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(December 17, 2010 ) Is this what happens when Washington State plays COLLEGIATE football?
GO EAGLES!
The Eagles, ranked No.1 to end the regular season in The Sports Network/Fathead.com Top 25 NCAA Football Championship Subdivision poll, will enter that game with a 12-2 record and riding a 10-game winning streak. Villanova, ranked 10th to end the regular season, finished 9-5 and knocked off Montana in last year’s FCS title game.The Eagles held Villanova to just 230 yards of total offense and had 404 themselves. Eastern also forced six turnovers and had just two itself as EWU is now 14-0 in the last two years when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents. Eastern now has 46 takeaways to lead FCS, including a FCS-leading 25 interceptions.Junior Bo Levi Mitchell, who is from Katy, Texas, completed 27-of-38 passes for 292 yards and four touchdowns, giving him 34 for the season to tie the school record. True freshman Mario Brown rushed for 104 yards on 26 carries as he filled in for All-America running back Taiwan Jones, who missed the game with a foot injury. Nicholas Edwards had nine catches for 82 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and Brandon Kaufman had eight grabs for 135 yards and a 76-yard touchdown after going without a catch a week earlier.Matt Johnson and Tyler Jolley paced Eastern’s defense with nine tackles each, and All-American and Buck Buchanan Award candidate J.C. Sherritt added eight. Johnson also had an interception, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. Jerry Ceja had a pair of sacks and a quarterback hurry. Jeff Minnerly chipped in an interception and broke up one of the two passes broken up the Eagles had, giving them 61 for the season to equal the school record.
WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL!!
What difference does this make in terms of all the issues facing the State of Washington or the general society? What does watching men engaged in organized violence do for promoting any degree of social, political or economic equality that is needed?
In terms of health behavior or who has the time or interests to sit around watching college sports, a 1991 study done by the U.S. DHHS showed that 33.1 percent of African American males age 18 years and older reported no participation in leisure-time physical activity compared to only 25.3 percent of their white counterparts. For African American women versus white women, the comparisons were 42.7 percent versus 28.2 percent, respectively. Are African Americans sitting around (and watching sports) more than their white counterparts do? I don’t think so. The racial disparities seen and celebrated in intercollegiate sports are as blatant as these health behavior difference in the general society.
The bog deal … ?
The team is the Eastern Washington Eagles, not the Seattle Washington Huskies.
GO EAGLES!
BYW ..
Eagles are not even asking for a $250,000,000 stadium!