Sproles Monster

Darren Sproles   #43 RB

New Orleans Saints

Height: 5-6   Weight: 190   Age: 28

Born: 6/20/1983 Waterloo , IA

College: Kansas State

Experience: 7th season

High School: Olathe North HS [KS]

                                                            HighSchool

Olathe North HS - High school All-American as selected by Student Sports magazine. Winner of Thomas A. Simone Trophy, given to the top big-class football player in Kansas City metro area. Kansas Player of Year as named by USA Today. Kansas Hall of Fame Player of the Year. Member of all-class Kansas top-11 team. Kansas City Star Player of the Year in 1999 and 2000. Two-year All-State, All-Metro, All-Sunflower League selection. All-region pick by PrepStar magazine... Started for two seasons and lettered for three. Rushed for 2,485 yards in 2000 at Olathe North, scoring 49 touchdowns. Led the 12-0 Eagles to their fourth Kansas 6A state title in five years. Rushed for 2,031 yards in nine games as a junior. Finished career with 5,230 yards and 79 touchdowns, averaging nearly 8.4 yards per carry. Holds nearly all rushing records at Olathe North.

       

Running back Darren Sproles left Kansas State as perhaps the most decorated player in program history, complete with 23 school records and a Big 12 record 6,812 career all-purpose yards. Sproles' 4,979 career rushing yards were good enough to rank 11th all-time in NCAA history.His coach cryed at the grasducation.

                                  Darren got drafted 2005: 4th Rnd, 130th by The Chargers.

 NFL STATs Has Over 2,000 Yards Rushing
over 4,000 yards on special team 

Mr. Arra's Classroom - Journalism: The Science of Homework

Mr. Arra's Classroom - Journalism: The Science of Homework: In this Sunday's New York Times the story linked to below and here -- "The Trouble with Homework" by Annie Murphy Paul -- was printed in th...

Well i think it is to much at times when it comes down to when teachers give homework for no reason just to give us for busy work depends on the teacher.

Yes some classes that i may struggle with i think i should receive more homework,and would like to review it with the teacher for better understanding.

Blogs and newspaper articles i guess really expecting a better understanding the point of blogging since i see it everywhere.

Good question i really have no idea ask Brett he is the so called smart kid.

Short But Quick

                                                           _LaMicheal James!_     5'9 185 pounds

One of the top backs in college football right now, lead the oregons to a national championship last year.

                         

He grew up in Texas,and went to Liberty-Eylau High School.

He lived with his grandparents because his father died before birth and mom was in and out of his life.

In highschool LaMichael James led Liberty-Eylau to the 3A state title his Jr. year and ran for 1,600 yards, had another 500 yards receiving and had 19 total touchdowns.Senior year he ran for 2000+yards and 26 touchdowns!!!!

Ht:5'9"

Wt:180 lbs

40:4.4 secs

Bench Max:275

Squat Max:405

Vertical:34 inches

GPA:3.1

Class:2008 

  

Had Offers to only 8 school just because of his height,but that  didnt stop him at all he attend Oregon Ducks.Thats when he become more known as a beast his first year there he received many awards as a freshmen also currenty now as you can see at the bottom of page.

 HONORS AND AWARDS

2010•Doak Walker Award (Nation’s Top RB)
•Heisman Trophy Finalist
•First-team All-America (AFCA, AP, FWAA, Sporting News, Walter Camp,
Scout.com, SI.com, ESPN.com)
•First-team all-Pac 10 (Pac-10 Coaches, Phil Steele, Rivals.com, Scout.com)
•First-team Pac-10 all-Academic
•Walter Camp National Player of the Week (Stanford)
•Pac-10 Player of the Week (Offense vs. Stanford)
•CFPA Performer of the Week (RB) (Portland State, Stanford)
•Team’s Most Outstanding Player (Skeie’s Award)

2009
•Pac-10 Offensive Freshman of the Year (Pac-10 Coaches)
•National Freshman Performer of the Year (College Football Performance Awards)
•Freshman All-America (FWAA, CollegeFootballNews.com)
•Third-team All-American (AP, Sporting News)
•Second-team all-Freshman (Phil Steele Publications)
•First-team-all-Pac-10 (Phil Steele Pub., Rivals.com, ESPN.com)
•Pac-10 Freshman of the Year (Sporting News)
•Second-team all-Pac-10 (Pac-10 Coaches)
•Pac-10 all-Freshman (Sporting News)
•Pac-10 Player of the Week (Offense vs. USC)
•Team’s Most Outstanding Player (Skeie’s Award)

UnderRated Tailbacks

Maurice Jones-Drew 5"6 208 

Can you say Monster!

• Born in OaklandCalifornia 

  • Graduated from De La Salle High 

    • Which they are the best team in the world really.They have a record of 151 winning streak in football history.

      • Jones recorded over 5,000 yards in highschool alone and lead his team to 2 state games.

        • •  After highschool Jones took his talents to University of California where he played for UCLA Bruins. Surprisingly he didn't receive a bunch of offers that he earned because of his size but he made do on what he had.

          • Drew led Bruins in rushing all 3 years he was there.He was the 5th player in Bruins history to lead the team in rushing in 3 seasons.

            • Drew ended up with 3,000 plus yards there broke about 15+ records.Also had about 2,000 returning yards.

              NFL TiME 

              
              

  Jones Drew Pre Daft Scores Ran a 4.39s 40yd

  4.41s pro Agility,and  3 cone 7.08s.Drew had on of the fast 40 times in the draft but fail short in the draft because he was short. He got drafted 60th overall in 2nd round, so he wears 32 because 32 teams passed up on him 1st round.Now is know to be one of the best runningback in history.

  Jones already has 5,000 plus yards in only 5 seasons of playing.His nickname is pocket Hercules because he never falls off one tackler.