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Topic Started: Apr 16 2014, 09:12 AM (7 Views)
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There is desire and there is talent. On your football team, you hope you have both in the extreme. Some times you win because of superior talent other times it comes down to desire or "want to" so to speak. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat the Montreal Alouettes and took control of first place in the East because of desire. Now, Im sure Montreal wanted to win as well, but after being outscored 16-0 in the third quarter, having a comfortable advantage I thought Winnipeg would fade in the fourth. Instead, the opposite happened. They accelerated in the fourth and won by one point. Football talent in many ways is easy to recognize. There are so many players, playing all the time that if you compare teams player to player with their opposition you can get a good idea of who is good and who is not so good. What is difficult to determine is desire. How important football is to the player when times get tough. In my case, my desire was superior to my talent. The main reason I was able to excel in football in high school, in Division 1 NCAA, in the NFL and the CFL was desire. It was important to me internally. I was willing to pay an intense price, and did to experience what I did as a player. It is a great point of personal pride for me that cant be mitigated by anything or anyone. I believe if you want something bad in life, and are willing to pay the price for it, 90 percent of the time you will get it. It may take time, but that is part of the price. This year in the CFL has been an odd one in that so many teams play so well one week, and so poorly the next week. The talent level has not changed, but the focus, awareness and desire does from week to week. Desire in many ways creates talent but talent rarely creates desire. From Joe Mack, to Paul LaPolice, to Buck Pierce, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have gone from 4-14 last season to in control of the East Division with two games to play this year. There is no guarantee they will beat Toronto at home next week or Calgary the week after. But then again, there was no guarantee they would beat Montreal two out of three times this year either. Right now, they are in the perfect situation that every player and every team desires: to be dependant on nobody but themselves for on field success. If they play the way they played in the fourth quarter against the Alouettes for four more games, they will not only have success, but a Grey Cup championship ring to show for it. xingfantrade . -- Detroit Lions defensive tackle Nick Fairley and wide receiver Titus Young were back on the practice field Tuesday -- with security escorts to keep reporters away. Wholesale NFL Jerseys . Numbers Game breaks down the signing of Maicer Izturis. The Blue Jays Get: 3B/SS/2B Maicer Izturis. 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The winner of Mondays meeting will top Pool B and gain a bye to the semifinal, while the loser must advance via a quarter-final.LONDON -- Premier League champion Manchester City was eliminated from the League Cup at the first hurdle by Aston Villa on Tuesday, and Everton was beaten by second-tier club Leeds. Villa beat City 4-2 after twice coming from behind to force the game into extra time, when Charles NZogbia and Gabriel Agbonlahor scored. Goals from Aidy White and Rodolph Austin put Leeds into the fourth round with a 2-1 victory over Everton, which is third in the Premier League. But it was completely one-sided at Chelsea, with Fernando Torres among six different scorers as the Premier League leaders crushed Wolves 6-0. Man Citys patchy form in the league, however, extended into the first domestic cup competition of the season. Despite manager Roberto Mancini making 10 changes from Sundays 1-1 draw with Arsenal, the teams combined value was still more than $200 million. Mario Balotelli gave a strong City side the lead in the 27th minute, but the visitors drew level thanks to an own goal by former Villa midfielder Gareth Barry in the second half. Aleksandar Kolarov restored Citys lead before Villa equalized again when Agbonlahor scored his first of the night in the 70th. NZogbia scored six minutes into the first extra period with a low shot from close range, and Agbonlahor sealed victory with a fine strike near the end. "It was a difficult match because Aston Villa were a good team," Mancini said. "We didnt play well and we had some unlucky moments, but I think they deserved to go through." Mancini exchanged heated wwords in the second half with Villa manager Paul Lambert after complaining to the fourth official about a tackle on Barry by Joe Bennett.dddddddddddd "It is a massive result for us. I thought the way we played was excellent," Lambert said. At Elland Road, Leeds stormed in front after four minutes when Aidan White weaved his way through the visiting defence before unleashing a fierce drive into the net. Leeds doubled its lead with 20 minutes remaining when Danny Pughs shot was backheeled into the net by Rodolph Austin, ensuring Sylvain Distins late header was only a consolation. "We started terribly, gave them the initiative and lost the game in the opening 20 minutes due to the way we started," Everton manager David Moyes said. "We gave away a really poor first goal and left ourselves trying to get back into the game." At Stamford Bridge, Chelsea captain John Terry played after appearing in front of a Football Association racism hearing for a second day. Gary Cahill, Ryan Bertrand and Juan Mata all scored inside the opening 17 minutes against a heavily weakened Wolves side, while Oriol Romeu netted from the penalty spot earlier in the second half before Torres and Victor Moses added further goals. Also Tuesday, Swansea was spared from embarrassment late on at Crawley, coming from behind and scoring in stoppage time to beat the third-tier side 3-2. Wigan eliminated West Ham with a 4-1 victory, Southampton defeated Sheffield Wednesday 2-0, and Sunderland won 2-0 at MK Dons. ' ' '
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