to teach your youth football team. Another important area of consideration is how easy the scheme will be to teach your players. Take special care in making the assignments easy for your young kids.

The Gap On Man blocking scheme seeks to give a solid set of rules each offensive lineman should follow on each play. In the real world this is impossible, but many coaches will use GOM (Gap on man abbreviated) for a generic run-blocking strategy.

The GOM base rules explain that each offensive lineman will make his determination on who to block based on the set of the rules. All decisions every player makes start on where the center is lined up, on his right or left. GOM base rules instruct each lineman to block the first defender that fits a rule in order.

Beneath is the exact rules, in order, that each lineman will base his decision on. These descriptions are if you are playing a guard:

GAP - if there is an opposing player set up in the GAP (the gap is the region between the center and the guard), this is the primary rule and the player you should block ON - if there is no opposing player in the GAP, but a player is lined up straight across from you, this is your primary block.

MAN - if there is neither an opposing player on defense in the GAP or set up straight across from you, or ON, your rule is to block the first MAN (player) in front of you. This can be a linebacker, defensive end or safety. Gap On Man may appear to be the answer to your prays since it seems to be easy to teach and appears to have a simple answer on who to block no matter how the defense lines up. Your line will have to work as a group and have faith their fellow linemen, trusting they will be blocking the correct players on defense.

Jim Oddo has been coaching pee wee, flag, pop warner and youth football for over 23 years. He has attained an 80+% winning percentage. Read how to win with over 400 FREE tips and posts regarding every area of little guy football at: http://footballplaybooks.info. In addition to coaching tips, there are many different offensive and defensive playbooks all modified in Youth Football Playbooks.

The Thin Blue Line - "Come on you Blues" (1/4)

In part 1: The officers of Gasforth are to police a football match, and everybody is rather excited - except, of course, for Constable Goody, who is in training to be a Gladiator. Gasforth win the match - but only because the other team's goalie got food poisining from the burger van.



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Football Scholarships

Every Division 1 College Football team receives eighty five football scholarships per year to work with. With 85 scholarships available to a NCAA football team, it's easy to imagine the team being made almost completely up of guys who are getting a free and easy ride through school. That is obviously not the case. It is increasingly more difficult to get and retain your football scholarship through all four years of college. Understand that the 85 is split among four to five classes when you consider redshirts and that is total. Not 85 per year. So you have essentially 20 to 25 scholarships per year to work with. Now the coaches look at the potential depth chart for each position and have to weight the potential for landing that big recruit who has to receive a full ride. It is much like balancing your check book at the end of the month. X amount here Y amount here and so on...Or is it? There has long been the ability of coaches and athletic departments to find the resources to compensate or should we say make life easier for certain athletes. They are often given easy side jobs to make up for the partial scholarship they were granted. Yes, students have been caught for not showing up to jobs and still getting paid but the percentage of the athletes caught versus the recipients is grossly incomparable.

What about tuition and books? Well, books are a joke most athletic departments keep libraries of used books that all the athletes have access to. Not to mention, they either have mandatory study times with free tutors where there are plenty of books and "practice tests". So purchasing books is not a priority of a starting or back up linebacker for that matter. Tuition, now tuition is a little more difficult. The average public school with in state tuition is not that expensive so there are a number of ways to pay for this. Partial athletic scholarships along with academic and volunteer scholarships or grants can cover a majority of this. Tuition deferment also allows the student to delay the payment and use the funds from there "job" to pay for the rest. Private schools tuition is often six to ten times as much and is a completely different animal when it comes to athletic scholarships and football scholarships.

So as you can see not getting a full football scholarship is not the end of the world. If you are creative and intuitive enough to find other means they are definitely out there.

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Historical match

Historical match East Timor's national football team played a historical game in the qualifying match for the 2010 FIFA World Cup against Indonesia, as they tangled with the country that had occupied them for more than 25 years. (Report JB Chauvin)



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New York Giants 2009 Highlights

My tribute to the 2009 New York Giants



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Who's the Best College Football Team in the Country?

