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This story appears in ESPN The Magazines August 22 College Football Preview Issue. Nike NFL Jerseys Cheap . Subscribe today!ON THE FIRST day of spring practice at Clemson University, just seven weeks after the Tigers fell to Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship, wide receiver Kanyon Tuttle opened his locker and saw the jersey waiting for him.Hey, are practice jerseys the same as our real jersey numbers? he asked defensive end Jaquarius Brice.Most likely, Brice replied.Tuttle is new to the Tigers, a walk-on transfer entering as a redshirt freshman. But hes also a Clemson legacy. His father, Perry -- Clemsons first Sports Illustrated cover subject -- made one of the Tigers most iconic catches, a leaping touchdown grab in the Orange Bowl victory that gave Clemson the 1981 national title. Tuttle wanted to be sure about the number.Come fall, hed be wearing 81.Tuttle hadnt requested the jersey. In fact, while at South Carolina State, where he spent one season, hed flatly asked not to wear 22, his fathers number. But Dabo Swinney is not one to scoff at symbolic gestures. Before last seasons title game, Clemson players fortuitously voted No. 19 Charone Peake and No. 81 Stanton Seckinger as two of the captains. They stood side by side at midfield for the coin toss, just as Swinney had instructed. By the ?end of the game, Deshaun Watson had almost single-handedly upended Alabama, gaining 478 total yards in the most prolific offensive performance in national championship game history, but failed to deliver the win.Later that first week of spring practice, when Tuttle sat down to team dinner, Clemsons coach offered him an explanation.You know why I gave you No. 81, right? Swinney asked.Im not sure, Tuttle fibbed.I want you to have that jersey for 81, Swinney said. We can win a national championship this year, and it will be special for you to wear that number if we do.Nearly 35 years have come and gone since Perry Tuttle caught that 13-yard touchdown pass from Homer Jordan to help take home the 1981 title, and the Tigers are still looking for their second championship. The icons of that era -- Perry Tuttle and coach Danny Ford and captain Jeff Davis -- remain frozen in time. Tuttles trips to the Esso Club, Clemsons longtime meat-and-three joint, escalate into full-blown fan events. So it is in the upstate town of Clemson, South Carolina: Its the summer of 2016 and forever 1981.Nostalgia permeates this years roster. There is Kanyon Tuttle, but there are also Judah and J.D. Davis, and Cannon Smith and Jarvis Magwood. Their fathers, Jeff Davis, Bill Smith and Frank Magwood, were part of the pulse of the 1981 team. Even one of the current student trainers, Wyatt Craig, followed in his fathers 1981 footsteps.Other connections feel just as vital. Davis now serves as an assistant athletic director of football player relations; hes an everyday mentor and de facto counselor for the teams student-athletes. Reggie Pleasant, who was Davis teammate on defense, is the teams life coach.Man, the fiber of 1981 is interwoven into whats happening right now, Jeff Davis says.Still, that connection is lost on some of todays players. On the wall in the receivers position room hang photos of the 14 Clemson wideouts drafted by the NFL, Perry Tuttle included. During a meeting in the last week of spring practice, more than a month after Kanyon learned hed be wearing 81, teammate Mike Williams turned to him: Hold up, is that your dad? Williams asked.Theres a lot of history here these players didnt witness. But theres also a chance for them to make some of their own. This year, with its Heisman-favorite quarterback, 10 preseason All-ACC players and top-five hype, Clemson looks primed to finally cut that 1981 cord. Theres just one last hurdle.We have to win it, J.D. Davis says.DESHAUN WATSON FEELS deep-in-his-bones certain that he can lead the Tigers to 15 wins in 2016, a belief he relays with all the gusto of a librarian. This notion of a perfect season is not hyperbole for him. Its simply another box to check before his time in Clemson is up.Leaning against a railing in the cobwebbed bowels of Memorial Stadium, with Howards Rock and that vaunted hill visible in the distance, Watson feels far removed from the frenzy that envelops Death Valley on autumn Saturdays. Hes in Clemson orange, a paw print on his right chest, as he considers his upcoming junior season.Not winning all of the games? he says. That