Author: Mikesportz

High school state championship-winning coach and NFL quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is coming out of retirement. Bridgewater will be re-signing with the Detroit Lions ahead of the team’s playoff push. Lions head coach Dan Campbell spoke on Bridgewater’s return to Detroit. “I’ve been in contact with Teddy for a while. It was something that was always potentially a possibility,” Campbell told reporters. “We all knew what Teddy’s been doing down there, and giving back to his community. They won a championship down there, so his coaching worked out pretty dang good But just to be able to add someone back…

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Texas Longhorns edge rusher Colin Simmons has had a freshman year to remember. Many fans felt that Colin Simmons was robbed of winning the SEC Freshman of the Year, but the Texas Longhorns edge rusher is still receiving major national recognition as his first collegiate season comes closer to an end. The Maxwell Football Club announced Thursday that Simmons has been named the Shaun Alexander Freshman of the Year. He beat out South Carolina Gamecocks quarterback LaNorris Sellers, who won the SEC’s Freshman of the Year. Simmons was also named to the Freshman All-SEC Team earlier this month. He was…

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Oklahoma’s Brent Venables ‘Excited’ About John Mateer, but Mike Hawkins has ‘Taken it Like a Pro’ The Sooners play Navy on Friday behind Hawkins, but Mateer will ramp up the competition when spring football starts. FORT WORTH — Sitting right next to his counterpart in Friday’s Armed Forces Bowl, Oklahoma’s Brent Venables didn’t want to disrespect Navy coach Brian Newberry. But as their joint press conference unfolded Thursday morning at the Omni Hotel, the Sooners’ head coach almost immediately began fielding questions about OU’s 2025 quarterback race. It’ll be true freshman Michael Hawkinswho starts in Friday’s 11 a.m. kickoff at…

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Some gifts are better than others. For Alabama, the Washington roster transplants brought over by Kalen DeBoer were immediate contributors. Germie Bernard, Parker Brailsford, and Josh Cuevas all found homes in Tuscaloosa and were nice gifts from the new coaching staff. There was probably no better gift for Alabama football this year than Ryan Williams re-classifying into the 2024 recruiting class and coming to Tuscaloosa a year early. But not all gifts are created equally. As Billy Bob Thornton said in Bad Santa: “They can’t all be winners, kid.” Alabama football would like to return these things: Returning: One of…

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