The BCS (the method they college guru's used to rank the best college football teams in the country) is WRONG. The argument is far from anything new. The reason why they look the other way in correcting such a bad system is money and greed. Everyone involved from the schools and all the officials are afraid that changing the system would take away from money made from playing "Bowl Games". This is because they would have to use a playoff system maybe taking the top ranked 8-10 teams somewhat like the NFL, after the season would end. While the top teams would play the playoffs for the Championship the" Bowl Games" would have to chosen from the 2nd tier teams ranked 11-20. It's all a money issue with no regard for the actual kids playing the game, (and making millions upon millions for these schools without a dime for themselves or a say in what is right or wrong). That's pretty sad.

This year's the biggest example of how the BCS system is the worst possible way of ranking the country's best college football teams. The team Boise St. has what I think (and many others) have the best team in the country and is stuck at the ranking of #3. They are stuck there because the way the system is only the top (2) teams play for the Championship. The voters refuse to vote enough for this undefeated Boise St. team to take over the 2nd or 3rd spot. (even though they brought back 21 players from last year's team that was also undefeated) They are afraid to give them a chance to play for the Championship, because deep down they know how good Boise St. is. They know no matter what the outcome of the game that Boise St. would either win or play up to their record. It would also reveal how wrong the BCS system was last year black balling the same Boise St. team.

In general, it's a shame when these educators put their ego's and money ahead of doing the right thing. These people are suppose to be molding these young kids and set a good example by their actions. The only thing the Boise St. players (as well as others) that you can put forth great work,sacrifice, toward a dream and goal, and have it all be for not. I think someone should step up to the plate and make the proper changes that would right this terrible wrong. They had a poll and 93% wanted a playoff of some sort or another and only 7% of the poll thought that the BCS system was right.

So this is not just my 2 cents that make sense...it's the 2 cents of many others!...cooljim a fan/and devil's advocate.

PES 11 Become a Legend Gameplay

Some clean gameplay showing the start of PES 11's Become A Legend mode.



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Youth Football - How Does Your Youth Football Team Stack Up Nationwide?

Youth Football is Youth Football No Matter Where You Live

Many coaches seem to feel biased about certain areas of the country having better quality youth football than other parts of the country. Some youth football coaches from less densely populated areas of the country also seem to often feel a bit inferior about the level of play in their areas.

My personal experience and the evidence of results of National Youth Football Tournaments don't give credence to those ideas. I've seen video or watched teams play from nearly every state in the country and I've done clinics for over 5,000 coaches all over the country. I've seen great youth football played in areas of the country known for great football like Florida, Texas, Ohio and California. I've also seen some of the worst coached youth football in those same states. I've seen excellent athleticism and well coached football from states most don't think of when they think of football, places like Utah, Maryland, Virginia, New York, Illinois and Washington. At the youth level no one area of the country dominates, just look at the winners of the Pop Warner National Championship or the big Unlimited National Tournament in Daytona. The teams come from all over and there is no trend, winners come from all over the nation.

While many feel their leagues are competitive and their area of the country is somehow inherently better than others I highly recommend you take your team to one of the many national tournaments. They are a real eye opener and a great experience for your kids. As a kid I still remember my Bowl trips, especially the plane trip to Las Vegas and I know our kids love going to Florida as well.

As the kids get older maybe there are some differences as weather, regional preferences, and Spring Football or even year round football make certain areas of the country "hotbeds" for football talent. Some states even have huge football budgets and coaches who either don't teach at all or have very low class loads and even "athletic" periods where they meet with their football players year round in the classroom. Those differences may account for some of the differences in DI Football players coming from various states. But in the early development years the differences are not as large as many might think.

I had the pleasure of working clinics in Utah, Montana and Washington State these last three weeks and they play good youth football there. Great people and coaches in it for the right reasons. These are some of the most organized and well coached leagues I've come across. More on that in the next few days along with some UNBELIEVABLE stories. Yes we have a youth football/ live bear story that is almost too unbelievable to report. Just know that while youth football has a lot of commonality across the nation, there are some HUGE nuances, including shooting a live bear in Montana during a youth football event, don't miss this one.

