Dale Zanine-US PRESSWIRE
It’s never easy for coaches to step away from the game they love, but longtime college football coach Bill Curry will retire at the end of 2012, his twentieth season as head coach. He has an overall record of 92-118-4 over 19 seasons but his accomplishments outweigh his win-loss totals. From conference championships to Super [...]
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Mitch Stringer-US PRESSWIRE
It’s never good news when a player tears his ACL. It’s even worse news when you’re Maryland, and the player in question is your starting quarterback, and the only players behind him on the depth chart are true freshmen. C.J. Brown was gearing up for his first full season as a starter for the Terps, [...]
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Brian Losness-US PRESSWIRE
The Rant Sports 100 Teams in 100 Days College Football Preview continues with #24, the Boise State Broncos. Boise State is college football’s perennial overachiever – the team routinely racks up double-digit win seasons and conference championships but they’re always on the outside looking in during bowl season. That might change soon: the Broncos are [...]
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Scott Sewell-US PRESSWIRE
Rant Sports continues its 100 Teams in 100 Days with a preview of #25 on the list, the Kansas State Wildcats. Bill Snyder‘s run-first team is an anomaly in the pass-happy Big 12, but last year they made it work, going 10-3 and finishing second in the conference. The final record could’ve been much different, [...]
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Kelley L Cox-US PRESSWIRE
The Pac-12 has a reputation for producing top-tier quarterbacks, including Heisman winners, All-Americans, first-round (and even No. 1) draft picks, and there are lofty expectations for this year’s group. After the first week of fall practice, here’s a look at the remaining battles for some of the conference’s hottest quarterback openings. Stanford With Andrew [...]
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Derick E. Hingle-US PRESSWIRE
It’s not often that an athletic department personally calls reporters to make sure they attend a press conference, but then again, it’s not often that a national championship contender kicks an All-American Heisman finalist off the team just before the start of the football season. That’s what happened at LSU on Friday, when Coach Les [...]
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Mike Pettigano - BLACKSHOEDIARIES.COM
Penn State tight end Dakota Royer has announced he’s leaving the Nittany Lions football program, the 10th scholarship player to leave since the NCAA sanctioned the university in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. While he’s leaving the football team, Royer isn’t actually going anywhere. Rather than transferring, he’ll remain a [...]
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Josh D. Weiss-US PRESSWIRE
The ACC might be one of the premier power conferences in NCAA basketball, but it’s football season now, and Orange Bowl partnership or not, ACC football has something to prove. The conference is chock full of talent – it’s had more than 30 players taken in the NFL Draft every year for the past eight years – but its [...]
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Bob Donnan-US PRESSWIRE
The ACC might be one of the premier power conferences in NCAA basketball, but it’s football season now, and Orange Bowl partnership or not, ACC football has something to prove. The conference is chock full of talent – it’s had more than 30 players drafted into the NFL every year for the past eight years [...]
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