Page 43 - Ray Guy News Today

Advanced Stats 2020 Season Review Part 5: Hidden Factors Share this story Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Getty Images In the final installment of the 2020 Advanced Stats Season Review, we’re going to look at the impact that “Hidden Factors” had on GT winning football games in 2020. When I solicited questions for this series last month, the vast majority of the questions I got covered these hidden factors of penalties, turnovers, special teams, and field position. Now, field position is a depend...

Love for the Raiders is a Generation Gift In over 60 years as a reporter covering the Oakland, Los Angeles, and now Las Vegas Raiders, Tom LaMarres love for the Silver and Black has been generational Author: Feb 11, 2021 (Tom LaMarre is a native of Oakland who covered the Silver and Black for the Oakland Tribune during the 1970s, and has written about the Raiders for more than 60 years, including now with Sports Illustrateds Raider Maven.) My father took me to my first Oakland Raiders game on N...

The Las Vegas Raiders legendary past grew over the weekend when the NFL Hall of Fame announced Silver and Black ICONS Tom Flores & Charles Woodson are in.

Rick Gosselins 50 Greatest Super Bowl Moments Rick Gosselin is universally accepted as one of the greatest NFL writers of all time.  He reflects on his amazing career giving us the 50 Greatest Super Bowl moments Author: Feb 1, 2021 EDITOR’S NOTE: Rick Gosselin has covered the NFL for 48 years in Detroit, New York City, Kansas City and Dallas and was enshrined in the writer’s wing of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2004. He has covered 37 of the 54 Super Bowls. Here’s his list of the 50 ...

Reflecting on the Hall Of Fame Career of the Raiders Ray Guy Reflecting on the Oakland Raiders NFL Hall of Fame legend Ray Guys career. Author: Jan 31, 2021 When Ray Guy was selected by the Oakland Raiders with the 23rd overall pick of the 1973 NFL Draft, he became the first punter ever picked in the first round. However, in 2014 Guy accomplished an even greater achievement by being the first, and still, the only punter, inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame after a brilliant career that ...

More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Silence is golden; Red and Golden PERSPECTIVE Raised in football nirvana, the Raiders have always been the best as far as Chris Teicheira is concerned. I had fully intended on writing the grand finale of "Eggs and Idiots: The Sonora Saga", but the Super Bowl is around the corner, and this...

Sanders, Bojorquez Lead NFL ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two of the best specialists to ever wear a Lobo uniform were teammates.  Now, Jason Sanders and Corey Bojorquez may be on opposite teams within the AFC East, but they both are quickly laying claim to being the best in the NFL. Sanders, who played at UNM from 2014 to 2017, was named First Team NFL All-Pro on Friday, capped a marvelous season in which he helped the Miami Dolphins to a 10-6 record and the brink of the playoffs.  Bojorquez, who pl...

For most of its existence, Alcolu’s chief export was lumber. The small hamlet in west-central South Carolina began as a mill town in the late 19th century for employees of D.W. Alderman, a local timber magnate. Ribbons of railroad tracks still crisscross through the pines there, clacking with commerce from all corners of the state. The town takes its quirky name – it’s pronounced AL-co-lu – from a portmanteau of Alderman (“Al”); his business partner and brother-in-law, Colwell (“C...

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech punter Pressley Harvin III (Alcolu, S.C./Sumter) hauled in perhaps his most prestigious honor to date when he was named first-team All-America by the Associated Press on Monday. Harvin is the 20 th first-team AP All-American in Georgia Tech history and the first Yellow Jacket to earn the honor since defensive end Derrick Morgan in 2009. The AP has selected an All-America team every year since 1925. Harvin leads the nation with a 48.0-yard punting average this season...

Technical Tidbits 12/23: Harvin, Gibbs Among Yellow Jackets To Receive Recognition Harvin and Gibbs receive all-American, all-ACC honors. Share this story Related The recognition is well deserved for Georgia Tech punter Pressley Harvin III. Having already received first-team all-ACC honors, more good news came in as Harvin was named first-team all-America by ESPN, and he was selected as one of three finalists for the 2020 Ray Guy Award. As the article mentions, the winner of the Ray Guy awa...