Category: Sport
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It’s Monday, January 5, 2009. You’re probably sitting at your desk right now. Welcome back. The holidays are over and odds are you’re reflecting fondly on the food, the family gatherings, and, of course, the football. In order to brighten your day in the office, here’s a look at some of the pageantry from the…
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Posted by ESPN.com’s Ted Miller Peering into the Pac-10 crystal ball for 2009. 1. Better quarterback play, better conference: If Mark Sanchez elects to return at USC — a big if — the Pac-10 will welcome back eight starting quarterbacks. Experience at the position is important anywhere, but in the Pac-10, where offenses are far…
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Here’s more detail on Nick Holt’s interview with Washington including the important answer as to why he would entertain the offer in the first place.
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Nick Holt is flying to Seattle tomorrow to decide if he wants to accept the defensive coordinator’s job at Washington. And it means he lied Saturday when he said he was not interested in the position. “We’re talking,” Washington coach Steve Sarkisian said. “It’s not done. Hopefully we’ll know one way or the other pretty…
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Texas Tech’s Graham Harrell has thrown more touchdown passes than anyone in major college history.
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Former USC swimmer Roy Saari, a gold medalist at the 1964 Olympics, died this week. He was 63. The official release is after the jump. LOS ANGELES-Roy Saari, a former world record-holding swimmer who won a gold medal at the 1964 Olympics and captured 9 NCAA individual titles at USC, died Tuesday (Dec. 30) in…
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by Brian GrummellSay this much for the final Cotton Bowl at Cotton Bowl Stadium, it was lively. A boisterous 88,000 fans set an attendance record at the aging facility to witness a resurgent Ole Miss steadily dismantle Graham Harrell, Michael Crabtree and Texas Tech 47 to 34. Texas Tech had a magnificent season, one of…
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Dwight Lewis tied a career-high with 26 points for the Trojans. Dwight Lewis tied a career-high with 26 points, true-freshman DeMar DeRozan had 14 points and 12 rebounds and USC defeated Oregon, 83-62, in the Pac-10 Conference opener for both schools Friday.
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Freshman Terrelle Pryor is the starting quarterback for Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. Yet he isn’t talking, at least for now. The Buckeyes did not bring Pryor to the Fiesta Bowl media day on Friday, snubbing bowl officials who had hoped that Ohio State and Texas would make their starters available ahead of Monday…
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by Brian GrummellFormer Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron, most recently a defensive line coach with the New Orleans Saints, has accepted a position on Lane Kiffin’s staff at Tennessee. He had mulled competing offers from LSU and Tennessee, both with big money dangled in front of him. The LSU offer was reportedly worth $500k,…