When you’re searching for good things to talk about and the only things that come to mind are the punter and a free-agent wide receiver/punt returner who also dropped a sure TD pass, it’s not good. In a game where the Jaguars needed to take a big step forward, they did just the opposite. Instead […]
Photo by: Phillips Helmets Again this week Jaguars Head Coach Doug Marrone isn’t telling anybody how long different players will see action against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Marrone says he isn’t “a secretive guy” but rather wants the players to be ready to play instead of ready to come out. After giving quarterback Blake Bortles […]
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Photo by: Phillips Helmets All you get in the first preseason game is first impressions. Sometimes they’re false and other times they start a trend. For the Jaguars, you hope the first impressions against the New England Patriots are some indication of how the season might go. They scored points. They made some stops. Blake […]
Photo by: Phillips Helmets Maybe it’s unfair to compare Blake Bortles to Tom Brady. Bortles in his fourth year in the league and Brady just turning forty are two different animals. But seeing the contrast of what Brady does on the practice field and what Bortles does is stunning. Whether it’s the footwork and arm […]
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Without the old burden of achieving status as the “Fifth Major” you knew it was only a matter of time before The Players moved back to March. Tuesday the PGA of America will announce that the PGA Championship will be moving to May with the PGA Tour moving the Players back to it’s March timeframe. […]
https://www.samsportsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/9.jpg12801920Sam Kouvarishttps://www.samsportsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sam-kavouris-sam-sportsline.pngSam Kouvaris2017-08-08 13:44:252018-07-31 13:45:47The PLAYERS In March Is The Right Fit
It was much more than just a joint practice between the Jaguars and Patriots in New England on Monday. It was an event. A record crowd of more than 20,000 fans was at the Patriots practice fields to see 2 ½ hours of two-team workouts. Some of it boring but some of it scintillating. Most […]
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It would be hard to overstate how solid and sharp Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady looked in the first practice against the Jaguars in New England. When he and the Pats first team offense took the field there was a noticeable hush of excitement going through the crowd, knowing they were watching something special. The Jaguars […]
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Photo by: Phillips Helmets At the NFL owners meeting last April, I asked a colleague from Buffalo, Doug Marrone’s last stop as a head coach, what we might expect in Jacksonville. “He’s a beaut,” the scribe said with a laugh. “He’ll be more miserable when you win.” With that in mind, I set off to […]
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Photo by: Phillips Helmets Noticeably leaner and seemingly focused, Jaguars Quarterback Blake Bortles was clearly the leader on the offense as the team opened their training camp for 2017. It was Bortles leading the way in drills, hustling from one place to another and “breaking it down” in the middle of the offensive get together […]
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Hang out on any dock for any length of time and you’ll hear somebody say, “That’s why they call it fishin’ and not catchin’. But at the annual Media Day for the 2017 Greater Jacksonville Kingfish Tournament, there was plenty of catchin’ going on. Aboard the “D-Breef” with Captain Dennis Sergent again this year out […]
Gone are the days of hitting iron after iron, driver after driver to find the one that “feels” right. Technology has changed all of that. Measuring every aspect of your golf swing and the result is an every day occurrence in today’s game. The new TPC Performance Center at Sawgrass is tying all aspects of […]
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If you made it out to The Players this year, you saw a lot of changes to the golf course and even the traffic flow for the tournament. It was a big undertaking from almost every perspective. Fans were getting a new experience and the players needed to adjust to a revamped golf course. “A […]
https://www.samsportsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/9.jpg12801920Sam Kouvarishttps://www.samsportsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sam-kavouris-sam-sportsline.pngSam Kouvaris2017-07-07 13:27:262018-07-31 13:28:27Players Is Big And Getting Bigger
It was a celebration as low-key and understated as Kevin O’Sullivan’s personality. Around 2,000 of the Gator faithful showed up at McKethan Stadium to welcome Florida’s 2017 NCAA baseball champions. “We haven’t gotten any sleep at all,” Deacon Liput said as he walked on the field. Liput went 2-5 with 3 RBI in the title […]
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While college baseball’s reputation is for high-scoring games and lots of long balls, the Florida Gators won their first national championship with solid fundamentals. Pitching, defense and base-running all played pivotal parts of Florida’s season, none more important than in the two wins over LSU in the national title round in Omaha. A combination of […]
