Sam Swank News

Posted by ESPN.com's Heather Dinich Former Wake Forest cornerback Alphonso Smith continues to have an impact on the Demon Deacons.

Elon University's football team plays a big game this week, probably one of its biggest ever.

Posted by ESPN.com's Heather Dinich Wake Forest quarterback Riley Skinner has developed a habit of leading the Deacs to game-winning drives in his second game of each season.

Around halftime yesterday, the soft blue sky looked more appealing to many Wake Forest fans than football developments on the artificial green field.

In anticipation of another Cavalier football season starting Saturday, I would like to share with you the top-10 Virginia games that I have experienced live.

Hilary Swank is putting her animal appreciation to work as an ambassador for a pet adoption campaign.

RECEIVER CHAD OCHOCINCO won't be attempting extra points anymore now that the Bengals have signed rookie kicker Sam Swank, of Wake Forest.

Bucs: Tampa Bay says that linebacker Angelo Crowell will miss the season with a torn biceps muscle.

Swank entered his senior year as " arguably the nation's top long-distance kicking prospect " after his junior season in which he was a "semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award." Ironically, he was hampered his senior year with a groin injury.

Receiver Chad Ochocinco won't have to kick extra points anymore. The Cincinnati Bengals signed rookie kicker Sam Swank from Wake Forest on Sunday, giving them another option while Shayne Graham recovers from a groin injury.

Wake Forest is coming off of its most successful stretch in decades. Since its 11-3 ACC Championship season in 2006, the Demon Deacons have finished 9-4 and 8-5, respectively over the last two years.

Wake Forest is coming off of its most successful stretch in decades. Since its 11-3 ACC Championship season in 2006, the Demon Deacons have finished 9-4 and 8-5, respectively over the last two years.

Wake Forest is coming off of its most successful stretch in decades. Since its 11-3 ACC Championship season in 2006, the Demon Deacons have finished 9-4 and 8-5, respectively over the last two years.

Wake Forest is coming off of its most successful stretch in decades. Since its 11-3 ACC Championship season in 2006, the Demon Deacons have finished 9-4 and 8-5, respectively over the last two years.

As college football season approaches, I noted how difficult it was to pick someone to win the ACC's Atlantic Division.

Safety Chip Vaughn is one of seven defensive players that Wake Forest lost to graduation.

Former East Stroudsburg South and East Stroudsburg University punter Ken Parrish was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles today.

Tight end Cornelius Ingram was back at practice a day after injuring his surgically repaired left knee when he got tangled up with two defenders during Eagles minicamp.

Looks like it will be veteran kicker David Akers handling all of the kicking duties again in 2009.

Ken Parrish was cut from the San Francisco 49ers before the 2007 season, didn't catch on anywhere in 2008, and finally came home and took a job as a police officer back home in Stroud Township, Pa., Monroe County, about an hour and a half northeast of Philadelphia.