ANDREW LUCK DOES IT AGAIN!
Palo Alto, CA--It was another impressive victory for Andrew Luck and the Stanford Cardinal. In front of a packed house filled 50,360 people including notable Stanford Alums, John Elway, Jim Plunkett and Tiger Woods, the Stanford Cardinal throttled PAC-12 Newcomer, Colorado Buffalos, 48 -7.
The victory-improved #7 ranked Stanford to 5-0 and dropped Colorado to 1-5.
The Buffalos galloped into Cardinal Stadium on Saturday evening but left slaughtered and ready to be packed for sale at the local grocery store.
The Buffalos did not help their chances of coming away with a victory by indefinitely suspending five defensive players for violating team rules and they also were without, arguably their best offensive player, Paul Richardson.
The visiting Buffalos got off to a promising start by recovering a mishandled kick off return by Stanford. However their good fortunes were short lived, and a few plays later Buffalos offense stalled and they forced to kick a field goal. During the field goal attempt, Stanford’s Max Bergen bullied his way through the Colorado Buffalos line, blocked the kick and picks it up an returns it 75 yards for Stanford’s first of seven touchdowns on the evening. Things went downhill fast from here for Colorado, but fortunately for Colorado they were able to witness the Andrew Luck show up close and personal.
Luck was his typical self on the evening, orchestrating scoring drives of more than 70 yards on 4 separate occasions on Saturday evening. His longest scoring drive of the night was a whopping 14 play 84 yards drive that chewed up 6:41.
Andrew Luck! What more can you say, with a last name like that, you must be something special. Statistically speaking, Luck played his second best game as a collegiate football star. Luck was 26-33 for 370 yards, 3 TD, and 1 INT. Luck could have very easily eclipsed his previous personal best of 420 yards, but the coaching staff took him out of the game with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter. Head Coach David Shaw obviously was more concerned with keeping his Heisman Trophy Candidate Quarterback healthy as opposed to leaving Luck in the game so he could attempt to set himself a new personal best. Furthermore it was a classy move and gesture of good sportsmanship by Coach Shaw. Many coaches would have left the star player in the game but to “pad his stats” but Stanford has a classy program and chose to take the highroad, which is commendable to say the least.
The atmosphere at a college football game is very refreshing. Amongst those in attendance are college students, whom are festive and all adorn crimson Stanford t-shirts; they also bring energy and excitement to the crowd. The college students were chanting “Luck-Luck-Luck” every time he would throw and complete a pass. When he threw a touchdown there was pandemonium in the stands. Everyone is “high-fiving” each other. It appeared as though people who could have been professors or parents were “high-fiving” the students! It was truly a beautiful sight to see.
When you are attempting to watch a game live there are a few things that can hinder the sports reporter from meeting deadlines. The first one is that if the game goes into overtime then the reporter is going to have difficulty meeting deadlines because there is less time to craft the story. Secondly, the reporter must be prepared. It would be wise for the reporter to attain a press release and game notes for both teams. Sometimes during the games it gets loud and you cannot hear the PA system from the press box. Having the game notes, press release, or current rosters can assist you when you are taking notes while watching the game. It is likely that a sports reporter is not familiar with all of the players from the visiting team, which is why having rosters is very important for the sport reporter. If a sports reporter chooses to use quotes from one of the players in the game, than this can be a potential problem for the reporter to not make deadline. Often the athlete is not accessible immediately after the sporting event. This causes the sports reporter to burn precious minutes that they could use to craft their story.
I think halftime is an opportune time for the sports reporter to begin crafting the lead for the sports story. Specifically with college football, the games have often been decided by the end of the first half. Working on the story during halftime will allow the sports reporter to have more time at the conclusion of the game to craft the story and not feel as rushed to put it all together at the end of the game. If a sports reporter is not going to use quotes in their sports story, it is possible that they can have majority of their story written before the game has actually ended.
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