Holy Innocents Day is a Catholic Holy Day, observed in commemoration of the slaughter of male infants in Bethlehem during Herod the Great's attempt to kill the infant Jesus.
It is a time for children to be especially blessed in church.
Jalen Harvey, who started his college career at Syracuse, recently committed to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football program.
The 6-foot-2, 315-pound defensive tackle, who prepped at Clay-Chalkville High School in Alabama, redshirted in his only season with the Orange, then decided to transfer back home to be closer to family. He played the 2015 season at Northwest Mississippi Junior College, a team that won the National Junior College Athletic Association title.
The Rangers were 11-1 in 2015, defeating second-ranked Rochester 66-13 in the title game.
Harvey had 40 tackles — 7.5 for loss — and 3.5 sacks. All of his sacks came in a 26-10 win over ninth-ranked Gulf Coast on Sept. 9. His commitment is non-binding, but he would become only the second junior college player in the seven-year career of head coach Russ Huesman to play for the Mocs.
"My family and I really like coach Huesman," Harvey said Sunday. "I wanted to play for a team that wanted me and needed me. Plus it's only two hours away from the house so that made it even better."
He was a consensus two-star recruit coming out of high school that originally committed to South Alabama before switching to Western Kentucky. Syracuse came into the process late, and Harvey watched the Orange's basketball game against Duke in 2014 in the Carrier Dome with 35,445 other fans and immediately chose to attend the Atlantic Coast Conference program.
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When Pittsburgh visits Navy on Monday in the Military Bowl, it could be the only time the winner gets two trophies, and one them will be celebrating the way college football should be and not how it currently is constituted.
One trophy, of course, will be the Military Bowl Trophy (Monday, 2:30, ESPN), but the more important one is the Lambert Trophy that has gone to the best team in the traditional East since 1936. Since Navy was No. 1 and Pitt was No. 2 in the last poll released in mid-November, the winner will get this trophy. The leader in the September and October polls, Temple, was ranked No. 3 in the November poll and lost its bowl game.
The Lambert Trophy comes from a different time when there were no conferences, but football was played at a high level in the East. Joe Paterno of Penn State was the coach with the most trophies (28). The Nittany Lions added another trophy with Bill O’Brien in 2013. Pitt has won it six times and Navy four. Had Temple not lost three of its last four games, it would have surely won its first Lambert Trophy ever this year.
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Heads-up. The Big Ten East Division is becoming top-heavy with head coaches.
And not just at Penn State, which added former Fordham head coach Joe Moorhead to its staff as the offensive coordinator two weeks ago.
Maryland’s new head coach D.J. Durkin recently hired three former college head coaches with a combined 26 years of experience -- Pete Lembo (Ball State), Mike London (Virginia), and Scott Shafer (Syracuse).
With lots of fanfare, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer signed former Rutgers and NFL head coach Greg Schiano to his staff after the Buckeyes’ defensive coordinator, Chris Ash, left for Rutgers and his first head-coaching job.
And Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh recently added veteran defensive coordinator Don Brown to replace Durkin. Brown was the architect of Boston College’s 2015 defense, which ranked No. 1 in the FBS in total defense (254 yards per game) and fourth in scoring (15.3 points). Brown was also a successful head coach at UMass and Northeastern, going 43-19 with the Minutemen.
The addition of Moorhead now gives Penn State’s James Franklin a total of five head coaches, past and present, on his staff.
The others are defensive coordinator Bob Shoop, the boss at Columbia for three seasons; team consultant Jim Haslett, who was a head coach with the NFL’s New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams; and cornerback coach Terry Smith, who was 101-30 in from 2002-12 as head coach of Gateway High School in Monroeville.
Moorhead was 38-13 as the head coach at Fordham from 2012-2015, implementing a fast-paced spread offense that took the Rams from 1-10 in the year prior to his arrival to 12-2 in 2013 and three consecutive FCS playoffs. His allure was obvious to Franklin. He has the potential to do for the Nittany Lions offense -- which averaged just 22 points per game over the past two seasons -- what Shoop and linebackers coach Brent Pry have done for the Nittany Lions defense.
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"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has reached $1 billion at the box office, reaching the milestone with record-setting hyper speed.
The Walt Disney Co. said "The Force Awakens" crossed the billion-dollar mark Sunday, accomplishing the feat in just 12 days. The previous movie to reach $1 billion the fastest was Universal's "Jurassic World," which did it in 13 days in June. "Jurassic World" also had the benefit of record grosses in China. "The Force Awakens" doesn't open in the world's second-largest movie market until Jan. 9.
J.J. Abrams' installment of "Star Wars" also posted the biggest Christmas Day box office in history with $49.3 million and the best second-weekend earnings with $153.5 million.
"The Force Awakens" has been setting records since its debut Dec. 17. It brought in a galactic $238 million in North America over its opening weekend, besting previous record-setter "Jurassic World," and set international opening-weekend records in Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe. It scored the biggest worldwide debut with $529 million. It also topped $100 million in IMAX screenings in 10 days, another global record.
"You almost have to rewrite all the record books for this movie," box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Rentrak said. "It's absolutely mind-blowing that 'Star Wars' could get to a billion dollars in 12 days and it hasn't even opened in China, the second biggest movie market in the world."
