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An invitation to a black-tie dinner has arrived for Steve Spurrier, and you can bet he’s not going to show up wearing overalls and a straw hat while chewing on a toothpick and spitting tobacco. This occasion is too important.
Have you heard the one about no great thing being created suddenly?
If July arrives and Tre’Von Willis finds himself playing in the NBA Summer League among other drafted or free-agent rookies in search of a job among the world’s best players, it will be as much for his know-how than anything.
There is a big problem with this theory about Bobby Hauck building his UNLV football program in the same manner Brady Hoke has at San Diego State: It doesn’t make sense.
Look at Justin Hawkins. He’s the exception. He’s the one who in middle school thought first about stopping the basketball more than scoring it, the one who turned on a television and mimicked the NBA actions of Bruce Bowen more than Michael Jordan.
Tulsa basketball has been alive and dribbling for 100 years now. Back in 1921, when it went by the name Kendall College, it won the AAU national title.
There is life outside the Bowl Championship Series cartel each holiday season, life beyond those five games worth millions and millions of dollars to the conferences fortunate enough to have member schools selected.
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