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Yahoo ArticleOn this Valentine's Day, the Cleveland Plain Dealer delivered a touching story of true, unconditional love.
Ben Pike is a defensive lineman at Toledo. Or, he was on Toledo's football team. He has a year of eligibility left, but he's giving it up to tend to his fiancee, a former Toledo basketball player who battled with leukemia last year and found out on Jan. 25 it had returned.
Pike has plans that are far more important than Division I football. He is going to graduate after this semester. He is going to marry Ashlee Barrett on June 15. He is going to see her through a bone marrow transplant and her second battle against leukemia.
Manti Te'o at #NFLCombine -- Broad Jump: 9’5” (official) | 40-yard dash: 4.82 (official) | Vertical jump: 33” (unofficial)
But Isn't it fun watching the domers try & deflect attention away from that basic fact?It's actually all just light for gm's to the fact that Manti Te'o is simple a mediocre LB at best. He was only in the position and light he was in because of the "story". Sorry NDJoe, but this is quickly becoming common knowledge. We would not even know who Manti Te'o is if it werent for Lennay Kekua and ESPN.
ND Joe has ceased digging a hole with a shovel and has moved to an excavator.But Isn't it fun watching the domers try & deflect attention away from that basic fact?It's actually all just light for gm's to the fact that Manti Te'o is simple a mediocre LB at best. He was only in the position and light he was in because of the "story". Sorry NDJoe, but this is quickly becoming common knowledge. We would not even know who Manti Te'o is if it werent for Lennay Kekua and ESPN.
Regardless of the post-season soap opera, he was an outstanding player. Te'o was an onfield coach as well as a captain with 36 more tackles than our #2 guy. I have no idea where his ability measures up in the NFL since lot's of big college names don't work out in the pros. But he'd be a Heisman candidate even if his name was Martin Terrance with a gf who turned out to be an escort.Manti Te'o is equal to Will Compton. Fact. I just dont even know if I'd consider that a compliment or insult to Will. I've said this all year seeing Te'o play. I've also said all year the ONLY reason he was even considered for the Heisman is because his grandma and girlfriend happened to die, and, as it turned out, the grandma was completely forgotten about and the g/f was fake. I still WTH??!! about this whole story everytime I think about it.
Maybe. But he wouldn't have been a Heisman candidate if the trip to NYC was after the Bamy game. Just sayin' . . .Regardless of the post-season soap opera, he was an outstanding player. Te'o was an onfield coach as well as a captain with 36 more tackles than our #2 guy. I have no idea where his ability measures up in the NFL since lot's of big college names don't work out in the pros. But he'd be a Heisman candidate even if his name was Martin Terrance with a gf who turned out to be an escort.Manti Te'o is equal to Will Compton. Fact. I just dont even know if I'd consider that a compliment or insult to Will. I've said this all year seeing Te'o play. I've also said all year the ONLY reason he was even considered for the Heisman is because his grandma and girlfriend happened to die, and, as it turned out, the grandma was completely forgotten about and the g/f was fake. I still WTH??!! about this whole story everytime I think about it.
Complete drivel. He's a LB with average stats, nothing more.But he'd be a Heisman candidate even if his name was Martin Terrance with a gf who turned out to be an escort.