The honors continue to roll in for the University at Buffalo football team as two players earned post-season invites and several others earned both conference and national honors – headlined by freshman defensive end Steven Means.
Senior wide receivers Brett Hamlin and Naaman Roosevelt – one of the most dynamic receiving duos in UB history – both earned invites to post-season all-star games.
Hamlin, a Jupiter, FL native, will represent the Nation team in the Texas vs. The Nation game in El Paso, TX on Saturday, February 6, 2010. Hamlin finished the season with 64 receptions for 898 yards (a career-best 14.0 yards per catch) and a pair of touchdowns. He wrapped up his career third all-time in receptions (185) and fifth in career receiving yards (2,190). The 6-1, 190-pound senior had two games where he caught 10 or more passes this year, including a career-best 12 receptions for 149 yards vs. Pittsburgh.
Williamsville South ventured into Timon high school Tuesday night brimming with confidence. Ranked third in the latest Buffalo News large school poll, the Billies expected to handle the Tigers, even without star guard Mark Coppola, who injured his knee in Glen Falls last weekend.
They left the gym humbled, on the wrong end of a 64-50 loss in a game not nearly as close as the final score indicated. Timon (2-0) entered the locker room with a three point lead at the half and by the time the horn sounded to end the third, the game was essentially over and the upset officially on.
Terrell Owens appeared on Fox Sports Jay Glazer’s “After Party” yesterday. During the interview, which also happened to be on his 36th birthday (party was in New York City), Owens talked about a variety of things. Among them, he plans on playing another two to three years, and he certainly didn’t dismiss a return to Buffalo next year, although his only concern for now is finishing the season strong.
Jonny Flynn never thought the day would come when he was celebrating his third win of a season over two months into a basketball season. Flynn, the former Western New York standout in his rookie year in the NBA, while talking to a reporter from the Buffalo News, estimated he’s already lost more games with the Minnesota Timberwolves than he lost with Niagara Falls High School and Syracuse University combined.
Yet after a horrible 15-game Timberwolves losing streak, the team has put together wins within days of each other. If last Saturday’s game against the Utah Jazz at the Target Center was any indication of how the month of December will go, a turnabout may not be so far off.
Flynn and the Timberwolves stepped onto the Target Center floor ready to play against the Jazz. In 34 minutes of action Flynn posted 16 points, 4 assists and most importantly turned the ball over only once. In large part to better ball protecting, Flynn helped lead Timberwolves to their 108-101 victory.
The Buffalo Bills are back to work on the practice field today, but with news scant and the team not very interesting to begin with, it’s still, unfortunately, more intriguing to ponder future iterations of the Bills than the current outfit. Naturally, we’re going to be taking a brief field trip from talking about the Bills this afternoon – these Bills, anyway – and instead focus on the bigger news of the day.
Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen has announced his intentions to enter the 2010 NFL Draft.
Playing quarterback for the New York Yankees of college football, Clausen is one of the most highly-debated prospects in the nation simply because of the golden helmet he wore at Notre Dame. The 6′3″, 226-pound junior was college football’s second-highest rated passer in 2009, and given the fact that his head coach, Charlie Weis, was recently fired by ND, his declaration for next April’s draft is not anywhere near surprising.
The honors continue to roll in for the University at Buffalo football team as two players earned post-season invites and several others earned both conference and national honors – headlined by freshman defensive end Steven Means.
Williamsville South ventured into Timon high school Tuesday night brimming with confidence. Ranked third in the latest Buffalo News large school poll, the Billies expected to handle the Tigers, even without star guard Mark Coppola, who injured his knee in Glen Falls last weekend.
Jonny Flynn never thought the day would come when he was celebrating his third win of a season over two months into a basketball season. Flynn, the former Western New York standout in his rookie year in the NBA, while talking to a reporter from the Buffalo News, estimated he’s already lost more games with the Minnesota Timberwolves than he lost with Niagara Falls High School and Syracuse University combined.
