By Steve Millar For Sun-Times Media November 30, 2011 9:22PM Reprints Ryan Miles (98) and Dave Marciano (2) are two stalwarts on St. Xavier’s defense. | Supplied photo Game at a Glance What: NAIA Championship Series semifinal, No. 5 St. Xavier at No. 1 Marian University When: noon Saturday Where: St. Vincent Health Field, Indianapolis. [...]
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College Football: St. Xavier looks to overcome semifinal hurdle – Chicago Sun
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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College football: No. 22 Mountaineers eye share of Big East title vs. USF
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TAMPA — Forget a pair of disappointing losses that threatened to undermine West Virginia’s season. The 22nd-ranked Mountaineers can clinch a share of the Big East title by beating South Florida, and they’ve still got a shot at representing the league in the lucrative Bowl Championship Series, too. As far as coach Dana Holgorsen is [...]
Martz’s play-calling surprised Cutler a bit
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: nfl, odds, sports
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Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesCaleb Hanie saw some baptism by fire in his first NFL start Sunday in Oakland.Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler admitted Wednesday that he was a little surprised by how much of the offense Mike Martz threw at Caleb Hanie in his first NFL start Sunday. Hanie, who threw three interceptions and two touchdowns [...]
Column: NFL’s dirtiest’ player takes a bath
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(11-30) 01:47 PST , (AP) – Ndamukong Suh seemed like such a level-headed guy when he joined the NFL little more than a season and a half ago. Now, not so much. A few months before the 2010 NFL draft, when other top picks might have been out pricing a Bentley, Suh pledged to donate [...]
Two and out for college coaches called ‘disturbing’
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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Kansas’ Turner Gill was dropped after going 5-19. Memphis’ Larry Porter is out after a 3-21 record, and Rob Ianello’s 2-22 mark at Akron led to an early termination. “It’s a trend that’s very disturbing,” American Football Coaches Association executive director Grant Teaff says. “I took over a program (at Baylor) that wasn’t very good, [...]
College football: Any chance for replay of MSU-Wisconsin thriller?
Posted: 30th November 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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EAST LANSING, Mich. — The play helped send Michigan State to a division title and could have ruined Wisconsin’s season. With the score tied on the final snap, Kirk Cousins rolled out to his right and threw the ball deep toward the end zone. Keith Nichol made the catch after a carom and fought to [...]
The Saints: In Your Face and in Your End Zone
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When Sean Payton, the coach of the New Orleans Saints, called for an onside kick to open the second half of the Super Bowl almost two years ago, his intention was clear: he wanted to steal a possession and momentum from the Indianapolis Colts and give his own offense a short field. The play worked, [...]
Column: NFL’s dirtiest’ player takes a bath
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Presumably, he wasn’t referring to Commissioner Roger Goodell, who, in any case, had few doubts about what he saw. The commish promptly doled out a two-game suspension, taking into account his failure to get his point across to Suh despite at least one face-to-face meeting a few weeks earlier, who-knows how many previous phone conversations [...]
College Football Nation: 2011-pac12-Champ
Posted: 29th November 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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College football: Ohio State bets on Meyer not bailing again
Posted: 29th November 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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Ohio State needed to go big. Not even a home run would do. This coaching hire had to be a grand slam. Introducing: Urban Meyer … and the crowd goes wild. After a year that has produced almost nothing but bad news in Buckeyeville, Ohio State fans are celebrating the arrival of their new two-time [...]
