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This is one of those weekends every college football fan dreams of, and that’s because 12 teams in the Top 25 are facing off Saturday. These games definitely will make a difference in the season.
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The Breeders’ Cup is over, but thoroughbred horse racing in Southern California continues in a new but familiar setting.
Matt Youmans, Kelly Stewart and Golden Nugget sports book director Tony Miller preview the college football and NFL weekend by offering 12 plays.
In a quarterback showdown that was debated and hyped all week, one guy walked away a blowout winner and the other was a no-show. The big winner, of course, was Carson Palmer of the red-hot Arizona Cardinals.
Around the NFL, the New York Jets are the butt of jokes, with a coach on the hot seat, a clueless general manager and a quarterback carousel fit for a circus. And Michael Vick is now the lead rider on the carousel.
The last of the unbeatens in college football has fallen.
Giants quarterback Eli Manning personifies a Halloween party, because you never know what you might see next, a two-time Super Bowl winner or a hapless, shoulder-slumping loser?
In coach Larry Fedora’s first season at North Carolina, his team won seven of its final nine regular-season games. The trend repeated last season, when the Tar Heels won six of their last seven games after a 1-5 start.
It’s Scott Kellen vs. Kelly Stewart in this week’s Friday Football Showdown.