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MUNCIE, Ind. -- Western Michigan receiver Corey Davis used a nationally televised game as his own personal proving ground Tuesday night.He got open all game. He made spectacular plays when given the chance. And, of course, he kept the 17th-ranked Broncos unbeaten.By the time the show-stopping senior finally left the 52-20 victory over Ball State, he had caught 12 passes for a Mid-American Conference-record 272 yards, tied the conference mark for career touchdown receptions (47) and celebrated a school-record 11th consecutive victory.Its kind of like The Masters out there when theres no wind blowing and its just a beautiful day, and youre just feeling really good, coach P.J. Fleck said before joking about a couple of drops Davis had. But I told him, `You left some meat on the bone out there.At 6-foot-3, 213 pounds, some NFL scouts think Davis has what it takes to be a first-round draft pick next year. Some of them watched the game from the press box.If Davis plays like he did Tuesday night, some team could get a real steal this spring.It seemed like Davis burned the Cardinals secondary on every play, catching TD passes of 57, 35 and 62 yards while moving within 296 yards of Trevor Insleys 17-year-old national record (5,005). Davis has 4,709 yards.Western Michigan (9-0, 5-0 MAC, No. 23 CFP) knew just how talented Davis was after watching him the past four years.The rest of a curious college football world may have gotten its first long look at him Tuesday when quarterback Zach Terrell went 23 of 34 for 367 yards with the three TD passes.Ball State (4-5, 2-3) made too many mistakes to have a chance after Jarvion Franklin gave Western Michigan the lead for good with a 23-yard TD run in the first quarter.Unfortunately, we didnt execute at a high level like we needed to in order to have a chance to win against a football team like Western Michigan, first-year Ball State coach Mike Neu said.THE TAKEAWAYWestern Michigan: The conferences top team and one of five remaining unbeaten teams certainly did not disappoint on national television. But will a blowout over a struggling MAC opponent be enough to help the Broncos climb the College Football Playoff rankings? Probably not.Ball State: Neu doesnt have the talent or depth to compete with a team as strong as Western Michigan, but the opportunity to play a good team certainly gives Ball State a glimpse into how much it needs to improve to compete for a conference crown.TOUGH BREAKBall State junior Jack Milas replaced injured quarterback Riley Neal, and Milas finished 20 of 38 for 199 yards with one touchdown. Milas threw two interceptions in the first half and two other interceptions were dropped by Western Michigan defenders.KEY NUMBERSBroncos CB Darius Phillips picked off Milas sixth pass of the game and returned it for a 75-yard touchdown -- his third pick-six of the season. ... Franklin, the MACs No. 2 rusher after eight games, ran 17 times for 109 yards and two scores. The Broncos were plus-3 on turnovers after starting the day at plus-12. ... Ball States James Gilbert only needed one quarter to extend his streak of consecutive 100-yard games to five. Gilbert finished with 29 carries for 155 yards and one score.POLL IMPLICATIONSWestern Michigan: After becoming the first 9-0 team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the only unbeaten outside the top four will watch this weekend to see if anyone else loses. If the Broncos win their next two, against teams that are a combined 5-12, Western Michigan should continue ascending.Ball State: The Cardinals have lost two straight, are under .500 and in last-place in the MAC West.UP NEXTWestern Michigan: The steamrolling Broncos head to Kent State (3-6, 2-3) next Tuesday, and will have to deal with yet another team trying to send a national message.Ball State: The Cardinals hope to gain some momentum next Tuesday when they welcome Eastern Michigan. Ball State has won 10 of the last 11 in the series.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org Cheap Air Jordans .875,000, avoiding arbitration. 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Wholesale Air Jordan Free Shipping .Y. -- Injured Buffalo Sabres forward Marcus Foligno did not practice with the team Monday and head coach Ron Rolston said its unlikely hell play in Wednesdays season opener in Detroit. Well, that didnt go to plan. At all. Three-zip at the coin toss. No individual hundreds. Three losses. Sickness, injury and some calls for an inquiry into the coaching and preparation for the tour.Heading into this Test series, a historic one for India, given the first match was their 500th Test and the third one was at a new Test venue, there would have been some realistic and some lofty expectations around the New Zealand changing room and among the squad. Perhaps also thoughts of spoiling Indias party. More than likely there would have been talk of three individual hundreds, 300-plus scores in all innings, 20 wickets in two Tests, at least two drawn Tests, and if they got the moments right, one win - and of course, win at least one toss, hopefully two!No personal hundreds. Brendon McCullum scored more in one innings against India than the whole New Zealand team did in any of their batting innings in this series. No draws. Missed a lot of the big game-changing moments. And not even one damned coin-toss win - Come back, Bmac, your Test toss success record of 37.5% is forgiven!Listening to former Indian allrounder (he has a Test ton) Ajit Agarkar on his impressions of the New Zealand batting on ESPNcricinfo was to hear that New Zealand got worse as the series went on - they went backwards.I think its fair to say the batting did go backwards, and not just statistically, as the series went on. Why? And is that all bad news? I dont think so.Backwards to go forward. Im hoping so.Every now and again, the Bible throws up an aphorism. Proverbs 13:20 says: He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. Basically you are only as good as the company you keep.Firstly New Zealand dont have, and therefore cant play on, pitches that do what Indian pitches do. This means New Zealand dont have spinners who do what Indian spinners do. Which equates simply to the fact that New Zealands batsmen cant do what Indian batsmen can do. The company you keep.Jeetan Patel, virtually straight to India from a hugely successful wicket-taking season in the UK, wasnt as effective a wicket-taker as hoped. Good, consistent, could keep the Indian batsmen quiet, but taking wickets, making batsmen make mistakes - those things werent quite in his arsenal. Indian batsmen are better to spin. They play differently. Forward, and back - a long way back - often playing the line of the stumps with the bat, pads out of the way.dddddddddddd Indian batsmen are used to playing spin bowling that spins. Spins big, grips, rips, bites and jumps. New Zealand batsmen are, because of the pitches that are used in domestic cricket, used to the subtleties of flight, pace and drift - the deception through the air, not the violence off the pitch.I was never a Test-quality batsman. I learnt to play spin by playing Tests. I had two options that I learned on a tour to Sri Lanka: defend (small step forward and bat as close to where the ball pitched as possible) or sweep. Its all I had. So, one option to prevent me from getting out, and I might be able to sneak a single here or there if it brushed the edge with soft-enough hands; and the other a possible scoring option if the delivery was outside of my eyeline (outside off stump) and it wasnt delivered too flat or quick.If I tried to do anything different, Id normally end up in trouble. I once went back to a delivery that pitched outside leg - my plan was to just kick it; it jumped, and I wore it, no shot offered, squarely in the box. It was time to rethink. The point here is that I had to learn to play that kind of spin, on those kinds of pitches, in a Test match.New Zealand defended well and showed aptitude for the task in the first Test. But as the series went on, the batting changed. I also think the Indian bowling got better, but the New Zealand batting, from outside looking in, didnt improve.I genuinely believe the New Zealand batsmen were making changes - trying to do it differently, better, more the Indian way. Practising and experimenting to not get so far forward, and thus locking themselves into only defence, they were trying to get back further and open up scoring shots through cover-point and midwicket. They swept less, they stayed taller. They just werent good enough. There just wasnt enough time.Is a Test match the right time to be doing this? Is there any better time, given the bowlers and conditions? The issue is, the process takes time. Learning to play that kind of quality spin, on those kinds of pitches, it means learning and practising in a Test. Only so much you can do and so good you can get practising in the nets against your own spinners and the net bowlers. ' ' '