Enlarge Steve Dykes/Getty Images Quarterback Darron Thomas of the Oregon Ducks (right) threw for 30 touchdowns with only 6 interceptions this season. The Ducks beat UCLA in the Pac-12 Championship to earn a spot in the Rose Bowl, where they’ll face Wisconsin. Steve Dykes/Getty Images Quarterback Darron Thomas of the Oregon Ducks (right) threw for [...]
Archive for December, 2011
College Football Bowl Preview:Compelling Matchups, Dead Ahead
Posted: 31st December 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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College football: Baylor wins Alamo shootout
Posted: 31st December 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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SAN ANTONIO — If that really was Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III’s final college game, what an incredible way to go out. Just ask him. “We went out in style!” Griffin shouted to his teammates. It was amazing the Baylor quarterback had any breath left at all. Not after a record-shattering Alamo Bowl that [...]
Emlen Tunnell: A Largely Unknown NFL Great
Posted: 31st December 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: nfl, odds, sports
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Copyright © 2011 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Fifty years ago, Emlen Tunnell played his last pro-football game. He helped the Green Bay Packers defeat his former team, the New York Giants, 37-to-nothing. Tunnell was the first black player [...]
AP: Chiefs sign kicker Ryan Succop to 5-year extension
Posted: 31st December 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: nfl, odds, sports
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The 256th and final pick of the 2009 draft has signed a $14 million, five-year contract extension with Kansas City, a person with knowledge of the deal said late Friday. ESPN.com, citing anonymous sources, first reported the extension. MORE: Chiefs can spoil season of Tebow, Broncos MORE: USA TODAY NFL staff picks Week 17 games [...]
A college football playoff system? Forget it
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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Editor’s note: Terence Moore is a sports columnist of more than three decades. He has worked for the Cincinnati Enquirer, the San Francisco Examiner, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and AOL Sports. Follow him on Twitter. (CNN) — When it comes to the horror of bringing a playoff system to the big boys of college football, there [...]
Would Colleges Be Better Off Without Football?
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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Everything we think we know about college football’s impact on students’ grades, graduation rates, rankings, and school finances adds up to this: Football might be bad for some colleges Reuters When college football’s final bowl games are played in the coming weeks, they’ll be a coda to a season defined by scandal. There was the [...]
NFL MVP: Brady, Rodgers or Brees
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: nfl, odds, sports
The consensus top-three candidates for Most Valuable Player are three of the finest passers of the modern era. All have enjoyed signature seasons that leave them deserving of the coveted status —Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers; Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints; and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. That dynamic [...]
NFL Picks, Week 17: A foot in Rex Ryan’s mouth
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: nfl, odds, sports
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’Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the place, Rex Ryan was getting in everyone’s face. If you wanted a sense of Christmas in the NFL, it was the league’s jolliest fat man trying to antagonize his opponents in ways that ninth-graders would find impressive, followed by a loss and an opposing player telling [...]
2011: College sports’ most scandalous year?
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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(CNN) — It was the year of college sports scandals — and it was only August. In the summer, scandals rocked Ohio State, Miami and about a dozen other colleges. At the time, the rash of alleged wrongdoing had one famous sports analyst calling 2011 the most tumultuous one in the history of collegiate sports. [...]
College football notes: Miami is paying back $83K
Posted: 30th December 2011 by Whats the odds in Sports BlogTags: NCAA, nfl, odds, sports
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The University of Miami is giving back $83,000 it says it received “directly and indirectly” from Nevin Shapiro, the former Hurricanes booster and convicted Ponzi scheme architect whose claims of giving athletes and recruits extra benefits for nearly a decade sparked an NCAA investigation. Court records show the agreement between the school and bankruptcy [...]
