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Which SEC Team Will Extend the League's Streak of BCS Titles?

After five consecutive championships -- and seven undefeated appearances in the BCS title game in 13 years -- it's clear that a Southeastern Conference team will win the BCS title for the 2011 season. I've written before that if you'd started gambling on the SEC to cover the spread back in 1998 when Tennessee notched the...

Ralph Friedgen Fired as Maryland Plans to Go From 'Good to Great'

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Ralph Friedgen produced good results over his 10 years as Maryland's football coach. They weren't good enough, though, for new athletic director Kevin Anderson to give him a contract extension. Instead, Anderson bought out the final year of Friedgen's contract on Monday, absorbing the $2 million cost...

Maryland Moving Ralph Friedgen Out

Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen will be asked to take a buyout and retire, a source familiar with the program said tonight. The decision by first-year athletic director Kevin Anderson effectively ends Friedgen's tenure in College Park after 10 seasons at his alma mater and completes one of the program's most...

James Franklin Named New Vanderbilt Football Coach

James Franklin, Maryland's offensive coordinator, has been named as the new head football coach at Vanderbilt University. Speculation and reports the past few days had been rampant that Franklin would be pegged as the next Commodore coach, so the news comes as little surprise. "The hiring of Coach Franklin represents a...

Colorado, Missouri Still Not Contenders in Big 12 North

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- After a week of warm and fuzzy feelings, Colorado football was brutally brought back to Earth on Saturday. High off a win pver Georgia last week, the Buffaloes went into Missouri and suffered a 26-0 defeat, proving that no matter how well the Buffaloes dress up, they're not much different than they've...

James Franklin News From the Web

05/27/12 Football season will be here soon Source: The Daily News Journal - Murfreesboro TN While the official start of summer doesnt start for three more weeks, Memorial Day Weekend means summertime has arrived.
05/23/12 Fleming's Chennai knock Mumbai out of IPL Source: New Zealand City James Franklin's Mumbai Indians are out of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket competition after losing to the Stephen Fleming-coached Chennai Super Kings in today's elimination playoff.
05/23/12 Super Kings knock out Mumbai Source: Deccan Herald - India A side that often flew on the wings of fortune to reach the play-offs of the IPL V, Chennai Super Kings on Wednesday relied on raw human power to reach the Qualifier 2, beating Mumbai Indians by 38 runs in the Eliminator at the M Chinnaswamy stadium.
05/23/12 Georgia Football Preview: 5 Games the Dawgs Could Lose... Source: Bleacher Report A while back I wrote a piece questioning the legitimacy of Vanderbilt's success last season.
05/23/12 Dhoni blasts Chennai to victory Source: SuperSport Mahendra Singh Dhoni scorched to a wonderful fifty to propel the Chennai Super Kings to a 38-run victory over the Mumbai Indians in their IPL elimination match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Wednesday.