would be short for what we can do as a team.He smiles, almost reluctantly. It is a modest concession that 15 -- 0, more wins than any other team in college footballs modern era, is borderline absurd. But Watson is a rare talent -- his 86.7 Total QBR ranked fifth in the nation last year -- and he has plenty of toys in running back Wayne Gallman and receivers Mike Williams and Artavis Scott. The ACC, save for one (albeit mammoth) stumbling block in Tallahassee, is mostly forgiving. Other than Nick Saban, no coach in college football boasts a hotter hand than Swinney.If Clemson is to emerge from the haze of its 1981 legacy, Watson -- whom Saban called the best player since Cam Newton -- will light the way. He threw six touchdowns in his collegiate debut as a starter two years ago, defeating North Carolina 50-35 at home. He traveled to New York City last year as a Heisman Trophy finalist -- Clemsons first -- en route to becoming the first player in FBS history to pass for 4,000 yards and rush for 1,000 in a season. (Hed end the night in third place, behind Alabamas Derrick Henry and Stanfords Christian McCaffrey.) He doesnt so much run as he glides -- a graceful, loping stride. Few can catch him in the pocket; hes an escape artist with a deadly deep touch.Watson is also deeply visual. He committed to Clemson early in 2012, on national signing day of his sophomore year in high school. When he went back to his home in Gainesville, Georgia, that February night, he sat in his bedroom with a spiral notebook and wrote down what he wanted to achieve by the end of his tenure at Clemson.Start as a freshman.Two Heismans.Undefeated season.National championship.Watson tore out the page and put it by his mirror. Every time he looked at himself, he also looked at the road ahead.He put his past in ink too. Before his sophomore season at Clemson, Watson tattooed 815 on both arms as an homage to the government housing, 815 Harrison Square, that he called home until he was 11. His family moved out in 2006 with help from Habitat for Humanity, but that first home -- the grind, he calls it -- stays with him.Hes forging ahead with an eye on the past, which makes him right at home in Clemson.NOW THAT SWINNEY brings his own guts and Watson wears orange, it can be tough to remember that for nearly two full decades after Danny Ford stepped down in 1990, Clemson toiled in college footballs wasteland: irrelevance.Ford was 33 when he led the Tigers to their national title (he remains the youngest coach to ever reach that mark), and he spent the next eight years basking in a blissful union with the programs fan base. Hoo boy, did they love him. They loved that they saw themselves in the country-boy-turned-big-time. They loved the way he chewed his tobacco and visited his farm between practices. And they loved him because he won: After the national championship would come three more 10-win seasons, four more ACC titles and four more bowl victories. Ford transformed a small school from a small town in the ACC -- that basketball conference -- into a football heavyweight.His winning set the standard, and his personality set the standard too, says Tommy Bowden, who coached at Clemson from 1999 to 2008. Thats why Im not there.Fords departure was darkened by accusations of NCAA infractions (the second such charge of his era -- Clemson played on probation from 1982 to 84 for recruiting violations) and bad blood with the administration. But no one matched his heights. After 1991, the Tigers yielded no 10-win seasons and no ACC titles, let alone a national one. And if you were a coach of Clemson football and your name was not Danny Ford? Well, Godspeed, because you were following a man whose resignation was met with a 6,000-strong candlelight vigil.For years, I thought he was God, says a middle-aged man at Dyars Diner, a local institution just 4 miles from the Clemson campus. Ford, whos just joined the after-church crowd lining up for lunch, playfully waves him off.Oh, just a real live person with all bad habits, he jokes.Ford comes to Dyars nearly every day, usually around noon. Its about a five-minute drive from his farm, the land he secured as part of his second coaching contract in the early 1980s. He calls the waitresses honey, they call him Danny, and his regular table is located just beneath a 36-by-20 photograph of his younger self crouched on the Clemson sideline more than 30 years ago.That enduring adoration is why Perry Tuttle loves Clemson too, calls it the