Photo by: Phillips Helmets In his fourth year in the league, Quarterback Blake Bortles knows this is his last chance with the Jaguars. A typical rookie year was followed by great improvement but last year he, and the team fell apart. The Jaguars picked up the fifth year of his rookie deal, meaning if he […]
https://www.samsportsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1.jpg12801920Sam Kouvarishttps://www.samsportsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sam-kavouris-sam-sportsline.pngSam Kouvaris2017-06-17 13:23:162024-09-13 06:51:54Bortles Knows This Is It
Photo by: Phillips Helmets It’s not that Jaguars Head Coach Doug Marrone is falling into what Tom Coughlin believes a team needs, it’s that Marrone believes the same things. And he has for a long time. “Fatigue makes cowards of us all,” he said this week after another “activity” that was long on conditioning and […]
https://www.samsportsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1.jpg12801920Sam Kouvarishttps://www.samsportsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sam-kavouris-sam-sportsline.pngSam Kouvaris2017-06-17 13:22:282024-09-13 06:51:48Marrone, Albert Lynchpins To Jaguars Success
Photo by: Phillips Helmets “I consider it an activity.” And with that, Jaguars Head Coach Doug Marrone ended his first OTA’s in Jacksonville, keeping what was going on over the past few weeks in perspective. Whether he was calling it “pajamas” practice or letting players know they can be cut by not performing during the […]
Photo by: Phillips Helmets Any sports discussion in North Florida and South Georgia includes two questions: Are the Jaguars going to be better? (You hope so) Is Blake Bortles the guy? (We’ll find out this year) Just looking at the facts and the stats, Bortles was a typical rookie quarterback, made great progress in his […]
https://www.samsportsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/1.jpg12801920Sam Kouvarishttps://www.samsportsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sam-kavouris-sam-sportsline.pngSam Kouvaris2017-05-24 13:19:472024-09-13 06:51:09Bortles On Being Bad, Better
With the lowest round of the week in the 2017 Players a 66, and the best in the final round a 68, the thought that, “You don’t have to do much around here” to be in contention was as clear as ever. The changes in the golf course, the firmness of the greens and exacting […]
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When you start looking at the leaderboard after the second round of The Players, there are a lot of familiar names but none jump out as current superstars in the game. Get down around even par and you find the top players in the world: Number one Dustin Johnson at even par, #2 Rory McIlroy […]
Jaguars Step Backwards vs. Bucs
/in Football, Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisWhen you’re searching for good things to talk about and the only things that come to mind are the punter and a free-agent wide receiver/punt returner who also dropped a sure TD pass, it’s not good. In a game where the Jaguars needed to take a big step forward, they did just the opposite. Instead […]
Jaguars Need A Big Step Forward vs. Bucs
/in Football, Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisPhoto by: Phillips Helmets Again this week Jaguars Head Coach Doug Marrone isn’t telling anybody how long different players will see action against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Marrone says he isn’t “a secretive guy” but rather wants the players to be ready to play instead of ready to come out. After giving quarterback Blake Bortles […]
Jaguars Better 1st Impression vs. Patriots
/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisPhoto by: Phillips Helmets All you get in the first preseason game is first impressions. Sometimes they’re false and other times they start a trend. For the Jaguars, you hope the first impressions against the New England Patriots are some indication of how the season might go. They scored points. They made some stops. Blake […]
Bortles Better But Not Close To Brady
/in Football, Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisPhoto by: Phillips Helmets Maybe it’s unfair to compare Blake Bortles to Tom Brady. Bortles in his fourth year in the league and Brady just turning forty are two different animals. But seeing the contrast of what Brady does on the practice field and what Bortles does is stunning. Whether it’s the footwork and arm […]
The PLAYERS In March Is The Right Fit
/in Golf/by Sam KouvarisWithout the old burden of achieving status as the “Fifth Major” you knew it was only a matter of time before The Players moved back to March. Tuesday the PGA of America will announce that the PGA Championship will be moving to May with the PGA Tour moving the Players back to it’s March timeframe. […]
Jaguars/Patriots Practice: What It’s Supposed To Look Like
/in Football, Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisIt was much more than just a joint practice between the Jaguars and Patriots in New England on Monday. It was an event. A record crowd of more than 20,000 fans was at the Patriots practice fields to see 2 ½ hours of two-team workouts. Some of it boring but some of it scintillating. Most […]
Gipson Now Knows Tom Brady Is The Goat
