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NCAA Approves Slate Of Bowl Games
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)—The NCAA has approved 35 bowl games for the next four years, including two new ones: the Dallas Football Classic and the New Era Pinstripe Bowl in New York. The NCAA said Friday that the bowls were licensed on a four-year cycle for the first time, though they will be reviewed each year. The move puts the licensing [...]
ESPN Selects Six Big Ten College Football Telecasts For 2010 Season
ESPN has selected six of its 2010 Big Ten Conference college football games for Saturday telecasts on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2, highlighted by three matchups between teams ranked in the College Football Live Top 25. Additional games will be announced in the coming months. Defending Big Ten Conference champion No. 2 Ohio State -- coming off an 11-2 [...]
USC Opens Spring Practices Under Kiffin
LOS ANGELES -- Although Lane Kiffin's first spring practice at Southern California stretched nearly three hours until dusk, it wasn't because of the usual exuberance and horseplay in the Trojans' workouts over the past nine years. The new coach says his practices will be more work and less fun than the Trojans remember from Pete Carroll's [...]
Notre Dame Opens Spring Practice
SOUTH BEND, Ind -- "Hurry up!" "Too slow!" "Go!" Tempo was the theme on the opening afternoon of spring practice at Notre Dame, where new head coach Brian Kelly is determined to accelerate the pace from dial-up to DSL. "It starts with understanding pace," Kelly said Friday during a noon press conference, three hours before the Fighting [...]
FIU Football Player Stabbed To Death On Campus
FIU running back Kendall Berry was stabbed to death in an on-campus incident late Thursday night, immediately sending shock and grief across the university community and putting police on a search for multiple suspects. Berry, 22, was stabbed around 9 p.m., said Miami-Dade police Det. Javier Baez. Police were interviewing “several people that [...]
Ohio State Adds Two Years To Tressel’s Contract
COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) Ohio State has added two more years to Jim Tressel's contract. The Buckeyes football coach had his original contract, signed in 2008, extended through the 2014 season. Tressel, who is 94-21 in his nine years in Columbus, makes around $3.5 million a year, depending on incentives and additions. Athletic director Gene [...]
Leavitt Sues USF Over Firing
TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—Former University of South Florida football coach Jim Leavitt has sued the university over his firing. Leavitt, who was fired in January over claims that he grabbed and player by the throat and struck him in the face, filed the complaint Monday against the USF board of trustees and athletic foundation. Leavitt denied the [...]
Oregon Running Back Sentenced To 10 Days In Jail
EUGENE, Ore. (AP)—Oregon running back LaMichael James has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor harassment charge and has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for an altercation with a woman outside his apartment last month. James, who appeared in Lane County Circuit Court on Friday morning, will then spend 24 months on probation as part of the plea [...]
Oregon Ducks QB Charged For Frat House Theft
Oregon Ducks starting quarterback Jeremiah Masoli -- one of the top college players in the country in 2009 -- has been charged with one count of burglary for allegedly jacking several items from a campus frat house. Masoli and wide receiver Garrett Embry reportedly stole a computer, a digital projector and a guitar out of the SAE frathouse [...]
Alabama Schedules Celebratory Visit To White House
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- The national champion Alabama football team's visit to the White House is set. The Crimson Tide will leave Monday morning for Washington, D.C. The team will spend time with area youth as part of a service project during the visit and then meet President Obama. The Tide is also scheduled to make stops at the U.S. [...]
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The Renegade Report – Spring Practice Defensive Strategy
The Renegade Report - Spring Practice Offensive Strategy
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