Dave Cisar

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Beating Cover 2 Teams in Youth Football

There are various defenses used in youth football today. Most youth coaches rely on what they played back in High School or often what they feel the most comfortable coaching. What that means to most of us coaching youth football is most of us will see lots of 5-3 looks or 5-2 with a monster, 6-2's or even 6-3's with no real safety. Today we even see a good number of 4-4 guys that really play it more like a 6 man front or even a few 3-5 teams that like to blitz a lot every play to make it more of a 5 or 6 man front.

One look we saw early on this past season from several teams was a 6-3 look. While we won't go into the details of the alignment and techniques of each player, what was unique about this defense was the play of their corners. The corners were aligned about 12 yards deep and well outside our tight ends. They were playing deep half zone, cover 2. The two outside linebackers were over our tackles with the middle backer just to the strong side of our center. The middle backer was playing at about 6 yards and the other two backers at a depth of about 4 yards.

Obviously both of these teams were trying to stuff our strong side running game. We noticed that anytime the linebackers read run through backfield action, they filled aggressively. When there was an immediate pass read, the middle backer dropped off into a deep third middle zone type read, just looking to swipe any errant pass. Both of these teams had their stud playing the middle backer position.

The "Florida" Solution

At first this defense did seem to give us a few problems, we weren't getting our normal 7 yards off-tackle. Instead, we had to put together near perfect drives, settling for 3-4 yard gains every time. That all changed once we ran the 16 Pass, this post is primarily meant for those that have the playbook and are running the system For those of you not running the system, this football play doesn't look much different than the jump pass Tim Tebow has thrown so many times to wide open receivers at the University of Florida in his last two seasons. It comes right out of Urban Meyers playbook, but unlike many college football plays, this is one your youth football players can execute. Maybe you've seen Florida throw this one on TV, with the Quarterback moving towards the line of scrimmage and the off-tackle hole at the snap, bringing the backers in and then just dumping the ball to the tight end.

Tight End Technique

The tight end can take his normal down block first step to give a run blocking read to the linebackers, then step into a very short seam pass route of 6-7 yards. Or if the linebackers are playing very aggressively he doesn't even need to take that down block step, he can run right to the seam.

The linebackers can either play aggressive on the run or stay back for the pass, they can't have both. Even at age 7-9 we completed 11 of these passes for touchdowns in 2008. If the defense decides to move that corner in closer and spy your tight end, the corner now is a very nice candidate for a sweep play, or better yet a "Mouse" Series pass. Your motioning wingback now can run freely up the sidelines while the corner runs with the tight end, again with the same quarterback action that draws the linebackers in. Or you could use a similar approach with your strong side tight end and wingback without motion. If they try and run the defensive end with the shallow receiver those are easy yards on a keep to the outside by your quarterback. In fact while this is a very simple and safe pass to complete, you rarely even have to complete those passes to get the linebackers to start sitting back again.

Exploiting Weakness in Youth Football

Every defense has strengths and weaknesses. When you are coaching youth football, you have to figure out where those chinks in the amour are and exploit them. The 16 pass is the perfect play to exploit this type of defense. Many youth football coaches don't like to throw the ball very much, I empathize with you. I see too many youth football teams with 20% completion rates, throwing far too many interceptions and taking sacks. But most of those passes are being thrown on passing downs and very very few of them actually look like running plays. Less than 20% of these pass attempts are in even in the high completion target zone of the 5-7 yard variety.

Season Implications

The facts are you can bludgeon weak teams and even teams that are better than you with the Sainted Six or even the Six and maybe some great misdirection from the Mouse or Spinner Series. But for those great teams that really have you outmanned, they have to respect the fact that you MIGHT be able to complete a big pass play on them. Again, that doesn't mean you have to complete these passes, you just have to instill fear that you can.

