While Rick Neuheisel insisted there are no “moral victories” for the UCLA football team. He still gave the Bruins good grades for effort and improvement.
UCLA played Fresno State on even terms before losing 36-31 on Saturday.
“We certainly have things to improve on, but we’re eager to do just that, improve,” Neuheisel said Monday. “The effort [...]
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Nick Saban doesn’t want to talk about rankings in September. He even insists he doesn’t even know where Alabama stands in the polls.
If that’s true - and it seems unlikely even for the ultra-focused coach - he’s one of the few in college football still in the dark. The second-ranked Crimson Tide has been all [...]
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California running back Jahvid Best will miss at least one game with a dislocated left elbow. But the versatile speedster won’t require surgery.
Best was injured in the third quarter of the Golden Bears’ 42-7 victory over Colorado State last Saturday. The sophomore is third in the nation with 215.5 all-purpose yards per game, and third [...]
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Here comes No 4 Missouri, with its 54-point-per-game offense and Heisman hopeful quarterback Chase Daniel.
Nebraska coach Bo Pelini seems plenty worried.
Pelini says his team is making too many “bonehead” errors and needs to clean up its act to stick with the Tigers (4-0) on Saturday. Last week, the Cornhuskers (3-1) allowed Virginia Tech’s chugalug offense [...]
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Some names on the Boston College depth chart remain familiar to Tom O’Brien. But when the North Carolina State coach leads the Wolfpack against his former team, it’ll be different this time.
Most of the novelty - and the awkwardness - has disappeared for the winningest coach in BC history.
“I don’t know if it’s old hat, [...]
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Washington quarterback Jake Locker will be out for up to eight weeks. After breaking his right thumb, a damaging blow for a team looking at a possible 0-5 start for the first time in 39 years.
Locker had surgery Monday to repair the fracture. He was injured throwing a block in the second quarter of a [...]
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Carolina Hurricanes co-owner Thomas Thewes died after a two year battle with leukemia. He was 76.
Thewes, who passed away Sunday, most recently served as vice chairman of the board of directors of the Compuware Corporation, the company he founded in 1973 along with Peter Karmanos Jr. and Allen Cutting.
Along with Karmanos and current president Jim [...]
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Chicago Blackhawks goalie Nikolai Khabibulin has been put on waivers.
Khabibulin is entering the final season of a four-year, $27 million contract. He joined the Blackhawks from Tampa Bay as a free agent after leading the Lightning to the 2004 Stanley Cup.
The Blackhawks signed free agent goalie Cristobal Huet to a four-year, $22.5 million deal in [...]
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Though the regular season has yet to begin, the Pittsburgh Penguins already have suffered a hard hit.
The Penguins will be without top defenseman Sergei Gonchar for up to six months, according to a published report on Monday.
TSN of Canada reported Gonchar will undergo arthroscopic surgery to repair his dislocated left shoulder and will miss between [...]
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Hockey seasons aren’t made or lost in September, but roster spots are.
The Blackhawks went to 3-0 in exhibitions with a 4-3 victory over the Dallas Stars on Sunday night. Other than to most in the crowd of 18,425 at the United Center, the result didn’t matter as much as the performances of players fighting to [...]
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