Auburn wide receiver Montez Billings has left the football team for personal reasons. Tigers coach Gene Chizik said the senior decided to leave the Auburn program to pursue other opportunities. Chizik said Billings had already received his degree from Auburn. Billingsley had 55 catches for 645 yards and one touchdown in 34 career games with [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2009 by admin
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Pete Carroll has wanted Steve Sarkisian for most of the last decade. USCs coach wanted the hotshot assistant when Sarkisian briefly was at San Diego State, before he helped reconstruct the Trojans offense into a multidimensional juggernaut. Carroll wanted him back from the NFL as his offensive coordinator, after Sarkisian went to the Raiders for [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2009 by admin
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Running back Collins Okafor is back with the Nebraska football team. Okafor was at practice with the Cornhuskers on Thursday, a day after coach Bo Pelini announced the redshirt freshman had left the team on his own volition. Okafor did not play in the first two games this season. Nebraska spokesman Keith Mann confirmed Okafors [...]
Posted on September 18th, 2009 by admin
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Freshman cornerback Brian Baucham will miss No 3 Southern Californias upcoming game at Washington after getting into a car accident. Coach Pete Carroll says Baucham was cut in the freeway accident Thursday morning on the way to school. Baucham, who made a brief trip to a hospital, was the Trojans nickel back in last weeks [...]
Posted on September 18th, 2009 by admin
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Even without the whole LeGarrette Blount debacle, Oregon is having a bumpy start to the season. First came the loss to Boise State in which the offense fizzled, followed by a challenging victory over Purdue on Saturday night. And now No. 18 Utah is paying a visit. We will just have to come out, focus [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2009 by admin
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Urban Meyer used to spend every offseason with Monte Kiffin. Beginning in 1996, when Meyer was an assistant at Notre Dame, he would travel to Tampa and visit with Kiffin for at least a day. Meyer would glean all he could from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive coordinator, picking his brain about defensive philosophy, coverage [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2009 by admin
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Bill Snyder agreed to a five-year contract with Kansas State on Friday, giving the 69-year-old coach the opportunity to pull off another reclamation project after the program he built unraveled under Ron Prince. Snyder will be paid a base salary plus supplemental licensing payments totaling $1.85 million this season, $1.875 million next season, $1.925 million [...]
Posted on September 13th, 2009 by admin
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Louisiana Tech coach Derek Dooley thought Navy sure looked good. And that was before the Midshipment put a scare into the eighth-ranked Buckeyes. I didnt need to see the Ohio State game to know that these guys are good. Weve got one heck of a challenge ahead of us, he said. Its important for us [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2009 by admin
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Bill Snyder agreed to a five-year contract with Kansas State on Friday, giving the 69-year-old coach the opportunity to pull off another reclamation project after the program he built unraveled under Ron Prince. Snyder will be paid a base salary plus supplemental licensing payments totaling $1.85 million this season, $1.875 million next season, $1.925 million [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2009 by admin
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A former Michigan State football player charged with murder for throwing a neighbor from a third-floor apartment balcony has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. An Illinois judge on Thursday ruled Hubert D. Thompson was insane when he hurled 66-year-old James Malone to his death March 30, 2007. Thompson will be confined to [...]
Posted on September 11th, 2009 by admin
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