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Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
The Illinois Fighting Illini football team isn't doing so hot. Currently, the team is 2-5 and coming off a 31-17 loss to Indiana at home. In 2011, former head coach Ron Zook's final season, the Illini were 7-6 and made a bowl game.
The current situation would put any coach on ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore's knee injury Saturday made national news not just for the cringe-worthy video but also for the outpouring of love from celebrities, professional athletes, fans and even coaches of USCe's in-state rivals.
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney's praise for Lattimore was unexpected but very nice of ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2012
I know, I know, it's such a knee-jerk thing to say, and normally this is a rhetorical device in which I would set about disproving that this is a knee-jerk thing to say. Instead, I'll just embrace it. The USC 39-36 loss to Arizona on Saturday was nothing short of ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
Back in June, the Bowl Championship Series announced it was switching formats beginning in 2014 to a seeded, four-team playoff with participating teams picked by a committee a la the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments. This was great news for everyone who hated the current BCS format and thought ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2012
As if blowing a 24 point lead to a division rival, on the road, on Monday Night Football, heading into the bye week wasn't bad enough, an equipment manager for the San Diego Chargers was allegedly caught by the game official trying to take some kind of sticky substance onto ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2012
Back in 2007, the UCLA Bruins and Oregon Ducks played what I posited at the time was the worst game ever. Many other stinkers have been played in the five years since, but Saturday's tilt between the seventh-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks and the second-ranked Florida Gators may have stolen the ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2012
Being banned from postseason play, losing scholarships, and being under NCAA investigation is bad for any football program. Getting a renowned coach to fix the program and going undefeated halfway into his first season are good things.
It would follow that things are good (or as good as they can be) ...
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