LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas hogs spot for itself
In addition to its No. 10 ranking in this week’s Associated Press Top 25 poll, Arkansas is ranked in another AP poll, this one a little more colorful.
Arkansas came in 11th in a poll on the 12 coolest helmets in college football. The poll was voted on by AP college football poll voters.
“No cartoon boars or caricatures of a wild pig on those red helmets,” AP college football writer Ralph D. Russo wrote.
“That’s one realistic-looking razorback.”
Mike Hlas of the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette wrote that “there are plenty of horses and birds and ferocious animals on helmets. But there’s only one pig, and this one’s coming after you.”
Michigan’s famous winged helmet was ranked No. 1 in the poll, ahead of Texas and Alabama.
“Those digits on the helmetslook even better when the team is No. 1,” Russo wrote of Alabama’s helmets.
Bob Asmussen of the Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette in Champaign, Ill., thinks the Michigan helmets are a good recruiting pitch.
“I’ll bet the Wolverines get 10-15 percent of their recruits based on helmets alone,” Asmussen said.
Notre Dame was No. 4, followed by Penn State, Clemson,Ohio State, Air Force, Florida State and Washington State.
“It spells out WSU and resembles a cougar,” Hlas said of Washington State’s helmet. “It’s artistic. What more could fans of the school want, besides more than one football win per season?”
Kansas State rounded out the poll at No. 12.
Oregon received consideration for the poll because, as Bob Condotta of The Seattle Times put it, “If you don’t like the one they are wearing just wait a week and it will change.” Silent Saint
Brittany Brees, wife of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, vows to keep quiet if she goes into labor with their second child while her husband is playing a game.
Brittany is due to deliver the couple’s second child, a boy, Oct.
18. The Saints are at Tampa Bay the day before, but if she goes into labor during the game, Brittany said she will “get the drugs and just pretend everything’s fine.”
The couple already have a 20-month-old son, Baylen, who was lifted by Drew Brees on the stage after the Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV last February.
Hitting machine
With Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki reaching 200 hits Thursday for a record10th consecutive season, Dwight Perry of The Seattle Times recalibrated the “Ichy Hit Meter”.
“The Mariners bat wizard could now go hitless for the rest of this year and all of 2011 - and still beaveraging 203 hits a season,” Perry wrote. “[Suzuki could] go 0 for his next 697 - and still be a .300 career hitter.” They said it
The Seattle Times reader Charlie Gay on the fallout after Washington’s 56-21 loss to Nebraska last Saturday: “Steve Sarkisian no longer walks to work across Lake Washington in the morning.”
From sportspickle.com: “Michael Vick a changed man, says desperate Eagles fan.”
Also from sportspickle.com: “Braves tell Bobby Cox they’re in first to give him comfort in his final days.”Quote of the day “This is why I came to Arkansas, to play games
like this for my home state.” Arkansas receiver Joe Adams on today’s game against No. 1 Alabama
Sports, Pages 20 on 09/25/2010