Showing posts with label Florida State football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida State football. Show all posts

Monday, May 1, 2017

Travis Rudolph is a NY Giants signee everyone can root for

Travis Rudolph was not picked in the NFL draft this year but is one of 17 undrafted players to be signed by the New York Giants. And if the wide receiver never ends up being a Giant on the field during a game, it's nice to know that the 21-year-old is way bigger off of it.


Rudolph, you may remember, is the Florida State player whose photo of him sharing lunch with a lonely autistic boy in a school cafeteria went viral and warmed the hearts of many.

And it appears that Rudolph and the young boy, Bo Paske, are still pals.

Rudolph posted an Instagram picture of the pair hanging out during the NFL draft this past week.


The relationship started last August, when the football player visited Tallahassee's Montford Middle School along with four other players to speak with students.

He saw Paske, a sixth-grader who is autistic, by himself at a table in the lunch room, and asked if he could sit with him.


He said the two had a great conversation, calling Bo a "cool" person who he would hang out with any day.

The pair even met up a week later at FSU so Rudolph could give Bo a jersey emblazoned with the name PASKE on the back.

Leah Paske, Bo's mother, was moved to tears upon seeing a photo of the gesture and said she is grateful for the kindness Rudolph showed her son who often eats lunch alone.

In a Facebook post in which she shared a of the lunchroom encounter, Paske said her talked about some of the challenges Bo faces with his disorder including the solo midday meals.



Rudolph led Florida State in receiving the past two seasons and forfeited his final season of eligibility to enter the NFL draft. And now, on a team loaded with receiving talent, the former Seminoles player might be a long shot to make the team.

But if there is anyone worth rooting for it's Travis ... and his buddy Bo.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Jameis Winston's alleged rape victim goes public about her 'ordeal' in documentary

The woman who accused Florida State University football star Jameis Winston of raping her has come forward for a new documentary that premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival.

Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground (trailer at bottom) investigates sexual assault on campuses across the country and features Erica Kinsman —  the college coed who claims she was raped by 2013 Heisman Trophy winner.



In the film, the 20-year-old Kinsman describes her ordeal, allegedly at the hands of Winston, then a Florida State University freshman. She says she had been drinking and was admittedly woozy on that December 2012 night. Kinsman tearfully recalls a man buying her a shot at a local Tallahassee bar, then being in the back of a cab the next before being raped on the bathroom floor of an apartment, according to The Daily Beast.

Kinsman says she remembers coming to while the man on top of her, and claims that she asked him to stop. The man allegedly ignored both her and his roommate, who Kinsman says entered the room and told him to stop, before taking her into the bathroom.

“All these people were praising (Winston)… and calling me a slut, a whore,” Kinsman says in the film.



The 21-year-old Winston was never charged and Florida State cleared him of the accusations at a student code of conduct hearing in December.


Monday, January 12, 2015

Porn star has enticing offer if Braxton Miller transfers to FSU

Former Florida State and current Arizona Cardinals star Darnell Dockett has been trying to recruit Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller, who missed the 2014 season with a shoulder injury, to FSU via social media.
Dockett got some help Friday when adult film star and FSU fan Mia Khalifa came up with her own way of luring Miller away from the Buckeyes — and it didn't involve the weather.





Dockett seemed pretty thrilled with Khalifa’s offer, based on his hand-clapping emojis, and was more than happy to support the adult film star’s efforts with a retweet, via the NY Post.

Then she took it further.


But the Lebanese-born porn star — who received threats on social media or performing X-rated scenes in Muslim headwear — might be pushing this Seminoles jersey thing too far.

Well... at least in Ohio.


Friday, January 2, 2015

Jameis Winston's 'Stumblefumble' memes flood Internet (PHOTOS)

Jameis Winston's awkward third-quarter fumble against Oregon in the Rose Bowl is being called the most hilarious turnover since Mark Sanchez's Buttfumble.



The 'Stumblefumble' not only helped power the Ducks to a 59-20 rout of Florida State, but the phantom hit and fall also opened the floodgates of Internet memes faster than you can say crab legs.



And, like the memes at #StumbleFumble, the "hits" kept coming:






Thursday, April 3, 2014

FSU's Nick O'Leary to miss spring training after another motorcycle accident: Report

Florida State starting tight end Nick O’Leary will miss the rest of spring training because of injuries sustained from a motorcycle accident — his second in less than a year.

FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher said the All-ACC second teamer injured his ankle and was “skinned from head to toe.”



O’Leary, the grandson of golfer Jack Nicklaus, caught 33 passes for 557 yards and seven touchdowns last season, helping the Seminoles win the BCS Championship.

It sounds like O'Leary needs a helmet 24/7— both on and off the field. O'Leary was involved in another motorcycle accident which he T-boned a car and flipped over the hood last July.

Amazingly, he walked away from the crash and did not miss any practice time.

Here's a video of last summer's collision:

Friday, January 11, 2013

Brent Musburger introduced America to Jenn Sterger too

Call Brent Musburger what you will — a football analyst calling it like it is or lecherous old man saying too much — but last Monday wasn't the first time he turned a college-age beauty into a television sensation.

While Katherine Webb, the girlfriend of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron, was featured on television screens during the Crimson Tide's rout of Notre Dame, the long-time college football play-by-play announcer blurted out, "Wow, I'm telling you, quarterbacks : You get all the good-looking women. What a beautiful woman. Wow!"  The eight second camera shot turned her into an overnight star.

Now a seven-year old video clip has surfaced where Musburger has the same reaction to another group of young co-eds — featuring a spirited Florida State fan named Jenn Sterger.

Sterger — the little seen TV host and probably most famous for being the former New York Jets reporter involved in the Brett Favre privates picture scandal  — and her sexy pals had Musburger panting over them while calling a Florida State-Miami game in 2005.

The long-time announcer was less specific about the sexy Sterger, who was wearing a red bikini top, Daisy Dukes cutoffs and a cowboy hat, but made his point.

"Fifteen hundred red-blooded Americans just decided to apply to Florida State," he said when the camera focused on the dancing co-eds.



Say what you will about Musburger's enthusiasm for the ladies, but he does know what's important to the recruits.