Gary Patterson guided TCU to its best season in 70 years on the way to becoming the first Associated Press Coach of the Year from outside the six conferences with automatic BCS bids. Patterson led the Horned Frogs to a perfect regular season, their first Mountain West Conference title, their first BCS appearance and even [...]
Posted on December 24th, 2009 by admin
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Southern California tailback Joe McKnight did not travel with the Trojans to the Bay Area for Saturdays Emerald Bowl. “He has some paperwork he needs to do and its best for him to stay in LA so he can be available to finish it, Trojans coach Pete Carroll said. Carroll did not have a timetable [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by admin
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Tony Pike threw a few crisp passes to Mardy Gilyard on a cold, sunny afternoon. The defense started getting ready to try to stop Tim Tebow in the biggest bowl game in Cincinnatis history. After a tumultuous week, it all felt good. The Bearcats (12-0) began practice for the Sugar Bowl on Thursday, one week [...]
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by admin
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Mike MacIntyre had to change his Christmas plans at the last second. Hes more than happy about it. San Jose State has hired the Duke defensive coordinator to replace Dick Tomey as football coach. MacIntyre, who assumes his first head job, was formally introduced Thursday. “I grew up a coachs son so today is a [...]
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by admin
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The University of South Florida has retained a person from outside the school to assist with an investigation of the accusation that football coach Jim Leavitt struck one of his players in the locker room. The school announced Wednesday that an expert specializing in workplace issues is part of the review that began after AOL [...]
Posted on December 17th, 2009 by admin
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San Jose State has hired Duke defensive coordinator Mike MacIntyre to replace Dick Tomey as football coach. MacIntyre will be formally introduced at a news conference Thursday. The 44-year-old MacIntyre spent the past two seasons at Duke. He has also worked as a secondary coach in the NFL with Dallas and the New York Jets [...]
Posted on December 17th, 2009 by admin
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The Gridiron Club of Greater Boston president Steve Grogan announced that Boston College linebacker Mike McLaughlin (Woburn, MA) and Brown University wide receiver Buddy Farnham (Andover, MA) are recipients of the 71st annual George Bulger Lowe Award, New Englands Heisman Trophy and one of Americas oldest college football accolades. The Bulger Lowe Award recognizes the [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2009 by admin
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Challenging as it will be to replace coach Turner Gill at Buffalo, athletic director Warde Manuel knew this day would inevitably come. What makes Manuels job easier in finding a qualified successor, after Gill accepted an offer to coach at Kansas this weekend, is the remarkable job Gill did in bringing respectability to what had [...]
Posted on December 14th, 2009 by admin
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The same contingent that anointed Andre Ware and Gino Torretta now has blown the most obvious Heisman Trophy call in at least two decades. Alabama sophomore running back Mark Ingram won the closest Heisman race in the 75-year history of the award Saturday night, edging Stanfords Toby Gerhart to become the first player in Alabamas [...]
Posted on December 14th, 2009 by admin
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Navys Ricky Dobbs almost certainly will set an NCAA single-season record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback when the Midshipmen play Army in Philadelphia today. And yet, a nifty, shifty quarterback who already has crossed the goal line 23 times this season, including five times in one game, doesnt even merit a whisper in all [...]
Posted on December 12th, 2009 by admin
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