Michigan State QB Hoyer hurt against Ohio State. Michigan State quarterback Brian Hoyer didn’t start the second half against Ohio State because he took a hit on his right hand and head in Saturday’s 45-7 loss to Ohio State.
Hoyer, who returned for one series in the fourth quarter, is scheduled for a concussion test Sunday.
Hoyer [...]
Posted on October 19th, 2008 by admin
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Florida linebacker Dustin Doe will have surgery Wednesday. To repair a double hernia and miss at least two games.
Doe, a two-year starter who has 13 tackles this season, was hurt Sept. 6 against Miami. He played sparingly two weeks later at Tennessee, and the injury flared up again Saturday against Mississippi.
Coach Urban Meyer said he [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2008 by admin
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Coach Jeff Tedford reopened California quarterback competition Tuesday. Giving equal practice time to Kevin Riley and Nate Longshore this week before choosing a starter for Saturday’s game against Arizona State.
Not many teams averaging 445 yards and 43 points per game would be contemplating a quarterback change, but Tedford is wary of the Golden Bears’ (3-1, [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2008 by admin
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Louisiana Tech has lost six in a row to Boise State. And Bulldogs coach Derek Dooley would love nothing more than to end that streak Wednesday night in front of a national television audience on the No. 17 Broncos’ own blue turf.
Few places in the nation are tougher on visiting teams than Bronco Stadium, where [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2008 by admin
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Of all the hostile venues for teams to visit in the Big Ten. None has quite the rep of Wisconsin’s Camp Randall Stadium, Ohio State’s next destination.
The denizens of the 91-year-old structure have been known to pelt opposing players with batteries or even marshmallows stuffed with nickels. So while the band is rocking to the [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2008 by admin
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Georgia Tech quarterback Josh Nesbitt. Was held out of practice Tuesday with a strained right hamstring.
Freshman Jaybo Shaw, who played all but eight snaps of Georgia Tech’s 38-7 win over Mississippi State on Sept. 20 after Nesbitt was injured, could make his first start when the Yellow Jackets play Duke on Saturday.
Shaw worked with the [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2008 by admin
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Jake Locker doesn’t want to be a spectator.
Washington’s star quarterback said Tuesday he’d be willing to play a different position in the coming weeks while his broken right thumb heals, as long as it’s determined such a move would help the team and not risk additional injury.
“I’m definitely open to it. I’d rather be playing [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2008 by admin
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Southern California coach Pete Carroll was well aware of the danger. And tried his best to prevent the Trojans from being upset again in Corvallis.
Didn’t work.
The No. 9 Trojans, top-ranked and looking virtually invincible only a week ago, will try to bounce back from their stunning 27-21 loss at Oregon State when they face No. [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2008 by admin
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Washington quarterback Jake Locker will be out for up to eight weeks. After breaking his right thumb, a damaging blow for a team looking at a possible 0-5 start for the first time in 39 years.
Locker had surgery Monday to repair the fracture. He was injured throwing a block in the second quarter of a [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by admin
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Here comes No 4 Missouri, with its 54-point-per-game offense and Heisman hopeful quarterback Chase Daniel.
Nebraska coach Bo Pelini seems plenty worried.
Pelini says his team is making too many “bonehead” errors and needs to clean up its act to stick with the Tigers (4-0) on Saturday. Last week, the Cornhuskers (3-1) allowed Virginia Tech’s chugalug offense [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by admin
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