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If you're in the Pensacola/Ft. Walton Beach area, set your radio dial to 98.1 The Sports Ticket . On Thursday, I'll be a guest of Adam McCloskey and Rob Brown on the "Morning Wrap." beginning at 8:20 a.m. (Central). We urge all our friends in SEC-land to check it out. If you need a guest for your show, please don't hesitate to ask. Drop an email to dawizofodds (at) aol.com.
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A day after the Newark Star-Ledger reported that
Greg Schiano had a previously unknown side agreement with
marketing group that paid him $250,000 a year , another clause was revealed in the coach's contract. Schiano will be able to break his 10-year ...
Fasten your seat belts and take Google Earth tour of stadiums in the Pacific 10 Conference. Thanks to Tom Kirkendall .
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Paul Strelow, Columbia State : Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford said it would be at least six years before there is a chance the plus-one model for the Bowl Championship Series could be implemented. Swofford indicated that negotiations on a four-year extension with Fox should be done by Christmas, thus locking in the current format through 2014. Gregg Hennigan, Cedar ...
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Up next, the giant killers of Louisiana Monroe. Who can forget the Warhawks' stunning 21-14 victory last season at Alabama. We thank Adam for sending the poster. Let's see what Mike and Mike have to say. Mike: "This is a rather ho-hum effort. I like the layout, the curved football-like area for the images provides a nice visual separation from the schedule. Other than that there is not much ...
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Move over Jimmy Hart, you've been replaced. Louisiana
State's Les Miles is strutting his stuff, taking yet
another pop at Alabama during a Tiger Tour stop in New Orleans. Miles, back in the city where his team won the Bowl Championship Series title ...
J.P. Giglio and Robbi Pickeral, Raleigh News & Observer : The Atlantic Coast Conference will adopt a standard guideline for reporting injuries during the week, resembling the weekly injury report produced by the NFL. Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman, Newark Star-Ledger : Five months after agreeing to terms that will pay him as much as $2 million annually with bonuses, Rutgers Greg Schiano ...
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Iowa Hawkeyes
The booze cruise known as Thirst and 10 continues with a stop at Scholz Garten , a place that seemingly has been around longer than Texas. History, food, booze, music. This Austin watering hole has it all. Two distinguished Longhorn bloggers have offered their opinion of the joint. First, let's hear from Henry James of Barking Carnival : "The place to be before and after a Texas Longhorn ...
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Texas Longhorns
A bitching effort from Florida State, if we may say so ourselves. Do the reviewers agree? Let's find out. Mike: "Apparently FSU is going for some post-apocalyptic theme. "There are so many things wrong with this poster. One, never use what appear to be drawings of players when you have photographs. Two, the visual tone of the poster is too dark. I kept wanting to turn on a light. Third, if ...
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The gang at Spartan Thunder went on the hunt for a San Jose State poster and found out the school is not producing one. So they took it upon themselves to produce their own . They write: "It does have a few spelling errors, and is not perfect, but at least we now have a schedule!"
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San Jose State Spartans
Southern Methodist alums are not shy about flaunting their financial success. This is the place where you'll see BMWs sporting bumper stickers that read, "My maid went to Texas." Imagine what will become of the fatcat alums if June Jones can resurrect the football program. Jones' boldest move to date has been a return to the white helmet, which is featured prominently on the poster schedule, ...
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Eleven Warriors : Former USC and current Cincinnati Bengal quarterback Carson Palmer gives his thoughts on the Ohio State-USC game : "It’s amazing to hear what those guys think about that university and what they think about that football program and Tressel and all the crap I gotta put up with being back there. I just can’t wait for two years from now when SC comes to the Shoe ... and I can ...
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Southern California Trojans
In our continuing attempt to turn readers into listeners, we're giving yet another shameless plug to a radio appearance, this time on the Writers Block with George Schroeder on 1320 The Score in Eugene/Springfield . The festivities are scheduled to begin Monday morning at around 9:15 (Pacific). You can listen live by clicking here . If you miss it, the show will be archived on Schroeder's ...
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George O'Leary can do it all. Coach football,
lie on his resume ... now he wants to
be a newspaper editor. The Central Florida coach says he's "under advisement not to have any dialogue with the Orlando Sentinel until basically some things that have ...
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Jake Trotter, Oklahoman : Salaries for assistant coaches
in the Big 12 are skyrocketing , with long-term
contracts and performance-based incentives rapidly becoming the norm. Associated charts: Ranking salaries by teams ; pay according to title ; ...
Ball State of the Mid-American Conference is next up on our tour of poster schedules. This poster was sent by Joseph, and the Wiz will be handling the review. The Cardinals take a straightforward approach to their design, with a layout resembling a Quark snap-to-grid template. OK, the color-coded schedule at the bottom is functional, the text is readable and there is a certain balance to the ...
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Ball State Cardinals
Iowa athletic director Gary Barta and coach Kirk Ferentz encouraged the victim of an alleged sexual assault last fall involving Hawkeye players to keep the matter in-house , the mother of the alleged victim told the Iowa City Press-Citizen. The mother provided the newspaper with a letter she sent to Iowa officials last fall. The letter detailed the mother's account of the events that ...
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If you're a fan of USC or UCLA, nothing beat the Fox-produced "Rewind." The shows recapped the previous week's games in a unique format using behind-the-scenes footage and radio calls to describe the action. A sample from last year's USC-Notre Dame game in South Bend is included with the post. But all good things come to an end . "FSN has reformatted and combined some of those shows ... ...
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Southern California Trojans
UCLA Bruins
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Louisiana Tech of the Western Athletic Conference has a rather striking poster, sent to us by Malcolm. Let's get to the reviews. Mike: "Another retro approach, but at least it is a consistent look. While the layout is OK, the colors are overwhelming. I felt like I needed to put on sunglasses to look at this one. The green is really, well, green and overpowers everything else. The typeface is ...
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Iliana Limon and Kyle Hightower, Orlando Sentinel : Central Florida officials say they notified Ereck Plancher that he tested positive for sickle-cell trait as part of a team physical exam and monitored his activities in workouts. But family members and friends say that Plancher never disclosed the diagnosis to them . Bob Condotta, Seattle Times : Tyrone Willingham's job status could be ...
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Schiano's Secret Deals Lead to Penn State?