3:30 P.M. — Bitancurt Embarrasses Local Reporter

Recent West Springfield grad and likely the next kicker at West Virginia Tyler Bitancurt challenged a DigitalSports writer a game field goal kicking contest. You can guess who won.

First of all, we have to hand it to Phil Murphy, which got drilled in a H-O-R-S-E challenge with the best high school kicker I've ever seen.

Among the higlights:
1. This apparently was a two-day event. Why? Metro isn't sure.
2. It last 90 minutes. Even more puzzling.
2. Bitancurt drilled a 60-yarder. And missed another one that reportedly had five-plus yards to spare.
3. Murphy is a decent kicker and almost drilled a 50-yarder. Though he did whiff one.
4. West Virginia kicker Pat McAfee received death threats and had his car vandalized after missing two field goals against Pitt.

9:30 A.M. — Swinimer To Swim at WVU

LoudounPrepSports on recent Potomac Falls grad Swinimer Signing with WVU: http://www.digitalsports.com/article/type/organization/typeid/1399670/id/34636.aspx

Granted Nick Swinimer signing with West Virginia swimmer isn't the most exciting news known to man, but we're always happy when a kid signs a Division I scholarship, even if he only gets 20 percent of it (we don't know the actual amount).

We're guessing since WVU didn't go into detail about Swinimer that he's not an elite recruit. But signing 21 swimmers is a little much in a single recruiting class, isn't it? I know that it's both genders, but this may break the record of Steve Spurrier signing 31 (we're still sure the actual number, but we know it was a lot) football recruits, knowing he could grayshirt some and the others wouldn't qualify.

Here's to Swinimer qualifying. In the pool and academically.