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There are over 7.5 million high school student-athletes in the nation and 12 of them were nominated for one of the most coveted awards in sports, The Gatorade Athlete of the Year award. This year's presenters included some big names, Matt Leinart, Greg Oden, Candace Parker, Allyson Felix and Mia Hamm. We were there and caught up with this year's winners.
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The 2008 Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year Awards
Posted Jul 18th 2008 11:00AM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Track and Field, Women's Sports, FanHouse TV, The Word
Future Trojan Barkley Wins Gatorade Honor
Posted Jul 17th 2008 12:12PM by Scott Olin Schmidt (author feed)
Filed under: USC, Pac 10, NCAA FB Recruiting, NCAA FB Prospects
Future USC Trojan Matt Barkley made history yesterday when he became the first high school junior to take home top honors at the Gatorade High School athlete of the year awards.Barkley received the award from former USC Trojan and Gatorade Award winner Matt Leinart at a pre-ESPY reception at West Hollywood's swank Sofitel Hotel.
"I'm amazed," Barkley insightfully told the Los Angeles Times. "It's awesome."
Unlike last year's winner, the one-and-done Kevin Love, Barkley will take his award back to high school for another year--and he was spared a grilling by FanHouse's own Miss Gossip and yours truly. I can only imagine what questions I would have had for Mister Leinart.
Signing Day: The Morning After
Posted Feb 7th 2008 10:00AM by Brian Grummell (author feed)
Filed under: Alabama Football, Miami Football, Michigan Football, Notre Dame Football, Oklahoma Football, USC Football, NCAA FB Recruiting, The Word
Here's hoping your school isn't using whiskey as mouthwash thinking about who it woke up next to this morningThemes
USC Soars Late, Pulls Shocker
Tallahassee Lincoln kids love to flirt, and they're never lacking for suitors. But when push comes to shove, the vast majority of them break hearts and stick with the hometown Seminoles. So it came as a complete shock to many people when highly regarded cornerback T.J. Bryant cast his lot with Pete Carroll and USC.
USC lost out on Alabama linebacker Jerrell Harris, but did pull in Bryant, Michigan linebacker Nick Perry and Los Angeles linebacker Uona Kavienga throughout the second half of the day to slide into 7th place in the Rivals.com rankings. It's been a great month of recruiting overall as USC recently got a pledge from the nation's top player for 2009 in quarterback Matt Barkley along with several other preliminary top 100 recruits. Damn.
Back To The Future
As expertly stated by EDSBS, the top of the recruiting rankings have a certain 1985 feel. Alabama, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Miami ... thank heaven for moth balls.
Miscellany
Notre Dame has a great deal to prove on the field after last year's disaster and two consecutive BCS flops. However, the Irish were magnificent in holding together their recruiting class and finding some decent guys in the trenches (at least on defense, anyway). The same can be said for UCLA after the departure of coach Karl Dorrell.
Jumpin' Sam McGuffie briefly flirted with California, but he's come home now and will stick with Michigan.
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