Bio: Tim Tebow

Timothy Richard “Tim” Tebow (pronounced /ˈtiːboʊ/; born August 14, 1987) is an American professional football player who is a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). Tebow played college football for the University of Florida, where he won the 2007 and 2009 BCS National Championships and the Heisman Trophy. He was chosen in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft and is now a backup quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the NFL.

Tebow played quarterback for Nease High School in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, and was ranked among the top quarterback prospects in the nation as a high school senior, and ultimately chose to attend the University of Florida. Tebow was a dual threat quarterback adept at rushing and passing the football. As a college freshman, the Gators coaches largely used him as a change of pace to the Gators’ more traditional passing quarterback, Chris Leak. Tebow’s contribution to the Gators’ 2006 college football season was as a key back-up who helped the Gators win college football’s national championship game for the first time since 1996.

During the 2007 season, he became the first college football player to both rush and pass for twenty or more touchdowns in a single season and the first college sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy. In addition to winning the Heisman Trophy, his 2007 performance also earned the Maxwell Award as the nation’s top football player, the Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s best quarterback, and the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation’s most outstanding amateur athlete in any sport.

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Bio: Stephen Strasburg

Stephen James Strasburg (pronounced /ˈstrɑːzbərɡ/; born July 20, 1988 in San Diego, California) is a right-handed pitcher for the Washington Nationals, who selected him with the first pick in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed a record $15.1 million contract with the Nationals on August 17, 2009, just 77 seconds before the deadline, breaking a record previously held by Mark Prior, who had signed for $10.5 million in 2001. He was called the “most-hyped pick in draft history” by ESPN and the “most hyped and closely watched pitching prospect in the history of baseball” by Sports Illustrated.

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Bio: Denard Robinson

Denard Xavier “Shoelace” Robinson (born September 22, 1990) is an American football quarterback and track and field sprinter from Deerfield Beach, Florida. Robinson is currently the starting quarterback for the 2010 Michigan Wolverines football team. He holds the Michigan single-game record for total offense and the Big Ten Conference single-game record for rushing yards by a quarterback. He is also the only player in NCAA Division I FBS history other than Vince Young to both pass for 200 yards and rush for 200 yards in a regular season game twice in his career.

He enrolled at the University of Michigan in 2009 and was the school’s second-string quarterback as a true freshman. In the 2010 season opener against Connecticut, Robinson broke Michigan’s single-game record for total offense with 383 yards and also broke the single-game record for rushing yards by a quarterback. He shattered his own records in his second start as quarterback against Notre Dame with 258 rushing yards and 502 yards of total offense. After five starts at quarterback, Robinson had the top three single game performances in total offense (502 yards against Notre Dame, 494 yards against Indiana, and 383 yards against Connecticut).

Robinson acquired the nickname “Shoelace” because he plays football with his shoelaces untied. He has run the 40-yard dash in 4.32 seconds, and as a member of the 2010 Michigan track team, he also recorded the team’s fastest competition time for the year in the 60-meter dash.

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Bio: Sam Bradford

Samuel Jacob “Sam” Bradford (born November 8, 1987) is an American football quarterback for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was the first overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, and played college football at Oklahoma. In 2008, as a redshirt sophomore, Bradford became the second sophomore to win a Heisman Trophy. Bradford also holds the NCAA record for most touchdown passes by a freshman quarterback, with 36.

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