The Chad Owens Show / Withy-Allen / Workouts

Chad Owens went crazy last night, catching 10 passes for 132 yards and 4 TDs, and returning 10 kicks for 228 yards and another TD for the Colorado Crush in a loss. Here's the game stats, and below are some video highlights. Check out that mohawk!



UPDATE: Nathan Boudreaux of ArenaFootball.com praises Owens in this column:

I think I said it in one of my columns a few weeks ago (and I’ll say it again) - Colorado rookie WR/KR Chad Owens is the real deal. Owens is only 5-foot-8 and 180 pounds, but his skill-set is perfect for the indoor game. He’s as quick as they come. He’s a solid route runner. And he has pretty good hands – as evident by his pair of one-handed TD catches against New York on Monday night. Owens is simply a play-maker (10 catches for 132 yards and four TDs as a receiver and 10 returns for 228 yards, including a 56-yard kickoff return for a score vs. the Dragons) and single-handedly kept the Crush in the game before eventually falling, 73-65. Since joining the club a little over a month ago, Owens has 61 catches for 626 yards and eight TDs as a receiver to go along with 40 kick returns for 822 yards (20.6 avg.) and a score.

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In other arena football news, Shawn Withy-Allen will come out of retirement to rejoin the AIFA's Fayetteville Guard.

The Guard went 12-0 last season with Withy-Allen at quarterback and won the Indoor Football Championship. But with a rewarding new job with a church-sponsored youth program and planning to get married, Withy-Allen decided to hang up his cleats with the Guard after 2007.

However, with Fayetteville struggling at 3-7 and having lost three straight games, Withy-Allen has decided to come back to help his old team.

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Stephen Tsai catches up with UH players participating in offseason workouts.

"The newcomers are asking questions, and the veterans are giving good advice, and letting them know the offense," Graunke said. "Everybody is getting a pretty good idea of what's going on out here."

Funaki said: "We help each other because we're one team. And somebody has to be ready if somebody goes down with an injury. It's nice to have everybody familiar with the offense."

And Brian McInnis talks to receiver Mike Tinoco about learning the offense.

"I'm kind of used to that offensive style," he said. "It's just different route-running. At JC, if you had a route, that's all you could do. There was a couple times you would switch it up, but here, you got options all over the place. It's good -- it really makes you read the defense. (Improvisation) is good, I like that."