In a college football season full of surprises, the Outback Bowl got into the act by pulling a mild upset of its own Sunday, selecting Auburn and Northwestern for the Jan. 1 game at Raymond James Stadium. The Tigers (7-5) are the first Southeastern Conference Western Division team picked since Alabama competed in the 1997 [...]
Posted on December 7th, 2009 by admin
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EAST. Cincinnati 45, Pittsburgh 44 Connecticut 29, South Florida 27 Villanova 46, New Hampshire 7 Wesley 12, Johns Hopkins 0 West Virginia 24, Rutgers 21 SOUTH Alabama 32, Florida 13 Appalachian St. 35, Richmond 31 East Carolina 38, Houston 32 Florida Atlantic 28, Fla. International 21 Georgia Tech 39, Clemson 34 Louisiana Tech 55, San [...]
Posted on December 6th, 2009 by admin
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For more than a year, the Texas Longhorns agonized over falling 1 second short of getting into the Big 12 and national championship games. This season, theyre conference champions and headed to the BCS title game because a video replay showed they still had 1 second left. Given a chance for one last play, Hunter [...]
Posted on December 6th, 2009 by admin
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The Army-Navy game by definition is a must-see event on the college football calendar. Its organizers made sure of that this season, pushing it back to the second Saturday of December so it again is the lone game played that day. But the matchup has been so lopsided recently – Navy has won a record [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2009 by admin
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University of Texas quarterback Colt McCoy has been named the 2009 winner of the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. The award is presented annually to the nations top senior college quarterback by the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation, Inc. and Transamerica ( www.transamerica.com ), a leading provider of innovative business and personal financial services. [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2009 by admin
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Eight Michigan State football players, including three starters, have been suspended from all team-related activities after being identified as being present at a fight at a campus dorm, the university announced Tuesday. Prominent receivers Mark Dell and B.J. Cunningham and defensive back Chris L. Rucker are among those suspended by coach Mark Dantonio for violating [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by admin
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South Bend, Ind, long ago made a seismiclike mental shift to La La Land. It is the thinking that a rich tradition somehow makes Notre Dame different from all the rest, a little better than everyone else. It is the tradition of the Four Horsemen, of Knute Rockne, of Frank Leahy, of Ara Parseghian. It [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by admin
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The Cincinnati offense has gotten most of the attention this season, but Pitt coach Dave Wannstedt seems just as concerned about the Bearcats defense, which lost 10 players from a year ago. Ive been just as impressed with their defense, considering all the players they graduated off of a last years defense, Wannstedt said. Cincinnati [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by admin
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SEC officials plan to set up a special window to detect fake tickets to Saturdays Georgia Dome game between the University of Florida and the University of Alabama, for which the resale price of some seats is topping $1,500 each. But even that, they admit, will not be enough to completely stop the most sophisticated [...]
Posted on December 1st, 2009 by admin
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With one year remaining on her NCAA eligibility dance card, Skyline graduate Keisha Fisher is the fifth-most successful digger in University of Utah history. With 26 digs Saturday during a 3-2 season-ending loss at Long Beach State, Fisher now ranks fifth at Utah with 1,110 career digs. Her 437 digs this season also rank fifth [...]
Posted on December 1st, 2009 by admin
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