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  • Maryland head coach Ralph Friedgen celebrates with his players after Maryland's 51-20 win over East Carolina in the Military Bowl on Wednesday in Washington. (Associated Press)

    Military Bowl moving from RFK to Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis

    The Military Bowl will match a team from the Atlantic Coast Conference against one from Conference USA and will be played Dec. 27. ESPN will broadcast the afternoon game.

  • Column: Notre Dame not chicken, just greedy

    Brady Hoke was talking the way football coaches do, the way university presidents can't. Imagine, if you will, the snickering in academia if Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman, a biochemist by trade, accused her counterparts at Notre Dame of chickening out on a science fair.

  • Teddy Bridgewater went on to lead Louisville to one of the biggest upset in BCS bowl history after taking a brutal hit in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2. The NCAA scarcely mentions concussions in its manual. (Associated Press)

    NCAA playing catch-up with concussions

    In October, a helmet-to-helmet hit spun University of Southern California wide receiver Robert Woods around 180 degrees while he was blocking on a kick return against the University of Utah.

  • Teddy Bridgewater went on to lead Louisville to one of the biggest upset in BCS bowl history after taking a brutal hit in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2. The NCAA scarcely mentions concussions in its manual. (Associated Press)

    Blind side to concussions: NFL’s latest legal blows give feeble push to NCAA

    Head injuries have left the NFL under unflinching scrutiny over the past year. At the NCAA level, however, the issue has escaped similar furor.

  • NCAA hopes sports science center helps with safety

    The NCAA says it is committed to ensuring the safety of all college athletes and plans to open a national sports science institute to make playing sports safer.

  • AP Source: Shafer to take over at Syracuse

    Syracuse will name defensive coordinator Scott Shafer as the Orange's next coach, a person familiar with the selection process told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

  • Playoff sites likely to be picked by end of April

    The home of the first national championship game under the new playoff system, along with the three remaining semifinal rotation sites, will likely be picked by the end of April.

  • More for college athletes: not if, but how

    After decades when paying college athletes was thought to violate the spirit of amateurism, the enormous television revenue generated by sports _ football and basketball in particular _ and the long hours of work by the players have changed the debate.

  • Money for college athletes: not if, but how

    After decades when paying college athletes was thought to violate the spirit of amateurism, the enormous television revenue generated by sports _ football and basketball in particular _ and the long hours of work by the players have changed the debate.

  • BCS Championship: Tale of the tape

    Everything about the BCS championship between No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama seems larger than life.

  • Georgetown forward Otto Porter, right, takes a shot against American guard John Schoof, left, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, in Washington. Georgetown won 65-48. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

    Grind about to begin for Hoyas in Big East farewell

    In a few years, the Big East as we know it will be the stuff of legend, with tales told about John Thompson and Lou Carnesecca patrolling the sidelines of a once-proud basketball conference lost amid the shifting tectonic plates of college athletics.

  • **FILE** Maryland head football coach Joe Krivak is carried off the field on the shoulders of players Gene Thomas (82) and Mark Mason after they beat the University of Virginia, 35-30, at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., on Nov. 17, 1990. (Associated Press)

    Joe Krivak, former Maryland football coach, dies

    Joe Krivak, who helped develop several future NFL quarterbacks at Maryland in the 1980s and went on to a five-year stint as the school's head coach, died Tuesday of leukemia. He was 77.

  • ** FILE ** In this Oct. 9, 2004, file photo, Hawaii's Bryan Maneafaiga (43) scores a touchdown against Nevada in Honolulu. (AP Photo/ Honolulu Star-Advertiser, George F. Lee)

    Steroids loom in major-college football

    With steroids easy to buy, testing weak and punishments inconsistent, college football players are packing on significant weight — 30 pounds or more in a single year, sometimes — without drawing much attention from their schools or the NCAA in a sport that earns tens of billions of dollars for teams.

  • Catholic conference offers challenge, opportunity

    As a chunk of the Big East transforms itself into a mostly or even all-Catholic basketball league, the conference faces a choice: play up or play down its faith-based roots?

  • FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2012, file photo, Marquette plays against Savannah State during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Milwaukee. As a chunk of the Big East, Marquette included, transforms itself into a mostly or even all-Catholic basketball league, the conference faces a choice: play up or play down its faith-based roots? (AP Photo/Tom Lynn, File)

    Catholic conference offers challenge, opportunity

    As a chunk of the Big East transforms itself into a mostly or even all-Catholic basketball league, the conference faces a choice: play up or play down its faith-based roots?

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