LATEST STORIES FROM CANESPACE
Hey, What's All The Chatter In Here?
Tonight between 8 PM and 11 PM Canespace will host several reporters who cover Miami Hurricane athletics to answer your questions LIVE in real time.
Also joining us for the first time will be representatives from the UM Athletic Department including SID Chris Freet and UM Hurricane Club Major Gifts Director Jesse Marks.
Leading off tonight's chat at 8 PM will be two new featured...
Via CaneSpace
|
18 days ago
Discuss
Just The Facts: NFL Average Salaries
So you are a high school athlete and you say that you want to be an NFL football player? Then you better sit down and take a hard look at these facts:
According to the NFL Players Association, about 100,000 high school students play football.
Of those high school players, 215 will go on to play for an NFL team.
Therefore, only 0.2 percent of all high school football players will...
Via CaneSpace
|
19 days ago
Five Star Follies: Part III
This is the third article in the series of features evaluating the Rivals.com five-star recruits over the last five years...
The college football recruiting recruiting class of 2008 may go down as one of the best in recent time.
Unless of course U are a Miami Hurricanes fan.
The University of Miami was alleged to have the #1 recruiting class in 2008 but in the end it was simply...
Via CaneSpace
|
20 days ago
UM Baseball Ready To Rumble In 2012
The anticipation is building towards another exciting season of college baseball in Coral Gables that now seems just around the corner as the Mid-February opening day quickly approaches. With the new year comes a new season of hope, change and opportunity for your Miami Hurricane baseball team.
Hope is found in the 'Canes outstanding pitching staff; change can be found in the...
Via CaneSpace
|
22 days ago
Five Star Follies: Part II
Rivals.com recently released an article detailing the careers of the high school football recruits they designated as five star players over the last five years. Here is our continuing analysis of that data...
In the first part of our series of articles that examined the last five years of highly-rated, five star high school football players we painted the big picture for you as...
Via CaneSpace
|
23 days ago
Miami Wins ACC Home Opener Against Clemson
Your Miami Hurricanes beat the Clemson Tigers at the BankUnited Center on a beautiful South Florida Winter evening in lovely Coral Gables on Wednesday night by the score of 76-73.
It was the conference home opener for Miami, a team that really needed a big win after posting an 0-2 road record in the ACC early this season.
A balanced scoring attack propelled the...
Via CaneSpace
|
25 days ago
Five Star Follies: Part I
The well known and frequently followed college recruiting service Rivals.com recently published an article in which they revealed the names of players that made the Rivals five star football recruiting lists over the last five years.
The story was written by the talented Steve Megargee, one of the National feature writers for Rivals who researched the football recruiting classes...
Via CaneSpace
|
26 days ago
Epic Fail!
You are a legitimate and certified five star high school football recruit.
Rivals, Scout and ESPN have reviewed your film, talked to your coaches and all have decided to rate you among the top 150 players (out of 100,000 HS players) in the entire United States of America.
Letters have been arriving daily from Alabama, USC, Notre Dame, Oregon, FSU, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Ohio State...
Via CaneSpace
|
28 days ago
Star Wars: Return Of The Recruits
Every year right around this time a lot of college football fans all across the Country make a lot of fuss about the desperately sought after, much heralded and precious few "must have" recruits for their teams.
Many of these fans rely heavily if not solely on the "star ranking system" used by the major recruiting services that supposedly evaluates and separates...
Via CaneSpace
|
28 days ago
The Science Of Strength: Part II
This is the second part of our two-part interview with Jeremy Herring, MS, CSCS, the owner and head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Power Sports Academy in Davie, Florida.
Herring's philosophy has been developed over 10 years of extensive research and also throughout his lifetime obsession with strength. He earned a Master's degree in Exercise Physiology from...
Via CaneSpace
|
January 13, 2012
The Science Of Strength
Recently Miami Hurricane fans have expressed some strong feelings about the UM football Strength and Conditioning program and have been wondering out loud about who is to blame for the apparent sloth and gluttony that seems to have invaded the Hecht Athletic Center over the last several years.
It is pretty obvious that there are some glaring issues here when Miami head coach Al Golden...
Via CaneSpace
|
January 11, 2012
The Mother Load
When we first thought about what the University of Miami football team and second year head coach Al Golden needed in the critical 2012 recruiting class the term first came to mind.
Then when we met UM offensive line coach Art Kehoe at the FHSAA championship game at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando a few weeks ago he used the term to describe this year's haul of high school players...
Via CaneSpace
|
January 07, 2012
Under Armour All-America Game: A View From The Sidelines
Long-time Canespacer, good friend and well known blogger Six filed this report from the sidelines at the 2012 Under Armour game from Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg...
Got to the UnderArmour game around 4pm. Lots of people there. Here’s my story from the sidelines:
Talked with: Herm Edwards, Mooch (Mariucci), Cam Newton, Prime Time, Chris Weinke, Ron Zook, Ty Detmer, Preston...
