The 5-foot-7, 191-pound Demps played in 12 games last season at Florida, rushing for 569 yards and six touchdowns.
He had 31 rushes for more than 20 yards while with the Gators, most in the Southeastern Conference since 2008. He finished his collegiate career with 2,470 yards rushing and 23 touchdowns in four seasons.
Demps also was a standout sprinter for the Gators and is the only Florida athlete to have won a national championship in two sports.
Demps’ biggest impact could be on the Patriots’ return game, where coach Bill Belichick said Wednesday the team is looking for improvement.
“He had a little bit of production,” Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio said. “How that translates over, the schemes are different. Any returner that comes into the NFL, whatever they did in college schematically is probably going to be a lot different than what we’re going to ask him to do.”
Twitter, the popular micro-blogging site,announced a new set of rules for third-party Twitter app developers in a blogpost today. The rules, which are seen as rigid and restrictive, have raised a lot of questions as to the direction in which Twitter is heading.
Rory McIlroy brushed aside any lingering doubts over his ability to be a dominant force in golf by storming to a second major title with a stunning eight-shot victory at the PGA Championship on Sunday.
Belarus’ Nadzeya Ostapchuk was stripped of the women’s shot put gold medal at the London Games after she failed a drug test, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Monday. The IOC said in the statement that Ostapchuk was tested positive on both urine samples, indicating
THAT’S ALL FOLKS (7:15 p.m. ET): The closing ceremony is now over. Good show, London. Good show.
The 32-year-old, who had just scored a superb century in the drawn second Test against South Africa at Headingley, followed that bombshell by claiming he was ready to walk away from the sport due to what he perceived as problems in the England squad that he said “made it hard being me”. And then, with speculation increasing that he would be dropped when the third Test squad was named, the saga took a bizarre twist when Pietersen posted a video on YouTube on Saturday in which he claimed he was now ready to play in all forms of international cricket having previously opted out of limited overs action.
That begs the question, just how good can the iPhone 5′s battery life be with such a small battery, especially if it has to power a larger screen and faster data network?
Yogeshwar Dutt possessed the strength and stamina to bring India one of its most exhilarating bronze medals of the London Olympics. What the Sonepat pehelwan did was to combine the brain with the brawn, digging out his most potent weapon at just the right time to deny North Korean Jong Myong Ri a podium and to emerge as one of the most popular wrestling medallists at the ExCel Arena. There were not more than half a dozen Indian supporters in the stands, but the full house — the Brits, Iranians, Turks, Americans and even the unobliging North Koreans — gave the Indian a standing ovation as he won the 60 kg freestyle wrestling bout. It was a reception that’s reserved for last-ball sixes back home, or for penalty shootouts here in London. What evoked that reaction was Yogeshwar’s stunning last move — thrusting his head between his rival’s thighs, wrapping his arms around his legs and then flipping him like an omelette several times — something called the “phitle” for short. The points piled up, one, then one more, then a third, and finally a 6 flashed on the score-screen as the Indian punched the air in triumph. Phitle is a “daav (hold/ move)” that Dutt had employed on a lesser stage when returning from his career-threatening knee injury at the Commonwealth Games, to win gold. He also used it in his opening bout here against Bulgarian Anatolie Ilarinovitch. It requires the most flexible of iron grips, and the good upper body strength that Dutt exudes.
