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Headlinin’: This bowl season, don’t forget about Barry Sanders’ lost touchdowns
Making the morning rounds. • The truth is out there. With Wisconsin's Montee Ball closing in on the official NCAA record for touchdowns in a season, the Oklahoman's Berry Tramel has a familiar bone to...
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Oregon’s Rose Bowl uniforms may be classified as a deadly weapon
Oregon's playing in a big game, which means what it always means: New uniforms are on the way courtesy of its close, personal friends at Nike, who just unveiled the design the Ducks plan to wear for...
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Postmortem: Miami’s Golden Age gets off to a very dark start
A season in review. • The Expectations. There was little sign this summer of the goodwill that accompanied unanimous top-20 projections in 2010, and whatever there was after the flop that cost coach...
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A Sun Bowl song for Paul Johnson
Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson, right, sings a song with Henry Lopez, of Mariachi Chapala de El Paso, during the team's welcome reception on Monday at the El Paso International Airport. Georgia...
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Video: Back-to-back trips to the bag of tricks can’t get Western Michigan...
Western Michigan has been running a "Carder2White" campaign all year to highlight the connection between quarterback Alex Carder and receiver Jordan White, and that relationship made the Little...
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Superlatives: The best comebacks of 2011
The best (and worst) of the season. Today: The year's most improbable, thrilling and landscape-shifting rallies. 5. Nebraska 34, Ohio State 27. In a battle of competing "collapse" memes, was beginning...
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Headlinin’: Penn State has its man, but does Mike Munchak like the Lions back?
Making the morning rounds. • Plz check: Yes or No? Finally, someone who actually wants to succeed Joe Paterno at Penn State: Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach Tom Clements has interviewed twice for...
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LaMichael James experiences the sheer terror of Space Mountain
Look: LaMichael James is a tough dude. He's averaged more than 20 carries per game over the last three years, racking up more rushing yards than any other active player in college football and more...
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Justifying today’s bowls: Longhorns still looking for long-term answers
Bowls: There are a lot of them. Most of which seem to have been created solely to bilk taxpayer-funded universities for the sake of upselling a few hotel rooms. As a public service, we're cutting...
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LSU’s holiday heft weighs on Les Miles’ mind
Les Miles is a little worried about his team's figure. Miles gave LSU players a week off after their Dec. 3 blowout over Georgia in the SEC Championship Game, and some of them came back overweight and...
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Mike Munchak crosses himself off Penn State’s shrinking wish list
Put it however you like: Depending on who you asked in Penn State circles this week, Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Munchak was "the top pick" to replace Joe Paterno as the Nittany Lions' coach, or...
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Duck lineman summons Eagle Scout skills to save choking diner
By now, Mark Asper should be used to standing out, even among his fellow offensive linemen at Oregon: He's the biggest player on the team at 6-foot-7 and 325 pounds, the oldest player on the team at...
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Headlinin’: Air Force goes down in style
Making the morning rounds. • Going out with a bang. In third-rate December bowls, it's not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game, and Air Force and Toledo played the Military Bowl just...
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Justifying today’s bowls: Wake up the echoes in the Champs Sports Bowl. Then...
Bowls: There are a lot of them. Most of which seem to have been created solely to bilk taxpayer-funded universities for the sake of upselling a few hotel rooms. As a public service, we're cutting...
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Nine large Oregon players were trapped in one tiny hotel elevator
Oregon's trip to California for the Rose Bowl has been nothing short of an adventure — and there are still four days to go until the game. On Tuesday, the Ducks were caught on camera fearing for their...
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LaMichael James is starting to sound like a guy looking forward to his senior...
Is Oregon running back LaMichael James having second thoughts about going to the NFL? A couple weeks ago, the Oregonian cited a source inside the Oregon program as saying that James was not coming...
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The real problem with a BCS rematch (and ‘Bama-LSU, in particular)
That was ESPN doing its part this morning to stoke whatever embers remain over the controversy of Alabama's BCS Championship rematch with LSU, with a little help from a shrewdly edited quote from LSU...
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Mark Dantonio adds an angry gator to Michigan State’s bowl prep, and only one...
Michigan State is scheduled to play Georgia next Monday in the Outback Bowl, not the Gator, but that didn't stop coach Mark Dantonio from turning to a little reptilian inspiration during Thursday's...
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How will we be overhyping Florida State in 2012? Let us count the ways…
Champs Sports Bowl: Florida State 18, Notre Dame 14. Florida State just rallied from a fourth quarter deficit to defeat a recognizable opponent in a bowl game, which can only mean one thing: Eight...
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Video: Michael Floyd’s circus catch gives Notre Dame one final, frustrating...
Michael Floyd has made some amazing catches during his four seasons at Notre Dame, but the one he made in the third quarter of Thursday's 18-14 loss to Florida State in the Champs Sports Bowl was...
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