Alabama and Texas face off for the national title next month, but that clash of the titans won’t be the only BCS game to pit undefeated teams. A Fiesta Bowl matchup between upstart programs TCU and Boise State will serve as an intriguing undercard to the Alabama-Texas battle. TCU and Boise State will square off [...]
Posts Tagged ‘NCAA’
With 5 Undefeated Teams, College Football Cries for a Playoff
Posted: 7th December 2009 by Veritas in SportsTags: bcs, college football, football, NCAA, playoff
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SMU Freshman Hits 95 Yard Goal
Posted: 24th October 2009 by Veritas in SportsTags: goal, NCAA, soccer, sport
Southern Methodist University freshman Ryan Rosenbaum still has a lot of collegiate soccer ahead of him, but he’ll be hard pressed to ever score as memorable a goal as he did Wednesday night.
Pepperdine’s Keion Bell Dunks Over 5 Teammates
Posted: 22nd October 2009 by Veritas in SportsTags: basketball, dunk, keion bell, NCAA, pepperdine
Jordan’s Son Can’t Wear Dad’s Shoes in College
Posted: 22nd October 2009 by Veritas in SportsTags: basketball, central florida, Florida, Jordan, NCAA, ucf, university
The fight over the feet of Michael Jordan’s son is not over. Last Thursday, Marcus Jordan, the Hall of Fame guard’s younger son, told the media that he’d honor the University of Central Florida’s contract with adidas by wearing all the apparel with adidas logos on it.
NCAA Report Shows Some Seminoles Read at 2nd Grade Level
Posted: 16th October 2009 by Veritas in SportsTags: bobby bowden, college, florida state, football, fsu, NCAA, reading, sanctions
After months of appeals, wrangling over public records laws and the usual backbiting between the university and the NCAA, an appellate court finally gave Florida State the go-ahead Wednesday to release a 695-page transcript of its Oct. 18, 2008 hearing before the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions,
USC’s Johnson Suffers Freak Training Accident
Posted: 29th September 2009 by Veritas in SportsTags: benchpress, football, NCAA, Sports, stafon, weightlifting
Southern California tailback Stafon Johnson had emergency throat surgery Monday after a weightlifting accident. The senior who scored the No. 7 Trojans’ go-ahead touchdown against Ohio State two weeks ago was bench-pressing when the bar slipped from his right hand and fell onto his throat.
Another Reason to Love Dick Vitale
Posted: 11th September 2009 by Veritas in Happy News, SportsTags: basketball, NCAA, vitale
Sure, he’s an annoyingly boisterous basketball analyst whose prime has probably passed. Sure, at this point, he makes college basketball a little less entertaining for me. But so what? Those are minor concerns compared to important real-world stuff, and where the important real-world stuff happens, Dick Vitale is as good a man as there is [...]
Calipari Cheats, Memphis Stripped of Final Four
Posted: 20th August 2009 by Veritas in SportsTags: basketball, calipari, kentucky, memphis, NCAA
Memphis will be forced to vacate the NCAA-record 38 victories from its Final Four season of 2007-08 under former coach John Calipari and serve three years’ probation because of NCAA rules violations, the NCAA Committee on Infractions announced Thursday.
Financial Crisis Forces Athletic Program Cuts
Posted: 15th July 2009 by Veritas in Economy | Finance, SportsTags: athlete, basketball, college, football, NCAA, program, Sports
The headlines are routine now — a baseball team cut, a track program drastically reduced — all black-ink proof that not even the perceived purity of opportunity personified in college athletics is immune to this country’s financial pinch. Like the news of any big business searching for ways to trim the fat, the headlines don’t [...]
Tar Heels Run Wild Through the Motor City
Posted: 6th April 2009 by Veritas in SportsTags: march madness, NCAA, north carolina, tar heels, tourney, unc
There was a team of destiny out there, all right. It’s the North Carolina Tar Heels, and the final chapter of their story was about as heartwarming as a demolition derby. Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson and North Carolina won a national championship a season or more in the making, stomping out Michigan State’s inspirational run [...]
Tar Heels and Spartans: Breakdown of the Championship
Posted: 6th April 2009 by Veritas in SportsTags: championship, final four, march madness, michigan st, NCAA, north carolina, spartans, tar heels, tourney
UConn and Villanova fans have most likely left Detroit, which means all those remaining title game tickets have to go somewhere, most likely to fans wearing green and white. An overwhelming number of the 72,456 in attendance should be rooting for Michigan State — and the Spartans may need every bit of that hometown crowd [...]