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LANDON COLLINS, the nation's top-ranked high school safety, rides shotgun in an old Jeep Cherokee headed toward his mother's house in Harvey, La. Collins is not pleased with his mom. Four days ago, on Jan. 5, at the Under Armour All-America Game in St. Petersburg, Fla., he became the most recognized recruit in the country, and not because of the interception and touchdown-saving goal-line tackle he made that night. Collins is famous because his mother upstaged him, on live TV, in the biggest moment of his life.
In the fourth quarter of the game, with Collins' family and friends crowded around him on a makeshift stage, ESPN's Dari Nowkhah asked the 18-year-old senior what school he would attend; he had narrowed the choice to LSU and Alabama. Nervous,...
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There is not a better, more electric, more dangerous college football player in America than De'Anthony Thomas. And the question now shouldn't be what the University of Oregon needs to do to help Thomas win the Heisman Trophy,... more »
Imagine tracing the outline of a flesh wound that starts off to the right, smooth and clean, seemingly coverable, but then jags severely to the left, back to the right again, left, right—a bloody, gnarly mess that keeps... more »
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