Via CaneSpace
|
January 06, 2012
We Talking About Practice?
Allen Iverson may go all ballistic on us but yes indeed today we are talking about practice and nothing but practice. Football practice to be more exact.
On an absolutely delicious Winter Day in Central Florida the Under Armour All-America Game practices concluded today at the Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World in Orlando.
If you live in Florida or have been to Disney...
Via CaneSpace
|
January 04, 2012
Under Armour All-America Game
The 2012 Under Armour All-America High School Football Game presented by American Family Insurance is slated for Jan. 5, 2012, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., and will be televised on ESPN.
The fifth-annual Under Armour All-America Game presented by American Family Insurance is a competition spotlighting the nation’s top high school seniors. The 2011 NFL Draft was...
Via CaneSpace
|
January 02, 2012
U Have A Homework Assignment
If the football players at the University of Miami can do it over their Holiday break then you can too.
It's called homework and your assignment starts NOW!
In fact, I am almost certain that you can hear your mother's voice echo in your head as she repeated probably a thousand times: "You can't go outside and play until all of your homework is done."
As soon...
Via CaneSpace
|
January 01, 2012
Feeling Stronger Every Day
While you have been out shopping, celebrating Holidays, stuffing your face, drinking way too much and blogging your life away, the University of Miami football team has been spending the month of December trying to get stronger every day.
But have you ever stopped to ask yourself: "What are the key components of the UM strength and conditioning program and what are the specific...
Via CaneSpace
|
December 29, 2011
Raising Canes: Swasey Time
While other college football teams were practicing in preparation for their bowl games at the end of the 2011 season, the players at the University of Miami were making a serious investment of sweat equity into the 2012 season.
Instead of practicing the Hurricanes were participating in "Swasey Time": an intense and highly structured period of weight lifting to build strength...
Via CaneSpace
|
December 27, 2011
A Canespace Christmas
This special Holiday feature was written by blogger SJMPARMAN...
Twas the nighht before Christmas and all through the houseNot an Ibis was stirring of even a Gator louseThe Cane stockings were were hung from the Chimney with careIn hopes that an ACC championship would soon be there
The legion were nestled all snug in their beds,While visions of VT wins danced in their heads;And mamma...
Via CaneSpace
|
December 25, 2011
All I Want For Christmas Is U
To all the bloggers here and to everyone out there in Canespace I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
After a year that brought about big changes at the University of Miami with the hiring of new head coaches Jim Larranaga and Al Golden, Hurricane fans have a lot to look forward to in 2012.
Now, I know that a few of you somehow managed to be really nice all...
Via CaneSpace
|
December 24, 2011
Mama There Goes That Man
Former NBA analyst and current Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson used the phrase so often on ESPN that it became almost like his own personal registered trademark.
Jackson uses the phrase: "Mama, there goes that man!" to recognize a player who makes a completely amazing play or to describe an athlete who has an incredible, record-setting type of performance...
Via CaneSpace
|
December 21, 2011
Rockets Miss Their Target
The Miami Central Rockets went to the Citrus Bowl in Orlando with their sites set on bringing home the State Championship trophy back to the heart of the 305.
But after losing a record 19 players to D-1 schools last season, the Central coaches and players knew they had to say their prayers before the game if they hoped to pull off a win against the defensive minded Armwood Hawks...
Via CaneSpace
|
December 19, 2011
Vikings Are Victorious As Duke Runs Wild
The Miami Norland Vikings won the 5A State Football Championship by the score of 38-0 over Wakulla at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando on Friday behind another dominating performance by running back Randy "Duke" Johnson.
Johnson rushed for four TDs and returned a punt for another score as he racked up 266 all-purpose yards on what was just another ho-hum day for the talented...
Via CaneSpace
|
December 17, 2011
LIVE Chat Tonight At 8 PM On Canespace
Tonight between 8 and 11 PM we hope to have several reporters who cover University of Miami athletics on hand here at Canespace to answer your questions LIVE in real time.
For this event we have removed the sign in requirement to allow a free flowing Q&A session.
While I yet to confirm their participation we hope to see our friends Susan Miller-Degnan and Manny Navarro from the...
Via CaneSpace
|
December 13, 2011
Why Negative Recruiting Often Backfires
The opening lines to the famous Led Zeppelin song "Your Time Is Gonna Come" goes like this: Lying. Cheating. Hurting. That's all you seem to do.
When it comes to college football recruiting the practice of "negative recruiting", or making up harmful false lies or even hurtful partial truths about other universities, their campuses, coaches or players is getting...
Via CaneSpace
|
December 11, 2011
Related Yards
|
|
|
|
|
Today's Best Stuff |
For BloggersJoin the Yardbarker Network (YBN) for more promotion, traffic, and money. |
Company Info |
Help |
What is Yardbarker?Yardbarker is the largest network of sports blogs and pro athlete blogs on the web. This site is the hub of the Yardbarker Network, where our editors and algorithms curate the best sports content from our network and beyond. |
