So maybe football is looking at Usain Bolt -- and Jamaica -- for speed

Now in the middle of a nature, nurture, doping or not controversy, the wildly successful Jamaicans have stirred the passions of American college football coaches.  Texas Tech's renegade coach Mike Leach discovered what his track coaching colleagues discovered decades ago:  Caribbean people are fast.  From The Wizard of Odds (and the old Wiz site).  Does Bolt have any eligibility left?

Captivated by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's stunning athleticism? You're not alone. Bolt toyed with the competition in winning the 100- and 200-meter dashes in world-record time at the Beijing Olympics. Now the Pirate himself, Mike Leach, would like to put Jamaica on his recruiting  map.

"I got to be honest, I've been thinking about recruiting Jamaica since I saw that stuff," Leach said, presumably joking (you never know with the Texas Tech coach). "I've been to Jamaica and let me tell you something ... here's the extent that I've thought about that subject, there's approximately 2.8 million people in Jamaica,which is approximately the size of the state of Iowa or Kansas, or the city of Houston.

"It's almost like the country of Jamaica is sitting there saying, 'If you would have just told us that this was important we could have won a lot of this stuff a long time ago.' "

Is that a Heisman pose Bolt assumes on the Beijing Bird's Nest track?

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[Jamaicangirl]

This is a trick. DEM a TRY fool up USAIN!!! They cant beat him on the track so they are now trying to take him off (LOL). Come on now.