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Dan Shanoff: Wright Thompson on Tim Tebow vs. Billy Cannon
And The Valley Shook: ESPN's Outside the Lines on Billy Cannon
The Wiz of Odds: Crashing the 1959 Halloween Party in Baton Rouge
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The redemption of Billy Cannon. An article worth reading: http://bit.ly/90Rll 20 days ago |
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Brilliant ESPN piece about fallen and reborn #LSU legend Billy Cannon: http://tinyurl.com/ylguwck 24 days ago |
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"Are you Billy Cannon?" he asked. "I'm what's left of him," the dentist said. http://tinyurl.com/ylguwck 24 days ago |
Wright Thompson on Tim Tebow vs. Billy Cannon
Dan Shanoff —
... . The occasion? This weekend's 50th anniversary of Billy Cannon's famous punt-return TD vs. LSU -- Thompson has a typically terrific piece, about Cannon, on ESPN.com today. (Must-read!) I would normally point you to TimTeblog to see a post over there, but I'm so grateful and enthusiastic about having Thompson write something for me for that site, I am posting it here in full. Here you go: ...
ESPN's Outside the Lines on Billy Cannon
And The Valley Shook —
ESPN's Outside the Lines on Billy Cannon
It was 50 years ago when the greatest punt return in college football history took place. Now, ESPN honors the great Billy Cannon on the frontpage of their website with a really cool feature. I honored the greatest LSU ...
Crashing the 1959 Halloween Party in Baton Rouge
The Wiz of Odds —
... The game's signature play came when Billy Cannon raced 89 yards with a punt return, shaking off several tacklers, for LSU's only touchdown. You can see Jackson in the video as he starts to follow Cannon around the 30. Jackson is only a few yards behind Cannon as the eventual Heisman winner races past the Mississippi bench and into the end zone. ...
