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Football recruiting | Oak Park's Sykes can't wait to get back; Florida offers Treadwell
One of the state's top underclassmen will have to wait to start his season. Oak Park junior defensive end Nile Sykes (6-foot-3, 225 pounds) suffered a leg injury during a preseason practice and expects to miss at least three to four weeks. "It's a...
Tags: Football, Sports, Miami RedHawks, University of Mississippi
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Edgy Tim's football recruiting notes | Top prospects visit Ohio State
Ohio State played host to several top prospects from the Class of 2014 on Saturday for the Buckeyes' 26-21 victory against Michigan. The unofficial visit list of Illinois prospects included De La Salle OT Jamarco Jones and RB Mikale Wilbon, Plainfield...
Tags: Ohio State Buckeyes, Western Michigan Broncos, Football, Sports, Kent State Golden Flashes
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Ignore the haters: NIU belongs in BCS
Of all the insulting misconceptions spread since Northern Illinois qualified for the Orange Bowl, the most uninformed suggests the Huskies will use the unfair opinions of the Kirk Herbstreits of the college football world for motivation. None needed. To...
Tags: Bowl Championship Series, College Sports, West Virginia Mountaineers, Politics, Mid-American Conference
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Sound familiar? Against top defense, NIU too predictable
Maybe I watched and analyzed too many predictable Bears offensive efforts this season, but Tuesday night's ineffective Northern Illinois drill in the Orange Bowl certainly merged those two entities into the same conversation. Jordan Lynch would run...
Tags: Florida State Seminoles, Orange Bowl, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Football, Sports
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Edgy's football blog | Being wrong is all right
I was thinking about a blog Mike Helfgot wrote a while back about how ranking players is an inexact science. He used rankings from Rivals.com, my employer, to make the point that some players are missed, some are ranked too high and others are under the...
Tags: Central Michigan Chippewas, National Football League, Football, Mid-American Conference, Sports
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Believe it or not, Hoosiers have shot at Big Ten title
Every football fan in Bloomington, Ind. — there actually are some — will tell you Saturday's Wisconsin-Indiana game is huge. With Ohio State and Penn State ineligible and Illinois and Purdue hopeless, either the Badgers or Hoosiers will play...
Tags: Rose Bowl Game, Michigan State Spartans, College Sports, Bill O'Brien, College Football
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Football recruiting notes | NIU lands another from Aurora Christian
Northern Illinois recently added its third oral commitment from defending Class 3A state champion Aurora Christian when running back Joel Bouagnon picked the Huskies. "NIU really has an offense that is based around the running game, and they use the...
Tags: Purdue Boilermakers, Football, Sports, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Big Ten Conference
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The love (and hate) of Northern Illinois in Orange
MIAMI GARDENS — You know who, for much of Tuesday night, also looked like they wished Northern Illinois hadn't been sent to the Orange Bowl by some mystifying computer calculation? Florida State, that's who. It struggled mightily in the game it...Tags: Florida State Seminoles, Orange Bowl, Bowl Championship Series, ESPN (tv network), College Sports
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Star college coaches Nick Saban, Chip Kelly next candidates to jump to NFL
When Chris Ault, the legendary Nevada football coach announced his retirement this week, it ended a career that spanned 28 seasons with the Wolf Pack. It was also the 27th head coaching change that we've seen in college football this offseason. With...
Tags: Arizona State Sun Devils, Syracuse Orange, Western Athletic Conference, College Sports, Oregon Ducks
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Chris Dufresne's top 10 college football moments for 2012 season
The end of this season means there's only a year left of the snaggle-toothed Bowl Championship Series, a cartel dreamed up by Satan that has been infuriating college football fans since 1998. We can't wait for the new four-team playoff starting in 2014...
Tags: Bowl Championship Series, Stanford Cardinal, Rose Bowl Game, College Sports, Oregon Ducks
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As usual, SEC claims ownership of BCS
ATLANTA -- No one down here in Southeastern Conference country was surprised Sunday when the final Bowl Championship Series standings confirmed Alabama would be playing Jan. 7 for the national title. The surprise is why the SEC isn't playing the SEC...
Tags: Bowl Championship Series, Rose Bowl Game, Stanford Cardinal, College Sports, Oregon Ducks
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At very least, NIU can dream big
Many people all over the Midwest flocked to gas stations and convenience stores this week for a long shot chance at prosperity. Mid-American Conference Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher drove to Detroit dreaming of the same thing. "First and foremost the...
Tags: Bowl Championship Series, College Sports, South Florida Bulls, Ford Field, Mid-American Conference
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