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Holy Innocents Day is a Catholic Holy Day, observed in commemoration of the slaughter of male infants in Bethlehem during Herod the Great's attempt to kill the infant Jesus.
It is a time for children to be especially blessed in church.
Jalen Harvey, who started his college career at Syracuse, recently committed to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football program.
The 6-foot-2, 315-pound defensive tackle, who prepped at Clay-Chalkville High School in Alabama, redshirted in his only season with the Orange, then decided to transfer back home to be closer to family. He played the 2015 season at Northwest Mississippi Junior College, a team that won the National Junior College Athletic Association title.
The Rangers were 11-1 in 2015, defeating second-ranked Rochester 66-13 in the title game.
Harvey had 40 tackles — 7.5 for loss — and 3.5 sacks. All of his sacks came in a 26-10 win over ninth-ranked Gulf Coast on Sept. 9. His commitment is non-binding, but he would become only the second junior college player in the seven-year career of head coach Russ Huesman to play for the Mocs.
"My family and I really like coach Huesman," Harvey said Sunday. "I wanted to play for a team that wanted me and needed me. Plus it's only two hours away from the house so that made it even better."
He was a consensus two-star recruit coming out of high school that originally committed to South Alabama before switching to Western Kentucky. Syracuse came into the process late, and Harvey watched the Orange's basketball game against Duke in 2014 in the Carrier Dome with 35,445 other fans and immediately chose to attend the Atlantic Coast Conference program.
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When Pittsburgh visits Navy on Monday in the Military Bowl, it could be the only time the winner gets two trophies, and one them will be celebrating the way college football should be and not how it currently is constituted.
One trophy, of course, will be the Military Bowl Trophy (Monday, 2:30, ESPN), but the more important one is the Lambert Trophy that has gone to the best team in the traditional East since 1936. Since Navy was No. 1 and Pitt was No. 2 in the last poll released in mid-November, the winner will get this trophy. The leader in the September and October polls, Temple, was ranked No. 3 in the November poll and lost its bowl game.
The Lambert Trophy comes from a different time when there were no conferences, but football was played at a high level in the East. Joe Paterno of Penn State was the coach with the most trophies (28). The Nittany Lions added another trophy with Bill O’Brien in 2013. Pitt has won it six times and Navy four. Had Temple not lost three of its last four games, it would have surely won its first Lambert Trophy ever this year.
...
Heads-up. The Big Ten East Division is becoming top-heavy with head coaches.
And not just at Penn State, which added former Fordham head coach Joe Moorhead to its staff as the offensive coordinator two weeks ago.
Maryland’s new head coach D.J. Durkin recently hired three former college head coaches with a combined 26 years of experience -- Pete Lembo (Ball State), Mike London (Virginia), and Scott Shafer (Syracuse).
With lots of fanfare, Ohio State’s Urban Meyer signed former Rutgers and NFL head coach Greg Schiano to his staff after the Buckeyes’ defensive coordinator, Chris Ash, left for Rutgers and his first head-coaching job.
And Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh recently added veteran defensive coordinator Don Brown to replace Durkin. Brown was the architect of Boston College’s 2015 defense, which ranked No. 1 in the FBS in total defense (254 yards per game) and fourth in scoring (15.3 points). Brown was also a successful head coach at UMass and Northeastern, going 43-19 with the Minutemen.
The addition of Moorhead now gives Penn State’s James Franklin a total of five head coaches, past and present, on his staff.
The others are defensive coordinator Bob Shoop, the boss at Columbia for three seasons; team consultant Jim Haslett, who was a head coach with the NFL’s New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams; and cornerback coach Terry Smith, who was 101-30 in from 2002-12 as head coach of Gateway High School in Monroeville.
Moorhead was 38-13 as the head coach at Fordham from 2012-2015, implementing a fast-paced spread offense that took the Rams from 1-10 in the year prior to his arrival to 12-2 in 2013 and three consecutive FCS playoffs. His allure was obvious to Franklin. He has the potential to do for the Nittany Lions offense -- which averaged just 22 points per game over the past two seasons -- what Shoop and linebackers coach Brent Pry have done for the Nittany Lions defense.
...
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has reached $1 billion at the box office, reaching the milestone with record-setting hyper speed.
The Walt Disney Co. said "The Force Awakens" crossed the billion-dollar mark Sunday, accomplishing the feat in just 12 days. The previous movie to reach $1 billion the fastest was Universal's "Jurassic World," which did it in 13 days in June. "Jurassic World" also had the benefit of record grosses in China. "The Force Awakens" doesn't open in the world's second-largest movie market until Jan. 9.
J.J. Abrams' installment of "Star Wars" also posted the biggest Christmas Day box office in history with $49.3 million and the best second-weekend earnings with $153.5 million.
"The Force Awakens" has been setting records since its debut Dec. 17. It brought in a galactic $238 million in North America over its opening weekend, besting previous record-setter "Jurassic World," and set international opening-weekend records in Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe. It scored the biggest worldwide debut with $529 million. It also topped $100 million in IMAX screenings in 10 days, another global record.
"You almost have to rewrite all the record books for this movie," box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian of Rentrak said. "It's absolutely mind-blowing that 'Star Wars' could get to a billion dollars in 12 days and it hasn't even opened in China, the second biggest movie market in the world."
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I spent time at a clinic listening to Morehead speak about his offense. Very similar to what we run at M.S. Penn State will have success with him running the O.
