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Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew ended his holdout Sunday without a contract. He had no regrets, no apologies, no concerns about is standing with the franchise, and is still as passionate as ever about his value.
"I'm in a good place," he said. "I did something I felt was right, and I'm always going to feel right. I'm not going to feel wrong for what I did at all. And that's why I can come back and not have a negative attitude. I think if you regret things, you're going to come back salty, be a distraction, things like that.
"I don't feel that way 'cause what I did was right. No one can tell me it was wrong. Not one person here can tell me what I did was wrong."
Jones-Drew showed up at the team facility on Sunday morning, talked with teammates and subsequently had an approximately 40-minute discussion with Coach Mike Mularkey.
The Pro Bowl running back had thought about missing games, skipping paychecks, and being an even larger distraction for the squad. However, he ultimately chose to report a week before the start of the season. The Jaguars play at Minnesota next Sunday.
"It really wasn't about budging," said Jones-Drew, who went through a conditioning test later in the day. "For me, it got to the point where I wasn't going to be traded. Obviously, they weren't going to pay me. I could have easily sat out until Week 10, come back and been a distraction. It wasn't about that. I'm not going to come back and distract guys from playing the game the right way."
COWBOYS: Tight end Jason Witten won't know until Tuesday whether he'll be cleared to play in the season opener against the Giants. Witten is scheduled to have a CT scan prior to the team's departure for New York to determine if his lacerated spleen is healed. Witten had limited practice Sunday, but says he's doing all he can to be ready to play if he is cleared.
RAVENS: The team signed former New England Patriots safety James Ihedigbo. He started 12 games last season for the Patriots. He had 69 tackles and one pass deflection. The 28-year-old made the announcement Sunday on his personal Twitter page. After going undrafted in 2007, Ihedigbo signed with the New York Jets and spent his first four NFL seasons there. After his 2011 season in New England, he was re-signed in June before being released on Friday.
Wake Forest football team arrived into RFK led by the team's mascot on motorcycle and later left with the Eagle Bowl trophy. Photo by John E De Freitas - WI Sports Photo EditorMeeting for the second time this season, Navy (8-4) and Wake Forest (7-5) battled one another on Sat., Dec. 20 in the inaugural EagleBank Bowl at RFK Stadium in front of a crowd of 28,777. Wake Forest’s Rich Belton made a 35-yard touchdown run with 54 seconds left to upset Navy. The Demon Deacons’ 16 seniors finished with a 32-19 record, three bowl appearances and the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference championship.
“During the season, I try to let things come to me and during the game I let the offense come to me. During the second half they did a good job at taking away good looks and I didn't want to force anything. I wanted to do a better job at letting the game come to me,†said Georgetown’s DaJuan Summers. Photo By John E. DeFreitas - WI Sports Photo Editor In a rematch of the last two Big East tournament championship games, Pittsburgh (14-0, 2-0 Big East) broke open a close contest with a 17-4 run midway through the second half.
Leeandrea Walker races down the court for an easy two. Photo By Khalid Naji-Allah Knights of Lynwood, Ca., at Trinity College in Washington, D.C. on Fri. Jan. 2 in the Michael J. Gilbert Foundation Tournament. The game had several lead changes in late in the fourth quarter as the Lynwood Knights took a two-point lead with 4 ticks left on the game clock.
Scene from Coach Lynch's vigil. Photo By Khalid Naji-Allah
H.D. Woodson Warriors quarterback Ricardo Young rushes up the middle for a score. Photo by Khlaid Naji-AllahDuring last year’s Turkey Bowl game, Ricardo Young performed like a sophomore quarterback starting in his first big game, his lack of poise and gamesmanship contributing to H.D. Woodson’s 20-9 loss to Dunbar. Fast forward one year, and Young demonstrated the maturation and savvy that resulted in a 24-9 win over the Dunbar Crimson Tide in the 39th Annual Turkey Bowl. The 6’1†junior completed 10 of 17 passes for 141 yards while rushing for 31 yards and three touchdowns.
“Last year, I didn’t have control of the offense. This season, I was under control and the coach allowed me to check off,†Young said.
is ranked 25th in the country in the most recent USA Today /ESPN Division II Top Coaches’ Poll, released on Jan. 6. This is the first time, ever, that the team has been so highly ranked in this poll. The Firebirds are 12-2 for the 2008-09 season after defeating Mansfield State College, 73-45, in Mansfield, Pa.
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