Throwing for Effect

Heck I know one youth football coach that didn't have a single player on his team that could catch the football, in spite of this coaches very best efforts. But early on in every game, sometimes on the very first offensive snap, he would have his quarterback throw the ball as far as he could over the far outside shoulder of his wingback. The sole goal of this play was to instill fear in the defenders that this team MIGHT pass. This same coach never did throw a second pass in any game that season.

Now I've never had a team that was that weak passing, but it does illustrate a valid point. When you play the best teams you have to instill at least a fear of a completion. If you have the players and your running game is running like a well oiled machine, perfecting play action passes off of your base series is a must. That's why they are in your playbook.

Dave Cisar-

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Has Recruiting Ruined Youth Football?

Recruiting Has Gone Mad in Youth Football

The private coaches/team clinics I do all across the country for youth football teams are interesting to say the least. Many of the coaches share thought provoking stories of their teams, leagues and opponents. While I always enjoy working with the coaches and kids, what I enjoy most is going out to dinner with the coaches after we get done and just listening to these stories, sharing a few laughs and learning about the nuances of how things are done in their neck of the woods. The trip I’m speaking of and the story you are about to hear made me laugh so hard I think the waitress and patrons thought I was having some kind of attack or maybe had choked on some food and needed the Hymlich Maneuver.

A fairly recent trip showed me the extent youth football coaches will go to put a winner on the football field. I’ve been coaching youth football for about 15 years and coached in 3 different organizations in 3 different towns in 7 different leagues. I’ve been to football clinics from California to Florida and talked with literally thousands of youth football coaches, I thought I had heard it all, but this story takes the cake. During a very tasty dinner at a local restaurant, coach shared with me a rather amazing story about the extent one youth football coach in his league went to so his team could maintain their dominance in the league. Many competitive youth football teams have to recruit players every year to get enough kids to put together a team or teams. While it is a necessity for most, it is a year-round obsession for others and for some they go off the deep end.

This story starts out with a very big and fast running back that moves from the local area his team is in, to a town right at an hour away. This new town mind you is a hotbed for youth football and has plenty of quality teams the boy can play for. But instead of playing for a team in his new home and making new friends, the player continues to play for his old team over an hour away. In addition to this wackiness, the coach drives the hour to pick him up every Friday, has him sleep at his home and then drives him back home after the game on Saturday. This coach logs 4 hours of drive time every weekend so this player can play on his youth football team. Is it just me or does this sound lame to anyone?

To have such little confidence in your team and coaching abilities that you would spend 4 hours driving every weekend to pick up a kid to “carry” your team is just weak in my mind. This kid only came to games, he did not practice with his team during the week. Why not play a local kid, coach everyone up and make due with the team you have? What kind of message is this sending to this teams players and to this “superstar”? You guys can’t win without the star, football is a one man game, you don’t have to practice to play, teamwork counts for nothing etc etc. A good coach adapts and will figure out a way to compete with the hand that was dealt him, not rely on one superstar to carry his youth football team. This came from an organization that dominates this youth football league. But a coach this desperate for wins is vulnerable, obviously he doesn’t think much of his coaching ability and thinks talent is all that matters in youth football. What’s next, flying kids in for games?

This same "coach" often tries to pull the rug out from under the teams in his league. My friend learned this the hard way, this opposing coach actually showed up at the homes of several of his players to convince their mothers to come play football for his team. This coach actually drives by my friends practice field, goes into the neighborhood to ask where the kids live and shows up on their doorsteps with his song and dance about playing football for him. Fortunately for my friend, his players and parents just adore him so the only thing generated from these escapades in an immediate phone call from mom to my friend to report the shenannigans. This "coach" even had the audacity to "be in the neighborhood" when my friend put on his team barbeque, he even stopped by to say hello and talk some football. My friend is more patient with this person than I might have been.

