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Week 2 of the college football season has come and gone, and what a week it was. Several teams needed comeback efforts to achieve victory against less formidable foes, while other programs pulled off compelling wins against stiff competition. Below is a recap of the most significant storylines from week 2 of the 2015 college football season. Most Significant Victories - Michigan teams come up big! The Harbaugh era is officially underway. Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh captured his first victory

The 2012 NFL season is over, and fans are left with little to do, except follow player cuts while awaiting free agency and the rookie draft. While flipping through the latest news, I came across the following headlines: o Titans looking to add zone-read elements to offense o Quarterback mobility takes on greater focus at Scouting Combine The basis of these reports is that an influx of young quarterbacks has entered the NFL over the last two years with new skill sets from those of the past. These

When kids are growing up they always dream about what they want to become when they are older. Some will say astronaut, president, or professional athlete etc. and I was very much one of those kids and just being a professional athlete wasn’t one of them. That’s because I would always dream about what college I would go to and my brother and I would always have conversations like these. We would always talk about the college or professional team we would want to go to and we were never on the same

There were a number of pigs that escaped as Hernando’s herd grew upwards to 700 head, those that escaped became wild pigs, which are very likely the ancestors of today’s feral or razorback pigs. Pig production spread quickly through the colonies. They were introduced to New Mexico in 1600 by Hernando Cortes, and Jamestown in Virgina in 1607 by Sir Walter Raleigh. By the close of the 17th century, the average farmer had four or five

Jerry Jones: A Maverick Owner Background Jerral "Jerry" Wayne Jones was born October 13, 1942, in Los Angeles, California. He is the owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys. As a co-captain of the 1964 National Championship Arkansas Razorbacks, Jones is one of a very small number of NFL owners who actually earned a significant level of success as football players. He

The Lasting Effects of the Columbian Exchange During the Age of Discovery It should no longer come as any great surprise that Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas--Carthaginians, Vikings, and even St. Brendan may have set foot on the Western Hemisphere long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic. But none of these incidental contacts made the impact that Columbus did. Columbus and company were bound to bring more than the benefits of Christianity and double entry bookkeeping to

Reflective Essay We all have someone that we attached to at a young age. Whether it be a relative, family friend or role model. My person was my grandfather. He was one of the most kind hearted people you could ever meet; he was also one of the funniest. I can be having a terrible day and think about something he said or did and I can’t help but smile to myself. Pawpaw was my mother’s father and my grandmother’s husband. They were the “All-American” family. They lived in suburbia, Granny didn’t

N ebraska’s own Brenda Brotzman, after making another one of her runs as a Jackbooter on the 21st of March, was shocked to hear the news of her cousin, Harold Sebastian Brotzman of the Greater American Catholic School System, upon returning home from school. Entering the household of her parents, she saw her parents sitting at the family dinner table. Brenda’s father was trying to comfort her mother, when she heard the news about the Wise Man’s condition. “Why is mom crying?” wondered Brenda. “Earlier

For some Jackbooters, the sale of other products such as evangelization materials and Ryanite made media on the side, in addition to the usually forbidden foodstuffs like candy and soda, was deemed as being just as viable in making a profit. Among the Volksryanischen, particularly those who ended up partaking in the Plaid Prohibition, the term ‘evangelization materials’ was for the most part, used to refer to items that were made of paper. Pamphlets, brochures, leaflets and other sorts of high quality

Use of Disguise in Homer’s Odyssey     The difference between a wise and a foolish decision is often found in discerning when to conceal and when to reveal. This discretion in concealing and revealing is a major theme within The Odyssey. There is a proper time to deceive and a proper time to tell the truth; thus, it is crucial that one act accordingly. This importance is exemplified in Odysseus' life. When he is discreet in his timing, he achieves his goal. One example of this is the Trojan