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NEXT ATHLETE: ADRIAN PETERSON

By Gene Wojciechowski

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

His easy is your hard. It's that simple. Adrian Peterson is a prodigy, defying logic and the laws of physics, not to mention the once-indisputable notion that a true freshman cant make hard look so easy. A freshman doesn't finish second in the Heisman balloting. A freshman doesn't transform a program already thigh-pad-deep in national titles. A freshman doesn't cause a senior teammate to lower his voice in a near-reverential tone. "When the guy's foot hits the ground, the earth moves in the o ...

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