While recruiting is necessary in youth football, it can be overemphasized to the detriment of the program. Many youth football coaches mistakenly think they HAVE to have the best players to win championships. When their teams lose games they often look at personnel as the reason they lost rather than looking at schemes to counter the other teams personnel or improving their own team. Good coaches concentrate their effrots on working on the aspects of the game they can control. Blaming losses on personnel mismatches frees the youth coach of personal blame, (he can't control the talent levels of the other team) while in reality no youth football team should allow one player to beat them. Recruiting star players or driving 4 hours to pick one up every weekend are shortcuts to success, it is the easy way out. Good coaches put the time in to become better coaches so they don't need star players to win or have to cut corners and make accomodations for "star" players.

In youth football I see less talented teams competing and beating much better teams every week. I see this in our league as well as in every league I’ve ever coached in and in the regional and national tournaments I’ve gone to. I see it in the tapes and DVDs people send me every week. Good coaching nearly every time trumps talent in youth football. Now I’m not saying the weakest team can win it all, But the weakest of teams if coached well can compete and finish .500. The average talent team can vie for and even win league titles with good coaching. Meanwhile the best talented teams and poorly coached teams don’t always win it all and can in fact end up to be a .500 team.

If recruiting is allowed in your youth football league, most often you need to recruit. But don’t obsess over it and don’t get down if you don’t recruit the monsters of the midway. My most satisfying seasons were by far the ones we clearly had very little size or talent, yet came together and played very well. Nearly all well coached youth football teams can compete if they have the right priorities, scheme and well defined vision for success and if you have average talent you can even win championships.

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Football's Answer To Building Successful Teams

A common theme floats through the bleachers of any youth sports event. This theme embodies the essential elements of teamwork that are crucial to every business in America. Every manager has the task of assembling teams of people and leading them in a successful direction. Obviously, this sounds much easier than it is, but why?

Ask the parents of young athletes what they think of the coaching and leadership of their sons or daughters team. Most will offer a positive remark about the team and the coach. The unspoken is often at the heart of the matter and deals with the only participant they truly care about; their child. Parents reserve the right to hold lofty opinions of their offspring's athletic prowess and ability to impact the team. They sense that coaches try hard, but rarely see the true athletic genius of their child. Those of you who've spent countless hours on cold, aluminum bleachers can relate to this message.

The problem lies mostly in the message that kids receive at home. They listen and give their team and coach their best effort in practice only to hear a parent tell them how underappreciated and misused they really are on the field of play. Many of these athletes then return to practice wondering themselves why they are not the center of attention or the leading scorer. The results can be devastating for the young person. Unsure of their real value and role on the team they can lose interest, pull others down, or quit. Because the window of athletic participation is short lived for all kids, we often miss the mark as parents and coaches. Youth coaches have a unique opportunity to develop not only the team but each young person's life. The beauty of sports in our world today is that the playing field can be a powerful teacher of life's lessons to come.

In business, just as in youth sports, the football model holds true. Imagine yourself as a football coach for a second. The goal is to establish a vision, set goals, provide roles for participants, and design a path to success. Not until you get each of the players to buy into the game plan will you move ahead in the right direction. So where does the football analogy come in?

As the coach you must decide who will fill all of the positions on the field. Much like fielding a business team or office staff, the head coach must find and develop the best center, quarterback, receiver, and place kicker. What qualifications are needed in each position? How do you entice players to accept less glamorous roles on the team? Do you have quality people in your organization that can properly fill and execute these positions or do you need to recruit them? What strategy do you use when a player will not accept the role you present? Would you know how to put the best possible team on the field if you were the coach? The role of a business leader is much the same.

To crystallize this process, a great coach or leader will instill the value and greatness of each person on the team within their specific role. Truthfully, almost every kid grows up wanting to be the quarterback or receiver. What would a team look like with 11 quarterbacks and no one to snap the ball or block for them? As players fit and fill roles on the team they buy into the importance of what each bring to the table. They gain strength and confidence by doing their job well. Without their role being filled in an important way, the team does not execute to its capabilities. When more than one player fails to accept or execute their role, the team begins to deteriorate from the inside. On the outside, losses fill the schedule instead of wins. My advice for every business leader is to take a look into the genius of the great coaches in sports. You can find them at the elementary, high school, college, and pro levels. How and why do they make these tough personnel decisions on a daily basis, year after year. You'll find that each are masters at defining roles and establishing the importance of each role. As each part of the team is assembled and developed through practice and hard work, the inner workings of a successful team are in place. Take a page from the football playbook and create your own winning team.

