Four years earlier, I was sitting outside a Publix Grocery Store in Jacksonville Beach, Florida listening on the radio to the last few minutes of the 1980 Florida-Georgia game. The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party was winding down and the Gators were about to win. Getting out of my parent's station wagon, I walked into the store. Sent in to get groceries, I had no idea what I was about to hear. Playing over the store's PA system ...

The 2010 NFL Scouting Combine is almost here and six Texas Longhorns players are going to have a chance to impress NFL scouts and position themselves better in the NFL draft. Let’s take a look the Longhorns players that will be at the combine, how they might fare and what their draft stock looks like going in, pre-combine.Begin Slideshow

In the O'dome on Thursday evening, the Gators faced the Auburn Tigers to try to boost the hopes for a chance to have a spot in the Tourney in March. Erving Walker and Chandler Parsons were the star players for the Gators as Parsons scored 17 and Walker scored 14. The victory on Thursday snapped a two-game losing streak that was diminishing the chances to appear in the tournament. The luck was not on ...

I’m a Notre Dame fan but I’m not an elitist. I love college football Saturday afternoons at Notre Dame Stadium but I’ve never been able to put the scratch together to get to South Bend. I’m morally and ethically opposed to illegal activities but I’m not sure if St. Peter has accepted my reservation yet. In short, I live a slightly-below-middle-class average American lifestyle, I love my Notre Dame Fighting Irish football, ...

Unfortunately for Kalin Lucas, doing what a conference player of the year is supposed to do likely cost him his chances of repeating as the Big Ten's Player of the Year. Lucas tried to do Feb. 2 what he's done all year for Tom Izzo—take games over. In the midst of a 67-49 blow-out in Madison, Wisconsin, Lucas descended awkwardly from a jump shot and throttled his ankle on the foot of the Badgers' Keaton Nankivil. After grimacing ...

Florida offensive coordinator Steve Addazio can be credited for the nation's top recruiting class of 2010. Addazio and the rest of the Gator staff brought in 28 recruits, including four five-star prospects. This recruiting class was reported to possibly be the best in history by any team. Because of the number of highly rated recruits brought in for the Gators, Steve Addazio is the Recruiter of the Year. After Urban Meyer declared he would retire ...

The UNLV Runnin’ Rebels put an emphatic stop to their three-game losing skid with a dominant 70-39 thumping of Colorado State over the weekend.   With Selection Sunday less than three weeks away, the postseason is a hot topic of debate among fans of UNLV, the Mountain West, and college basketball in general.   In an attempt to sort through the muddled puddle of opinions, and to sift out the accurate information from the swirl of emotional reaction, a round of ...

Let your mind flash back to the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin.  It was the semifinal game in the women's hockey tournament, and the matchup was Sweden versus the dominant U.S. team.   Remember Swedish goalie Kim Martin standing on her head and stealing the game for the Swedes? Remember the confused look on the American women, who normally coast through these games toward an inevitable U.S.-Canada showdown? Do you remember? Tonight, these American women remembered. Coming off an unusually ...

Each Monday until the national championship is played in Indianapolis on April 5, One Great Season will count down the Top 10 National Championship games since 1979, when Larry Bird and Magic Johnson squared off in Salt Lake City. In observance of President's Day, OGS took last week off, but today's No. 7 is the 2003 title game between Syracuse and Kansas.   Finally. That was about my reaction when longtime Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim won that ...

  1.    Syracuse (25-2)  The Orange have all but locked up the top spot in the Big East. With their remaining schedule, it will take a loss to Villanova and to Louisville to unseat them.  The Villanova loss gives them an even greater probability at a No. 1 seed in the tournament   2.    Villanova (22-4) The Wildcats have two consecutive losses for the first time this season.  The remaining schedule will be challenging and Scottie Reynolds needs to get ...