Cam Newton is on SI cover — and on Bulldog Nation’s mind
A few notes to start the day . . .
- The quarterback that Georgia’s defense will be chasing Saturday is on the cover of this week’s Sports Illustrated. Cam Newton is the first Auburn football player to make the cover of SI’s weekly issue since Bo Jackson 25 years ago, according to the school. Newton shares this week’s cover with TCU’s Andy Dalton and Oregon’s LaMichael James as SI takes a look at the BCS and a possible Auburn-Oregon national-title game. Jackson shared the Dec. 2, 1985, cover with Iowa’s Chuck Long and Plymouth (N.H.) State’s Joe Dudek.
- Not surprisingly, the 6-foot-6, 250-pound Newton was a big topic of conversation on Mark Richt’s weekly radio call-in show Monday night. As an example of Newton’s powerful running, Richt mentioned something he saw on Auburn film: a third-and-1 situation against Mississippi State on which Newton ran for the first down and collided with a middle linebacker. “The linebacker, you would think, would just knock his rear end back and make the stop,” Richt said. “But Cam jumps up and runs back to the huddle, and the linebacker is just laying there and they had to carry him off the field. Now, he did finish the game, so he didn’t get hurt too badly, but he got stunned by the big guy.”
- Richt said after last Saturday’s game that he hoped Auburn would be ranked No. 1 in the country this week. A caller asked Monday night why the coach felt that way. “If everyone thinks Auburn is the No. 1 team in the nation and we beat Auburn, they might think Georgia is a pretty darn good team, too,” he said. “That is the opportunity and challenge we want.” Auburn is actually No. 2 in the polls and the BCS standings this week. “1 and 2, it’s about the same — this time of year, anyway,” Richt said.
- As expected, Trey Thompkins‘ high ankle sprain will keep him out of Georgia’s basketball opener Friday night against Mississippi Valley State, coach Mark Fox said during the second hour of the “Bulldog Hotline” show Monday. “It’s a third-degree sprain,” Fox said. “It’s a significant injury, and he’s not close to being back. He will not play in the opener. . . . He made a decision to come back to school, and we owe it to Trey to make sure he’s healthy before he steps on the floor. He’s chomping at the bit to come back tomorrow if he could. But our trainers are doing a terrific job, and he’s getting treatment around the clock, basically. So we hope he’ll get back soon, but it’s going to be a little while.” Fox indicated previously that the injury, suffered during a scrimmage on Oct. 30, could sideline Thompkins for two to six weeks.
- More later today . . .
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November 9th, 2010
10:10 am
Attempted character assassination of Cam Newton continues
That’s what this is. There’s no other way to describe it. Even if the latest allegations against Cam Newton are true, they add up to a serious attempt at character assassination.
In 26 years in this business, I’ve never seen anything like it.
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/11/attempted_character_assassinat.html
UGA sucks
November 9th, 2010
10:11 am
“But we ain’t Chattanooga”
Nope, you’re Ole Miss.
mama said
November 9th, 2010
10:14 am
JB come home boy ..you sick and need care.
uga can’t drop from top 25 because its not in top 25.
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:14 am
Damn, Bama has had you guys in hiding for three years, and you get a little sideways when you make the front page of the Birmingham News again……
Daniel
November 9th, 2010
10:14 am
Based on the new non-conference scheduling policy, this is exactly the kind of challenge Richt and UGA don’t want.
Question
November 9th, 2010
10:16 am
What will dawg fans do when Newton runs over 500 yards against you?
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:16 am
Does Cam ride to the games in ya’lls white limo you recruit with, or does he take the bus with the other fellows ? That Limo is pure Alabama….LOL…..was it a used one, with 22’s on it ?
LOL
JBdumb@ss
November 9th, 2010
10:17 am
JB
Cam Newton and the Auburn Tigers are going to absolutely destroy your team this weekend. I hope you’ll be ready with a box of tissues.
AJ
November 9th, 2010
10:17 am
Question- Take it out on you
JBdumb@ss
November 9th, 2010
10:17 am
JB
Do the UGA fellons, football team, ride on the prison bus to every game?
Question
November 9th, 2010
10:18 am
How will dawg fans take it out on me when this is a blog?
Bosshog
November 9th, 2010
10:18 am
yeah boy, cammy cam is da man.
look a here dog fans. this is as close as y’all gonna get to cammy cam. cammy cam will be running all over your defense.
that triple option will run all over your weak 3-4 scheme.
you saw what cammy cam did to LSU. most rushing yards ever allowed by LSU.
LSU plays defense y’all don’t.
this is going to be a massacre.
cammy cam gonna undress the dawgs like damon evans undressing co-eds.
Bosshog
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:19 am
” absolutely Destroy your team this weekend”………………I’m yawning………..
Gratefuldawghead
November 9th, 2010
10:19 am
Fear The Tumb!
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:20 am
Now Bosshog………………….Well, at least we know there are three computers in Alabama….LOL
JBdumb@ss
November 9th, 2010
10:20 am
“I’m yawning”
I’m laughing at you.
JBdumb@ss
November 9th, 2010
10:20 am
“Fear The Tumb!”
Why, because it’s been up your butt?
JBdumb@ss
November 9th, 2010
10:21 am
“Well, at least we know there are three computers in Alabama”
At least we know there isn’t child porn on them like the ones at UGA.
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:22 am
JBsmart@ass…………………At the end of the day……………….You’re still Auburn, Step child to the Tide, Man, that’s tough…..
