May 23, 2013

College Basketball: Top 25 Wednesday’s Men’s and Women’s Results

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(Shooting 36.5 percent from the field, including just 17.4 from beyond the arc, No. 6 Syracuse suffered its fourth defeat in a 66-58 loss at UConn. All four losses have come away from the Carrier Dome.) BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Cody Zeller scored 16 points and Christian Watford finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds [...]

Weekend Forecast: No. 3 Stanford makes tough trip to USC

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — With No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama taking the weekend off to prepare for next week’s showdown in Tuscaloosa, the attention of the college football world can turn west. No. 3 Stanford travels to Southern California for its first major test of the season. The Cardinal have the nation’s [...]

NCAA College Football Saturday Storylines: Bolt Gun Weekend

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(PhatzRadio / SI) — Plot threads to track in Week 8. Competitive football games are going to be few and far between this weekend, so treasure these first four. • No. 4 Wisconsin @ No. 15 Michigan State: There are so many questions here, and somehow, not knowing doesn’t bother me. This is one of [...]

NCAA College Football: Conference turmoil tears at some of college’s top rivalries

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Nebraska athletics director Tom Osborne fondly remembers college football’s 1971 version of the “Game of the Century,” when the Cornhuskers knocked off Oklahoma 35-31 on their way to the national championship. “I was an assistant, and Barry Switzer was an assistant (with OU),” Osborne recalls. The Cornhuskers-Sooners rivalry, in the [...]

Blues-Avalanche game postponed as storm wreaks havoc on sports

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(AP) — The St. Louis Blues saw plenty of snow and ice, but no Avalanche. The Blues’ game against the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night was postponed because of a storm cutting a frigid path across much of the nation. A makeup date has not been set for the NHL game, which would have been [...]

Bowl superlatives: Best, worst and a final word

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — What, no more bowls? And it seems like only yesterday they were playing the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl. Now that the college football postseason monsoon is over, some awards seem in order. Man most owed an apology from Charles Barkley: That’d be Gene Chizik, whose hiring at Auburn was questioned by many and [...]

College Football Bowl Wrap-Up 12/30/10

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Locker, Polk lead Washington, blunt Nebraska to win Holiday Bowl SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jake Locker (FSY) ended his college career with a win that has the Washington Huskies headed back to respectability. Locker bounced back from an injury he said looked worse than it was, scoring on a 25-yard run in the third quarter [...]

Weekend Forecast: Bowl predictions after an unpredictable season

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Oregon quarterback Darron Thomas is hoping to be smiling after the Ducks play Auburn in the national championship game. CAPTION By Rick Bowmer, AP The 2010 college football season has just 35 games remaining. If there is one word to describe what transpired in the past four months, unpredictable would be at the top of [...]

Weekend Forecast: Final hurdles for Oregon, Auburn

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CAPTION By Dale Zanine, US Presswire The months of endless speculation about which teams will play for the national championship will soon be over. And the outcome will be clear should Oregon and Auburn overcome their final hurdles. South Carolina gave Auburn a tough test earlier this season. Now the teams face off for the [...]

Weekend Forecast: A college football feast for Thanksgiving

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CAPTION By John Rieger, US Presswire A weekend for giving thanks for a college football feast. It is hard for anybody to be disappointed in the schedule that lies ahead for the next three days. Oklahoma running back DeMarco Murray and the Sooners hope to be celebrating their seventh consecutive defeat of Oklahoma State and [...]