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Article: My name is Tarvaris ... and I am a workoutaholic. In the second round of this year's NFL draft, the Vikings not only selected a quarterback, but a young man addicted to sweat. Meet their bench-pressing, wind-sprinting QB of the future.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 23, 2006
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Byline: Jim Souhan; Staff Writer
Montgomery, Ala. -- Coaches say rookies should be sponges, the better to absorb information, but at the moment Tarvaris Jackson looks more like a wet towel. It's 98 degrees in the only patch of shade near Lanier High's football field, and the sweat pooling on Jackson's cantaloupe shoulders is threatening to form its own ecosystem. In the Deep South, it's not the heat, it's not the humidity - it's the spontaneous combustion that gets you. As you swelter, you imagine trees bursting into flame and clocks melting as in a Dali landscape, yet there is Jackson, the Vikings' rookie quarterback, voluntarily running sprints, pulling a ...