University of Florida’s Kelly Murphy (Wilmington, Ill.) was one of ten NCAA® women’s volleyball players selected as a finalist Wednesday for the 2011 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible for the award, a student athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and must excel in four areas: community, classroom, character and competition.
Ohio State has suspended another player, but not because of the NCAA: This time, it’s for criminal charges. Backup cornerback Dominic Clarke has been suspended for Saturday’s game against Illinois after being charged with disorderly conduct after allegedly shooting a BB gun from the top of a dormitory cafeteria on Sunday night: According to Ohio State Deputy Chief of Police Richard Morman, Clarke was arrested after 9 p.m.
Perusing the weekly lines for a straight-up shocker or two — for entertainment only, of course. MATT HINTON: Ohio State (+3½) over Illinois
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After a three-week break from meets, the Florida Gators men’s and women’s cross country teams will head to Wisconsin to compete on Friday.
What was true last winter is treu today: Cam Newton delivered arguably the single greatest individual season in college football history in 2010, and has every possible accolade to show for it. Only today, unlike last winter, the asterisk that hovered quietly next to that statement for the least eleven months has been officially removed : “After conducting more than 80 interviews, the NCAA has concluded its investigation into Auburn University,” the NCAA said in a statement.
What was true last winter is treu today: Cam Newton delivered arguably the single greatest individual season in college football history in 2010, and has every possible accolade to show for it. Only today, unlike last winter, the asterisk that hovered quietly next to that statement for the least eleven months has been officially removed : “After conducting more than 80 interviews, the NCAA has concluded its investigation into Auburn University,” the NCAA said in a statement.
Not that they’d failed to brace themselves, but for a fan base that had been approaching the 2011 campaign with an escalating sense of doom since last December , Saturday night’s 34-27, come-from-ahead loss at Nebraska was a significant point of no return.
Arizona is 1-5, in last place in the Pac-12 South and as of tonight, it’s without a head coach: After seven-and-a-half years, Mike Stoops has been officially fired , per a university release. He’ll be replaced on an interim basis by defensive coordinator Tim Kish, and whatever sense of shame comes with exiling the man who led you out of the wilderness right back into it.
Somehow, college football made it through the entire month of September without a peep from the NCAA’s finger-wagging new unsportsmanlike conduct rule . And when it finally did rear its head today, where did its disapproving gaze land?
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