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Updated: November/22/2009
Talent, a little luck were on OSU's side
ANN ARBOR — If you're Jim Tressel, the student manager writes the wrong play number on thedry-erase board, flashes it to the players on the field, and your team scores a touchdown.
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Updated: November/18/2009
Key story lines running deep in the trenches
Jim Cordle was an early enrollee at Ohio State and was sitting in an offensive line meeting during spring practice in 2005 when a kid he knew a bit from their high school football frays came in while on a recruiting visit.
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Updated: November/16/2009
Rodriguez will need results in 3rd year at UM
Rich Rodriguez will get a third season at the helm of the Michigan football program in part because he is joined at the hip with athletic director Bill Martin. One's failure tarnishes the other's legacy and with Martin soon to retire he will, as a going-away present, give Rodriguez the rope he needs to turn things around and salvage their combined reputations.
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Updated: November/15/2009
Barclay goes from unknown to OSU hero
It was Halloween and Aaron Pettrey got the trick. Two weeks later, it was left to Devin Barclay to give his Ohio State teammates and their fans the treat.
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Updated: November/11/2009
Toledo home to world-class sports facilities
Idle thoughts from an idle mind, while wondering if eight wins is a fair over-under for a University of Toledo men's basketball team that features nine freshmen and four sophomores on its roster:
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Updated: November/08/2009
Pryor leaves fans crying in homecoming
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Nobody knows about the Big Ten. Whether you watch from the shadow of Mount Nittany or from the Maumee River valley or from all of those places that the national naysayers gather, nobody knows for sure if the Big Ten is any good or not.
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Updated: November/06/2009
Young goalie playing big for Walleye
Alec Richards exhibited a poise that belied his years and experience earlier this week after being bombarded by 13 shots and seeing Kalamazoo score three goals in the first period of a Walleye game at Lucas County Arena.
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Updated: November/02/2009
Good times seem long ago for Lions fans
DETROIT - It was two years ago, almost to the day, when the Detroit Lions crushed Denver 44-7 before a fourth consecutive sellout crowd at Ford Field.
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Updated: November/01/2009
Today's NFL has some really bad teams
While most of the country will be tuned in today for Brett Favre's return to Green Bay, very few onlookers will be offended by the sight of the St. Louis Rams' visit to Detroit. Ford Field figures to be half filled and the game is blacked out everywhere except for the St. Louis market. And heaven knows why anyone there would want to watch it.
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Updated: October/25/2009
Freshmen QBs going through ups and downs
ANN ARBOR - Two teams seeking validation met head-on Saturday in the Big House. One got the exposure it wanted. The other was simply exposed.
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Updated: October/23/2009
Higher calling
GENOA — Mike Vicars quit coaching football once. He was a young man and might have been a tad naive about what happens to coaches whose teams win 14 games in seven seasons. So he was given one of those win-or-else mandates by his superiors. He won, but he was hurt and disillusioned. So, he walked away. We can all imagine how cathartic it may have been to say, hey, take this job and shove it.
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Updated: October/21/2009
UT's Barnett earns respect as freshman
Jake Barnett doesn't know what it's like to run onto the floor at Savage Arena with 7,300 fans wedged into the place and the band playing and the lights dimmed for introductions and highlights dancing across the big video board.
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Updated: October/18/2009
Pitiful Browns should sit tight with Quinn
The National Football League trade deadline is Tuesday and it is usually a quiet day on the league's calendar. This is a sport driven by drafts and free-agent signings, rarely trades, and the deadline comes too early in the season for many teams to have been identified as contenders or pretenders, as buyers or sellers.
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Updated: October/17/2009
Walleye spawn new era in Toledo
Chuck Knierim walked through the lobby, crossed the concourse, walked up the tunnel, and saw the place for the first time. "Big," he said. "The lights. The ice. Everything was new. It was something." Knierim was 15 years old. It was 1954. The team was the Mercurys. It was the Toledo Sports Arena. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Well, not really. Nothing is the same now.
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Updated: October/12/2009
Blitzburgh's return ends Lions' hopes
DETROIT - The Pittsburgh Steelers were playing their third road game of the season, providing you ignore the possibility that the black-and-gold horde outnumbered the home team's fans yesterday at Ford Field, and for the third time the defense faced the prospect of crash landing short of the finish line.
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Updated: October/06/2009
CENTRAL TIME: Tigers seek redemption after weeks of frustration
There are things you can't predict. When the Detroit Tigers had both Justin Verlander and Edwin Jackson in fine fettle and then acquired Jarrod Washburn - this would have been early August - the only pertinent question had nothing to do with the team winning the AL Central, but by how many games.
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Updated: October/03/2009
Johnston, Loy a dynamic duo for St. Francis
There are teams with quarterbacks as good as St. Francis' Tyler Johnston. Maybe, just maybe, there are teams with a receiver as good as the Knights' Scott Loy.
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Updated: October/02/2009
Silly ending not what Tigers fans came for
They came to celebrate, to sing and dance to "We Are the Champions," to give their Detroit Tigers a curtain call or two or three on a sunny fall afternoon that begged for festivity.
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Updated: September/27/2009
BGSU gets quick lesson from Boise St.
BOWLING GREEN - Dave Clawson stood with his arms crossed, almost expressionless, and stared across the turf as Boise State running back Jeremy Avery sprinted untouched 71 yards on the second play of the second half to give Boise State a 36-0 lead last night at Doyt Perry Stadium.
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Updated: September/25/2009
Boise State a model for mid-majors
BOWLING GREEN - One year before Doyt Perry, the legendary Bowling Green football coach, hoisted the 1959 college division national championship trophy over his head, a man named Lyle Smith did the same on a football field in Boise. We can presume the field was green, not blue, back in the day.
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Updated: September/23/2009
Favre's season off to a solid, but easy start
The 2009 NFL schedule was determined long before Brett Favre began writing Chapter III. So this soft-serve, cherry snow cone of a start wasn't done for his benefit.
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Updated: September/21/2009
For the first 2 quarters, Lions weren't half-bad
DETROIT - Brett Favre jogged onto the turf at Ford Field to take the first snap from center yesterday and, in doing so, set a National Football League record with his 271st consecutive start.
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Updated: September/11/2009
Easy picks: Browns, Lions will be bad
Blade sports columnist Dave Hackenberg looks into the crystal ball and sees long NFL seasons ahead - again - for loyalists of the Browns and Lions.
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Updated: September/03/2009
Risky business saves Farr
You have, I presume, glanced at your investment portfolio recently. Or your checkbook. Or your pay stub.
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Updated: September/02/2009
UT defense not concerned with yardage
There is some history that never will be repeated. In 1971, for example, as the University of Toledo polished off its remarkable 35-0 football winning streak, the Rockets’ defense led the nation by holding opponents to 164.6 yards per game.
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Updated: August/30/2009
It's Dane's time to lead
COLUMBUS - It seems like just yesterday that Dane Sanzenbacher was a true freshman catching his first college pass, which also was his first touchdown reception, in his first game for Ohio State against Youngstown.
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Updated: August/24/2009
'Shoelace' tied in UM race for quarterback
ANN ARBOR - It is a three-man race for quarterback at the University of Michigan. Well, maybe we should call it a competition. If it was truly a race, Denard Robinson would win by way more than a shoelace.
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Updated: August/17/2009
It's starting to sink in for Earnhardt
These are the facts: Two months ago, the three top contenders in a NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan International Speedway topped their gas tanks with 47 laps to go. Two of them didn't make it to the finish line and the winner, Mark Martin, took the checkered flag with his engine stalled.
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