The college football weekend is limited on the first Saturday in December. But here are my predictions on the top games.
Pittsburgh at West Virginia – The Mountaineers need to win to get into the BCS national title game. Pitt is…well…”pitiful”…West Virginia will win 59-14.
Missouri vs. Oklahoma – This is the Big 12 title game and [...]

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One of the worst football coaching jobs in America is at Duke University. Unlike the men’s basketball program, the Duke football team has struggled to win. They play in a small stadium and have very little fan support. They also have stringent academic standards that make it difficult to recruit the type of athletes needed [...]

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It can be a frustrating time of the year for many of the nation’s college football coaches. Heartbreaking might be a better word for it. Over the next several weeks, hundreds will be fired or displaced, and it will effect thousands of lives when you consider coaching staffs and their families.
Here are my observations on [...]

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It’s early in the college basketball season of 2007-08, but after the holiday tournaments this past weekend there are a couple of things that already stand out about the young season.
1. UCLA – The Bruins have been to two consecutive Final Fours. And Ben Howland keeps making his team better and better. He’s done an [...]

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Most of the attention this season has been on the NFL’s AFC. That was the league’s perceived strength of power with the Patriots, Colts and Steelers. But that may have changed. The Colts are banged up and have lost defensive end Dwight Freeney for the season. And the Steelers have shown some chinks [...]

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