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  • Keys To Beating College Football’s Top 10...

    Since the official preseason USA Today Coaches’ Poll is out, I’ve decided to examine each of the top 10 schools with one goal: finding chinks in their armor.
    A simple concept that has taken me a while to complete, my goal is to expose each team’s weaknesses, if they have any.
    Whether it’s [...]

  • 10 BCS-Era College Football Coaches Who Lucked...

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    It takes a lot of hard work to coach football at the college level. But what happens when the thousands of hours put in by coaches is thought to be what makes them successful rather than pure luck?
    Whether it’s being handed a team full of talent, serving in a conference that [...]

  • LeBron James’ Move To Miami Strengthens...

    Icing on the cake.
    LeBron James clearly knows he’ll never be as good as Michael Jordan. He said it by announcing he’s going to play as a member of the Miami Heat.

  • Top 10 Coaches To Replace Dan Hawkins at Colorado

    “It’s Division I football! It’s the Big 12!”
    Just about everyone remembers those classic words said in a press conference by Colorado head football coach Dan Hawkins.
    Hawkins was upset by parents sending him letters about players not having enough time to relax during the summer before having to be back in Boulder to [...]

  • College football’s most versatile running...

    With all this talk about conference expansion (or implosion) over the past two weeks, I thought I’d take some time and focus on the players rather than the universities they play for.

  • Oklahoma State Football: The 10 Greatest Cowboys...

    Oklahoma State football made a huge turnaround starting in 2001, leading to an emergence of respect on the national scene that hadn’t been felt in Stillwater since the late 1980s.
    I’ve decided to go back and look at some of the biggest players for the Cowboys in the past decade and rank who [...]

Since the official preseason USA Today Coaches’ Poll is out, I’ve decided to examine each of the top 10 schools with one goal: finding chinks in their armor.
A simple concept that has taken me a while to complete, my goal is to expose each team’s weaknesses, if they have any.
Whether it’s [...]

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I don’t really hold grudges.
If I feel a teacher screwed me over on a grade, oh well, if you and I got in a fight one time, I probably forgot about it the next day. If I dated your ex or you mine, I’m apathetic.
While these are things that would bother most folks, it doesn’t [...]

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It takes a lot of hard work to coach football at the college level. But what happens when the thousands of hours put in by coaches is thought to be what makes them successful rather than pure luck?
Whether it’s being handed a team full of talent, serving in a conference that [...]

Posted by Matt L. Stephens
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Icing on the cake.
LeBron James clearly knows he’ll never be as good as Michael Jordan. He said it by announcing he’s going to play as a member of the Miami Heat.

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“It’s Division I football! It’s the Big 12!”
Just about everyone remembers those classic words said in a press conference by Colorado head football coach Dan Hawkins.
Hawkins was upset by parents sending him letters about players not having enough time to relax during the summer before having to be back in Boulder to [...]

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With all this talk about conference expansion (or implosion) over the past two weeks, I thought I’d take some time and focus on the players rather than the universities they play for.

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Oklahoma State football made a huge turnaround starting in 2001, leading to an emergence of respect on the national scene that hadn’t been felt in Stillwater since the late 1980s.
I’ve decided to go back and look at some of the biggest players for the Cowboys in the past decade and rank who [...]

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Mascots are just another element that make college football great. Sure, the NFL has them, but do they really add anything to the professional atmosphere?
One of the best parts of college mascots is the fact that they’re generally one of two things: live animals or college students. What do those two [...]

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Tonight I get to start something special, it’s my first journalism-related internship. I’ll be working under the sports desk at the Fort Collins Coloradoan.

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To take a page out of Fall Out Boy’s manual, I decided to take a look at 10 college football players who will hit a sophomore slump in 2010 (not have a “comeback of the year”).
Keep in mind, these aren’t guys I think are going to play poorly, just not really impress [...]

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