Found April 26, 2012 on Sports-Kings: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Andrew Luck
TEAMS: Stanford Cardinal

Jason Whitney

The soon-to-be Indianapolis Colt quarterback shared a few intimate things with the USA Today, including preferring to ride his bike around the Stanford campus opposed to a fancy sports car. Doesn’t exactly fit the description of the modern-day prodigy about to turn sports star does he? The first thing that caught my eye was that Luck, the graduate [...]

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