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LSU to Kick Off 2007 College Football Season

Score one for the Bayou Bengals. It has been announced that LSU will play Mississippi State in a rare early season SEC league match to kick off the 2007 season. LSU coach Les 'The Hat' Miles can be seen to the right celebrating with one of the moves from Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' video. To the surprise of nobody the...

Rushing Looks To Put The Fun Back In Colts' Return Game

For awhile now I have been shielding my eyes anytime the Colts' return team steps onto the field. Why? Well here are some stats...Last year (2005) the league leader for kick-off return yards, Terrence McGee, averaged 30.2 yards a return. The Colts? Their return man came in 33rd place at 20.9 yards a return. It was...

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06/01/12 The Denver Broncos are going to have a lot of... Source: Broncos Locker The Denver Broncos are set at kicker (Matt Prater) and punter (Britton Colquitt), but, a lot of players are going to be competing to return kickoffs and punts. 28-year old WR Matt Willis is penciled in as the starting kickoff returner, but he's going to have to hold off Eric Decker, rookie CB Omar Bolden and undrafted rookie WR Eric Page. Willis played in all 16 games for the Broncos last year and he returned 8 kickoffs for 163 yards (20.4 avg).
09/03/11 KICKOFF Source: Kilgore News Herald - Kilgore TX Kilgore's Cornelius "Spike" Bell (32) looks for a hole in the Corsicana defense, beside teammate Kameron Bailey (33) and quarterback Riley Toler (8).
08/24/11 kickoff Source: CBS - WRBL News 3 - Columbus GA/Auburn AL Barbour County's James Hamilton has his eyes on the ball as he snares a pass during a practice last Friday.
04/12/11 Kickoff Source: The Corner on National Review Online "My fellow Americans, I come to you today to apologize. I now understand that budget really is policy, and my . . . Go The Agenda President Obama's Disappointing Variation on Bowles-Simpsonian Themes As regular readers know, I'm a bigger fan of the Bowles-Simpson Chairmen's Mark than most conservatives. Though the plan wasn't . . . Go Bench Memos Voting Irregularities in Wisconsin As readers know by now, the momentum in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race turned dramatically in Justice Prosser's favor when . . .
03/29/11 Kickoff Source: The Advertiser-Tribune - Tiffin OH Carson Mellott, 6, returns a bat to the dugout during Tiffin Columbian's first baseball game of the season Monday.

Background on kickoff

In American and Canadian football, a kick returner (KR) is the player on special teams who is primarily responsible to catch kickoffs and attempts to return them in the opposite direction.

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