Super walk mapped out by Bronco
What is Mike Adams going to do if the Denver Broncos win Super Bowl XLVIII - go to Disney World?
Not quite.
The Broncos’ 10th-year safety is walking home.
Adams is from Paterson, N.J., about 12 miles from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., where the Super Bowl will be played.
“If we win the Super Bowl, I’m going to keep my helmet and pads on and I’m walking home,” Adams told the Denver Post.
Adams is one of three Broncos who are playing the Super Bowl in their home state. Defensive end Robert Ayers is from Jersey City, and running back Knowshon Moreno is from Belford.
But Adams is the only one who has pledged to hoof it up the Garden State Parkway to his house after a victory.
Denver Post columnist Mark Kiszla asked Adams if he thought cars driving the highway would notice him.
“After I get to the IHOP on Route 3, I’ll start hitchhiking,”Adams said. “But they’d probably think I’m just some crazy person.” Double steal
Arkansas forward Coty Clarke said his consecutive steals in about 25 seconds in the Razorbacks’ 86-67 victory over Auburn on Saturday was a first for him.
“Never, never,” Clarke said Sunday when asked if he’d made a similar play. “Not like that in that sequence.”
Arkansas led 22-14 with less than six minutes left before halftime when Clarke stole the ball and made a behind-the-back pass to Anthlon Bell before going out of bounds to save it for the Razorbacks.
Clarke’s momentum carried him over the scorer’s table and into the crowd. He said he also had to dodge a trash can full of sodas that was knocked over.
“I didn’t want to get it all on my jersey and shoes,” he said.
“So I had to completely turn the opposite way and stand up and I ended up jumping over the Coke.”
Clarke ended up running around Auburn’s bench, after the Tigers rebounded a missed Arkansas shot. When Clarke got back onto the court, he ran up behind Tigers guard KT Harrelland knocked the ball away from him to teammate Ky Madden.
“I saw him dribbling, and there wasn’t anybody saying ‘Woof!’ or nothing,” Clarke said. “His coaches. His teammates. Nothing.
They were just quiet.
“I just went and took it again and made that play.”
Arkansas guard Fred Gulley was fouled and made two free throws after Clarke’s second steal to put the Razorbacks ahead 24-14.
Last wish
Robley Tatum was a dedicated Georgia Tech football fan and a university employee.
Tatum died Jan. 17 in Atlanta and in his obituary in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, his displeasure of the current state of the Yellow Jackets wasn’t guarded.
“He loved his family, his neighbours, Georgia Tech, the Atlanta Braves, bowling (he was a great bowler),” the obituary read.
“… He didn’t get his final wish from Tech, which was to see Paul Johnson get fired, but hey, there’s still time.”
Georgia Tech was 7-6 last season in Johnson’s sixth year, so, maybe Tatum, who was 91 when he died, might not have had that long to wait.
Quote of the day
“It’s really not the way you want to win a tennis
match, but in a Grand
Slam final I’ll take it.” Stan Wawrinka, who beat Rafael Nadal in the men’s singles final of the Australian Open
Sports, Pages 14 on 01/27/2014