College Football

By JOHN CRUMPACKER
Friday, November 24, 2006
With the college football season rounding third and heading for home _ to use a misplaced metaphor _ it's time to reveal my choice for the 2006 Heisman Trophy, the most overblown award in all of sports.

By B.G. BROOKS
Friday, November 24, 2006
Pete Carroll and Charlie Weis aren't close enough _ and likely never will be _ to be The Odd Couple.

Carroll, Southern California's coach, likes pickup hoops and boogie boarding.

By RON HIGGINSTuesday, November 21, 2006Give Florida coach Urban Meyer a place in line, next to Southern Cal's Pete Carroll, Notre Dame's Charlie Weis and Arkansas's Houston Nutt. They all hope that the Bowl Championship Series doesn't re-match current No.

ByTuesday, November 21, 2006Unless something unbelievable happens, Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith has reduced the race for the Heisman Trophy to a mere formality.With his terrific four-touchdown pass performance in Saturday's 42-39 win over No.

By RON HIGGINSTuesday, November 21, 2006Finally, 30 games into his college career, a football floated into Arkansas junior cornerback Chris Houston's hands ... and it stuck. Mississippi State quarterback Michael Henig didn't see Houston, one of the Southeastern Conference's best cover corners, and Houston collected his first interception on Saturday wearing a Razorback uniform.

By HERMAN MATTHEWS
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Its perfect season capped by Saturday's epic 42-39 win over rival Michigan, Ohio State is atop this week's Matthews/Scripps Howard computer power rankings.

The Buckeyes (12-0) now will await just who they will face in the BCS national championship game Jan.

By CHUCK FINDER
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Before he was a brute about to be named all-Big East guard, he was once Mr. Dance Kentucky.

Before he was a 295-pound, tribal-tattooed hulk bashing into giant, sweaty linemen from around the Big East, he was gracefully elevating tutued girls in Coppelia, Swan Lake and a Midwest Christmas tour.

Before he navigated West Virginia woods seeking fish and deer for his trophy wall, he was a man in tights.

OK, so that last part is an exaggeration.

In his former life as an artiste, a danseur and national star on the teen-age dance stage, manly Mountaineers right guard Jeremy Sheffey steadfastly refused to perform in a leotard.

Blame it on the grand jete.

His first few attempts at that ballet leap as a high-schooler from Catlettsburg, Ky., dance instructor Yvonne DeKay Sinnott recalled, "he would always rip his pants.

By JAKE CURTIS
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
We have reached the stage when college football teams start lamenting the details that ended up costing them dearly. So we devote all four of our R's this week to Regrets.

Regret I: West Virginia laments Rutgers' loss to Cincinnati, which hurt West Virginia more than it did Rutgers.