Given the opening, Rick Neuheisel didnt hesitate to stick the dagger strategically under the rib cage. What was it like, UCLAs 49-year-old coach was asked, to once be so young, so hot, so wanted and yet so unsure and so unaccomplished? Neuheisel feels that UCLA has all the pieces to go from a major school [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2010 by admin
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The Oregon attorney general on Thursday offered the following advice to the Ducks: put it in writing next time you hire an athletic director, especially if youre going to pay him $2.3 million before he leaves for ESPN. The state Department of Justice found no criminal wrongdoing but it faulted University of Oregon lawyers for [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2010 by admin
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Theyve seen him around town lately. Glimpses, really. Just the other day he was spotted picking up a bag of ice just like a tourist. Someone saw him at a diner near the beach. If it wasnt for the two national championship rings and distinctive drawl, Bobby Bowden could be just another 80-year-old snowbird. “Ive [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2010 by admin
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The NCAA found its ne the university administration office. Now, college sports largest governing body is hoping Mark Emmert can be just as effective. The University of Washington president became the NCAAs top executive on Tuesday, ending the search for Myles Brands successor that began in November. “Its a pleasure and a challenge to follow [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2010 by admin
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Graphic: What realignment co As the BCS meetings ended Thursday, it was time to ask: Were they merely a backdrop for the beginning of the end? The end of college football as we know it, that is. The game pretty much moved along at a slow, languid pace for 129 years until the BCS came [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2010 by admin
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As the BCS meetings ended Thursday, it was time to ask: Were they merely a backdrop for the beginning of the end? The end of college football as we know it, that is. The game pretty much moved along at a slow, languid pace for 129 years until the BCS came along in 1998. Twelve [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2010 by admin
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The NCAA has approved 35 bowl games for the next four years, including two new ones: the Dallas Football Classic and the New Era Pinstripe Bowl in New York. The NCAA said Friday that the bowls were licensed on a four-year cycle for the first time, though they will be reviewe in line with the [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2010 by admin
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The Bowl Championship Series released its formula for determining how conferences, such as the Mountain West, can earn an automatic bid to the big-money bowls. The BCS disclosed Thursday it has three ways to measure conference strength. They are: the ranking of the highest-ranked team in the final BCS standings, the final regular-season computer rankings [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by admin
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Jack Swarbrick has a 97-year-old answer when asked about Notre Dames independence. “At the turn of the 20th century, Notre Dame was indistinguishable from 120-plus Catholic and college universities in the United States,” Notre Dames athletic director said. “That changed principally on Nov. 1, 1913, when a remarkable, rag-tag football team went to West Point [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by admin
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That unavoidable, annoying elephant in the room was impossible to ignore here at the annual Bowl Championship Series meetings. The news was that its gestation remains on schedule. If the Big Ten expands, SEC commish Mike Slive says his conference wont back down. (Getty Images) A new Big Ten wont be born for another 12-18 [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by admin
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