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The Associated Press announced today that Vince Young has received the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year award in a land-slide victory. [tag]Vince Young[/tag] received 23 out of 50 possible votes, with the next closest being 9 for Marques Colston and Maurice Drew. And guess who rounded out the vote at the bottom? That’s right, Reggie Bush.

Overall I think you have to be impressed with the quick transition VY is making in the pros. Many people doubted him, but Texas fans have known what everyone else is starting to learn about him. He is just a winner, plain and simple. It doesn’t matter what level is playing on, he will get the job done.

So a big congrats to VY from Bevo Sports and we look forward to more good things to come.

Not that there was any question what the greatest sports moment in 2006 was, but ESPN has made it official. Vince Young’s performance in the Rose Bowl and the Longhorns beating USC was ranked #1 by ESPN as the greatest sports story of 2006.

And to top it off, [tag]Vince Young[/tag] got yet another cover of a magazine, the latest issue of ESPN the Magazine.

What is with all of this love by ESPN for Vince lately? The upper execs can’t be too happy about this. I expect them to return to normal West Coast love soon.

Update: Looks like Yahoo agrees that the Rose Bowl was the best sports story. But take a look at #5, I am pretty sure it is now a bigger deal that the Texans didn’t draft VY, not Reggie.

ESPN.com has a pretty cool special called “The Education of Vince Young” up right now featuring a good article from Michael Smith, a photo gallery with twelve great high-res photos, and a short video from Sean Salisbury. Photos look great and there’s some shots in there that might make for great desktop wallpapers. Salisbury is very complimentary of Vince and especially his intangibles.

Vince is also on the cover of this week’s ESPN The Magazine so he’s definitely starting to get the love from ESPN (the moron Merril Hoge excluded of course.)

The match-up in the Holiday Bowl against California should be a tough one for the Horns. DeSean Jackson is a badass and the Texas secondary has been…

Wait… isn’t Texas playing in the Alamo Bowl versus Iowa? Texas A&M is in the Holiday Bowl, right? Well someone might want to inform Desmond Howard of that:

It actually sounds like Howard did his research on this mythical game between Texas and Cal. He even knew the (relatively) breaking news that Jevan Snead had decided to transfer to Ole Miss. He had all week to prepare for his 30-second segment and he botched it big time. Doh. Brad from the 12th Manchild said that Desmond actually made the same mistake both before the game and then again at halftime, though they might just have reaired the same segment.

Just another in the long list of colossal mistakes by ESPN/ABC in their coverage of sports and college football specifically. I never thought I’d be saying this, but I miss Trev Alberts.

The guy thought OU lost to Texas Tech and moved them down.

There’s apparently an incredibly superstitious and psychotic Longhorn fan making threats to Doug Flutie and his family. The “fan” lives in California (figures) and believes Flutie’s comments before the game that Texas could only lose if Colt McCoy got hurt jinxed the Horns and caused the upset loss to Kansas State.

“We have intentions of finding this person and speaking to this person,� said [police Lt. Paul] Shastany. “As threats go, it’s a pretty serious incident.�

Although the exact nature of the threat was not disclosed, the man, who investigators believe lives in California, wrote, “You jinxed the Longhorn faithful and a chance at the national title,� Shastany said.

“He was upset, wishing bad will and speaking badly about his family,� said Shastany. “At this point, the information is disconcerting enough to follow this up the best we can.�

There’s lots of blame to go around for the loss, but if we’re pointing fingers and making threats Doug Flutie is probably the last guy on my list. Hopefully they catch this guy, anybody that threatens a guy’s family needs to be locked up for a long time.

I agree with just about everything he said. That reporter just never got the point.

The premier episode is tonight on NBC at 8/7c.

Something he repeatedly proved to Texas fans last year.