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Fun-wise, national signing day is a signature event
What fun, this national signing day, colleges' version of the NFL draft. Story I'm following most closely is of the Florida mom who reportedly ran off with her kid's signing papers so he wouldn't leave home. As Dave Barry used to say, I'm not making...
Tags: Morphine (drug), Ole Miss Rebels, Alabama Crimson Tide, ESPNU (tv network), Nick Saban
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Don't discount Brandt Snedeker at Torrey Pines
LA JOLLA — On a day ideal for ducks and lawns, the most famous Commodore in pro golf kept smiling and kept his head above water. Brandt Snedeker, the pride of Vanderbilt and the defending champion in this week's Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey...
Tags: Golf, Brandt Snedeker, FedEx Cup, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods
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Chris Dufresne's look at the season's college football bowl games
ESPN's "Octomom" family of networks hopes you enjoy this year's cavalcade of commercials and center snaps as it furiously tries to secure the two games it doesn't broadcast. Conspicuously missing from the lineup is Ohio State (12-0) vs. Louisiana Tech...
Tags: Big Ten Conference, Ole Miss Rebels, Yankee Stadium, Alabama Crimson Tide, Big East Conference
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No surprise: Notre Dame vs. Alabama in BCS title game
The final Bowl Championship Series standings on Sunday produced a lot of expected news and one big surprise. Notre Dame and Alabama, in what everyone knew was just a formality, finished first and second in the final standings and will meet Jan. 7 in...
Tags: Big East Conference, Alabama Crimson Tide, Ole Miss Rebels, Big Ten Conference, Bowling Green Falcons
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Era of the dumb jock is slowly ending in college football
There is one word you've been hearing a lot lately to describe the best college football teams in the country. It is a strange word for a sport of violence. It is an odd way to describe our modern gladiators. That word is "smart." After Notre Dame's...
Tags: Andrew Luck, USC Trojans, Paul Hornung, Bowl Championship Series, Pacific-12 Conference
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College football TV lineup for Saturday
MORNING Georgia Tech (6-5) at No. 3 Georgia (10-1) 9 a.m., ESPN Kids spilled into the streets of Athens, Ga., after Stanford's win over Oregon put Georgia on a controls-its-own-destiny track to this year's national title game. But the Bulldogs...
Tags: Ole Miss Rebels, Alabama Crimson Tide, Big Ten Conference, New Mexico State Aggies, Illinois Fighting Illini
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Play it forward: Week ahead in college football
Five things to watch this week in college football. 1. Oregon at Arizona State on a Thursday didn't look like much of a game two months ago with the Sun Devils coming off a 6-7 season. First-year Coach Todd Graham, however, has Arizona State at 5-1 and...
Tags: Arizona State Sun Devils, Big 12 Conference, Collin Klein, Sports, LSU Tigers
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Saturday's college football TV lineup
Break out the chips and cold drinks, but let Chris Dufresne handle the remote. Each Friday, the Times' national college football writer handicaps what's worth watching, and skipping, on Saturday's menu of games. MORNING No. 15 Texas (4-1) vs. No. 13...
Tags: Ole Miss Rebels, Alabama Crimson Tide, Labor Day, Washington State Cougars, Oregon State Beavers
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Handicapping the season's first BCS standings
There is one problem in trying to project Sunday's first release of the Bowl Championships Series standings: That problem is Saturday. The games could substantially alter all pre-standings prognostications. There would be no huge controversies if the...
Tags: Alabama Crimson Tide, Ole Miss Rebels, LSU Tigers, USC Trojans, Bowl Championship Series
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Football: The battle of future SEC quarterbacks
Varsity Times InsiderIt's not every day that two future SEC quarterbacks meet on the same field in Southern California. That's what happened on Saturday night in Studio City, where LSU-bound Hayden Rettig of L.A. Cathedral took on Vanderbilt-bound Chad Kanoff of Harvard-... -
Law of probability may catch up to some college football unbeatens
The only thing more endangered than being Arkansas' head coach is being undefeated. Stanford found out Thursday night what others will discover Saturday. The Cardinal sin of losing at Washington leaves 26 unbeatens as the season winds toward an Agatha...
Tags: Ole Miss Rebels, Big East Conference, Alabama Crimson Tide, Big Ten Conference, Brett Favre
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Play it forward: The week ahead in college football
Five things to watch this week in college football. 1: UCLA fans need to erase that easy "W" they had penciled in for the Sept. 29 game at Colorado. What looked like a picnic at Pikes Peak should be filled with some trepidation now that UCLA is the...
Tags: Big Ten Conference, Auburn Tigers, Tennessee Volunteers, Sports, LSU Tigers
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