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They arrived at South Carolina on the same day, irrepressible wide receivers with ungodly physical skills, ready to take over the world of college football and, soon enough, the NFL. But then their lives and dreams began to go incomprehensibly wrong.

Marquise Goodwin's success in the long jump landed him in the Olympic Games last summer, but he's hoping the next uniform he dons is that of an NFL franchise.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Texas wide receiver Marquise Goodwin has high hopes for his combine experience. He wants to set the all-time record for the fastest 40-yard dash and longest broad jump. Goodwin doesn't have a specific time or distance in mind for e...

Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Roddy White is angry and it has nothing to do with football. White, one of the NFC South's most active Twitter users, took to that venue Tuesday to rip the International Olympic Committee for its decision to drop wres...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Shortly after dropping the season opener 27-6 to Butler on Friday night, ESPN 150 wide receiver Marquez North (Charlotte, N.C./Mallard Creek) had little interest in talking about colleges coming after him or listing favorites. In f...

When it all over, Marquise Goodwin fell to his knees and buried his head in his hands. This time, he wasn't celebrating. The Texas senior wide receiver finished 10th in the long jump finals at the 2012 London Olympics on Saturday after failing ...

Marquise Goodwin is going to London. The Texas senior wide receiver and Rowlett product qualified for the Olympics on Sunday by winning the long jump event at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Eugene, Ore. Goodwin's career-best leap of 27-foot-...

Marquise Goodwin is going to London. The Texas senior wide receiver qualified for the Olympics on Sunday by winning the long jump event at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Eugene, Ore. Goodwin's career-best leap of 27-foot-4 (8.33 m) on his fina...

Freshman wide receiver Justin Scott-Wesley hasn't gotten on the field for Georgia yet, but the talented wideout still wants to help the Bulldogs score. So at the conclusion of his redshirt football season, Scott-Wesley plans to what he does best: run...

Texas wide receiver Marquise Goodwin will skip the 2011 season to concentrate on track after qualifying for the world championships in the long jump.

Getty Images You better have a hiding spot, because Magic is going to open his eyes any second now. Wide receiver Sinorice Moss was signed to a one-year tender by the Giants earlier this week, and that got us thinking: how many people do we know ...

Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward would love to see if Usain Bolt could make it as an NFL wide receiver.

Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin WACO, Texas -- It's understandable why Baylor wide receiver David Gettis and freshman quarterback Robert Griffin have both wondered a little bit over the last few days watching the Olympics on television. Gettis, a wi...

It wasn't a good week for Carmelo Anthony, gasoline consumers or the ground underneath the new Yankee Stadium.

Former Olympic 100-meter champion Justin Gatlin is trying out with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at their minicamp this weekend.

Former Chicago Bears wide receiver Willie Gault set a world record of 10.72 seconds in the master's 100 meters, a division for athletes aged 45 to 49.