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Headlinin’: Buckeyes’ holiday recruiting roll hits a five-star high
• The rich get richer, part one. Ohio State's post-Urban rampage through the Midwest has acquired its crown jewel: A verbal commitment from Harrisburg, Pa., defensive end Noah Spence, a unanimous...
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‘Tis the season for dumb theft arrests at Florida State
Among the items included in Florida State's forthcoming gift package from the Champs Sports Bowl: A watch from the Timely Watch Co. and whatever Seminole players can grab during a $420 shopping spree...
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Matt McGloin accepts ‘full responsibility’ for locker room fight that left...
University police still haven't weighed in on the locker room scuffle that sent starting quarterback Matt McGloin to the hospital Saturday at the hands of receiver Curtis Drake, but today McGloin...
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How to keep a coaching search secret, with Rich Rodriguez and Greg Byrne
In the age of the 24-hour news cycle, athletic directors are going to great lengths to keep coaching searches quiet. Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne is no exception: From commercial travel to...
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Minnesota bids for postseason relevance by unveiling… new helmets?
Minnesota took another tumble into the Big Ten cellar this season, but a 3-9 record doesn't mean the Gophers can't attempt to stay in the spotlight during bowl season. The team just released pictures...
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Nevada still has tickets available for the Hawaii Bowl. Lots and lots of...
Nevada isn't sure how many of its fans plan to show up for the Hawaii Bowl, but if the phone sales are any indication, it's not many: As of Sunday evening, the Wolf Pack had sold just 10 tickets...
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Superlatives: The best breakout players of 2011
The best (and worst) of the season. Today: Freshmen, transfers and other newcomers who made the best of their first shot at the field. 10. OL Hroniss Grasu, Oregon. Grasu took over line calls from...
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Headlinin’: It’s NCAA D-Day for Ohio State
Making the morning rounds. • Welcome. Don't screw this up. All signs overnight point to a new coach at Southern Miss: Journeyman SEC assistant Ellis Johnson, who's expected to be announced today as...
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Justifying this week’s bowls: Kellen Moore is so money (and the scouts don’t...
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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Eric LeGrand graces Sports Illustrated’s final 2011 cover
Ever since Eric LeGrand suffered a spinal cord injury against Army last season, he's done his best to turn the negative image of his college football career ending into an inspiration for the rest of...
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Coastal Carolina fires successful head coach for millionaire banker
Coastal Carolina has found the secret to constructing a successful football program: Find a head coach with the resources to singlehandedly build new facilities, buy new uniforms, court new sponsors,...
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‘Tis the season: Two Louisiana Tech players donate bowl gifts to charity
Earlier this month, the Doc profiled the different gifts players receive for participating in a bowl game. Some of the gifts are humble — see the New Mexico Bowl's "pen with box" — and some of them...
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Ohio State takes a hit from the NCAA, but dodges the hammer
The NCAA's long-awaited verdict against Ohio State is in, and it amounts to this: The Buckeyes have been officially banned from the postseason in 2012 — bowl games are off-limits, as is the BCS...
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Today in NCAA tedium: Mark Richt’s good deed gets punished with a secondary...
This offseason, Mark Richt is going to have to take a refresher course on NCAA violations. For the second time this season, the NCAA has cracked the whip on Georgia's coach for a secondary time...
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Dwight Jones’ ’1st annual’ birthday party nixes his last game at North Carolina
As reported on Monday, the NCAA has gotten wind of the flier North Carolina receiver Dwight Jones posted on his Facebook page over the weekend — the one touting the "1st Annual Dwight Jones New Years...
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Four decades later, Norm Chow goes home again for top job in Hawaii
Norm Chow has been a big name in college football for a long time — much too big for much too long, it seems, for a guy who seemed destined to spend his entire career as an assistant. The theories have...
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Headlinin’: Washington brings the house down at Husky Stadium (literally)
Making the morning rounds. • I hope they auctioned the rights to wield the wrecking ball. Washington brought the fantasies of hundreds of West Coast quarterbacks to life Tuesday when it demolished the...
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Fabricated Rhodes scholarship boast costs Yale coach his job
Patrick Witt's Rhodes scholarship interview turned out to be the worst thing that could have happened to Yale coach Tom Williams. Williams resigned Wednesday after a university investigation into...
View ArticleVideo: Boise State RB channels MC Hammer in Las Vegas Bowl dance-off
U Can't Touch Doug Martin. Not on the field while the Boise State running back is streaming toward the end zone and certainly not in a dance-off when MC Hammer is involved. During some of the...
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Coming to grips with the two faces of Joe Paterno
Today is Joe Paterno's 85th birthday, an occasion that used to merit cheesy tributes and jokes about the lovable legend outliving us all. This year, it's another depressing reminder of a sick man...
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