Articles Posted in the NCAA Sports Category
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Time Out with Gary Patterson
FOX Sports Southwest Big 12 Showcase host Emily Jones recently sat down with TCU football coach Gary Patterson to discuss the Horned Frogs’ move to the Big 12 and the team’s expectations this season. Following are excerpts from the interview. Jones: How excited are you to be in the Big 12? Patterson: One thing about [...]
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Baylor Quarterback Nick Florence is Replacing a Legend
If there’s one thing we now know about the new Baylor quarterback post-RG3, it’s that he can endure anything. After all, Nick Florence survived Big 12 media days. He was able to answer the same question that — based on an unscientific study — came at him every 30 seconds or so during a 16-minute, 38-second session [...]
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Passing of A Red Raider Legend and Military Hero
“I think the best way to describe him is Mr. Red Raider Club,” former Texas Tech University coach and athletic director Gerald Myers said about Leete Jackson Jr, who passed away July 10th at age 89. “He started the Red Raider Club from scratch as far as I know. He was just a great ambassador [...]
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Time Out with Mack Brown
FOX Sports Southwest’s Lesley McCaslin recently sat down with Mack Brown before the Texas Longhorns football coach was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Brown reflects on the induction ceremony and his career at Texas in this exclusive interview that’s part of a Texas Sports Hall of Fame television special airing on FOX [...]
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Kenneth Davis to Tanner Brock – Another Bad Day In Fort Worth 26 Years Later
Heisman threat Kenneth Davis, the Temple Tornado, was swept away by the TCU football scandal in 1985 for taking money from boosters. Frogs Coach Jim Wacker cleaned house – perhaps fearing a death penalty situation like SMU at the time – more likely, Wacker was trying to do the right thing – for all his [...]
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Game of the Century (Part Deux)
The much anticipated second edition of the “Game of the Century” is upon us and perhaps unfairly so, to the “Geaux Tigers” folk of the world. As detestable as it might be for LSU to replay the only team that could legitimately beat them – a team they already defeated – the Tigers could now [...]
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Sugar Bowl Never Tasted So Sour
Once again the BCS has stirred up a hornet’s nest with their bowl game selections. And no, I’m not talking about Oklahoma State being left on the outside looking in on the National Championship game. The teams that really got screwed in this joke of a system are Arkansas, Kansas State, Michigan State and Boise [...]
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Costas and Reilly: No More Child Abuse
Bob Costas and Rick Reilly were already Hall-of-Fame journalists before this last week; now, they are clearly Hall-of-Fame people who we should all try to follow. Costas was completely prepared for the most important interview of his life with alleged child rapist Jerry Sandusky earlier this week; anybody that saw or heard the interview would [...]
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Chuck Cooperstein – On the NFL, College Football and Texas A&M
Touchback, Touchback, Touchback The new NFL kickoff rule that moved kickoffs up to the 35 yard line and which has led to nearly double the number of touchbacks is going to be a huge test of the NFL’s safety initiative. The NFL talks a good game when it comes to safety, and the players have [...]
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Frogs Take Marino-Like Identity
Several Septembers ago, a long-haired quarterback burst on to the national prime time scene and displayed the skills and size that would rebuild his team quickly and launch his team into football’s title game the following season. The next Dan Marino may not have arrived at TCU, but Casey Pachall shook off continuous leg cramps [...]
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