Author: Ralph D. Russo
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Clemson wins national championship in thrilling sequel
TAMPA, Fla. — College football’s first national championship rematch was fitting sequel to the original, with an unusual twist at the end. Deshaun Watson and Clemson dethroned the champs and became the first team to beat Nick Saban’s Alabama dynasty in a national title game, taking down the top-ranked Crimson Tide 35-31 Monday night in…
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AP TOP 25 HEAT CHECK: Balancing body of work and improvement
Over the course of the season, some teams get better and others get worse, but voters in The Associated Press college football poll also rank teams on their full body of work. The result is a best resume or best team debate that can get complicated — as the College Football Playoff selection committee can…
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Colorado moves up in Top 25 football poll
There are five unbeaten teams left in FBS, four from Power Five conferences, and they could all conceivably run the table and reach the postseason that way. That has made life fairly easy on the AP Top 25 voters and no doubt is doing the same for the College Football Playoff selection committee, which releases…
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Alabama keeps rolling: Tide is No. 1 in AP preseason Top 25
In a way, the 2016 season will pick up where 2015 left off: Alabama is No. 1 and Clemson is 2. The defending national champion Crimson Tide is the No. 1 team in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 for the fifth time overall and third time under coach Nick Saban. The Tide received 33…
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AP reveals its all-time college football Top 25
Who’s No. 1? The Associated Press began asking the most important question in sports in 1936, and 1,103 times since then the AP college football poll has provided an answer that has only led to more questions, such as: What? Why? Are you kidding? The arguments about what team is best in college football have…
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Tebow won’t say retired, intrigued by coaching, politics
Tim Tebow will not call himself a retired football player though he could see himself as a future coach. A career in politics also could be appealing down the road. One thing is for sure, he’ll always be a Gator. The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner and former Florida quarterback is getting prepared to begin another…
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Oregon vs. Ohio State in national championship
The Rose Bowl is coming to Texas for the first College Football Playoff championship. Pac-12 champion Oregon and Big Ten champion Ohio State will meet in Arlington, Texas, at the home of the Cowboys on Jan. 12 to decide the national title in the first year of the new postseason system. The Ducks (13-1) and…
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Penn St fined $60M, wins vacated from ’98-11
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Penn State football was all but dismantled Monday by an NCAA ruling that wiped away 14 years of coach Joe Paterno’s victories and imposed a mountain of fines and penalties, crippling a…
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Penn St fined $60M, wins vacated from ’98-11
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA slammed Penn State with an unprecedented series of penalties Monday, including a $60 million fine and the loss of all coach Joe Paterno’s victories from 1998-2011, in the wake of…
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Penn State scandal dwarfs others in college sports
Scandals of all kinds have tarnished college sports for decades, though what is unfolding at Penn State is hard to compare to any of them. It’s simply on another scale, both in terms of the charges — former Nittany Lions defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky is accused of serial child sex abuse, which he denies…