Two UFL teams hold open tryouts in Ga.
Mobile, AL (WALA) – The United Football League is looking for some new talent.the Hartford Colonials and Virginia Destroyers are heading south to Georgia to hold open player tryouts May 21.
The joint workout will allow players to showcase their talents for the UFL teams. Tryouts will include a 40-yard dash, short shuttle, position drills and 1-on-1′s.
The UFL held their draft on May 2nd. Both the Destroyers and Colonials are looking to the open tryouts to help supplement their 2011 rosters.
“We will continue to look at areas that we need to fill,” Hartford Colonials head coach Jerry Glanville said.
NCAA lets UA help homeless athletes
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Alabama is being allowed to help athletes left homeless by a massive tornado.
Alabama compliance director Mike Ward says the NCAA granted Alabama status to provide impacted athletes with benefits not normally allowed.
Athletic department spokesman Doug Walker told The Birmingham News in a story Sunday that a couple of dozen Crimson Tide athletes
are homeless.
Friends are helping some of them and others are headed home with final exams canceled.
Walker says the university is working toward a long-term solution.
The NCAA has what’s referred to as the “Katrina waiver” dating back to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Revere girls track team has talented, young sprint corps
BATH TWP., Ohio – Not since 2003 had the Green Bulldogs’ boys and girls teams swept the Revere Relays.
Never in the 24-year history of the event had a 4×400-meter relay team run faster than did the Green boys on Friday night at Pappano Stadium.
In the final race of the meet, the Bulldogs’ foursome of Jake Wheeler, Michael Murawski, Craig Mellinger and Andrew Pratt was clocked at 3:26.98 and won by more than four seconds.
They erased the previous record time of 3:27.40 set by Nordonia in 1999.
“Coming out of the blocks, I was trying to get out as fast as I can … try to decide the race right there,” said Wheeler, out of breath and having only recently joined the unit. “It’s prett