From Palm Beach Post
Greg Stoda: Trust Nick Saban this time when he says he’s staying
My opinion is that Nick Saban should remain at the University of Alabama to coach the Crimson Tide football team for as long as he and his employers see fit. My guess is that he will do so. Because my inclination is to believe Saban — who has lied about ...
Brian Kelly shows different, softer side in third season as Notre Dame’s coach
Pink, beet-red and purple. It wasn’t until a few years ago that we learned those were Notre Dame colors, just as sure as the helmets are gold and the leprechaun is awash in green. Then coach Brian Kelly arrived, bringing a rainbow of facial expressions that edged closer to implosion ...
Dave George: Unrelenting Tide rolling toward spot alongside past dynasty teams
As college football dynasties go, Alabama is working on the kind of concentrated greatness that eluded even Bear Bryant in his spectacular prime. A win over Notre Dame on Monday night would make it three BCS national championships in the space of four years for the Crimson Tide. Bear Bryant ...
Notre Dame running backs Theo Riddick, Cierre Wood face big task vs. Alabama’s defense
Theo Riddick and Cierre Wood aren’t exactly household names, despite their key roles in bringing Notre Dame back to college football’s elite. Maybe that’s a product of their timing: Notre Dame’s primary running backs came to the Irish in 2009, a year in which running backs named Trent Richardson, Bryce ...
ESPN plans Monday ‘Night Football’-level coverage for BCS Championship Game
Somewhere around 72,000 are expected to pay hundreds and even thousands of dollars for tickets to Monday’s BCS Championship Game at Sun Life Stadium. If you’re not one of them, you’ll have plenty to watch at home. ESPN is making sure of that, devoting the same resources to college football’s ...
ESPN’s Howard: Notre Dame defense better than any in SEC
Few people in SEC territory will agree with Desmond Howard on this one.The former Michigan star and “ESPN College GameDay” analyst said Notre Dame’s defense is the better than Alabama’s – and everyone else in the SEC.“No team in the SEC has a defense like Notre Dame,” Howard said. “The ...
Securing tickets to BCS title game will sack your wallet
Nicole Garton left Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in late November with little doubt in her mind. Her alma mater Notre Dame’s playing for its first national championship in 24 years — she’d fly to Miami, game ticket or not. The game’s on Monday and Garton still doesn’t have a ticket, ...
Alabama offensive line could be one of best ever
The nation’s best college football team? That will be answered on Monday night when No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama face off in the BCS national championship game at Sun Life Stadium. But no one is asking what team owns the country’s best offensive line. The Crimson Tide, ...
Notre Dame QB Everett Golson hopes to end season on good note in BCS title game
Notre Dame quarterback Everett Golson is used to being surrounded by teammates, whether it’s on the field or while playing a musical instrument. On Fridays before Fighting Irish home games this season, Golson sat in the lobby of the team hotel and played the piano, like he does for the ...
Dave George: Manti Te’o leaves inspiring legacy that will echo forever at Notre Dame
Manti Te’o is not Tim Tebow minus a few letters in his last name and a few million sonnets written about his amazing exploits. That’s too shallow a description for the inspirational leader of Notre Dame’s No. 1 football team. It puts Te’o in competition with another man’s legend, which ...
Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron doesn’t generate much hype, but he delivers wins
Sometimes the relationship can get messy. A slovenly offensive lineman and a pretty-boy quarterback, battling for one shower and one sink in a hotel room. “He’s a whole different breed,” Alabama center Barrett Jones said about quarterback AJ McCarron. “He’s got all his hair gel and all that kind of ...
Dave George: Fighting Irish out to prove they belong in BCS final
Stepping off the airplane Wednesday afternoon, quickly unzipping sweatsuit tops to soak up the tropical warmth, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame sure didn’t look like the team that needed three overtimes and a missed field goal to beat pitiful Pittsburgh in November. They looked perfect, which is what they ...
BCS title game is clash of iconic traditions
The showdown between Notre Dame and Alabama brings together two of college football’s iconic programs. For fans and television executives, it’s a dream matchup. The better team will prove itself on the field and claim a giant crystal football. Hopefully that battle will be as good as the culture clash ...
Three has been magic year for championship Notre Dame coaches
It isn’t as renowned as Rockne, Rudy or winning one for the Gipper. But come next week, it will hover over the BCS Championship Game, watching over Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish during their visit to South Florida much the way Touchdown Jesus does in their stadium. Coincidence or otherwise, starting ...
Dave George: Nick Saban returns to South Florida the way he left — on his own terms
Nick Saban is coming to town. There is no bouncy holiday music to mark the occasion, and no relationship whatever to that other visiting VIP, St. Nick. There is nothing, frankly, but the hard edge of work and the blunt force of winning for a man who famously claimed Christmas ...
Can Notre Dame become ‘America’s Team’ of college football again?
There’s the starter on Notre Dame’s 1977 national championship team who no longer keeps his ring stashed out of sight.There’s the president of the local Notre Dame club — a guy whose last name really is Irish — who is fielding calls from brokers cheerfully waving wads of tickets but ...
Dave George: Old ways created better bowl matchups
Once, college football matched its big-time bowl participants according to secretive handshake deals aimed at filling the hotels and restaurants of the communities involved. Obviously, the process had its flaws. Stack that archaic system up against what we’ve got now, however, and see if any of those old, smoke-filled rooms ...
Want tickets for BCS Championship Game? If you don’t already have them, be prepared to pay big
These days, $128,000 can fetch you a five-bedroom, three-bath foreclosure home on 32nd Street in West Palm Beach, giving you 2,534 square feet to roam. Or, for the same price, you can rent a Sun Life Stadium suite for a few hours Jan. 7. It would enable you to watch ...
Florida remains No. 4 in BCS, looks like lock for Sugar Bowl spot
Even with virtually no chance at reaching the national championship game, this season is a clear success for the Gators. They are renovated and restored, back in college football’s stratosphere after two years of grueling disappointment. Florida stood fourth in the newest BCS standings released Sunday night and should end ...
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