SFA 40 Western Illinois 30

Nice road win for the 'Jacks...

David Smoak

East Texas "Game of the Week":

Live from Scarborough Stadium, Cayuga:

Cayuga 32, Kerens 26 (Final)

Scoring Summary:
Kerens-Faulk 42-TD Pass to Jordan, XP Failed
Kerens-Jordan 18-TD Run, 2-point failed
Cayuga-Duncan 53-TD Pass to Summerville, XP No Good
Cayuga-Kennedy 4-TD Run, XP No Good
Kerens-Faulk 4-TD Run, XP Good
Cayuga-Kennedy 44-TD Pass to Jenkins, 2-Point Conversion-Failed
Kerens-Faulk 26-TD Run, XP Good
Cayuga-Kennedy 43-TD Pass to Duncan, 2-Point Convesion-Good
Cayuga-Kennedy 55-TD Pass to Summerville, 2-Point Conversion-Failed

Kentucky Football Coach Acquitted in Player's Death

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former Kentucky high school football coach has been acquitted in the death of a player who collapsed at a practice where the team was put through a series of sprints on a hot summer day.

It was a rare criminal prosecution of a coach in a player's heat-related death.

Former coach David Jason Stinson was charged after 15-year-old Max Gilpin collapsed at an August 2008 practice as the team ran a series of sprints known as "gassers." He died three days later at a Louisville hospital of heat stroke, sepsis and multiple organ failure. His temperature reached at least 107 degrees.

Players said Stinson ordered the gassers as punishment for the lack of effort players showed at practice on a day where the temperature and heat index were both 94 degrees.

The jury reached a verdict after deliberating for less than two hours.

If you want to discuss this in the forums, click here: Kentucky Coach Acquitted

Above you'll see two pictures of Palestine's Adrian Peterson, who was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated released this week.

That makes two consecutive weeks an East Texan has been on the cover of SI with Lufkin's Dez Bryant on a week ago after Oklahoma State's victory against Georgia.

I have a feeling Adrian and perhaps Dez will dot the cover again soon.

David Smoak

Cody Glenn was released on Wednesday by the Indianapolis Colts. The Rusk native signed with the Colts after being released by Washington earlier this month.

In other news involving East Texans in the NFL...

*Former TJC Apache Dominic Rhodes is working out with the New York Giants.

*Former Corsicana star Billy Yates signed with the Cleveland Browns.

David Smoak