Wednesday Blogdome: Kentucky recruit leaps to YouTube fame

* Kentucky Recruit Hurdles Player For Amazing Touchdown..This is Ashley Lowery. Sure he has a girl’s name, but the kid can jump. Check out the hops as he hurdles a defensive player. [Ted Williams Head]
* Michael Martinez, 24-Year-Old Jockey, Paralyzed After Horrible Fall. He remained at Oakland’s Highland Hospital on Tuesday night and was in critical but stable condition. According to Golden Gate Fields physician Dr. David Seftel, the fall severed Martinez’s spinal cord, the AP reports. [Huffington Post]

* Lions Coach Jim Schwartz: ‘It Doesn’t Take a Rocket Scientist to Look at that and Say it was a Catch.’ On whether the players felt robbed in the locker room: “I think if 100 people look at it, 100 people say, ‘Yeah, Calvin caught that ball.’ Calvin made a great play on that play. Shaun made a great throw, Calvin made a great play. That stands. There’s no way that you can take that away from him other than a technicality in the rulebook.” [Sports Radio Interviews]
* Heisman Winner Took NFL’s $10K While At LSU Cannon, who won the Heisman Trophy for his performance as a running back for LSU, was convicted in 1983 of masterminding a $6 million felony counterfeiting operation in Baton Rouge, La. He was sentenced to five years in prison and released in September 1987. But it’s the matter of Cannon taking a $10,000 check from then-Los Angeles Rams General Manager Pete Rozelle, another $500 for travel expenses and signing a post-dated (Jan. 2, 1960) contract with the pro football club before he played in the 1960 Sugar Bowl that should preclude him from keeping the Heisman Trophy. [SportsbyBrooks]
* Shannon Sharpe Restraining Order — Dismissed. TMZ has learned … officials in Fulton County, Georgia have just dismissed a restraining order against former NFL superstar Shannon Sharpe … who is accused of raping and stalking a woman. [TMZ]
* Since field goals are so easy to make, why not devalue them. Frank Deford: “Because field goals are so cheap now, the easiest thing is simply to devalue them, like a currency that’s overinflated. Field goals should only be worth two points. If it took three field goals to equal a touchdown, instead of just two, cowardly coaches would have to actually play more pass-ball and run-ball and actually try to score more touchdowns.” [SI.com]
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