| The Sunday Times - Football | | Posted Sunday, November 19, 2006 1:10:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | Of course Hoddle has a moronic world view ? he is a football coach, not Alexis de Tocqueville! He should be required only to know more about tactics and player-management than the rest of us; the rest of his antediluvian belief system we can cheerfully dismiss with a wave of the hand (or some other action of the hand, it?s up to you). We have become too sensitive, too quick to punish people who think differently from the rest of us, when their views do not matter a damn. .... | |
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| | | College Football: The Man Behind the Mask | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:11:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | Loyd Carr was talking about his mask. The Michigan football coach was in a corridor at Crisler Arena on a recent Monday, having just turned in a characteristically arid, monotone and sound-bite- free performance at his weekly press conference. Now, out in the hallway, unmoored from the lectern, he sprang to life, reenacting a moment from the previous week when he'd donned a hideous mask, sneaked up on one of his players and scared the bejesus out of him. ... To get immediate access to this complete story you must be a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED magazine subscriber. If you are not currently a subscriber, see below for a special offer. .... | |
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| | | No. 1 Ohio State, Michigan Win: College Football (Update1) | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 3:39:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Ohio State University and the University of Michigan each won road games to set up a meeting of the top two teams in the college football polls. Troy Smith threw four touchdown passes to lead Ohio State, the No. 1 team in the Bowl Championship Series rankings, to a 54-10 win at Northwestern. Steve Breaston caught a 62-yard touchdown pass and returned a punt 48 yards for a score as second-ranked Michigan won at Indiana 34-3. The Buckeyes and Wolverines are both 11-0 (7-0 Big Ten Conference) going into their meeting next week in Columbus, Ohio. The winner will claim the conference title and a spot in the BCS national championship game. The top two teams in the final BCS rankings in December will play in the title game Jan.... | |
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| | | Tragedy reduces football issues to instant insignificance | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:24:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | The unacceptable ignominy of the University of Miami football team's 5-4 record stopped mattering Tuesday night as surely as a heart stopped beating. The tenuous future of unpopular coach Larry Coker ceased to be the least bit important, at least for a little while. The injury to quarterback Kyle Wright's thumb retreated to instant insignificance. Hopefully, too, an agitated, jeering, dissatisfied Hurricanes Nation will pause and demand of itself today a moment of silence, or at least perspective, in this rancorous season. Just a moment, please? Bryan Pata died. Violently, by a bullet, inside his apartment in Kendall. He was a UM defensive tackle, a senior, down to his last few college games, before somebody took even those away. He was not a star.... | |
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| | | No. 9 UNH Football Defeated by No. 3 UMass | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 3:42:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | Steve Baylark ran for two touchdowns and Liam Coen passed for two TDs as the third-ranked University of Massachusetts football team fended off ninth-ranked University of New Hampshire to record a 28-20 Atlantic 10 victory Saturday afternoon at Cowell Stadium. UNH is 6-3 overall and 3-3 in Atlantic 10 while UMass, led defensively by Bill Knight Trophy recipient (game MVP in this annual battle) Jason Hatchell (18 tackles), improved to 8-1, 6-0. Baylark carried the ball 20 times for 89 yards and his TD runs of 38 yards (at 3:09 of the second quarter) and one yard (8:49; third) extended the Minutemens lead from 14-3 to 28-3. Coen finished the game 11 of 15 for 193 yards. Trailing 28-3 in the third quarter, the Wildcats began their comeback with a seven play, 83-yard drive that culminated with a 33-yard pass play from Ricky Santos (Bellingham, Mass.; 35-for-55, 383 yards, two TD) to David Ball (Orange, Vt.; eight catches, 107 yards) at 6:50.... | |
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| | | UH-Oregon State football game to be shown on ESPN2 | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:07:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | The University of Hawaii football game against Oregon State scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 2, will be televised nationally on ESPN2, ESPN officials announced today. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:05 p.m. at Aloha Stadium. The Warriors (6-2) are currently riding a five-game win streak and could become bowl eligible with a win at Utah State on Saturday. Oregon State (5-3) has won their last three games and is coming off a 33-31 upset against No. 3 USC last week and meet Arizona State on Saturday. The game will mark the sixth meeting between the teams. Oregon State leads the all-times series, 3-2, but the Warriors have won the last two meetings, one of which was a 23-17 win in the Jeep O'ahu Bowl in 1999, coach June Jones' first season at UH. Oregon State has 11 players with Hawaii ties on its team.... | |
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| | | Thau sub-junior football | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:44:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Imphal, October 27: GUFA, Pandon and hosts THAU won keenly contested quarter final matches of the 18th State Level Sub-Junior Football tournament 2006 at Thangmeiband today. While the Pandon side pipped MHGAU, Hatta Golapati 3-2 via the tie-breaker after both the normal and extra times ended on a goalless draw, THAU subdued PYO, Uripok with a solitary goal scored by Thangcha in the hour mark. In the GUFA versus MHGAU penalty shoot-outs, Khamsinthui, Joseph and Philip converted for the winning side with only Aligun and Ayam Ali of the former succeeding in beating the rival custodian from the spot. In the semi finals slated for October 29, GUFA will play YSUCL while THAU is pitted against LCYC. .... | |
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| | | Hutchinson's football winning streak continues | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:18:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | HUTCHINSON, Minn. One of the longest-running high school football streaks in Minnesota just got longer. Hutchinson beat Willmar 31-to-3 at Willmar in sectional quarterfinals last night. The win improved the Tigers' record to 5-and-4 and guaranteed the team another non-losing season. Hutchinson hasn't had a losing season since 1971 -- a span of 35 years. Coach Andy Rostberg says it's quite an accomplishment. He says schools sometimes struggle to put a few winning seasons together, so Hutchinson's streak is something special. Hutchinson plays undefeated Marshall in the Section 2, Class 4A semis on Saturday. Information from: Joel Niemeyer, KDUZ/KARP, http://www.kduz.com .... | |
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| | | Each Sunday, the Observer names an overall football player of the week... | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 3:12:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Each Sunday, the Observer names an overall football player of the week and top performers from the other three classifications. • East Gaston quarterback Stephen McQuage is the Observer's high school player of the week after passing for 303 yards and five touchdowns in a 49-34 victory against North Gaston. • 3A: Charlotte Catholic's Ben Herlocker ran for 232 yards and two touchdowns in a 27-13 victory against West Mecklenburg. • 2A: West Stanly's Quan Sturdivant threw for 236 yards and four touchdowns, and he ran for 63 yards and made seven tackles in a 28-6 victory against South Stanly. • 1A/Independent: Charlotte Christian's Matt Miller rushed for 208 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries in a 25-7 victory against Raleigh Ravenscroft.... | |
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| | | 7 football stadiums target of dirty bombs, Web site claims | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:12:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON - A Web site is claiming that seven National Football League stadiums will be hit with radiological dirty bombs this weekend, but the government on Wednesday expressed doubts about the threat. The warning, posted last Thursday, was part of an ongoing Internet conversation titled "New Attack on America Be Afraid." It mentioned NFL stadiums in New York, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle, Houston, Oakland and Cleveland, where games are scheduled for this weekend. The Homeland Security Department alerted authorities and stadium owners in those cities, as well as the NFL, of the Web message but said the threat was being viewed "with strong skepticism." Officials at the NCAA, which oversees college athletics, said they also had been notified. Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said there was no intelligence that indicated such an attack was imminent, and he said the alert was issued "out of an abundance of caution." "The department strongly encourages the public to continue to go about their plans, including attending events that involve large public gatherings such as football games," he said.... | |
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