College Basketball Paul Carter, F, Minnesota to Illinois-Chicago Solid role player in his two years with the Gophers, averaging 5.8 points and 4.0 rebounds in 63 games. Transferred to Illinois-Chicago to be near his si...
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College Basketball Mick Cronin, Cincinnati He inherited a tough situation, but the numbers aren’t good for Cronin, a UC alum and former Bearcat assistant in the Bob Huggins era. In four seasons, UC is 25–45...
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College Basketball Tad Boyle, Colorado Boyle’s four-year run at Northern Colorado culminated with a 25–8 record in 2009-10 that featured a 12–4 mark in the Big Sky. UNC joined the Big Sky in ’06...
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College Basketball Perception is reality. Over the last 10 years, these eight are the nation’s biggest ... OVERACHIEVERS Boston College The Data: Boston College’s record over the past 10 years mig...
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College Basketball Teams of the WeekSouth Carolina — The Gamecocks became the first team since November 2007 to beat Alabama in a regular-season game. And the 35–21 victory was not a fluke: South Caroli...
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NFL By Charean Williams He has thrown more interceptions (41) than touchdowns (36). He has completed only 58.2 percent of his passes. He has a career passer rating of 73.7. But for everything he suppo...
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College Football Florida State (+6.5) at Miami Someday soon, this might once again be one the marquee games of the season in college football. But for now, it’s just another matchup of two solid teams hoping to...
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NFL By Ralph Vacchiano It was a risk when the St. Louis Rams drafted Sam Bradford, and they knew it. He had a surgically repaired shoulder that scared some in the NFL. It didn’t survive his collegi...
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College Football Teams of the Week Alabama — Just in case there were any doubters, Alabama made another statement Saturday night, cruising past Florida, 31–6, with alarming ease. This game was all about e...
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NFL By Charean Williams Michael Vick has been better this season. He’s also been better than good. In his career before this season, Vick had a 38–28–1 record, a 53.7 completion percen...
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College Football Florida (+7.5) at Alabama Alabama survived its first scare of the season last Saturday, rallying for an impressive 24–20 win at Arkansas. The Tide showed their championship mettle by outscoring...
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NFL By Ralph Vacchiano They were so bolstered by their success in December and January one year ago, so emboldened by the idea that they had finally gotten past their choke-filled recent history. Whe...
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College Football Teams of the Week Kansas — One week after opening up the Turner Gill era with a 6–3 loss at home to FCS foe North Dakota State, Kansas bounced back with a very impressive 28&ndas...
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NFL There were so many questions about Joe Flacco when he was coming out of the University  of Delaware in 2007. He was big and he could play. In fact, he was setting records for the Fighting Blue...
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