best thing ever to happen to him, other than his wife, his children and his faith. But its complicated when youre still seen as the 22-year-old in a tear-away jersey catching touchdown passes. Its why he stopped wearing orange on his return trips to Pickens County. Its why he signs every Jan. 11, 1982, issue of Sports Illustrated handed to him but wont display one in his own home. Tuttle is writing a book hes calling My Next Season, a self-help manifesto on how to get unstuck, he says.My lead title is Perry the Catch, or Perry Sports Illustrated ... and Im OK with that, he says. It just takes people a while to really hear you when you have something else to say.And thats the real catch: There is no outrunning history for Tuttle, or for Ford, or for their team, until a new generation shows them the door.HOLDING COURT IN the space between 1981 and now is Dabo Swinney.We need to enjoy this moment, he says before the start of his annual media golf outing in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The heat index is creeping toward triple digits, and hes still a long-running pregame speech come to life. This journey, this practice, this game, this bus ride, this meal ... This is the best of times.The best of times at Clemson has always meant one coach and one team and one era. But he has a point. In 2015, Clemson claimed a No. 1 ranking for the first time since finishing there in 1981.Theres always been this longing for the 80s, you know? Everything was, Well, we havent done this since the 80s. We havent done this since 1991. We havent done this ... Swinneys arms flail a little, punctuating each objection. [But] when it gets to 2020, were gonna look back and were gonna see this was the best decade in Clemson football history.For now, the two eras circle each other but tread lightly around each other. Ford attends nearly every home game but keeps his distance from the football offices. He doesnt want to get in the way. Watson admits he would get a 50 if pop-quizzed on the 1981 team. Jeff Davis needles Watson that Homer Jordan won his and lets loose a belly laugh. But in Davis day-to-day work with Watson, and with the team, hes here, in 2016, and expects them to be too. I dont want that when they see me coming, they see 81.Swinney nods to the past with abandon but repeats his mantra that these are the good old days. He doesnt want to recapture 1981; he wants to reimagine it. For all its nostalgic glow, that era reached the mountaintop, then dived headfirst off the other side. Swinney is after uncommon consistency, what he says distinguishes the Alabamas and Ohio States, so that when a down year inevitably comes, the question is not if Clemson will regain its footing but when.Five straight seasons with 10-plus wins, two ACC titles and a national championship appearance make Swinney a believer that the Tigers have reached that point. There are signs hes not alone.I dont get nearly as many calls wanting to know why I dont coach no more as I used to, Ford says with a laugh, then winks. They have semi-dribbled down to nothing.Ford will be back in Death Valley this season to watch the Tigers attempt another run at a title. Perry Tuttle will too. 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Halladay signed a one-day contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday that allowed the veteran right-hander to retire as a member of team with which he broke into the majors and spent the bulk of his distinguished 16-year career. Middlesexs title decider is being played this week. Has there ever been first-class cricket at Lords this late in the year? asked Bob Rollins from England For many years the cricket season on the main ground at Lords would finish with the Gillette Cup (later NatWest Trophy) final, which was held on the first Saturday in September. That tradition has slipped a little in recent years, but it turns out that this weeks County Championship match between top-of-the-table Middlesex and second-placed Yorkshire is indeed the latest that top-class cricket has ever been played on the worlds most famous ground. At first I thought the previous-latest first-class action there was a splendid match between Smokers and Non-Smokers in 1884 - it was played on September 15-16 - but ten years after that, in 1894, the game between Gentlemen of the South and Players of the South ran from September 17-19. Two major matches in recent years have been played later than that: in 2010 there was a one-day international between