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I Who do you think will
win the Thanksgiving Day
football showdown be-
tween Brockton and
Bridgewater-Raynham
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I’ll go with the Boxers
Give me the Trojans
THE ODDS ARE ...
I Oddsmakers favor Jim-
mie Johnson in Sunday’s (2
p.m., ESPN) Chase for the
Sprint Cup finale from
Homestead-Miami Speed-
way. Brad Keselowski,
above, takes a 20-point lead
over Johnson into Sunday’s
race and needs only to finish
15th or better to win his first
Sprint Cup title.
ODDS
Jimmie Johnson ........... 6-5
Matt Kenseth ................ 6-1
Greg Biffle ..................... 6-1
Kasey Kahne ................ 7-1
Denny Hamlin ............... 7-1
Brad Keselowski ........... 7-1
Martin Truex Jr. ............10-1
Clint Bowyer ................10-1
Kyle Busch ..................10-1
Carl Edwards ...............15-1
Jeff Gordon ..................15-1
Tony Stewart ................15-1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. ........20-1
Mark Martin .................30-1
Kevin Harvick ...............30-1
Field (all others) ............50-1
Source: examiner.com
HISTORY LESSON
I On this date, Nov. 16,
in ...
1929: Southern California
and Notre Dame play before
112,912 at Soldier Field in
Chicago, with the Fighting
Irish prevailing 13-12. It’s
the third time in the 1920s
that the two schools attract
more than 112,000 fans.
1957: Notre Dame ends
Oklahoma’s NCAA record
47-game winning streak
with a 7-0 triumph.
1957: Bill Russell, above,
of the Boston Celtics sets
an NBA record with 49 re-
bounds in a 111-89 victory
over the Philadelphia War-
riors.
COMING WEDNESDAY
Thanksgiving Day high school football preview
EXTRA
POINTS Looking
to turn
a corner
Former Buccaneers
cornerback Talib simply
wants to make the best of
his new opportunity with
the Patriots’ secondary
F
OXBORO – His reputation precedes him.
Over the course of 41
/2 seasons in the NFL,
Aqib Talib has established himself as a cover
corner on the field. At the same time, he’s of-
ten proven to be a duck-for-cover corner off the field.
“What happened in the past is the past,” Talib said
on Thursday. “I’m just looking
forward to (making) the best of
this opportunity and win(ning)
some ballgames.”
Acquired from the Tampa Bay
Buccaneers in a trade deadline
deal on Nov. 1, the new Patriots
epitomizes the old saying, “talent-
ed but troubled.”
Talib is talented enough for
the Patriots to trade for, as they
did in acquiring him and a seventh-round pick in the
2013 draft from Tampa Bay in exchange for their
fourth-rounder next year.
At the same time, Talib is troubled enough for the
Buccaneers, whose pass defense ranks last in the NFL
(yes, even worse than the Patriots, who are 29th), to
trade away 41
/2 years after they made him a first-round
Playoff
hopes a
tossup?
Mayflower Small School
division football playoff
berth may come down to
three-way tie, coin toss
By Eric McHugh
THE PATRIOT LEDGER
HANOVER – Maybe the real surprise
with the South Shore Votech football team
isn’t that the Vikings are oh-so-close to
playing in an EMass Super Bowl. It’s that
they looked to be so far away from con-
tending a month ago.
“I thought we were
going to have a great
year,” said star running
back Andy Beckwith of
Abington.
They’re certainly
having a memorable one.
With a senior-laden roster and an elec-
trifying offensive weapon in Beckwith,
hopes were high for the Vikings going in-
to the season.
Instead, they lost their first six games,
with five of them coming outside the
Mayflower Athletic Conference Small-
School Division. They’ve won four
straight since and will host Mayflower
League non-division foe Southeastern Re-
gional on Thanksgiving morning.
After the final whistle – hopefully –
the real fun will start.
If Holbrook/Avon (6-1, 3-1) wins at
West Bridgewater (3-6, 1-3) that morning,
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I Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib is not looking back.
RETURN
MAN
BSU’s Callahan back in NCAAs
By Jim Fenton
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
B
RIDGEWATER – He was
the starting quarterback the
last time that Bridgewater
State University took part
in the NCAA Div. 3 foot-
ball tournament.
The year was 2000 when Middle-
boro native Pat Callahan helped the
Bears earn a spot in the national tour-
ney by rallying past Salve Regina Uni-
versity, 27-24, in the inaugural New
England Football Conference champi-
onship game
Twelve years after BSU lost in the
opening round
of the NCAA
tourney to Ho-
bart College,
25-0, in Gene-
va, N.Y., the
Bears are
making a re-
turn appear-
ance, and
Callahan is
right there with his alma mater.
The former quarterback is now the
co-offensive coordinator with Rene
Moyen on a 9-1 team that received an
at-large berth in the NCAAs and will
play at ninth-ranked Widener Univer-
sity in Chester, Pa., on Saturday at
noon.
Callahan, in his ninth season as a
BSU assistant, is able to lend the
Bears an up-close perspective on what
it is like to prepare for and take part in
the national tournament.
“It was awesome to be part of,’’
said the 34-year-old Callahan, a
EMILY J. REYNOLDS/THE ENTERPRISE
I Bridgewater State University co-offensive coordinator Pat Callahan throws passes during a recent Bears practice as
the team prepares to play in the NCAA Div. 3 football tournament on Saturday at Widener University in Chester, Pa.
RETURN
MAN
“The NCAAs
are the NCAAs.
That’s what
you work for”
Pat Callahan
BSU co-offensive
coordinator
GREG DERR/THE PATRIOT LEDGER
I South Shore Votech teammates use
blocking dummies during blocking
practice as the Vikings get ready for their
Thanksgiving game against Southeastern
Regional High.
H I G H S C H O O L F O O T B A L L
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