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USC football: Lane Kiffin relinquishes coaches' poll vote
Los Angeles Times
Kiffin sent a letter to the newspaper and to Grant Teaff, executive
director of the American Football Coaches Assn., informing them of his
decision to relinquish his vote, USA Today reported. The news outlet last
week revealed Kiffin's confidential ...
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Mexico celebrating after football favorites fail
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
But it was a relatively unknown striker who never played outside of Mexico
who gave the nation one of its biggest victories in football. Oribe Peralta
scored the early goal and added another in the 75th minute at Wembley to
seal Mexico's gold. His ...
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Michigan Football: 4 Players Who Must Overachieve for Wolverines in 2012
Bleacher Report
Fresh off an 11-2 season, the Michigan Wolverines return to action in 2012
looking to make a statement. The team looks to build on last year's success
and continue its return to being a perennial contender for the national
title. Under new head coach ...
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LSU Football: 5 Tigers Who Need to Step Up After the Dismissal of Tyrann
Mathieu
Bleacher Report
Less than 24 hours after the Los Angeles Lakers pulled off a mega trade for
Dwight Howard, the college football world got rocked with huge news as
well. LSU dismissed 2011 Heisman Trophy finalist Tyrann Mathieu for
violating school and team rules.
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Top Fantasy Football Players 2012: Safest RBs with First-Round Value
Bleacher Report
The NFL is now a passing league, and nowhere has that philosophical shift
been felt more than in fantasy football drafts. According to ESPN's Live
Draft Results, just five running backs are being selected in the first
round of snake drafts (in 10-team ...
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Virginia Tech's new football helmets
Washington Post (blog)
"The Hokies will have a new look for the annual White Effect game (Austin
Peay, 9/8)," the Virginia Tech football team's official Twitter account
noted on Saturday. "What do you think?" Some liked them. Some didn't.
"Our whiteout helmets are so ugly," ...
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O'Brien ushers in new era for Penn State football
Austin News
Welcome to the new era of Penn State football. Sure, new coach Bill O'Brien
respects the traditions built up over decades in Happy Valley. But the
new-look uniforms, the relaxed grooming rules, the stretching soundtrack
— together they represent just ...
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Watch: Vanderbilt football walk-on Marc Panu surprised with scholarship by
coach
CBS News
(CBS/AP) Vanderbilt football coach James Franklin is not your conventional
guy - last year he made headlines by arriving via helicopter at high school
games to scout players. So it's perhaps no surprise that he turned a
routine team meeting into a ...
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Michigan Football: No, Denard Robinson Cannot Beat Usain Bolt in a
40-Yard ...
Bleacher Report
Denard Robinson is fast. He is very, very fast. What he does in the first
10 yards when he takes off on a scramble is utter absurdity. He's quite
possibly the fastest football player in the Big Ten. That's why it's so
dismaying that he thinks he can ...
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Arkansas Football Uniforms: Check out the Razorbacks' New Nike Pro
Combat ...
Bleacher Report
Arkansas will step away from tradition this fall with the newly unveiled
uniforms that Nike has dropped for the Razorbacks. Arkansas has unveiled an
all-black version that it will wear this coming season as well as some new
helmet designs. The ...
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