College Football
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Boise State belongs.
Say it again. BOISE STATE BELONGS.
Boise State proved they belong when they beat the big, bad Oklahoma Sooners, 43-42, in the Fiesta Bowl Monday night.
Boise State, a school from the Western Athletic Conference, wasn't even supposed to be in this game. If the greedy powers that run the Bowl Championship Series had their way, no school from a small conference would ever play in a BCS bowl.
Reader question for week 15
Reader question for week 15:
Should I start Jay Cutler at Arizona or Joey Harrington at Buffalo?
Reply: Hard to believe you made the playoffs with either of those guys anchoring your team, but stranger things have happened. I think I’d take a chance on Cutler against a lousy Cardinals’ pass defense, especially if your league doesn’t penalize heavily for turnovers. I’d worry about Harrington and the rest of the Miami boys in the Buffalo cold, as they don’t come away from Ralph Wilson stadium with many victories.
How about Nobody for Heisman?
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.
Opposites won't attract in L.A.: Other notes
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.
Rematch talk irks Meyer: Other SEC notes
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.
Smith unanimous pick atop Scripps Heisman Poll
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.
Hogs' Houston finally grabs hold of interceptions
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.
Ohio State back atop Matthews/S-H ratings
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.
Mountaineers' Sheffey is real dancer to the stars
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.
What might have been _ and still can be
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.
