Victims of their own success: The deadline for underclassmen to declare for the 2013 NFL Draft is Tuesday. But as The Times-Picayune reports, no one has to wait that long to see the impact the SEC will have on this year’s draft. Most of the country’s best players who plan to enter the draft have already announced their intentions, including what’s believed to be a one-team record of 11 players from LSU. Tackle the full story here.
Huskers and tusks: Retired Nebraska coach Tom Osborne won’t get drawn into an argument over how his 1990s teams that won three national championships in four years would fare against the Alabama teams that just accomplished the same feat. “It doesn’t come off very well when you try to compare a team that played 12, 14, 15 years ago with a team playing today and say this team would beat that team. Nobody knows,” Osborne says. The full story can be found here.
Juiced: Keep all the cheaters out of our club. That was the prevailing sentiment from several baseball Hall of Famers who were happy to see Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa excluded from the Cooperstown fraternity on Wednesday. “I think the steroids guys that are under suspicion got too many votes,” says Goose Gossage. “I don’t know why they’re making this such a question and why there’s so much debate. To me, they cheated. Are we going to reward these guys?” Read the full story here.
