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Baylor and Washington break the throttle in the most offensive game in bowl...
Alamo Bowl: Baylor 67, Washington 56. If Thursday night was Robert Griffin III's final college game, he's going out in style. The Heisman Trophy winner said after the fireworks show in San Antonio...
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Headlinin’: Miami ponies up to keep players’ Shapiro stories off the record
Making the morning rounds. • We won't be seeing you in court. Dozens of former Miami players accused of accepting untold thousands in cash and prizes from ex-'Cane booster turned convicted...
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Justifying today’s bowls: College football’s latest Bronx tale
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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Wisconsin contrasts Oregon flash with subtle, classy Rose Bowl motif
After Oregon released its typically ostentatious Rose Bowl uniforms earlier this week, Wisconsin had to have some trepidation about its bowl game duds. But when the Badgers finally unveiled their...
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Illinois is still on for its bowl game. It just may not have a coaching staff.
The Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl is supposed to be an occasion for genuine human uplift: For each ticket sold, bowl organizers donate meals to three food charities in San Francisco, and the game itself is a...
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DeAnthony Arnett can move home for his sick dad, but only on Tennessee’s terms
After Tennessee's season-ending loss to Kentucky — the Vols' first loss in the series in 26 years, clinching their second consecutive losing season — Derek Dooley's honeymoon in Knoxville is...
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Red Alert: Riley Nelson lulls Tulsa to sleep for BYU’s game-winner
If there was still any doubt that Riley Nelson is the right man to quarterback BYU, he answered the skeptics Friday by breaking out his best Dan Marino impression on the Cougars' final play of the...
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BYU and Tulsa get into the Armed Forces spirit with camo helmets
If you missed the Armed Forces Bowl — and shame on you if you did because it had a great ending — you missed BYU and Tulsa paying homage to the armed forces by turning parts of their helmets...
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Inevitably, a top recruit has promised to pick his school from a hat
USC. Notre Dame. One of the most prestigious rivalries in sports, spanning 22 national championships, 14 Heisman Trophy winners and nine Hall-of-Fame coaches over more than eight decades. Two wealthy,...
View ArticleVideo: Mike Gundy takes on a mechanical bull and lives to tell the tale
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy has made YouTube for a variety of reasons - a classic rant against a reporter, a not-so-classic attempt at break-dancing - and for the next couple days he'll be famous...
View ArticleVideo: Marvin McNutt narrowly escapes ESPN’s skycam attack
ESPN's skycam went on the offensive Friday night, snapping from its cables, crashing to the field and nearly taking out Iowa receiver Marvin McNutt in the waning minutes of the Insight Bowl. It was...
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Justifying today’s bowls: Mediocrity on the dock of the bay
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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Washington ditches its defensive coaching staff in post-Alamo purge
Coaches don't get the axe over a single game, so it's worth pointing out that Washington's decision to fire its entire defensive coaching staff today isn't exactly sudden: The Huskies finish the year...
View ArticleHappy New Year from the Fighting (and Singing and Dancing) Illini
The day before Illinois defeated UCLA 20-14 in Saturday's Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, the Illini took some time away from dealing with their disgruntled coaches to concentrate on someone other than...
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New Year’s Morning Quarterback: Cowboys, Cardinal take one last look from the...
A primer for Monday's big games. GAME OF THE CENTURY OF THE DAY Fiesta Bowl: OKLAHOMA STATE (-3½) vs. STANFORD • 8:30 pm ET, ESPN. What's at stake: As consolation games go, you could do a lot worse:...
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Headlinin’: Penn State douses another post-Paterno dance partner
Making the morning rounds. • Not so fast, my anonymously sourced friends. Penn State spent the first day of 2012 pushing back against reports by ESPN and USA Today that it had zeroed in on New England...
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Oregon has won big. Now, it’s about winning the big one.
Believe it or not, there are still people out there — trust me, there are — who insist on calling Oregon's prolific spread-option attack a "gimmick offense." Which at this point is kind of like...
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Bowl Roll Call, Round One: Kenny Bell takes Most Valuable Hair
The best of the all-day bowl-a-thon. 1. Kenny Bell's 'fro. In a suit and tie or on the sideline, Nebraska's leading receiver keeps it fresh. He was rewarded by the ghost of Brian Jackson's 'fro circa...
View ArticleAlshon Jeffery shows up to answer Gamecocks’ Hail Mary prayer, then gets tossed
Given the preseason hype, it's been a relatively quiet year for freakish South Carolina receiver Alshon Jeffery: Coming into today's Capital One Bowl tilt with Nebraska, his junior campaign had...
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Houston squeezes every last drop from Case Keenum’s arm in farewell win over...
Ticket City Bowl: Houston 30, Penn State 14. When the TicketCity Bowl was over, Case Keenum climbed through the stands and played conductor, leading the band in the school song. It was the encore...
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