OSG High: Seahawks Open Practice Facility For Marysville-Pilchuck

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This was a class move...

With a community still reeling from a school shooting last week, the Seattle Seahawks and head coach Pete Carroll decided to do something really cool.

He invited the school directly affected and the team that was supposed to be their opponent for a region title over to the team's facility to practice and just hang out for a little while.
No word on when Oak Harbor will be able to make their trip over, but the gesture is still class... Our original story on the tragedy, the forfeit, and the reaction from Brother Phil is hyah...

Augusta Day One: The Weather Won

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It was a rainy, nasty day on the course where the best in the world are set to play this week (and in the entire southeast for that matter are living their lives)- so, in reality, not a whole lot got done...

Evidenced by everyone that is heading to the airport after seeing less than a half-day of practice rounds on the course on Washington Road...

Here's your proof that the weather won...
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Well, there's always tomorrow...

Right...??/

OSG High: FB Player With Prosthetic Runs With His Team

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The HQ was alerted to the story of Jaque Billingsley last season while we were traversing the state checking on central Georgia's best in high school football...

He's a lineman for Northside High School in Warner Robins- just like his older brother did...

In November of 2010, Jaque decided to compete in wrestling as an Eagle...
"My leg got caught and he ended up falling on it and it snapped. I dislocated my knee. And we didn't really know what was happening," he told Macon's NBC41 that following spring.

Jaque went to the hospital and was released. But when he got home, he couldn't feel his right foot. A nerve in his leg was pinched and a blood clot formed. By the time the Billingsleys got a second opinion, gangrene had set in.

Doctors amputated his right leg just below the knee, but he is still playing and practicing. And since it's conditioning time for football season (since practice doesn't start until the 1st), the Eagles were doing their thing and Jaque was right there with them as the football program put their finishing touches on its annual Ironman Competition earlier this week.

Here's Jaque with his escort home...


Jaque wants to be the first player in the NFL playing with a prosthesis...
Go get 'em...