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Oregon State DB Suspended Indefinitely Following Arrest

Ore­gon State DB sus­pended indef­i­nitely fol­low­ing arrest Posted by Ben Kercheval on Feb­ru­ary 20, 2012, 10:22 PM EST Ore­gon State coach Mike Riley didn’t waste much time tak­ing action on Beavers defen­sive back Sean Mar­tin after the soon-to-be red­shirt junior found him­self in some legal trou­ble over the weekend. Riley released a state­ment today say­ing Mar­tin (pic­tured, No. 6) was “sus­pended indef­i­nitely for a vio­la­tion of team rules.” I under­stand coaches tend to be vague about these types of mat­ters, but I’m assum­ing Riley was refer­ring... 

McCarney Out of Hospital After Stroke

DENTON, Texas — North Texas foot­ball coach Dan McCar­ney is out of the hos­pi­tal fol­low­ing a stroke last week. McCar­ney felt his left side go numb Feb. 12 and was taken to an area hos­pi­tal. Doc­tors later con­firmed he had a stroke. A uni­ver­sity spokesman says McCar­ney was released last Thurs­day and has returned to the office for about an hour each day. McCar­ney has said he expects to lead the Mean Green through spring drills, which begin on March 28. The 58-year-old McCar­ney was hired to coach the Mean Green in Novem­ber 2010. He went 5–7 in his first sea­son... 

FSU Says It Could Lose at Least $2.5 Million on Lost WVU Game

FSU says it could lose at least $ 2.5 mil­lion on lost WVU game Posted by Ben Kercheval on Feb­ru­ary 20, 2012, 12:01 PM EST When West Vir­ginia can­celled its 2012 non-conference game against Florida State in antic­i­pa­tion of depart­ing the Big East for the Big 12, FSU ath­letic direc­tor, Randy Spet­man, told the Orlando Sen­tinel the move could result in lit­i­ga­tion against WVU because the with­drawal was so close to the upcom­ing season. “We have the buy­out [$ 500,000], there’s that, and then there will be what­ever liq­ui­dated dam­ages,” Spet­man... 

Florida-Tennessee Game May Not Make CBS Schedule This Year

Florida-Tennessee game may not make CBS sched­ule this year Posted by Ben Kercheval on Feb­ru­ary 19, 2012, 7:02 PM EST For 16 straight years, the annual rivalry game between Florida and Ten­nessee has been a sta­ple of CBS Sports and its col­lege foot­ball cov­er­age of the SEC. That streak might end right then and there. Because of the new con­fer­ence sched­ule that fea­tures new mem­bers Mis­souri and Texas A&M, Florida and Tennessee’s early sea­son matchup may not be broad­cast on CBS in favor of another game that fea­tures two more nation­ally rel­e­vant... 

Ex-Fiesta Bowl CEO Expected to Plead Guilty to Felony

Ex-Fiesta Bowl CEO expected to plead guilty to felony Posted by Ben Kercheval on Feb­ru­ary 19, 2012, 9:42 PM EST The Fiesta Bowl has been under new man­age­ment in the after­math of an inves­ti­ga­tion into improper polit­i­cal cam­paign con­tri­bu­tions and other finan­cial mis­con­duct made by the bowl, but the bowl’s old CEO, John Junker, has long been await­ing his legal fate as a result of that investigation. That wait looks like it’s com­ing to an end. The Ari­zona Repub­lic reports that Junker has reached a plea bar­gain with pros­e­cu­tors and is expected... 

Ex-Fiesta Head to Plead Guilty to Felony

PHOENIX — The for­mer top exec­u­tive of the Fiesta Bowl has reached a plea deal with Ari­zona pros­e­cu­tors to set­tle alle­ga­tions related to a polit­i­cal dona­tions scandal. Ari­zona Attor­ney General’s Office spokes­woman Amy Rez­zon­ico con­firmed Sun­day that John Junker will appear in court on Tues­day, although she said she was barred from pro­vid­ing details before the hearing. Junker’s lawyer, Stephen Dichter, said in a state­ment that his client plans to plead guilty to a sin­gle felony count in state court and another in fed­eral court related to his... 

Rutgers’ Reported Coaching Gain Is UCF’s Loss

Rut­gers’ reported coach­ing gain is UCF’s loss Posted by John Tay­lor on Feb­ru­ary 19, 2012, 8:23 AM EST As has become a theme yet again this time of the year, one col­lege foot­ball pro­gram is the taketh to another’s giveth when it comes to assis­tant coaches. Accord­ing to the Newark Star-Ledger, future Big East mem­ber UCF has lost defen­sive line coach Jim Pana­gos to cur­rent Big East mem­ber Rut­gers. Pana­gos will report­edly assume the same posi­tion with the Scar­let Knights. The Star-Ledger reports that an offi­cial announce­ment from RU will not come... 

Aggies, Hogs Moving Game to Campus for Two Years

Aggies, Hogs mov­ing game to cam­pus for two years Posted by Ben Kercheval on Feb­ru­ary 18, 2012, 11:01 PM EST When Texas A&M made the offi­cial move to the SEC last fall, the Aggies knew they would have to adjust the non-conference game with Arkansas, which is now an annual SEC West game. For the past three sea­sons, the two have met in Dal­las at Cow­boys Sta­dium. For the next two years, how­ever, the game will be held on cam­pus, accord­ing to mul­ti­ple reports out of both Col­lege Sta­tion and Fayetteville. Arkansas will visit A&M this sea­son with the Aggies... 

Fred Taylor’s Son to Attend Florida

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The son of retired NFL run­ning back Fred Tay­lor has decided to attend Florida, a poten­tially sig­nif­i­cant recruit­ing boost for the Gators. Kelvin Tay­lor, who broke Emmitt Smith’s state high school rush­ing record as a junior last sea­son, announced his non-binding, ver­bal com­mit­ment Sat­ur­day morn­ing at Florida’s “Junior Day” in Gainesville. He chose Florida over Alabama. Tay­lor started play­ing high school foot­ball as an eighth grader and has 9,698 yards rush­ing in four years at Glades Day High in Belle Glade. ESPN ranks him as a... 

Iowa Hires Ferentz’s Son to Coach O-Line

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa coach Kirk Fer­entz has hired his son, Brian, away from the New Eng­land Patri­ots to coach the Hawkeyes offen­sive line. Fer­entz also announced Sat­ur­day that assis­tant LeVar Woods has been pro­moted to line­back­ers coach. Brian Fer­entz played for the Hawkeyes from 2002-05. He spent the last four years with the Patri­ots, serv­ing as tight ends coach last season. Woods, a for­mer star line­backer at Iowa, played seven sea­sons in the NFL with Ten­nessee, Ari­zona, Chicago and Detroit. He’s served as an admin­is­tra­tive assis­tant at Iowa...