The Rimington Trophy committee released its 2008 fall "Watch List" yesterday, and UL-Lafayette center Chris Fisher continues to be a candidate. Fisher was named to the Rimington Trophy 2008 spring list on May 7. The award recognizes the most outstanding center in college football.
A second team All-Sun Belt selection in 2007, Fisher is one of three Sun Belt centers named. Florida International’s Brad Serini and Troy’s Danny Franks also appear on the list.
The fall watch, which includes cuts and additions to the spring list, contains 43 players.
A native of Lafayette, Fisher was a Freshman All-American by The Sporting News in 2006. He started a total of 20 games over his two seasons, helping the Cajuns' running game amass 5,283 yards and 43 touchdowns during that span.
Fisher has also made two appearances on the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner’s List for academics.
The winner will be honored at Rimington Trophy presentation banquet at the Rococo Theater in Lincoln, Neb., on Jan. 7 of next year.
The 9-year-old trophy is presented by the Boomer Esiason Foundation. Past recipients include Nebraska 's Dominic Raiola, Ohio State's LeCharles Bentley, Miami's Brett Romberg, Virginia Tech's Jake Grove, co-winners Michigan's David Baas and LSU's Ben Wilkerson, Minnesota's Greg Eslinger, West Virginia's Dan Mozes, and Arkansas’ Jonathan Luigs. Since its inception, the Rimington Trophy award has raised more than $1.3 million for the award's benefactor, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Dave Rimington, the award's namesake, was a consensus first-team All-American
center at Nebraska in 1981 and 1982, during which time he became the
John Outland Trophy's only double winner as the nation's finest college
interior lineman.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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