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Big East Week 4 Preview and Predictions
College Football Big East teams passed three key nonconference tests a week ago even if Louisville had to survive a scare against North Carolina. In addition the Cardinals’ victory over the Tar Heels, Connecticut...
34 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Big East, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls, USF Bulls

College Basketball Countdown: No. 18 Memphis Preview
College Basketball Visit the online store for Memphis and other editions of the 2012-13 Athlon Sports College Basketball annual. The first practices of college basketbal...
34 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Conference USA, Memphis Tigers

College Basketball Countdown: No. 19 Notre Dame preview
College Basketball Visit the online store for Notre Dame and other editions of the 2012-13 Athlon Sports College Basketball annual. The first practices of college basket...
34 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Big East, Notre Dame Fighting Irish

College Football: BCS Crasher Stock Report Post-Week 3
College Football Fans who squirm at the long wait from Saturday college football to the Thursday night game will get a brief reprieve. The traditional midweek MAC game will make its first appearance of the sea...
34 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Sun Belt, WAC, BYU Cougars, Fresno State Bulldogs, Houston Cougars, Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Ohio Bobcats, Southern Miss Golden Eagles

2012-13 college basketball countdown preview: No. 20 Florida
College Basketball Visit the online store for Florida and other editions of the 2012-13 Athlon Sports College Basketball annual. The first practices of college basketbal...
35 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, News, SEC, Florida Gators

Big East Post-Week 3 Power Rankings
College Football The Big East is three weeks away from its conference season beginning in earnest, but the league is already starting to sort out its contenders. A week after Cincinnati dismantled Pittsburgh in the...
35 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls, USF Bulls

College Football Week 3 Recap: Three and Out
College Football The day in college football Saturday began with an upset no one saw coming when Pittsburgh, a team that looked like a mess against Youngstown State and Cincinnati, was dominant on both sides of the...
35 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, Arkansas Razorbacks, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Ohio State Buckeyes, USC Trojans, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers

College Football Award Watch: Post-Week 2
College Football The Heisman Trophy isn’t the only award worth watching on a weekly basis. The Lombardi, Outland, Davey O’Brien and Biletnikoff races are all worth watching and debating as the season goes along...
35 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, BYU Cougars, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tigers, Mississippi State Bulldogs, UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans

Jim Calhoun's legacy: His best teams, players and moments
College Basketball Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun retired Thursday, leaving behind a Hall of Fame legacy. In the 19 seasons before Calhoun was hired in 1986, Connecticut reached the NCAA Tournament twice under three c...
35 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, Big East, Connecticut Huskies

Jim Calhoun retirement: What's next for UConn?
College Basketball Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun announced his retirement Thursday after winning 873 games with the Huskies and Northwestern. Before Calhoun took over in Storrs, UConn never had produced a first-round...
35 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, News, Big East, Connecticut Huskies

Big East Week 3 Preview and Predictions
College Football The Big East’s first Thursday night primetime game was a dud. Or, rather, a dud for everyone but Cincinnati. This week could present more compelling television with two of the league’s top cont...
35 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Syracuse Orange, USF Bulls

College basketball: Assessing Notre Dame's move to the ACC
College Basketball The ACC basketball tournament soon could feature games such as Syracuse-Pittsburgh, and now Notre Dame-Miami. It will be a strange sight in Greensboro, N.C., but Notre Dame’s announcement it...
35 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, ACC, Big East, Notre Dame Fighting Irish

College Football: BCS Crasher Stock Report
College Football Last week’s BCS crashers probably won’t make a run at a major bowl game this season, but two of them crashed the expectations for power-conference teams. Louisiana-Monroe scored a rare Sun...
35 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Conference USA, Independents, MAC, Mountain West, Sun Belt, WAC, Arkansas State Red Wolves, BYU Cougars, Colorado State Rams, Eastern Michigan Eagles, Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks, Nevada Wolf Pack, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Ohio Bobcats, Rice Owls, Toledo Rockets, Utah State Aggies

College Basketball's Most Underrated: The All-Overlooked Team
College Basketball With roughly 340 teams in Division I basketball, some players are bound to fall through the cracks. We’d like to do our part to rectify that by highlighting some of the key players you may h...
36 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, News, Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Ten, Missouri Valley, Pac-12, SEC, Arkansas Razorbacks, Colraod Buffaloes, DePaul Blue Demons, Evansville Purple Aces, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Ole Miss Rebels, Penn State Nittany Lions, St. Joseph's Redhawks, UMass Minutemen, Washington State Cougars

