Blanket Coverage: Miami -- There's No Place Like the Old Home

Nov 29th 2010 – 12:00 PM

If you think the integers that led Miami to pastel-slip Randy Shannon are 7-5, you guessed wrong. The pertinent numbers are 40,101 and 41,148. Those are the announced attendance figures at Sun Life...

Notre Dame Ends Losing Streak to USC With Rain-Soaked Victory

Nov 28th 2010 – 12:40 AM

The rain came down, and the reign ended. Notre Dame halted eight years of misery at the hands of USC Saturday evening with a 20-16 victory as sheets of rain blanketed the Los Angeles Coliseum. If...

Reckless Predictions for Nov. 26-27

Nov 26th 2010 – 11:55 AM

Roofies! Too. Much. Stimulation. The next 36 hours could only be more fun if it involved a tiger, a baby, Heather Graham, Mike Tyson and a naked Asian man in the trunk of your car. And even then,...

Big Ten Harvest: Not So Friendly Confines

Nov 23rd 2010 – 7:38 PM

So now that it's over and everyone survived, what needs to be said about the Big Ten's experiment at Wrigley Field? First of all, credit to Pete Fiutak at College Football News for noting that we...

Blanket Coverage: Iowa Beats Michigan State Twice

Nov 23rd 2010 – 9:25 AM

Michigan State played Iowa just once this season, but the Hawkeyes have now beaten Sparty twice. On Oct. 30, Iowa walloped Michigan State at Nile Kinnick Stadium, 37-7, knocking Mark Dantonio's...

Notre Dame Defense Goes From Sour to Suddenly Super

Nov 21st 2010 – 2:49 AM

NEW YORK -- Notre Dame is winning football games in November. Notre Dame is winning football games in November with defense. Notre Dame is winning football games in November with defense and...

Reckless Predictions for Nov. 20

Nov 20th 2010 – 8:05 AM

Now I've seen it all. In 2010, I've seen a two-way player (Owen Marecic of Stanford) and a one-way football field (Northwestern's at Wrigley). This week Oregon, Auburn or TCU, only the three top...

Patrick Witt Knows Yale-Harvard Is More Than Just a Game

Nov 19th 2010 – 4:23 PM

One evening last fall, Yale student Patrick Witt was studying inside his eight-man suite inside Jonathan Edwards College, his residence hall. As Witt pored over a book, one of his roommates...

Twitter Offers #WrigleyFieldPickupRules for Illinois-Northwestern Game

Nov 19th 2010 – 1:00 PM

Oh, the Twitterverse is loving the Big Ten's last-minute realization that the Wrigley Field contest between Illinois and Northwestern was threatening to turn a wide receiver or two into a crash-test...

Big Ten Harvest: Now Not Showing on Big Ten Network

Nov 18th 2010 – 12:20 PM

Because the Big Televen currently plays an eight-game conference schedule, each of the 11 schools misses two opponents each season. That's unavoidable, perhaps, but this year it means that some...

Yale Women Open Locker Room, Hearts for Giana Cardonita

Nov 17th 2010 – 12:29 PM

"How much do you girls miss her?" Late last Friday evening Giana Cardonita, a 9-year-old from Guilford, Conn., who was recently "adopted" by the Yale women's hockey team, stood inside the Bulldog...

Blanket Coverage: Hitting the Wall

Nov 15th 2010 – 10:05 AM

Anyone who has run a marathon will tell you that the most difficult mile is not the 26th, but rather the 20th or 21st, when the finish line is still too far away to provide inspiration. Anyone who...

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