{"id":2959,"date":"2018-06-25T14:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2021-05-20T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:39:27","slug":"cws-omaha-i-played-catch-with-tom-osborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/cws-omaha-i-played-catch-with-tom-osborne\/","title":{"rendered":"CWS Omaha All-Access: I Played Catch With Tom Osborne And Jay’ed Up Jay Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The one thing sports journalists fear more than anything is to physically engage in the sports they write about in front of other people.<\/h1>\n

The only thing worse than that is engaging in those sports against other media members in front of some of the most iconic athletes in NCAA history.<\/p>\n

And during CWS Omaha, Pizza Hut challenged me and other journalists to put up or shut up in the Pizza Hut All-American challenge.<\/p>\n

The only hint the people we worked with from Pizza Hut gave to us prior to arrival was be “prepared to play sports.” And I cooly said to no one outside of my head, “Sports is my middle name.”<\/p>\n

I accepted and the only thing I knew in advance is that Jason Williams would be there. And I was PRIMED to J up Jay.<\/p>\n

As a former DII college basketball player, dare I say “sharp shooter,” that played briefly overseas, all I wanted was a shot at ESPN analyst, former Duke stud and Chicago Bulls top draft pick Jason Williams.<\/p>\n

No, not that one that killed his limo driver. No, not White Chocolate. But “Jay” Williams, a name he presumably gave himself to carve out his own career.<\/p>\n

We got to the Rasmussen Center at Creighton University and immediately you could see multiple stations of all kinds of sports – lacrosse, whiffle ball, a football toss – and I knew it was about to be on<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Because every station was manned, or womanned, by a notable celebrity\/athlete. As you can see in this video recap:<\/p>\n