Randy Brown has passion for the game of basketball. He works as a basketball consultant and mentor for coaches. Visit him at http://www.coachrb.com for free resources, Q & A, newsletter, and coaching programs. A speaker and writer, he has authored 75 articles on coaching and is nationally published. His 18 years in college basketball highlights a successful 23-year career. Mentored by Basketball Hall of Fame coach Lute Olson at Arizona. Resume includes positions at Arizona, Iowa State, Marquette, Drake, and Miami of Ohio, 5 Conference Championships and 5 NCAA appearances. His efforts have helped develop 12 NBA players including Steve Kerr, Sean Elliott, and Jaamal Tinsley. To contact Randy, email him at rb@coachrb.com

Iowa Hawkeye Football - From Nile Kinnick to Shonn Greene

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Football Special Teams Training - How to Bust the Wedge

Special teams can make the difference in who goes home with the win and who suffers the loss.

Simply put the receiving teams job is to advance the kick off return as far down the field as possible. With a couple of key blocks, put the ball in the end zone. Setting up those key blocks starts with the wedge.

The wedge as we all know is a wall of players the return man screens behind hoping to find the opening that can spring him for big yards or a 6 point run back.

The kicking team sends down its rushers and wedge busters, running full speed, risking life and limb as they hurl their bodies at the players making up the wedge. Sometimes the wedge busters are successful, stopping big run backs. However there are many times they are not, allowing the big momentum changing run back. Momentum that can change the out come of the game.

How do we become more effective in busting the return teams blocking wedge? Don't try to run over or knock down the blockers. Instead split the blockers.

Run straight at the blocker full speed, sell him on the fact you plan to run over the top of him. No matter how skilled and practiced he is, at the last moment he will be bracing for the impact. Rather than make head to head contact, split the blockers, run between them taking the best angle to the ball carrier. Not only do you reduce injury risk to yourself, you will frequently find yourself in position to make the tackle, stopping a long kick off return and staving off any momentum changing returns, like a 6 pointer.

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Setting Up a Junior Football Team

Are you thinking of starting a junior football team but are unsure about how to proceed? I have recently set up such a team for the age group of under sevens and in this article I will give advice as to what is involved in the way of organisation etc.

My name is Stephen Hill and I have a son who is six years of age. I have been taking him to train with a football team for the last two months. He is however too young to play in the matches for this team which greatly annoys him as he loves his football.

A couple of weeks ago the manager of the team asked if I would be willing to start up a new team which would start playing in the league next year, this team would be for my sons age group. I was very happy that I had been asked but did not have the first idea about how to run such a team. I agreed that I would run the team but stated that I would need a lot of help in the organisation of it. This manager agreed to show me the ropes as such.

The first thing I needed to do was to seek help from other people as it would be virtually impossible for me to do it on my own. I asked around the parents of children in my childs class and explained what I was hoping to do, I was pleasantly surprised by the support shown. I soon had around five people who were happy to help with the training and on match days.

I was now starting to enjoy myself as I was starting to meet lots of new people and was aware that I was doing something good for the lads at this school including my own son of course.

I then had to think about a venue or gym where this team could hold its training sessions. My first port of call would be the school itself as it is their children who are going to play in the team. The school seemed to love the idea and agreed that I could use their school hall once a week. They also seem interested in sponsoring the team, this is where they have the name of the school on the football kit in return for supplying items such as the kit, balls, goals and cones. This sponsorship is still being discussed.

Finding children to play in the team was the next task, this however was very simple and my son himself found a number of players from his numerous friends.

When we train the emphasis is on having fun. At this age we do not concentrate too much on tactical awareness but more on the enjoyment of the game and getting used to such skills as trapping and passing the ball.

I am not trying to suggest it is easy to set up a new junior football team but it is very rewarding and is a great way of meeting new people.

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