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November 2008
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College Football: July 2008 ArchivesMaybe some humans actually do work at the NCAA. James Bradshaw, who played on Trinity High School's state champion football team last year, has had his college football scholarship reinstated. Earlier this week the NCAA ruled that his scholarship was not valid because of the way his eighth grade Spanish class was coded on his transcript. Bradshaw's family says the NCAA reinstated the scholarship this afternoon, just in... There are 34 bowl games scheduled for the end of this year and the beginning of 2009, up one from last year. First, that is way too many and means 68 teams will play in bowl games, more than half of 119 eligible schools. The real sign of the excess is the Sun Belt Conference announcing it has signed agreements with three bowls, giving the worst conference in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) a total o... TCU is the best team in the Mountain West Conference not from the State of Utah. Problem is both BYU and Utah also play in the MWC. Two-time defending conference football champion BYU was predicted to capture its third consecutive title in 2008 in a poll of media members. BYU was 11-2 overall and finished with a top 20 ranking in the final USA Today Coaches (t-14), Associated Press (14) and Harris (18) polls. Todd Dodge's second season as coach of the University of North Texas football team may not be much better than his first - at least if you believe what the coaches in the Sun Belt Conference say. The Mean Green was picked to finish seventh out of eight teams this season in the preseason poll, voted on by the leagues head coaches. Defending conference champion Florida Atlantic is picked to repeat with six of the eight first pl... News 8's Jim Douglas has an interesting story about James Bradshaw, a standout lineman form Trinity High School's state championship team. (Read it and watch video here.) At this point, he's not allowed to attend Arkansas-Pine Bluff next month on a full-scholarship because of a transcript glitch that misidentified a Spani... The college football season kicks off in a month and a half and the University of North Texas has set the times for its games. The Mean Green begins at a Big 12 school, Kansas State, at 6 p.m. on Aug. 30. UNT's first home game is against Tulsa on Sept. 6 at 6 p.m. Then another big road game at SEC power LSU at 7 p.m. on Sept. 13 in Baton Rouge, La. North Texas begins its Sun Belt Conference schedule hosti... If you're hungry for some insights to UNT football or maybe you're curious about the spread offense or just like a free lunch, then you can dine with North Texas head football coach Todd Dodge Wednesday. Dodge and his staff will have a noon lunch at The Trophy Club Country Club Wednesday to talk about the upcoming football season. The lunch is free, but you must register through UNT. The UNT football team opens its se... Do you have a dog that is ready for the spotlight? Well Texas A&M is looking for a new pooch to replace Reveille VII, who just retired as the school's mascot. Reveille has been a tradition in College Station since 1931. This seventh dog is the fifth consecutive collie to hold the job and the new one will maintain the status as the highest ranking member of the Corps of Cadets, as a Five-Star General. She's also known as "the f... Good Morning Texas is not usually a place to talk football. Today, though, new SMU head football coach June Jones stopped by to talk to his long-time friend and high school football teammate Gary Cogill. Jones faces a big task to get SMU football back to respectability. But if any coach can, it's probably Jones. He turned around a hapless Hawaii program that was strapped by poor facilities (although, the beach is a pretty good... Stop me if you have heard this before. Two football players, one current and one former, are in very serious legal trouble today. Former Arkansas quarterback and current Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones was arrested in Fayetteville where police say he was inside a car cutting up cocaine with a credit card. (Read full sto...
Before he became the NFL MVP, LaDainian Tomlinson was a backup running back and kick returner for the TCU Horned Frogs as a sophomore in 1998. Now the San Diego Chargers star running back has been named to the 75th Anniversary All-Sun Bowl Team. TCU beat USC 28-19 in the 1998 Sun Bowl. It was the Horned Frogs' first bowl win in 41 years, dating back to a 28-27 victory over Jim Brown and Syracuse in the 1957 Cotton Bowl. ...If it wasn't enough that TCU safety Stephen Hodge is a preseason All-American and was named the state's top defensive back by Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, he is now on the watch list for the 2008 Jim Thorpe Award, honoring the nation's top defensive back. He's also on the watch list for the Bronko Nagurski Trophy which recognizes the nation's best defensive player. The senior from Tatum had eight sacks last season... The problems have been on the field for the SMU football team, but they are hoping what is on their heads and backs will help the team return to "national prominence." I'm reminded of what my middle school football coach, Coach Garcia, would always say, "look sharp, play sharp." Maybe this isn't what he meant. >> Continue reading: SMU football team changing look |
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