Seven finalists return to Walter Payton Award Watch List
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07/12/2010 -
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The race for the 2010 Walter Payton Award,
sponsored by Fathead.com, kicked off Monday with The Sportsbook Betting Lines's
announcement that seven finalists from last season are part of a stellar 20-
player Watch List for the Football Championship Subdivision's top individual
honor.
The Payton Award is in its 24th season and will be presented to the FCS
national player of the year on Thursday, Jan. 6 in Frisco, Texas - the night
before the national championship game. The award will change hands this season
after Appalachian State quarterback Armanti Edwards (a 2010 draft choice of
the Carolina Panthers) became the first two-time Payton winner in 2008 and
'09.
The 2010 Watch List includes three players from the defending FCS champion
Villanova Wildcats: senior wide receiver/kickoff returner Matt Szczur; senior
quarterback Chris Whitney; and senior offensive tackle Ben Ijalana. Szczur was
a write-in candidate on the 2009 ballot and finished 21st in the voting.
Stephen F. Austin senior quarterback Jeremy Moses was the highest vote-getter
among the returning players, finishing in seventh place. The other returning
finalists are Northern Arizona senior quarterback Michael Herrick, who was
ninth; Weber State senior quarterback Cameron Higgins, who was 10th; Montana
senior running back Chase Reynolds, who was 13th; Delaware senior quarterback
Pat Devlin, who was 17th; and Elon senior quarterback Scott Riddle, who was
23rd as a write-in candidate.
The Watch List includes 11 quarterbacks. The other five are Prairie View A&M
senior K.J. Black; Old Dominion sophomore Thomas DeMarco; South Carolina State
senior Malcolm Long; Montana senior Andrew Selle; and Dayton senior Steve
Valentino.
Other running backs are Samford senior Chris Evans, Eastern Washington junior
Taiwan Jones, South Dakota State senior Kyle Minett, Appalachian State senior
Devon Moore and William & Mary junior Jonathan Grimes. Southern Utah senior
wide receiver Tysson Poots joins the Watch List as well.
Among the returning players to the Watch List, Moses is coming off a junior
season in which he led the FCS in completions per game (29.6), touchdown
passes (40) and total passing yards (4,124). Herrick threw for 3,356 yards,
including 574 against Eastern Washington. Higgins, also a finalist in 2008,
when he finished sixth, has thrown for 9,762 yards and 83 touchdowns during
his career. Reynolds helped Montana reach the FCS championship game in
each of the past two seasons, rushing for a combined 3,085 yards and 44
touchdowns. Devlin is part of a long line of outstanding quarterbacks at
Delaware, and threw for 2,664 yards and 16 touchdowns last season.
Szczur, who was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the fifth round of the 2010
Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft last month, was the MVP of the
Wildcats' title win over Montana and finished the season with 2,239 all-
purpose yards and 15 touchdowns. Riddle enters his senior season with Southern
Conference career records for completions (894), pass attempts (1,374),
passing
yards (10,033) and touchdown passes (78).
The Payton Award Watch List can undergo revision during the 2010 season, when
updated lists are announced on Oct. 4 and 25. Ballots will be sent to a panel
of approximately 200 sports information and media relations directors,
broadcasters, writers and other dignitaries after the regular season on Nov.
22. Three finalists will be announced on Dec. 1 and invited to The Sportsbook Betting Lines/Fathead FCS Awards Presentation the night before the national
championship game.
The Sportsbook Betting Lines also presents the Buck Buchanan and Eddie Robinson awards
which are sponsored by Fathead. The Buchanan Award honors the FCS defensive
player of the year and the Robinson Award honors the FCS coach of the year.
Those two winners will join the Payton finalists at the national awards
banquet.
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With the first NFL preseason game less than two weeks away, it is time to start thinking about football once again at MySportsbook.com. Reigning NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson is currently the 5-1 co-favorite to win the award again alongside Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning.
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NFL Football Trash Talk
Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject
would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms.
Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends,
their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the
sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies
your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming
the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like
your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in
defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your
hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say,
will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt
focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea
is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to
make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.
In addition to the trash talking, the Sports Alarm has a huge gallery of high resolution pictures of beautiful women and models in bikinis. The most popular models are: Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Underwood, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Paris Hilton.
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