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Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
In this week's AP college basketball poll, the San Diego State Aztecs (7-1) dropped one spot from 17th to 18th despite going 2-0 during the week. You might be thinking at this point that it's because they played weak competition, and that's true. The Aztecs' two wins came over Texas ...
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
The Auburn Tiger football program has basically told the Gene Chizik era to f--k itself as the Tigers are going to announce Arkansas State head coach Gus Malzahn as their new head coach. Malzahn was offensive coordinator under Chizik for three years, including the 2010 national championship season.
Malzahn recruited quarterback ...
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
The 9-3 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs will not be going to a bowl this year. Not because they're like Ohio State, a school serving a bowl ban for various and sundry rules violations. And they're obviously bowl eligible, so what gives?
According to the Associated Press, Louisiana Tech had a bowl offer ...
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
That sound you're hearing is Les Miles stroking out from laughing at Arkansas offering him the head football coach position. According to reports, the Razorbacks are offering Miles, currently running something of a juggernaut at LSU, five years for $27.5 million, so at least they're serious in their quixotic efforts ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2012
Sometimes you wish teams would listen to sportswriters. Not so much because sportswriters are always right or even often right. Rather, because you want to see some one try out whatever crackpot idea a sportswriter threw out there in a column trying to be provocative. Case in point: this piece ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Less than a week ago, I mused about whether USC head coach Lane Kiffin's job was in trouble after their debacle at Arizona last Saturday. The loss was an ugly one that knocked the Trojans out of contention for anything but the Pac-12 title and maybe an at-large BCS berth ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2012
It turns out the Indiana-Iowa clash this Saturday might actually be a meaningful football game in several ways. Kirk Ferentz's Hawkeyes are a very mediocre 4-4 on the season, and a loss to Indiana would all but end Iowa's shot at bowl eligibility. The Hawkeyes would need to win two ...
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