ST Pete Times: at least 1 celeb at Bulls games

[nukebull]

This may have been posted already but if not it is a great article and hope I see Tarver at the games.

Receiver's talent packs a wallop

USF's Carlton Mitchell has a devoted fan in former light heavyweight champ Antonio Tarver.

By GREG AUMAN, Times Staff Writer

Published August 26, 2007

TAMPA - Antonio Tarver, former light heavyweight champion of the world, is raving about a 19-year-old you've probably never heard of, with a level of high praise many boxers would reserve for themselves.

Carlton Mitchell isn't a boxer, though, and when Tarver met him, he wasn't even a football player yet. Next week, the 6-foot-4 Mitchell makes his debut as a USF receiver, and count Tarver as someone in his corner.

"I'm a fan," Tarver said after a two-hour workout at a north Tampa gym. "He has incredible upside. We really don't know how good and great he can be. Sometime this year it's going to click, and he's going to be that phenomenal athlete that his coaches and everybody around him feel he can be."

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/26/Sports/Receiver_s_talent_pac.shtml

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Something about Tarvers and Bulls, I guess...

(for those who don't know me, that's my last name as well)

[BigShoop]

Good read

[Matt]

yea saw that in todays paper.

i also noticed a TON of USF football ads.  i think there was 4 of them in the sports section alone.

[nukebull]

yea saw that in todays paper.

i also noticed a TON of USF football ads.  i think there was 4 of them in the sports section alone.

And props to Greg for getting it on the front of the sports page.

He is so humble he will claim he had nothing to do with it being on the front page.

[Beancounter]

Not sure how familiar most of you are with Mitchell, but he didn't dress most of last year.  I ribbed him pretty hard during halftime as he sat in the tunnel because he was primping worried about how he looked.  I don't know what kind of skill he has, but I do know the kid had to have grown about 2-3" just from last season.  He has the attributes to be a good one.