2012 Heisman Trophy Voting: Post-Week 2
College Football Each week, the Athlon editors vote on the most prestigious award in all of college football. An eight-man conglomerate of college football gurus from Athlon Sports voted this week for their top Hei...
36 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Clemson Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, Kansas State Wildcats, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oregon Ducks, South Carolina Gamecocks, UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans, West Virginia Mountaineers

Big East Post-Week 2 Power Rankings
College Football After two weeks of the season, Louisville still looks like the team to beat in the Big East, but the Cardinals are not without company. The top four in our power rankings remain unchanged sinc...
36 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls, USF Bulls

College Football Week 2 Recap: Three and Out
College Football The first week of the season vaulted Alabama to the No. 1 spot in the polls (much to Nick Saban’s disappointment) while at the same time knocking Michigan down a few pegs. Beyond those two t...
36 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Sun Belt, Arizona State Sun Devils, Arizona Wildcats, Arkansas Razorbacks, Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, Kansas State Wildcats, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Missouri Tigers, Texas A&M Aggies, UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans

College Football Award Watch: Post-Week 1
College Football Why should the Heisman Trophy have all the fun? Unfair to award contenders or not, the Heisman Trophy is the only major sports award where the favorites are decided almost as soon as the previ...
36 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, ACC, Big 12, Pac-12, SEC, WAC, Alabama Crimson Tide, BYU Cougars, Clemson Tigers, Iowa State Cyclones, Miami Hurricanes, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, USC Trojans, West Virginia Mountaineers

Big East Week 2 Preview and Predictions
College Football The first week of the season was probably more eventful than Big East teams would have liked. Pittsburgh lost convincingly to Youngstown State. Syracuse squandered a four-touchdown comeback at home...
36 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls, USF Bulls

College Football: BCS Crasher Stock Report
College Football Ohio quarterback Tyler Tettleton passed for 324 yards and two touchdowns against Penn State on Saturday. Although last season marked the first time s...
36 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Sun Belt, Boise State Broncos, BYU Cougars, FIU Golden Panthers, Houston Cougars, Nevada Wolf Pack, Ohio Bobcats, Southern Miss Golden Eagles

Big East Post-Week 1 Power Rankings
College Football The Big East may have a degree of smug satisfaction in watching Pittsburgh and Syracuse struggle in their final season in the league before bolting for the ACC. Certainly, the feeling is warra...
37 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Big East, Cincinnati Bearcats, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls, USF Bulls

College Football Week 1 Recap: Three and Out
College Football The names and faces change, but sometimes the results don’t. At least that’s what people in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Eugene, Ore., learned after the first weekend of college football. Alabama...
37 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, News, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC, Alabama Crimson Tide, Clemson Tigers, Florida Gators, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines, Ohio Bobcats, Oklahoma Sooners, Penn State Nittany Lions

Best and Worst Offseason College Football Videos
Overtime Viral video kept us busy during the offseason, from the creative, to the intentionally quirky to the unintentionally hilarious. Conference realignment and "Call Me Maybe" parodies entertained us si...
37 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, Overtime, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, Missouri Tigers, Oregon Ducks, Texas A&M Aggies

Big East Week 1 Preview and Predictions
College Football West Virginia’s out. Temple’s in. The Big East’s constant state of transition begins again this season with more changes to come in 2013. Just as this round of Big East realignment begin...
37 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Football, News, Big East, Connecticut Huskies, Louisville Cardinals, Pittsburgh Panthers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Syracuse Orange, Temple Owls, USF Bulls

College Basketball Sleepers: 10 teams that could return to the NCAA Tourney
College Basketball In 2012, 30 of 68 teams in the NCAA Tournament field missed out a bid a season earlier. The tally included eight from the six major conferences, including returns to prominence for Indiana and...
38 weeks ago by David Fox Tags: College Basketball, News, ACC, Atlantic 10, Big 12, Big Ten, Colonial Athletic Association, Conference USA, Pac-12, SEC, Arkansas Razorbacks, Delaware Blue Hens, Iowa Hawkeyes, Marshall Thundering Herd, Miami Hurricanes, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Tennessee Volunteers, UMass Minutemen

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