England and Pakistan at Lords on September 20, while in 2013 the Yorkshire Bank 40 final (the successor to the Gillette) took place on September 21. The latest Championship action at Lords before this year was also in 2013, when Middlesexs four-day game against Nottinghamshire finished on September 14.Who has played the most Test matches without ever playing at home? asked Ian Johnston from England A couple of old-time England players lead the way here. The Yorkshire allrounder Willie Bates played 15 Tests on four separate tours of Australia in the 1880s, but never appeared at home. In those days the sides for Englands overseas tours were raised privately, rather than by a central selection committee, while teams for home Tests were usually chosen by representatives of the ground staging the match. Frederick Fane, the Irish-born Essex amateur, played 14 Tests for England - and captained them in five, including three matches of the 1907-08 Ashes - but never played at home. And the Rhodesian allrounder Percy Mansell played 13 Tests in the 1950s, all of them outside South Africa. This excludes several current Pakistan players who have been unable to play at home for security reasons. Azhar Ali has now played 49 Tests but none in Pakistan, and Asad Shafiq 45. They have, however, played several home Tests in the United Arab Emirates.Whos the only man to play more than 100 international matches at the same ground? asked Khalid Zafar from Pakistan The answer here was quite a surprise: there is indeed only one man who has played 100 international matches (in all three formats) on one ground - Mushfiqur Rahim, who has played 105 at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur. Shakib Al Hasan has played 97 games there, and Tamim Iqbal 93. Wholesale Jerseys For Sale. Next comes Hamilton Masakadza, with 91 at the Harare Sports Club, where Elton Chigumbura has played 89. The Test record is held by Mahela Jayawardene, who played 27 matches at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo, where Muttiah Muralitharan played 24. Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara both played 23 Tests at Galle. Alastair Cook has played 22 Tests so far at Lords. Wasim Akram leads the way for one-day internationals, with 77 at Sharjah; Mushfiqur has so far had 73 at Mirpur, while Jayawardene and Sanath Jayasuriya both played 71 ODIs at Colombos Premadasa Stadium. Rahim has played 19 Twenty20 internationals at Mirpur, and Umar Akmal 18 in Dubai. Who had the most runs after playing 100 Tests? asked Keshuv Huria from India Top of this list is Brian Lara, who amassed 8916 runs in his first 100 Tests. Its quite close, though - nine others had more than 8000 runs, plus Garry Sobers who scored 8032 in a career of 93 Tests. Second behind Lara is Kumar Sangakkara, with 8651 runs, then come Younis Khan (8640), Rahul Dravid (8553), Matthew Hayden (8508), Virender Sehwag (8487), Sunil Gavaskar (8479), Sachin Tendulkar (8405), Ricky Ponting (8253) and Graeme Smith (8173). Of these Tendulkar had the highest average, with 57.97, just ahead of Dravid (57.79) and Ponting (57.71).I see that Sir Viv Richards has one stumping to his credit in first-class cricket - who was this? asked Jogeshwar from IndiaSir Vivian Richardss only stumping in first-class cricket came quite early in his career, in a festival game at the end of West Indies 1976 tour of England. Playing against T. N. Pearces XI in the last match of the tour at Scarborough, at some point in the second innings Richards relieved Mike Findlay of the gloves, and stumped the Pearces XI No. 8 Martin Vernon off the bowling of slow left-armer Raphick Jumadeen. Im not aware that Viv ever kept wicket in an international match.Did David Warner become the first Australian to score an ODI hundred in Sri Lanka during the recent series? asked Jamie Stewart from Canada Rather surprisingly, David Warners 106 in the last match of the recent series in Pallekele was indeed Australias first century in a one-day international in Sri Lanka - and it was their 40th official ODI there. Australias previous-highest score in Sri Lanka was 94, by Mark Taylor at the P Sara Stadium in Colombo in August 1992, just ahead of Matthew Haydens 93 in Dambulla in 2003-04. Two Aussies have managed 90 not out: Ricky Ponting in Hambantota in August 2011, and George Bailey in the previous match of the recent series in Dambulla.Send in your questions using our feedback form. ' ' '
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