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One of the best players in college football is named Jake Butt. His position: tight end.Well pause here for your jokes. Just understand that the Michigan senior has heard them all before.Even Jimmy Fallon and his Tonight Show writers have made their wisecracks over his name. Last December, after Butt claimed the Big Ten tight end of the year award, Fallon dedicated a full minute of his opening monologue to some rapid-fire, bottom-shelf humor.Other tight ends are mad, but they dont want to make a big stink about it, Fallon deadpanned. Butt would brag, but he doesnt want to toot his own horn.So go ahead. Be cheeky. You wont be laughing at the Wolverines All-American. Youll be laughing with him.This is a guy whose Twitter handle is @JBooty_88. He once changed his avatar to spoof a meme about Kim Kardashian, owner of the worlds most famous posterior. Rather than get upset about Fallons digs, he retweeted them.Butt is more than just OK with all the fun people have with his surname. Hes fully behind it.I love it so much, he said. I think thats one of my greatest traits. It has really allowed me to grow my platform and build my brand.His sprawling family loves the Butt brand, too. Theyre easy to spot at any Michigan game. As many as 50 of them tailgate together while wearing versions of Jakes jersey, sporting his perfectly rounded No. 88 along with a fanny pack full of puns.His father, Rob, goes with either Head Butt or Papa Butt. Other family members wear jerseys such as I Like Big Butt, Nice Butt and Kick Butt. One of Jakes aunts, Theresa, added an apostrophe to her name to make her jersey read Theres a Butt.We taught our kids at an early age to just have fun with it, Rob Butt said. The whole family, we just enjoy the silliness of it.The silliness wouldnt amount to much if Butt were merely an average player, one only Sir Mix-A-Lot could love. The reverse, however, is true. Butt is arguably the best tight end in America, a key component of Michigans College Football Playoff hopes and a future high NFL draft pick.And its all because he works his tail off.Butt keeps turning heads at MichiganJake Butt always had great athletic genes in his back pocket. His grandfather, Bob Lally, never lost a game as an offensive lineman in high school or on Frank Leahys Notre Dame teams in the 1940s. His dad played rugby at Cincinnati. Jakes first word: Ball.I wish it had been Mom or Dad, Rob Butt said.Jake starred in youth soccer until his dad, seeing that Jake was sprouting toward his current 6-foot-6 frame, nudged him toward football in the sixth grade. Reluctant at first to give up his dreams of being an MLS midfielder, Butt nonetheless gave football everything he had. When he found out that kids had to be under 125 pounds to touch the ball, he spent his summer vacation running and cutting weight so he could play tight end.Soccer had helped him develop great footwork. His size made him a prototype tight end. Work ethic did the rest.Tom Phillips has been coaching high school football for nearly 30 years. In all that time, he said, the two most competitive players he has ever had, in practice and in games, are Butt and D.J. Durkin, the former Michigan defensive coordinator and current Maryland head coach.Jake was out there to win everything, said Phillips, the head coach at Pickerington North High School in Ohio. He would easily lose 15 pounds in practices because of sweat. He was a motor, and he always wanted to be the best.Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh praises Butt as one of the most gung-ho players Ive ever been around.He can sit through a two-and-a-half hour, three-hour meeting and be on the edge of his seat, Harbaugh said last month. [Hell] walk out of that meeting with a bounce in his step and put his football gear on, the hair on the back of his neck is standing up. Whether hes going out to hit his sled or rattle somebodys fillings, hes just as excited about doing that as he is running a post route or corner route.Heres an example of Butts inner drive. In February 2014, he tore the ACL in his right knee. He promised anyone who would listen that he would be back for the Notre Dame game in Week 2 of that season. Barely six months after his surgery, he made good on that pledge.