2016 East–West Shrine Game
The 2016 East–West Shrine Game was the 91st staging of the all-star college football exhibition, was played on January 23, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. EST, and featured NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision players and a few select invitees from Canadian university football. The game featured more than 100 players from the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS football season and prospects for the 2016 draft of the professional National Football League (NFL). In the week prior to the game, scouts from all 32 NFL teams attended. The game was held in St. Petersburg, Florida at Tropicana Field, and benefits Shriners Hospitals for Children. The game was broadcast on the NFL Network. The East–West Shrine Game Pat Tillman Award "is presented to a player who best exemplifies character, intelligence, sportsmanship and service. The award is about a student-athlete's achievements and conduct, both on and off the field." The 2016 winner was Keenan Reynolds of Navy. Players Full roster is availablhe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tropicana Field
Tropicana Field (nicknamed "The Trop") is a domed multipurpose stadium located in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. "The Trop" was the home of the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1998 Tampa Bay Devil Rays season, 1998 to 2024. The stadium is also used for college football, and from December 2008 to December 2017 was the home of the St. Petersburg Bowl, an annual postseason bowl game. The venue is the only nonretractable domed stadium in MLB. Tropicana Field is the List of Major League Baseball stadiums, smallest MLB stadium by seating capacity when obstructed-view rows in the uppermost sections are covered with tarps as they are for most Rays games. Tropicana Field opened in 1990 and was originally known as the Florida Suncoast Dome. In 1993, the Tampa Bay Lightning moved to the facility and its name was changed to the ThunderDome until the team moved to Amalie Arena, its new home in downtown Tampa in 1996. In October 1996, Tropicana Products, a fruit jui ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pat Tillman
Patrick Daniel Tillman Jr. (November6, 1976– April22, 2004) was an American professional American football, football player for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) who left his sports career and enlisted in the United States Army United States Army Special Operations Command, Special Operations in May 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, September11 attacks. His service in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as his subsequent death, received media attention, especially when it was discovered he had been killed by friendly fire. Tillman played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils football, Arizona State Sun Devils, earning first-team College Football All-America Team, All-American honors in 1997. After four seasons in the NFL, Tillman joined the 75th Ranger Regiment, Army Rangers and served several combat tours before he was killed in the mountains of Afghanistan. At first, the army reported that Tillman had been killed by enemy fire ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Robby Anderson
Robbie Chosen (born Robby Anderson; May 9, 1993), previously known as Robbie Anderson and briefly Chosen Anderson, is an American professional American football, football wide receiver. He played college football at Temple Owls football, Temple and was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2016. He has also played in the NFL for the Carolina Panthers, Arizona Cardinals, and Miami Dolphins. Early life Born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Anderson moved to South Florida as a child. Anderson attended and played high school football at South Plantation High School. College career Anderson committed to Temple University to play college football for the Temple Owls football, Temple Owls over offers from other schools including Illinois Fighting Illini football, Illinois, Indiana Hoosiers football, Indiana, and Marshall Thundering Herd football, Marshall. After Redshirt (college sports), redshirting his first year in Philadelphia, Anderson saw time on special teams durin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Joel Stave
Joel Stave (born May 16, 1992) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football at Wisconsin. Early life Joel Stave attended Whitnall High School in Greenfield, Wisconsin, where he was a three-year letter winner in football and track and field and two in basketball. As a junior, Stave passed for 4,459 yards and 39 touchdowns and ran for an additional five touchdowns. He was honorable mention all-state by the WFCA, first-team all-region, all-suburban, all-conference, and second-team all-area as a junior. As a senior, Stave threw for 3,635 yards and 47 touchdowns and ran for an additional 2,346 yards and seven touchdowns. He earned first-team all-state honors by the WFCA, honorable mention A.P. all-state honors, unanimous conference player of the year, first-team all-conference and second-team all-region as a senior. In his career with Whitnall, Stave threw for 5,094 yards and 41 touchdowns and added 12 rushing touchdowns. Following his high school career, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miami Hurricanes Football
The Miami Hurricanes football team represents the University of Miami in college football. The Hurricanes compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA's NCAA Division I, Division I NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, Football Bowl Subdivision, the highest level of collegiate football in the nation. The team is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), one of the Power Four conferences in college football. The program began in 1926 and joined the ACC in 2004, competing in the conference's Coastal Division from 2005 until the ACC eliminated divisions in 2023. The Miami Hurricanes are among the most storied and decorated football programs in NCAA history. Miami has won five AP Trophy, AP national championships in 1983 Miami Hurricanes football team, 1983, 1987 Miami Hurricanes football team, 1987, 1989 Miami Hurricanes football team, 1989, 1991 Miami Hurricanes football team, 1991, and 2001 Miami Hurricanes football team, 2001. Miami is ranked fourth o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rashawn Scott (American Football)
