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Ready to see the best 8 year old running back of all-time? This kid is just sick. His name is Cody Paul and he plays for the Los Alamitos Griffins in Pop Warner.

I am thinking Texas needs to start recruiting this kid now. And as crazy as it sounds, I read somewhere that he is already a silent commit at USC.

Note: Music not safe for work.

Prepare yourself for video greatness courtesy of Brian Cook over at The FanHouse, check out the Longhorns football recruiting video below from 1989:

Nothing inspires young men to greatness quite like Jefferson Starship. I don’t know how [tag]David McWilliams[/tag] and the Longhorns recruited by the video could ever lose a game. I think it’s clear now why the Longhorns dominated the nineties and McWilliams brought home two national titles to Austin. Oh wait…

If only they had chosen a more inspirational song the whole decade might have turned out differently. I think it’s clear Mack Brown must have much better taste in music. Thank God.

Matt Leinart is still whining about losing to Texas in the 2006 Rose Bowl, but now it’s actually kind of amusing in a pretty decent new commercial for NCAA Football ’08 from EA Sports:

They could have rewritten the ending of the game a little more realistically, instead of Leinart suddenly becoming a scrambling dynamo. Or for ultimate accuracy, they could have shown him quietly sobbing on the sideline.

This is actually part of a series of commercials for the game with players talking about how they’d rewrite history. Others include Texas beating Oklahoma in 2004 (haven’t seen that one yet) and OU stuffing Boise State’s Statue of Liberty play to win the Fiesta Bowl. NCAA Football ’08 will be in stores on July 17th for current and next-gen game systems.

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I was just thinking the other day, with the NBA Draft coming up on Thursday I figured I would be seeing more Kevin Durant commercials. Thankfully EA Sports has granted my wish. Starting today, [tag]Kevin Durant[/tag] (along with Gilbert Arenas) will be featured in 3 different commercials for EA Sports’ upcoming NBA Live ’08 video game.

The first commercial will feature Arena giving Durant dunk tips when Durant clanks one off the rim. “No, no, no! Who’s teaching you this stuff? Left stick, right stick, towards the basket, then the square button when you get close. Wait on the square!”

Here is the second commercial:

And the third commercial will feature Durant stealing the ball from Arenas and going up for an uncontested lay-up. When Arenas tells Durant he hasn’t taught him that yet, Durant replies, “I have my own go-to moves now.”

Can’t wait to see the others.

A great new Vince Young highlight video featuring highlights from his rookie season in Tennessee. Some good clips of Merril Hoge making an ass of himself interspersed throughout.

Can’t wait to see Vince progress this fall, I’ll be tuned into every game. Team has fallen back a little around him this offseason so it’ll take big things from Vince for the Titans to be 8 and 8 again.

The Oklahoma Sooners lost to Boise State in historic fashion in last year’s Fiesta Bowl, and it looks like EA isn’t going to let them forget it. One of the biggest features they’re touting in NCAA Football 08 (due out in July) is all the new trick plays they’ve added to the expanded play books. To highlight the feature, they’re using a clip of Boise State using the Statue of Liberty play to beat OU as the latest trailer. See the video below:

I’m not sure how well the new trick plays will work in the game, even the simple reverses that have been in previous games didn’t work very well. Even if the plays are useless, at least it’ll make Oklahoma fans relive the game a few more times.

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Vince Young was a decent football player at Texas and these highlights of the 2002 US Army All-American Bowl proves he was pretty decent in high school too:

Pretty fun stuff to watch. I think there was even a Clint Haney sighting. I didn’t remember how skinny Vince was when he first got on campus. You could really see he was special back then, even though he wasn’t “as polished as McNeal.” Ha.

An oldie but goodie from YouTube this morning. Texas wide receiver Johnny Walker absolutely waylays an [tag]Oklahoma[/tag] defensive back with a crushing block in the 1988 Red River Shootout. Check out the video:

Ouch.

A couple of the other OU defenders seeing it coming but the player on the receiving end of the hit was completely blindsided. You’ve got to keep your head on a swivel man. (via)

The second Longhorn selected of the day, cornerback [tag]Aaron Ross[/tag] was drafted 20th overall by the New York Giants.

I was hoping Ross would fall a couple more spots to the Cowboys but the Giants are a good fit for him as well. The team needed more talent and depth. Ross should be able to contribute in the secondary immediately and could be the starter opposite Sam Madison by the time the season starts. He also should be able to contribute to the Giants as a punt returner as well.

The first Texas Longhorn has been taken in the 2007 NFL Draft as [tag]Michael Griffin[/tag] was selected by Tennessee Titans with the 19th overall pick of the first round.

I’m ecstatic to see Griffin going to Tennessee to join Vince Young. I’m a big Titans fan, as most Texas fans probably are these days, and it’ll be great getting to watch Griffin, Young, Bo Scaife, and Ahmard Hall play together in the NFL. This definitely means I’ll be ordering the NFL Sunday Ticket so I can catch all their games this season here in Dallas.

The Titans had one of the league’s worst defenses last season and lost Pacman Jones, so adding Griffin to the secondary should help them get the ball back in VY’s hands a little quicker.