(Butt had some extra motivation. His grandfather, who died in 2008, had wanted to have his cremated ashes spread on the Notre Dame Stadium field. The school declines such requests. Jake brought a plastic baggie with some of Bob Lallys remains to South Bend and placed them on the 50-yard line before the game. True to form, the Fighting Irish won again with Lally on the field, crushing the Wolverines 31-0.)Butts intensity and skill set found their equal when the hard-charging Harbaugh took over the Wolverines -- You talk about a perfect personality match, Phillips said. Harbaugh has long been known for his creative use of tight ends, and Butts production immediately and predictably soared under his new coach. After catching 41 passes combined in his first two seasons, Butt had 51 receptions for 654 yards and three scores as a junior.Im really reaping the benefits of having him as a coach, Butt said. The main thing he does is push me as a player, not just to catch passes but to be a complete tight end.Fans like Jake Butt and they cannot lieThat Butt even ended up at Michigan is mildly surprising. His family was full of diehard Ohio State fans. Rob Butt even threatened to wear his Buckeyes gear at the Big House during Jakes recruiting visit during the night game versus Notre Dame in 2011.That epic victory over the Irish -- U-M scored with 2 seconds left to win 35-31 in the first prime-time game at Michigan Stadium -- and the atmosphere made a huge impression on Butt, who found himself rooting for the Wolverines against Ohio State later that season. Michigan won, and the Buckeyes never even offered Butt a scholarship.Even if Ohio State would have come around with an offer, Rob Butt says now, he wouldnt have changed his mind.Now its hard to picture him anywhere else, and Butt has developed into something akin to a folk hero in Ann Arbor. Fans make unofficial T-shirts honoring him. At a game last year, Rob Butt sat behind some students who grabbed the rump of those to either side of them whenever Jake caught a pass.They like Jake Butt, and they cannot lie.Jake hasnt always found mirth in being the Butt of jokes. In the third grade, he fought another kid whod poked fun at him.Back in my elementary school days, he said, any little thing hurt to hear.In the first month of his freshman season at Michigan, he couldnt believe how many people asked him on Twitter if he realized the connection between his name and his position. As if hed never thought about it. Which led to this classic tweet:That tweet caused a social media splash and helped Butt see the power of laughing at himself. Luckily, his supersized family -- his father has seven siblings, and his mother was one of 16 kids -- were blessed with wry self-awareness. Rob Butt, who after all lived through the same experiences with that last name well before Jake, offered his son this optimistic outlook: At least its a name you dont forget. It can work in your favor, if youre not embarrassed by it.Jake is most certainly in on the joke these days.I have a great last name, he said. Im proud of it. Its pretty marketable. That last name stands out a little bit.So does Jake Butt the football player. No ifs, ands or ... well, you know.Nike Vapormax 97 Metallic Gold . Once again Jordan Cieciwa (@FitCityJordan) and I (@LynchOnSports) go head to head in our picks. Last weekend at UFC Fight Night 32 my #TeamLynch got the best of #TeamJC by a score of 9-6. 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The seamers usually dominate the first innings when you play away from home. The wicket tires out on day four and five. Thats when the spinners come into play. In the first innings, spinners are taking couple of the breakthrough wickets. In the second innings, fast bowlers are doing this for you and then the spinners will open it up again.I think it was wonderful partnership bowling by all our bowlers in the two innings. And the batsmen as well. We have spoken about one thing, that we have the skill and ability to declare innings more often than not rather than struggling to get to 350 with our lower order. So thats the kind of mindset we need to play with.You know when you start off with five batsmen, obviously you need to take more responsibility. I think they are all good enough to do that. As Ive said before, we are not at a stage now where we need to come and improve. We should be ready enough in international cricket to start dominating Test matches and win those crucial situations and sessions. Thats how we become a better team.If you think we are going to keep learning every series, learning every game, we will never get that hunger and that mindset to win games from difficult situations. We need to challenge ourselves a little bit, which this team has been willing to do and which is a wonderful sign. The way we finished the Test, it all panned out pretty nicely.R Ashwin was the standout Indian bowler on the fourth day, finishing with figures of 7 for 83 as West Indies second innings folded half an hour after tea. While Kohli hailed Ashwins bowling, he said Amit Mishra had also played an important role at the other end.It was a very good effort from the bowlers [to spend two days on the field and bowl West Indies out twice], he said. The good thing was that we didnt bowl that much in the first innings, so everyones mindset in the second innings was, yes, we can bowl again.