EXPECTATIONS: Texans are no longer content to simply make playoffs. Team has its sights on reaching Super Bowl this season. Things looked even bleaker when head coach Chuck Pagano left after three games to battle leukemia.The problem is the lack of prerequisites for many athletes, White and Black. One solution is for all universities to have strict academic standards and let high school athletes with deficiences satisfy those requirements with one or two years study after graduation, but before college. This approach will yield improved studentathletes and let those individuals realize that they also have the intellect to compete in academics.

BALL SECURITY: The Titans joined the 1995 St. Louis Rams as the only NFL teams in the Super Bowl era to play the first four games of the season without a turnover. Locker may not have been asked to throw the ball much the first two games, but he certainly did a good job protecting it.The top three rushers during this regular season a