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Trophy on saturday? >> always exciting. >> here we go. we have four qbs, james winston, johnny manziel, a.j. mccarron and jordan lynch of northern illinois. two running backs, theyre in the running. boston colleges andre wilson and then sweet 16 may not be so sweet. texas football coach expected to resign as early as friday. >> there have been rumbling about this for many years. so it may happen. >> mack browns 16th season was a disappointing 8-4. possible replacements here, uclas jim moore and ...

Half way through the season, carol, 19 out of the 20 most watched programs, nfl football. >> its all i watch. i know we have this conflicted, because i think that we look at most players and their faces are covered, right, so we know a few players that are famous, the quarterbacks and the running backs but the rest of the players are kind of anonymous like hurting machines and we like that in our culture. >> thats exact will you what we want them to do. what do we want our defensive linemen to d...

Still pretty early science, players tend to have progressive symptoms, ive seen some brains of players that have cte and looks almost like an alzheimers disease. the memory loss is a classic symptom of that. >> it is incredible playing 321 straight games, what kind of a player is he? >> i was on the sideline for more of the games than most and the most remarkable thing about brett favre is iron man, attitude streak, whatever is wrong, put a band-aid on it, go back on the field and play. team may...

Classic symptoms of that. >> incredible to play 328 games consecutive. >> the most remarkable thing about brett favre was the ironman streak, that attitude of whatever is wrong put a band-aid on it, go back out on the field and play. teammates loved that attitude about him. he was praised for that over and over. and the fact that that could be one of the things that leads to him having problems later in life is one of the big paradoxes of the nfl these days. >> sanjay, he was obviously quarterba...

>> you consider the potential risk the nfl had of going to trial, the potential exposure was in the billions and thats a conservative estimate. >> the agreement is in the hands of judge anita brody who must approve the deal. former players can still voice their opposition. only players who have retired by the time the concussion settlement is approved, but all retired players involved in the lawsuit or not can take a baseline test, and those test results that will be used to determine the amount...

Not make the team because they say this guy is not tough enough to run across the middle of the field or this guy cant take a hit, you know theyre making the game easier and saying well you cant be hit so i think thats making a lot of guys brave. >> clinton, for those who dont know, you were just a beast on the field. i mean you could take hits like few running backs ever could, you had that scary shield over your eyes so he could never see where you were looking but you know what its like to ge...

Jurors believed he got away with murder, even though she helped acquit him. she said she was devastated to hear that. today she vowed the verdict would not define her son. >> my message to you is please use my story, please use my tragedy, please use my broken heart to say to yourself we cannot let this happen to anybody elses child. >> juror b-29 told abc news that she wanted to convict zimmerman of murder but florida law would not allow it. >> and tim tebow is supposed to throw it so what is h...

Skills. it is pretty impressive. indoors, outdoors, steady or moving targets, it doesnt matter. >> he hit the cameraman. >> he did. usc just hoping he can get it to the punter like this in the fall. usc known for producing some great linebackers, running backs, quarterbacks, i take that back, not so good on the quarterback front. now maybe usc will be known as long snapper u. zach smith on the gridiron this year. >> oh, i needed that. thanks so much. the next hour of "cnn news ro room" after a...

Quarterback was drafted. no running backs were taken. but in the fifth pick, detroit, you got to say they rolled the dice big time with defensive end ziggy ansah. this guy was born and raised in ghana. he only knew soccer for most of his life. he moved to the united states in 2008 and has only played football for three seasons. but the lions really liked this guy. they liked him along side perry. not getting picked manti teo. he was passed up by all 32 teams. maybe its because of the fake girlfr...

His former college coach who is coach of the bills traded down and took a different quarterback so it can get worse for geno smith. >> the running back thing, eddie lacy we were talking about the kid from alabama is a great back. are you surprised no running backs went? >> no. in recent years we have seen a shift away from the big-time running backs teams like to have two and three running backs so you get them later and you can find guys around four or five or six undrafted. arian foster comple...