Miami punt snapper Chris Ivory will not play in Saturday’s Emerald Bowl because he violated an unspecified team rule. He is the fifth Hurricane suspended for the final game of the season.
Ivory did not accompany the Hurricanes to San Francisco, where Miami (7-5) will face California (8-4) on Saturday.
He also was suspended for the season-opener [...]
Posted on December 26th, 2008 by admin
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The proudest accomplishment of Pat White’s college football career is not any of the 15 NCAA, Big East and school records he set. It came before he was even on the West Virginia team.
Four months after White signed with the school in 2004, the Angels selected him in the fourth round of the baseball draft [...]
Posted on December 26th, 2008 by admin
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Florida offensive coordinator Dan Mullen will be the new football coach at Mississippi State, moving from the Southeastern Conference champions to one of the league’s perennial cellar dwellers.
Mullen arrived in Starkville on Wednesday afternoon and will be introduced at a news conference Thursday morning.
“We feel like he’s the right fit for our football program, and [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2008 by admin
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Texas defensive end Brian Orakpo won the Rotary Lombardi Award on Wednesday night, the first Longhorn to take home the trophy in 24 years.
Orakpo is the first Houston native to win the Lombardi, awarded by the city’s Rotary Club to the nation’s top college lineman or linebacker. He’s the third Texas player to win it, [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2008 by admin
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Tim Tebow will go for two against a pair of talented quarterbacks from the Big 12 when the Heisman Trophy is handed out Saturday night.
Sam Bradford from Oklahoma and Colt McCoy from Texas joined Tebow as Heisman finalists announced Wednesday.
The last time all the Heisman finalists were quarterbacks was 2001, when Nebraska’s Eric Crouch won [...]
Posted on December 11th, 2008 by admin
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Griffin breaks record for passes without pick.
Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin set a Bowl Subdivision record on Saturday for the most pass attempts to start a career without an interception by a freshman.
Griffin was 15 of 27 for 162 yards in the Bears’ 34-6 loss at Oklahoma State, extending his streak of passes without an interception [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2008 by admin
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ESPN Holtz apologizes for Hitler reference.
ESPN analyst Lou Holtz apologized on air Saturday for mentioning Adolf Hitler during a college football studio show the previous night.
The former Notre Dame coach referenced Hitler while making a point about good and bad leadership during a discussion of the struggles of first-year Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez.
“Last night while [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2008 by admin
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No 4 Sooners lose top receiver to injury.
No 4 Oklahoma lost its top receiver Saturday when Manuel Johnson went to the locker room in the first quarter of the Sooners’ game against No. 16 Kansas with an apparent injury to his left arm.
Johnson slumped over as he walked to the sideline after making a 21-yard [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2008 by admin
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Drake amassed almost 300 yards on the ground. And Pat Cashmore scored twice as the Bulldogs rolled past Campbell in a 45-0 rout.
Four Drake running backs scored in the game, though none broke the 100-yard mark. Drake coach Chris Creighton took home his first Pioneer Football League victory with the win.
“It was fun for the [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2008 by admin
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Saturday Top 25 Capsules.
(1) TEXAS 56, (12) MISSOURI 31
AUSTIN, Texas Letdown, what letdown?
Colt McCoy led top-ranked Texas to a 56-31 victory over Missouri in a Big 12 Conference blowout on Saturday.
The romp, coming on the heels of a win last week over then-No. 1 Oklahoma, solidified the Longhorns standing as the team to beat and [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2008 by admin
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