AJ
November 9th, 2010
10:22 am
JB- There is only one They are all using the same one
JBdumb@ss
November 9th, 2010
10:22 am
Hey UGA homos.
Another Cam Newton allegation? Sorry, I’m still not swayed
http://blogs.ajc.com/mark-bradley-blog/2010/11/09/another-cam-newton-allegation-sorry-im-still-not-swayed/?cxntfid=blogs_mark_bradley_blog
JdawgT
November 9th, 2010
10:22 am
Cam Newton the NEW Michael Vick.
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:24 am
To sophomoric for me…..I’ll stay 2 more minutes…..Go ahead, take you best alabama shots’….
I’m still yawning……Go !
Joe Bob Thibodaux
November 9th, 2010
10:24 am
JB
Do you think Question is a GT plant?
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:25 am
I know AJ…….Been awhile for them, so this is kinda fun…..You know, it’s been Tide fans on here the last three years……….They’re shutting the farms down to get on here…..
mama said
November 9th, 2010
10:26 am
JB at the end of the day UGA is still step child to Fla.Man, thats your daddy.
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:27 am
Maybe Joe Bob, don’t normally see AU folks on here except WAR Eagle….These guys, or this one guy is new…..Could a underemployed Techie…….
ryan
November 9th, 2010
10:27 am
Cry me a river you need wine to go with that cheese on Newton i know UGA is not going to win its funny how the haters called Green a thug and all he did was sell a jersey you guys giving Newton a pass are you kidding me .
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:29 am
mama said…..not argument from me about Gators….I live in the real world….what else ya got…..
SECWasteManagement
November 9th, 2010
10:29 am
To say that one team is going to dominate the other when it’s the oldest rivalry for both teams is absurd.
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:30 am
Some people will sell their soul to win it all…..Saban, Meyer, Chimpmuk, or whatever his name is………..The guys Russian isn’t he ?
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:31 am
Thank you SEC WM
AJ
November 9th, 2010
10:31 am
Mama said don’t have anything else this year
JBdumb@ss
November 9th, 2010
10:32 am
“Cam Newton the NEW Michael Vick.”
Well, he is going to kill some dawgs this Saturday.
JBdumb@ss
November 9th, 2010
10:33 am
“Do you think Question is a GT plant?”
I’m pretty sure GT grads have better things to do with their degrees than to sit on AJC blogs chatting with UGA fans who never got their GED’s.
SECWasteManagement
November 9th, 2010
10:34 am
You’re dead wrong on that last statement JBdumb@ss haha.
AJ
November 9th, 2010
10:34 am
He ’s got about as much money as Michael Vick……LOL
AltamahaDawg
November 9th, 2010
10:35 am
Seems pretty simple, wouldn’t it be an the official document as to if Newton was scheduled to appear before the “student affairs” board at UF for multiple accusation of academic cheating? If not, its a hack story. The Miami paper can read the police blotter, but the crack team of reporters who LIVE in the blotters around here can’t? The AJC even purposely wrote headlines to make it seem like it was a NEW story when the UGA players eventually dealt with their student advisory on the same thing that had been already reported and run into the ground.
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:36 am
His “rap” sheet is sounding more like Vick’s everyday…..Look, I love the SEC, and I hope none of it is true…Really…..Good luck Saturday…………………………By the way, if the nut job above doesn’t recognize it, I’m ending with a classy statement……..
JBdumb@ss
November 9th, 2010
10:36 am
“You’re dead wrong on that last statement ”
Oh my bad, I guess I was giving UGA fans too much credit. I guess they never did get their GED.
JBdumb@ss
November 9th, 2010
10:37 am
“His “rap” sheet is sounding more like Vick’s everyday”
Except there is no evidence of anything, he didn’t kill any dogs, well until this Saturday, and no one has been shot.
AJ
November 9th, 2010
10:38 am
You guys can’t even decide on mascot
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:38 am
SEC….yes, he’s a Techie…..AU folks don’t have that much hate in them….Just Tech…..living rent free in their minds 365 days a year for the last NINE years. Pitiful
BREAKING NEWS
November 9th, 2010
10:38 am
An anonymous source told me that JB has raging herpes.
FILM AT ELEVEN
That all ya got?
November 9th, 2010
10:39 am
“You guys can’t even decide on mascot”
UGA rents their logo from the Green Bay Packers.
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:40 am
SEC, with the way Tech is headed, they have to “hide’ on these blogs to attack…..I have Never, and I mean never seen a AU fan act like this fool…….
JB
November 9th, 2010
10:41 am
BREAKING NEWS…. I got it from your mother….LOL
Eastof A1A
November 9th, 2010
10:42 am
The Auburn/Clemson game was as physical a game as I’ve still seen all year. But I thought Clemson should have won, and actually looked better. Being that Clemson is one of those parity-ridden ACC teams in a down year for the ACC, I think uga has a real chance. AU’s defense isn’t as good as MSU’s. I’m a Tech fan, so this is a 3rd-party opinion.
AJ
November 9th, 2010
10:43 am
Auburn rents “Glory Glory” from UGA
SECWasteManagement
November 9th, 2010
10:43 am
I’m I the only seeing the ticket ad for the Miami vs. Tech game where it says there is a Hurricane Warning coming to ATL and to prepare for impact. It’s going to be sad when they lose to The U, and this is even without Miami having the Human Inerception Machine taking the snaps.