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10/21/08 - 09:41 PM
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LSU will open its longest homestand in 38 years on Saturday as the 11th-ranked Tigers host No. 9 Georgia in a key Southeastern Conference clash. Kickoff for the Tigers and the Bulldogs is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. CT from Tiger Stadium. The game will be televised nationally by CBS. The game will feature the two most productive and winningest programs in the SEC over the last five years. LSU brings a 5-1 overall mark and a 3-1 league record into the game after rallying from a 10-point halftime deficit to beat South Carolina, 24-17, last week. Georgia bounced back from its first loss of the season with a 24-14 win over Vanderbilt last week to up its record to 6-1 overall and 3-1 in conference action. Saturday’s game will mark the first contest between the teams since the 2005 SEC Championship Game when the Bulldogs rolled to a 34-14 win over the Tigers. LSU hasn’t faced Georgia in Tiger Stadium since 2003 when the Tigers upset the Dawgs, 17-10. The Georgia game also starts a five-game homestand for the Tigers, which is the longest for the school since the start of the 1970 season when LSU opened the year with five consecutive home games.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Former Kentucky linebacker Wilbur Hackett
Jr.’s latest hit may be his most popular of all.
The former Wildcat standout and current Southeastern Conference
official was the umpire in last Saturday night’s LSU-South Carolina
game and became an instant Internet sensation for his
shoulder-first knock back of Gamecock quarterback Stephen Garcia.
By mid-day Tuesday, there were at least 14 versions of the play on
YouTube.com with more than 1 million combined views.
And that doesn’t count those who watched as ESPN featured the
collision from its LSU-South Carolina broadcast on SportsCenter the
past few days.
For the few left who haven’t seen the clip, South Carolina stood
first-and-goal on the LSU 8 when Garcia took the snap, started
right and cut back left. Hackett, the umpire, slid along the line
of scrimmage with the play. Then when Garcia turned slightly toward
the middle, Hackett appeared to step into the freshman quarterback
with his right shoulder and forearm.
The crash knocked Garcia off balance as LSU safety Curtis Taylor
rushed in to finish the tackle.
South Carolina offensive lineman Jarriel King helped Garcia up
after the 4-yard gain, then put his big arm around the quarterback
and patted him on the facemask. Even though the Gamecocks scored a
touchdown three plays later to move in front 17-10 - their last
lead in game they’d lose 24-17 - its hasn’t stopped bloggers,
sports talk callers and college Cyberfans from questioning if
Hackett took the chance to relive his playing days by laying out
Garcia.
Not the case, the SEC says.
The league’s coordinator of football officials, Rogers Redding,
reviewed the tape and considered the hit to be inadvertent contact,
SEC spokesman Charles Bloom said.
Bloom said the umpire position lends itself to more contact than
is seen with other on-field officials. “We feel there was nothing
else that needs to be read into it and it was a collision between a
player and an official,” Bloom said.
Hackett won’t face any discipline for what the league considers
protecting himself from an onrushing player, Bloom said.
Requests to the SEC to speak with Redding and Hackett were
turned down. A message left at the home of a Wilbur Hackett Jr. in
Louisville, Ky., was not immediately returned.
Hackett’s no stranger to leveling SEC quarterbacks. A star at
linebacker and running back at Louisville’s duPont Manual High
School, Hackett went on to play at Kentucky from 1968-70 where he
became the first black football team captain in SEC history,
according to Kentucky’s media guide.
In 1970, Hackett shared the Wildcats’s most valuable player
award with fellow linebacker Joe Federspiel. Hackett was also
honored that year as the team’s most valuable senior.
Neither of the coaches, LSU’s Les Miles or South Carolina’s
Steve Spurrier, thought Hackett did anything wrong.
Spurrier thought Hackett was trying to get out of Garcia’s way.
“Stephen sort of cut back right into him. Sometimes that will
happen,” the coach said.
Miles, always coaching them up, couldn’t help critiquing
Hackett’s technique.
“We told him, ‘Listen, you’ve got to use your flipper. You’ve
got to use your forearm. But then you have to wrap up.’ I want you
to know that we were disappointed in his effort to be honest with
you,” said Miles, a smile on his face as reporters laughed Monday.
Getting serious, Miles said Hackett reacted instinctively to
protect himself once Garcia turned his way.
“Certainly, everybody in this room would look to defend
themselves, and I’m certain that’s what he was thinking,” Miles
said.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

Well if you didn’t watch the Ash and Tioga game, you missed out on a ton of scoring,107 points to be exact. The indians dropped a 59 spot on the Trojans in a 59-48 victory, which was the first win over Ash in almost 10 years. The star of the night was Tioga quarterback Terrence Dorsey,the junior quarterback scored 5five total touchdowns...two passing and three on the ground.

The latest Louisiana prep football polls are out,and Central Louisiana has only one team reanked. The Leesville Wampus Cats come in at number four in Class 4A. This week the 6-1 Cats will travel to Peabody.

A loss for the New Orleans Saints this Sunday may kill their shot of making the playoffs. It would drop them to 3- 5 and at least two games behind the leader of the NFS South, but if they can pull out a win they’ll be right back in the playoff hunt. Linebacker Johnathan Vilma thinks something bigger is in stake for the winner. 

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