[It] becomes crucial to have bowlers who can get you those one or two wickets at the end. Their role becomes big. If you end up bowling 15-20 extra overs [in the first innings], this doubt comes into your mind whether you can start [bowling again] or not.I think [the first innings] ended at a perfect time for us last evening, and then we got 13-14 overs and got a wicket again, so it was good to get some rest in the evening, and the bowlers attitude was very good, all of them voluntarily said, yes, well bowl, and the spinners took the responsibility.They knew the fast bowlers had done a lot of bowling in the first innings, so well have to take that responsibility. Ashwin obviously bowled very well, and Mishra also bowled very well but didnt get wickets. But both kept the pressure on, and we talk about partnership bowling - that was a classic example, that the spinners didnt have to bowl thaat much in the first innings, but took the responsibility from the fast bowlers in the second innings, and did the job fully.ddddddddddddWhen India came back after sealing the win, Kohli said Anil Kumble, their head coach, made special mention to players whose contributions may not have leaped out of the scorecard.In the first innings, four wickets each to Umesh [Yadav] and [Mohammed] Shami, but the way Ishant [Sharma] bowled and Mishi picking up those two wickets in the end also played an important role, Kohli said, when asked to elaborate on these contributions. Otherwise you have to play the guys who have bowled a bulk of the bowling and tire them out more for those final two wickets.There the guy who takes the wickets at the end finishes off the game and helps the other bowlers stay fresh. Someone like Ishant maintained the pressure, the run-rate did not go beyond two in the first innings. All those things count massively in the course of the game. This morning, Umesh getting one wicket for us, Ishant an important breakthrough last evening. These are the moments that dont get much attention but they are very important to winning a Test match.Despite the ease of the win, and the range of contributions, Kohli felt there were still areas India needed to improve in. One of these - which he had mentioned before the Test match as well - was to avoid losing wickets close to breaks in play.I think [there are] a couple of areas with the bat we can improve on, especially not losing wickets close to the breaks, he said. I think we did that three times. [Cheteshwar] Pujara was one, Shikhar [Dhawan] was the other, just before tea [on the first day], and then myself soon after lunch on day two.See, these are the things, which if we have enough runs on the board and start scoring quickly, you tend to ignore these things. But I have that it in my mind pretty strongly because every team will want to challenge you strongly and will want to dry those runs out. So you have to capitalise [on] those important moments so the team doesnt lose that momentum and can start scoring runs again.Weve lost wickets in those moments previously. Thats one area I still think we need to tighten up a little bit more if we want to be in complete control of things in all the sessions that we play. Weve done really well in this game, but thats one area we have addressed before and we certainly want to improve on.Another area in need of improvement, he said, was to try and bowl the lower order out quicker. West Indies raised their score from 144 for 7 to 243 in the first innings, and from 132 for 8 to 231 in the second.Thats an area we need to address. It also happens that you take the top-order wickets quickly, so you become a little desperate to keep taking wickets, and forget the things that got you those initial wickets. It becomes very important that the fielders also stay relaxed, dont get frustrated, and bowlers also dont get frustrated.Its important that we still keep bowling in consistent areas. If youre getting the pure batsmen out, you dont need to do anything different to get the tailenders out. Thats one thing well have to play out smartly in the remaining Test matches, so that we save our energy, and dont end up bowling 8-10 extra overs, and if we get the tail out quickly, thats a good habit as well, so obviously well plan and see how we can do this. Well look to keep playing the same kind of cricket, and if we get the opportunity to win each match, well try to win each match. ' ' '