Oxnard High Safety Released from Hospital After 19 Days, Brain Surgery & 42 Staples

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Oxnard High Safety Released from Hospital After 19 Days, Brain Surgery & 42 Staples

Oxnard High football player Adrian Padilla, hospitalized since Sept. 16 after suffering a serious head injury and collapsing in a football game at San Luis Obispo High, was released from local Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center here in San Luis Obispo on Tuesday.

BallHyped confirmed his discharge with a staff member at the hospital this evening. His condition was not made public, but Padilla let his social circle know just how excited he was to get back to Oxnard (even though he admitted the pizza in SLO is bomb).

“I'm going home today!"Padilla Tweeted on Tuesday afternoon, his 19th day in...

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Prep Cheerleader Drilled from Behind by Football Player [VIDEO]

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Prep Cheerleader Drilled from Behind by Football Player [VIDEO]

This poor cheerleader at San Luis Obispo High School in Calif., was drilled from behind by a flag-wielding football player prior to tonight’s game. On top of the pain, and humiliation that came with the blindside blitz, the video was broadcast repeatedly by the local TV staion. And, of course, we had to share it with y’all. It’s one of those videos you’ll want to replay a couple of times because the impact was so quick. To her credit, she dusted herself off and continued to root on her Tigers, who beat Oxnard 28-7 behind that hard-hitting defense of...

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Blogger Q&A: College Football Examiner Kevin McGuire

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Blogger Q&A: College Football Examiner Kevin McGuire

College football season is here, and to get you in the mood we sat down with our blogger of the month and College Football Examiner Kevin McGuire to talk about the early season storylines and running a successful sports blog.

For more great college football and sports blogging insights, give him a follow on Twitter @kevinoncfb.

Read the Q&A with McGuire.

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Fantasy Mock Draft 2011

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Here’s a look at the BallHyped team’s fantasy mock draft for 2011. The league is a standard, 10-team league, with starting lineups using QB, WR, WR, WR, RB, RB, WR/RB, TE, K, Def.: Round 1 1. Arian Foster (Hou – RB) Team 1 2. Michael Vick (Phi – QB) TEAM 2 3. Adrian Peterson (Min – RB) Team 3 4. Jamaal Charles (KC – RB) Team 4 5. Chris Johnson (Ten – RB) Team 5 6. Ray Rice (Bal – RB) Team 6 7. Aaron Rodgers (GB – QB) Team 7 8. LeSean McCoy (Phi – RB) Team 8...

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Pac12.com goes from Gangsta Rap to Tea Party Pranksta Rant

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Pac12.com goes from Gangsta Rap to Tea Party Pranksta Rant

So I’m heading to Los Angeles for a blogging conference next weekend, and figured I’d log on to the Pac-12 website to see if there weren’t any football games I could ditch the afternoon presentations for on Saturday.

Like many Pac-12 fans, I typed Pac12.com into my browser and was sickened to find the website had been converted into a Tea Party fan page, with dozens of links to content supporting TeaParty.org, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin. You heard right, they went from Pac to Sarah freakin’ Palin.

At first I was shocked, then I recalled a story we...

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The Top 5 Unwritten Rules of Baseball, Written Down

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The Top 5 Unwritten Rules of Baseball, Written Down

They’re called the “unwritten rules” of baseball.

And they’ve been a hot topic this season, particularly after Sunday’s game between the Tigers and Angels, when Erick Aybar bunted in an attempt to break up Justin Verlander’s no-hit bid in the eighth inning of a three-run game.

In that same game, Carlos Guillen homered off Jered Weaver, flipped the bat and stared down the Angels hurler nearly the entire way to first base.

In response to Guillen’s showboat, Weaver threw above the head of the Tigers’ next batter, prompting his ejection, a war of words, and 24 hours of nauseating talk about the...

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