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PRO FOOTBALL / 14COLLEGES / 15CELTICS, SCOREBOARD / 16COMICS / 17

TAKE OUR POLL� Who do you think will

win the Thanksgiving Dayfootball showdown be-tween Brockton andB r i d g e w a t e r- R a y n h a mhigh schools? To castyour vote, go to Enter-prisenews.com and clickon sports.

� I’ll go with the Boxers

� Give me the Trojans

THE ODDS ARE ...� Oddsmakers favor Jim-

mie Johnson in Sunday’s (2p.m., ESPN) Chase for theSprint Cup finale fromHomestead-Miami Speed-way. Brad Keselowski,above, takes a 20-point leadover Johnson into Sunday’srace and needs only to finish15th or better to win his firstSprint Cup title.

ODDS

Jimmie Johnson ........... 6-5

Matt Kenseth ................ 6-1

Greg Biffle ..................... 6-1

Kasey Kahne ................ 7-1

Denny Hamlin ............... 7-1

Brad Keselowski ........... 7-1

Martin Truex Jr. ............ 10-1

Clint Bowyer ................ 10-1

Kyle Busch .................. 10-1

Carl Edwards ............... 15-1

Jeff Gordon .................. 15-1

Tony Stewart ................ 15-1

Dale Earnhardt Jr. ........ 20-1

Mark Martin ................. 30-1

Kevin Harvick ............... 30-1

Field (all others) ............ 50-1

S o u rc e : e x a m i n e r. c o m

HISTORY LESSON� On this date, Nov. 16,

in ...1929: Southern California

and Notre Dame play before112,912 at Soldier Field inChicago, with the FightingIrish prevailing 13-12. It’sthe third time in the 1920sthat the two schools attractmore than 112,000 fans.

1957: Notre Dame endsOklahoma’s NCAA record47-game winning streakwith a 7-0 triumph.

1957: Bill Russell, above,of the Boston Celtics setsan NBA record with 49 re-bounds in a 111-89 victoryover the Philadelphia War-riors.

COMING WEDNESDAY

Thanksgiving Day high school football preview

EXTRAPOINTS Looking

to turna cornerFormer Buccaneerscornerback Talib simplywants to make the best ofhis new opportunity withthe Patriots’ secondar y

FOXBORO – His reputation precedes him.Over the course of 41/2 seasons in the NFL,

Aqib Talib has established himself as a covercorner on the field. At the same time, he’s of-

ten proven to be a duck-for-cover corner off the field.“What happened in the past is the past,” Talib said

on Thursday. “I’m just lookingforward to (making) the best ofthis opportunity and win(ning)some ballgames.”

Acquired from the Tampa BayBuccaneers in a trade deadlinedeal on Nov. 1, the new Pa t r i o t sepitomizes the old saying, “talent -ed but troubled.”

Talib is talented enough forthe Patriots to trade for, as theydid in acquiring him and a seventh-round pick in the2013 draft from Tampa Bay in exchange for theirfourth-rounder next year.

At the same time, Talib is troubled enough for theBuccaneers, whose pass defense ranks last in the NFL(yes, even worse than the Patriots, who are 29th), totrade away 41/2 years after they made him a first-round

Playoffhopes atossup?Mayflower Small Schooldivision football playoffberth may come down tothree-way tie, coin tossBy Eric McHughTHE PATRIOT LEDGER

HANOVER – Maybe the real surprisewith the South Shore Votech football teamisn’t that the Vikings are oh-so-close toplaying in an EMass Super Bowl. It’s thatthey looked to be so far away from con-tending a month ago.

“I thought we weregoing to have a greatye a r, ” said star runningback Andy Beckwith ofAbington.

T h ey ’re certainlyhaving a memorable one.

With a senior-laden roster and an elec-trifying offensive weapon in Beckwith,hopes were high for the Vikings going in-to the season.

Instead, they lost their first six games,with five of them coming outside theMayflower Athletic Conference Small-School Division. They’ve won fourstraight since and will host MayflowerLeague non-division foe Southeastern Re-gional on Thanksgiving morning.

After the final whistle – hopefully –the real fun will start.

If Holbrook/Avon (6-1, 3-1) wins atWest Bridgewater (3-6, 1-3) that morning,

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS� Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib is not looking back.

RETURNMAN

BSU’s Callahan back in NCAAsBy Jim FentonENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

BRIDGEWATER – He wasthe starting quarterback thelast time that BridgewaterState University took partin the NCAA Div. 3 foot-

ball tournament.The year was 2000 when Middle-

boro native Pat Callahan helped theBears earn a spot in the national tour-ney by rallying past Salve Regina Uni-versity, 27-24, in the inaugural NewEngland Football Conference champi-

onship gameTwelve years after BSU lost in the

opening roundof the NCAAtourney to Ho-bart College,25-0, in Gene-va, N.Y., theBears aremaking a re-turn appear-ance, andCallahan isright there with his alma mater.

The former quarterback is now the

co-offensive coordinator with ReneMoyen on a 9-1 team that received anat-large berth in the NCAAs and willplay at ninth-ranked Widener Univer-sity in Chester, Pa., on Saturday atnoon.

Callahan, in his ninth season as aBSU assistant, is able to lend theBears an up-close perspective on whatit is like to prepare for and take part inthe national tournament.

“It was awesome to be part of,’’said the 34-year-old Callahan, a

EMILY J. REYNOLDS/THE ENTERPRISE� Bridgewater State University co-offensive coordinator Pat Callahan throws passes during a recent Bears practice asthe team prepares to play in the NCAA Div. 3 football tournament on Saturday at Widener University in Chester, Pa.

RETURNMAN

“The NCAAsare the NCAAs.

That’s whatyou work for”

Pat CallahanBSU co-offensive

coordinator

GREG DERR/THE PATRIOT LEDGER� South Shore Votech teammates useblocking dummies during blockingpractice as the Vikings get ready for theirThanksgiving game against SoutheasternRegional High.

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