Cowboys Spotlight: Felix Jones

In the next few weeks we will be looking at several Cowboys that are essential to the team being successful. How do we judge success? I am glad you asked. You will not hear Super Bowl talk from me, instead a successful season will be a playoff win. That is it....one lousy playoff win. The last time the Cowboys won a playoff game was against Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl 13 years ago. That's right, there have been kids that have gone through all of their public education (K-12) and never seen America's Team never win a lousy playoff game.

After watching the game on Friday night, the one player who stood out to me was Felix Jones. Last year, the kid from Arkansas played in only 6 games before suffering a season-ending injury. In what little time he played last year, Jones showed off some incredible skills. He averaged 8.9 yards a carry and scored 3 TDs. When he gets out in open space there are a handful of players in the league that can catch him. He provides another element to the offense. He is the lightning to Barber's thunder and is an excellent receiver out of the backfield.

With the lack of a solid #2 WR, the Cowboys are going to have to utilize players like Felix to get where they wanna go.

Razorbacks Spotlight: Swine Flu?

--by Elizabeth

Petrino is worried about a Swine Flu outbreak. A few of the players have been sick recently and he had them checked out for Swine Flu, the tests came back negative. It would be comical for Razorback players to get the Pig flu...from nwahomepage.com

"With the increasing threat of exposure to the H1N1 Virus, or Swine Flu, football teams are taking precaution including the Arkansas Razorbacks. After Wednesday's practice Bobby Petrino said, "We’ve got a couple of guys that have been sick. We’ve been doing a nice job of working hard to make sure we understand everyone’s health and making sure we know their temperature. I saw where Duke had 15 players out and quarantined. It is a big concern of mine and it will be especially when school gets started here.”

MLB expanded rosters explanation

I have a request to explain the "September call-ups" in reference to when Tom Grieve and Josh Lewin talk about it on T.V.

This is from Yahoo Answers:

"On September 1, teams are allowed to add any player on the 40-man roster to the active roster - basically, raising the limit to 40 players. In practice, it's very, very rare that a team would actually hit that limit because several of the slots are usually held by players on the DL or minor leaguers who have to be on that protected roster but who aren't ready for the majors yet. (Plus, you've gotta pay them at the major league rate and they accrue MLB service time, which a team may not want to do for a player who isn't really needed.)

Once the playoffs start, teams still in contention get cut back to the 25-man limit (and those players must have been on the team prior to August 31)."

That is the best explanation that I found. Potential call-ups for the Rangers: Chris Davis, Max Ramirez, and Warner Madrigal. September call-ups are more useful for teams that are not in contention to bring up guys to get big league experience. See the last sentence of the explanation as to why it doesn't work for playoffs team usually.

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