23rd January 2009
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After more than 50 years of watching football it pains me to say it, but Alabama came to play in the 2008 BCS Sugar Bowl and Utah came to win the Sugar Bowl. Guess what happened? Utah made Alabama look like half the team it ...
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23rd January 2009
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It was a very, very long two years, but the Charlie Weis Era at Notre Dame finally arrived at the Hawaii Bowl when the Fighting Irish flew by a slower Hawaii team, 49-21, mercifully ending Notre Dame's negative, burdensome 9...
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23rd January 2009
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Senior Pat White, college football's most prolific running quarterback ever, registered the best passing day of his 4-year career Saturday (12-27-08) in leading West Virginia to a 31-30 victory over North Carolina in the Mei...
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23rd January 2009
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When on patrol in a war zone and we are suddenly ambushed and outnumbered 10-to-1 and I have my choice of any player on the Florida and Oklahoma football teams, give me Tim Tebow. Any guy who believes in God and fights to hi...
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05th January 2009
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The happiest guy at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC Saturday (12-20-08) was Wake Forest quarterback Riley Skinner, who managed the perfect comeback.
In early September Skinner had a horrific game against Navy on his home tu...
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04th January 2009
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He is apparently half-Armenian and half-Irish, 34 years old and the new head coach of the University of Washington's football team. Meet Steve Sarkisian, young, energetic, successful and excited about the opportunity to turn...
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03rd January 2009
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He would have made a great Roman soldier, the strong, disciplined, determined, unemotional type ready to go into battle. The problem at the University of Washington was that he went into battle with the responsibility of bei...
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31st December 2008
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The Florida Gators will remember their 4th game of the season when they hosted Mississippi and were upset 31-30 after winning their first 3 games. The Oklahoma Sooners will remember their 6th game when they hosted Texas and ...
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31st December 2008
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Imagine for a moment that you are the head coach at a major university and you recruit two freshmen to run on your cross-country team. You do not redshirt them because they are good enough to run on your varsity. A few month...
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31st December 2008
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Michigan State brought the best runner to the 2008 Great Lakes Regional, but Michigan brought the best team and took home the trophy, winning the meet with 72 points to Wisconsin's 80 and Michigan State's 83 for 3rd place.
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31st December 2008
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After winning the Pac 10 Cross-Country Championship with an unprecedented 1-2-3-4-5 perfect score of 15, the University of Washington's women runners ran away with the 2008 NCAA West Regional Championship with a 3-4-5-6-7 fi...
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17th December 2008
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Wisconsin's men won their 10th straight title, Minnesota's women repeated as champs but Nicole Bush of Michigan State won the individual title Sunday (11-1-08) at the Big Ten Cross-Country Championship Meet in Ann Arbor (MI)...
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03rd December 2008
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Washington State's 2008 Prep Cross-Country Championships taught the Gig Harbor High School girls' team a really disappointing lesson in knowing just how close is not close enough.
After winning 3 consecutive state titles ...
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03rd December 2008
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Northwest Christian High School is tucked between the evergreens in Lacey in an idyllic setting, but do not mistake this pleasant atmosphere for a lack of competitiveness in its cross-country runners. The Navigators arrive a...
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03rd December 2008
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It was show time on Halloween at the Springfield (OR) Country Club for the 2008 Pac 10 Conference Cross-Country Championships and the University of Washington women runners showed why the Huskies are the No. 1-ranked team in...
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