/in Football, Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisIt would be hard to overstate how solid and sharp Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady looked in the first practice against the Jaguars in New England. When he and the Pats first team offense took the field there was a noticeable hush of excitement going through the crowd, knowing they were watching something special. The Jaguars […]
Marrone’s Jaguars Camp: Old Is New Again
/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisPhoto by: Phillips Helmets At the NFL owners meeting last April, I asked a colleague from Buffalo, Doug Marrone’s last stop as a head coach, what we might expect in Jacksonville. “He’s a beaut,” the scribe said with a laugh. “He’ll be more miserable when you win.” With that in mind, I set off to […]
Jaguars 2017: All About Blake
/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisPhoto by: Phillips Helmets Noticeably leaner and seemingly focused, Jaguars Quarterback Blake Bortles was clearly the leader on the offense as the team opened their training camp for 2017. It was Bortles leading the way in drills, hustling from one place to another and “breaking it down” in the middle of the offensive get together […]
Kingfish Tournament Still Fishing
/in Fishing/by Sam KouvarisHang out on any dock for any length of time and you’ll hear somebody say, “That’s why they call it fishin’ and not catchin’. But at the annual Media Day for the 2017 Greater Jacksonville Kingfish Tournament, there was plenty of catchin’ going on. Aboard the “D-Breef” with Captain Dennis Sergent again this year out […]
TPC Performance Center Will Make You Better
/in Golf/by Sam KouvarisGone are the days of hitting iron after iron, driver after driver to find the one that “feels” right. Technology has changed all of that. Measuring every aspect of your golf swing and the result is an every day occurrence in today’s game. The new TPC Performance Center at Sawgrass is tying all aspects of […]
Players Is Big And Getting Bigger
/in Golf/by Sam KouvarisIf you made it out to The Players this year, you saw a lot of changes to the golf course and even the traffic flow for the tournament. It was a big undertaking from almost every perspective. Fans were getting a new experience and the players needed to adjust to a revamped golf course. “A […]
Gators Baseball Win National Title
/in College Baseball/by Sam KouvarisIt was a celebration as low-key and understated as Kevin O’Sullivan’s personality. Around 2,000 of the Gator faithful showed up at McKethan Stadium to welcome Florida’s 2017 NCAA baseball champions. “We haven’t gotten any sleep at all,” Deacon Liput said as he walked on the field. Liput went 2-5 with 3 RBI in the title […]
Gators Baseball National Champs
/in College Baseball/by Sam KouvarisWhile college baseball’s reputation is for high-scoring games and lots of long balls, the Florida Gators won their first national championship with solid fundamentals. Pitching, defense and base-running all played pivotal parts of Florida’s season, none more important than in the two wins over LSU in the national title round in Omaha. A combination of […]
Bortles Knows This Is It
/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisPhoto by: Phillips Helmets In his fourth year in the league, Quarterback Blake Bortles knows this is his last chance with the Jaguars. A typical rookie year was followed by great improvement but last year he, and the team fell apart. The Jaguars picked up the fifth year of his rookie deal, meaning if he […]
Marrone, Albert Lynchpins To Jaguars Success
/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisPhoto by: Phillips Helmets It’s not that Jaguars Head Coach Doug Marrone is falling into what Tom Coughlin believes a team needs, it’s that Marrone believes the same things. And he has for a long time. “Fatigue makes cowards of us all,” he said this week after another “activity” that was long on conditioning and […]
Marrone Unimpressed In OTA’s
/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisPhoto by: Phillips Helmets “I consider it an activity.” And with that, Jaguars Head Coach Doug Marrone ended his first OTA’s in Jacksonville, keeping what was going on over the past few weeks in perspective. Whether he was calling it “pajamas” practice or letting players know they can be cut by not performing during the […]
Bortles On Being Bad, Better
/in Jacksonville Jaguars/by Sam KouvarisPhoto by: Phillips Helmets Any sports discussion in North Florida and South Georgia includes two questions: Are the Jaguars going to be better? (You hope so) Is Blake Bortles the guy? (We’ll find out this year) Just looking at the facts and the stats, Bortles was a typical rookie quarterback, made great progress in his […]
Sunday Stroll For Si Woo Kim
/in Golf/by Sam KouvarisWith the lowest round of the week in the 2017 Players a 66, and the best in the final round a 68, the thought that, “You don’t have to do much around here” to be in contention was as clear as ever. The changes in the golf course, the firmness of the greens and exacting […]
Still Anybody’s Tournament
/in Golf/by Sam KouvarisWhen you start looking at the leaderboard after the second round of The Players, there are a lot of familiar names but none jump out as current superstars in the game. Get down around even par and you find the top players in the world: Number one Dustin Johnson at even par, #2 Rory McIlroy […]