Wednesday, September 23, 2009

You don't believe Arkansas' Mallett throws have been clocked at 115 mph?

Has a pass by Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett really been clocked at 115 mph? That's a fact you will find in a story in today's edition of The Birmingham News.Some readers understandably are skeptical. The fact came from a story about Mallett by Tom Murphy, one of two Arkansas beat reporters for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.(Murphy is a former Alabama beat reporter for the Mobile Press-Register.) That story attributes the 115 mph fact to Arkansas tight end D.J. Williams. "Ryan Mallett has the strongest arm in college football," said All-SEC tight end D.J. Williams. "I've caught some balls that I had to take my gloves off because he ripped all the sticky stuff off of them." Williams said the Razorbacks have timed Mallett's throws at 115 mph with a Juggs gun. Wow...The SEC Rocks!

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