More football clippings today, and the news that AC has returned to practice for the Seahawks. I'm eating up every Wake football feature I can get my hands on lately, and I'm hoping you guys are enjoying them too. Onto the links...

Glen Coffee, Percy Harvin among NFL rookies who've impressed - Peter King - SI.com
5. Alphonso Smith, CB, Denver (37th pick). Faces tremendous pressure if Broncos have a bad year because Denver gave up next year's first-rounder to get him.

Seahawks | Seahawks Camp | Day 20 highlights | Seattle Times Newspaper
Linebacker Aaron Curry returned to practice Tuesday after suffering a slight groin strain one week ago. Fullback Dan Curran welcomed him back with a wallop of a hit during a full-team portion of practice.

High Hopes: Deacons eager to see if Brown is ready to fulfill his promise
There's a receiver on the Wake Forest football team intent on fulfilling a prophecy. His name is Devon Brown, but you can call him Y'lou. Everyone else does.

Wake Forest's Bennett learned plenty in Berlin
Annie Bennett called it an experience she won't soon forget. Bennett, the track & field and cross-country coach at Wake Forest, was an assistant on Team USA's coaching staff for the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, which ended Sunday.

My Take on Wake - Ehrmann Mans Haynes’  Position | JournalNow.com
With junior Hunter Haynes sidelined by a pulled hamstring, I was curious who would take his spot at weakside linebacker in today’s scrimmage at BB&T Field. The answer came right away when Joey Ehrmann, a redshirt freshman from Baltimore, ran onto the field with a first-team defense also consisting of Kyle Wilber and Tristan Dorty at ends, Boo Robinson and John Russell at tackles, Matt Woodlief and Jonathan Jones at linebacker, Brandon Ghee and Michael Williams at cornerback and Cyhl Quarles and Alex Frye at safeties.

WFU blanks UNCW 5-0
Senior forward Kaley Fountain had two goals and an assist, and Jill Hutchinson added two goals to lead Wake Forest (3-0-0) to a 5-0 win over UNC Wilmington (0-1-0) last night at Spry Stadium.

Wake Forest Notebook: Soccer team will be without Opara for a while
Defender Ike Opara, one of the three returning starters on the Wake Forest men's soccer team, will miss about a month of the season while playing for the U.S. Under-20 team at FIFA's U-20 World Cup in Egypt. Coach Jay Vidovich said it's likely that Opara, a candidate for the Hermann Trophy Award, could miss four or five games, starting with a home game against Virginia on Sept. 18.

FayObserver.com
Damontre Harris, Cumberland County's top 2010 recruit, has also mapped out his official visit list for the fall. Harris, rated 65th among high school seniors by Scout.com, will make his first stop at Wake Forest for a visit with the Demon Deacons on Sept. 4-6.

Arnoux’s life in English professional soccer starts off strong | StarNewsOnline.com | Star News | Wilmington, NC
The guys at Wake were very supportive as was Coach Jay. It was difficult leaving something that my teammates and I had built at Wake. Not many college teams in history had the success that our squad had. As for the positives and negatives, you could go over them a hundred times but at the end of the day getting an opportunity to start your football career at a tremendous club like Everton is something that you just can’t pass up.

Scout.com: Travis McKie Journal -- 8/27/09
Ok, as far as recruiting goes, I think we are looking for a center in the 2010 class. My guess is that it will be either be Damontre Harris or Carson Desrosiers be wrong but that is just my guess. In the 2011 class, I think that we have got things under control. I am almost sure that C.J. Barksdale is coming to Wake. There is no doubt in my mind that there's no place he would rather go. For the point guard position, Marquis Rankin is a leading candidate. I was talking to him at CP3 and you know what I was talking to him about - Wake Forest

YouTube - Kendall Marshall and JT Terrell interview at Nike Global Games

Oregon Institute of Technology | Men's Basketball News 8-26-09