Carl Rashawn Scott (born January 29, 1992) is an American former professional football wide receiver. He played college football at the University of Miami. College career Scott played at Miami (FL) from 2011 to 2015. During his career, he had 91 receptions for 1,241 yards and 8 touchdowns. Professional career Scott was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent after the 2016 NFL draft The 2016 NFL draft was the 81st annual draft of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible American football players. As in 2015, the draft took place at the Auditorium Theatre and Grant Park in Chicago. The draft beg ... On September 3, 2016, he was released by the Dolphins as part of final roster cuts and was signed to the practice squad the next day. He was promoted to the active roster on November 30, 2016. Scott started the 2017 season on the physically unable to perform list after suffering a foot injury in the offseason. He was activated fro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michigan Wolverines Football
The Michigan Wolverines football team represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the List of NCAA football teams by wins, most all-time wins in college football history. The team is known for its distinctive winged football helmet, winged helmet, its The Victors, fight song, its record-breaking attendance figures at Michigan Stadium, and its many rivalries, particularly its annual, regular season-ending Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry, game against Ohio State, known simply as "The Game," once voted as ESPN's best sports rivalry. Michigan began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879. The Wolverines joined the Big Ten Conference at its inception in 1896, and other than a Charles A. Baird#1906 season and withdrawal from the Western Conference, hiatus from 1907 to 1916, have been members since. Michigan has won or shared 45 league titles, and since the inception of the AP poll in 1936, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jake Rudock
Jacob Michael Rudock ( ; born January 21, 1993) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for five seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He was a starting quarterback playing college football for the 2013 and 2014 Iowa Hawkeyes and 2015 Michigan Wolverines. He was selected by the Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the 2016 NFL draft. Early life Rudock grew up in Weston, Florida and went to St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was the Broward County Player of the Year. In 2009, St. Thomas Aquinas went 13–1 while making it to the state semifinals. He completed 128-of-197 passes for 1,945 yards. Rudock connected with his players in the end zone for a total of thirty-four touchdowns while only turning the ball over five times. As a senior at St. Thomas Aquinas he led the team to district, regional, state and national championships with a perfect regular season. He holds records for total yards, most wi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Blake Frohnapfel
Blake or Blake's may refer to: People * Blake (given name), a given name of English origin (includes a list of people with the name) * Blake (surname), a surname of English origin (includes a list of people with the name) ** William Blake (1757–1827), English poet, painter, and printmaker Places * Blake, Kentucky, USA * Blake Basin, a deep area of the Atlantic Ocean * Blake Island, Washington, USA, in Puget Sound * Blake River Megacaldera Complex, a large cluster of volcanoes in Ontario and Quebec, Canada * Blake Village, Virginia, USA * Blake's Pools, a nature reserve in south west England, UK Art, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Blake Belladonna, a character of the web series ''RWBY'' * Anita Blake, a character, protagonist of the ''Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter'' series of books by Laurell K. Hamilton * Bellamy Blake, fictional character in '' The 100'' TV series * Bob Blake, a character in a series African American westerns from the 1930s played by He ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Illinois Fighting Illini Football
The Illinois Fighting Illini football program represents the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) level. The Fighting Illini are a founding member of the Big Ten Conference. Illinois claims five national championships and 15 Big Ten championships. History Early history (1890–1912) The University of Illinois fielded its first football team in 1890, under the direction of Scott Williams (American football coach), Scott Williams, the team's starting quarterback who also served as the team's head coach. The team finished with a record of 1–2. Robert Lackey (American football), Robert Lackey took over the reins for the program's second season in 1891, and the team finished undefeated with a mark of 6–0. In July 1892, several days after graduating from Dartmouth, Edward K. Hall was hired by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to serve as head football coach and director of ph ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Josh Ferguson
Josh Ferguson (born May 23, 1993) is an American former professional football running back. He played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini, and signed with the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2016. Early life Ferguson attended Joliet Catholic Academy, where he rushed for 1,868 yards and 25 touchdowns. A 3-star running back recruit, Ferguson committed to Illinois to play college football over offers from Air Force, Ball State, East Carolina, Memphis, North Dakota State, Ohio, and Toledo. College career Ferguson debuted as a true freshman in 2011, playing in the first three games of the season, but he suffered a season-ending hamstring injury in week 3 and was approved for a medical hardship waiver, allowing him to redshirt. As a redshirt freshman in 2012, Ferguson played in 10 games, starting six. He ran 75 times for 312 yards, recorded 29 receptions for 251 yards, and returned 19 kicks for 344 yards. In 2013, as a redshirt sophomore, he ran 141 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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UMass Minutemen Football
The UMass Minutemen football team represents the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The Minutemen compete as an NCAA Division I FBS independent schools, FBS independent. Since 1965, their home games have been played at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium on the university's campus in Hadley, Massachusetts. UMass began play in 1879 and have since appeared in three NCAA Division I Football Championship, FCS National Championship games, winning the title in 1998. The Minutemen began a two-year Football Bowl Subdivision transition period in 2011, becoming bowl eligible in 2013. UMass began its FBS tenure as an associate member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) but left the conference after the 2015 season rather than become a full member. The Minutemen have since played as an independent, however, in February 2024, the UMass athletics department announced that they will rejoin the MAC as a full member, effective July 1, 2025. UM ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |