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AG Changes Sandusky Shower Allegation Date to ’01

HARRISBURG (CFB/Rubinkam&Armas) — Pennsylvania prosecutors said Monday they now believe the alleged locker-room shower assault of a boy by Jerry Sandusky that ultimately led to football coach Joe Paterno‘s firing took place a year earlier than they first claimed. The attorney general’s office said in a court filing that investigators have concluded the alleged attack [...]

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Arkansas Adjusts to Smith’s Coaching Style

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (CFB/Newsfeed) – Knile Davis unintentionally offered the deepest insight into how the personality of the Arkansas football team has changed in the weeks since Bobby Petrino‘s firing and John L. Smith‘s hiring as his replacement. Davis, the star Razorbacks running back, was comparing the differences in coaching styles between the controlling, businesslike Petrino [...]

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Pierson Dazzles for Weis in Kansas Spring Game

LAWRENCE, Kan. (CFB/Newsfeed) – Tony Pierson took the handoff from Dayne Crist deep in the backfield, started off toward his right and then made a subtle move back to his left. Just as a hole big enough for Charlie Weis to run through opened up. Pierson pranced through it and then out-ran a pair of [...]

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Coach O’Brien Kicks Off Penn State Caravan Tour

PHILADELPHIA (CFB/Newsfeed) — Dressed in a navy blue suit with a dark tie and a Penn State button pinned near his heart, new Nittany Lions football coach Bill O’Brien kicked off the first leg of a nine-day, 18-stop bus tour in Philadelphia on Monday. Joined by head men’s basketball coach Pat Chambers and field hockey [...]

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Utah State, San Jose State Acknowledge MWC Talks

SALT LAKE CITY (CFB/Newsfeed) – Officials at Utah State and San Jose State acknowledge they are in discussions with the Mountain West Conference over realignment for 2013 yet say no formal agreement has been reached. Conference USA already is set to bring aboard Texas-San Antonio just months before the school was to begin its first [...]

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