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College digest: City alum Fair will stay at Syracuse to play senior year
Men's college basketball City alum Fair will stay at Syracuse to play senior year Junior men's basketball forward C.J. Fair (City) announced his intention Wednesday to return to Syracuse for his senior season. The All-Big East Conference second-team...
Tags: Boston College, Washington College (Maryland), Basketball, Sports, North Carolina Tar Heels
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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: Purdue Boilermakers, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Iowa Hawkeyes, College Football, Sports
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Digest: Gavin, Gardner, Cahill, Benner sign to play for first STX team
Women's lacrosse Gavin, Gardner, Cahill, Benner sign with STX Baltimore-based lacrosse equipment maker STX announced today that it has signed nine new members to Team STX, the first-ever elite post-collegiate women's team: Grace Gavin (Loyola, St....Tags: Chicago Bulls, College Football, Basketball, Sports, Atlantic Coast Conference
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Bill O'Brien says perseverance key to Penn State's success
Bill O'Brien remembers the moment clearly. It was July 23, 2012 — five months after he was hired — and the 43-year-old O'Brien was sitting in his office watching the television. There on the screen was NCAA president Mark Emmert, somber...Tags: Michigan Wolverines, Jerry Sandusky, Johnny Manziel, Sports, Duke Blue Devils
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Bears offense neglected for far too long
There is no need for Phil Emery to be locked into hiring a head coach with an offensive background. But there is an overwhelming need for him to be locked into hiring someone who has foolproof answers on how to fix the offense. And that probably means...
Tags: George McCaskey, Jim Caldwell, George Halas, Denver Broncos, Lovie Smith
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UCF's O'Leary: NCAA boss should hold himself as accountable as head coaches
Running off at the typewriter. … Excuse me for rolling my eyes and scoffing at the utter hypocrisy of college athletics, but isn't it time for NCAA President Mark Emmert to penalize himself for failing to promote an atmosphere of compliance and...Tags: Orlando Magic, Nevin Shapiro, Sports, Executive Branch, Katie Couric
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Becahi to honor blind youth football player
Since his story appeared in The Morning Call on Sunday, Gage Dannecker has become an inspiration to many people in the local sports community. Gage is the 10-year-old Allentown boy and Muhlenberg Elementary fifth-grader who is blind, but hasn't let...Tags: Field Hockey, Urban Meyer, College Baseball, College Football, Sports
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A couple of USCs — one surprising, one not — are making noise
Handshakes and helmet stickers go out to the two schools known as USC in this week's top 10 — we could not be more thrilled for the players and their families. The USC at No. 3 lost the legal right to be called USC, so it will heretofore be...
Tags: Oregon State Beavers, Jerry Sandusky, Sports, Illinois Fighting Illini, Politics
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Penn State is no match for heavy hand of the NCAA
The NCAA's plan to cripple Penn State as it humiliates innocent players could not be working out better. The NCAA defeated Penn State, 17-16, on Saturday to improve its record to 2-0. This week, the organization embedded in the University of Virginia....
Tags: Purdue Boilermakers, Crime, Law and Justice, Mark Emmert, College Football, Sports
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O'Brien channels Belichick, Reid following Penn State loss to Ohio
Somewhere, Bill Belichick is smiling. From the day Bill O'Brien was hired in January, the Belichick protégé has said and done all the right things as in his attempt to rebuild Penn State's image and sell it to prospective recruits and the media in the...
Tags: Jerry Sandusky, Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012), Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Football
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Seven Division I college coaches headed here for Nike Coach of the Year Clinic
Over the years, Jim Tkach has had some of college football's biggest names come to the Lehigh Valley for the Nike Eastern Pennsylvania Coach of the Year Clinic. Jim Tressel, Pete Carroll, Urban Meyer and last year both Nick Saban and Bill O'Brien made...Tags: Pete Carroll, Lafayette College, College Football, Urban Meyer, Nick Saban
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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: Boise State Broncos, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Florida State Seminoles, Johnny Manziel, UCLA Bruins
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