Wood elects to transfer

Redshirt freshman QB Connor Wood will depart the Longhorns program after one season.
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Wood elects to transfer

Redshirt freshman QB Connor Wood will depart the Longhorns program after one season.
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Wood elects to transfer

Redshirt freshman QB Connor Wood will depart the Longhorns program after one season.
Read On

Owumi’s Journey Escape from war

Like many ex-college players, Alex Owumi was pursuing his dream overseas. That is until a civil war began raging outside his window, prompting a wild escape from Libya to a hoops haven.

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Dwight Howard dunks on a giraffe (hoop)

Superman was challenged to dunk on this sucker during his trip to Tokyo. Granted it wasn’t a real giraffe (that would’ve been spectacular), but it was still pretty freaking big. Maybe a couple of feet taller than the regular-sized hoop behind it.
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Cory McCartney: Ten players other than Luck who can win Heisman

Stanford is not staging an elaborate Heisman Trophy campaign for quarterback Andrew Luck. And why would it? Last season’s runner-up kick-started his 2011 campaign on Jan. 7 by announcing he would forgo the NFL draft in order to return to college, saying “I am committed to earning my degree in architectural design from Stanford University.” [...]

Savard’s status, van Riemsdyk’s deal, Capital critics, Beliveau’s B-day, and more

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Eric Mack: Bold Predictions for 2011 season

Bold is scheduling your fantasy football draft during your wedding. Bold is picking a Cincinnati Bengal. Being bold is usually a function of acting foolhardy or doing something dumb.
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Cory McCartney: Ten players other than Luck who can win Heisman

Stanford is not staging an elaborate Heisman Trophy campaign for quarterback Andrew Luck. And why would it? Last season’s runner-up kick-started his 2011 campaign on Jan. 7 by announcing he would forgo the NFL draft in order to return to college, saying “I am committed to earning my degree in architectural design from Stanford University.” [...]

Frank Deford: Football’s increasing popularity encourages a 140-game MLB schedule

When baseball fell into its current schedule more than a century ago, the National Pastime owned the sporting landscape. There was no professional football, and college football was a regional enterprise in a nation where few folks even had a college alma mater to care about. In a culture still quite agricultural, the schools started [...]

Court Vision: The latest around the league

• The Goodman-Melo game on Tuesday night (highlights here) didn’t look much like a “real” basketball game, but it was still plenty entertaining, and guys worked at one-on-one defense even if there wasn’t much cohesive team defense going on, according to this recap from Andrew Sharp at SBNation:
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Stewart Mandel: Surprise team facing Week 1 statement game; more Mailbag

Among the eight million reasons the college football season is so captivating: It’s not just about whether a team wins or loses, but about what that win or loss means. In a sport where perception (by fans, by poll voters, by recruits, etc.) carries nearly as much weight as actual results, we can’t help but [...]

Tim Layden: Uceny’s background of hard work prepped her for middle distance races

DAEGU, South Korea — At some point she will feel the panic, because panic is the middle distance runner’s silent enemy, lying in wait to attack and to undo all the training, to spoil all the work. Morgan Uceny of the U.S. will be running in Thursday night’s women’s 1,500-meter final at the world track [...]

Paul Daugherty: NFL dances line of hypocrisy with personal conduct policy

Boxing gloves or kid gloves?
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What’s next for Big 12: Notre Dame? BYU? SMU?

After almost nine months of waiting, college football game action will return later this week.

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