SAN FRANCISCO - Cue the laugh track, folks. So many jokes have been told since the announcement of the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl on Dec. 4 that Henny Youngman would be proud. College football writers became Catskills comedians while using UCLA and Illinois as punch lines.
Ralph Cindrich remembers it simply as the "send-'em-home drill," a tactic employed by college football coaches that required a player to run through two lines of teammates who hit him as he passed. If they didn't match up to scholarship requirements, coaches would make them go through the gauntlet until (they went) down," said Cindrich, a sports agent who played linebacker at Pitt and in the NFL in the early 1970s. "Why did they do that? If someone quits, they give up their scholarship.
To our readers You spoke. We listened. The betting lines on college football and NFL games make their return to The Pantagraph today.
Air Force plays TCU on Sept. 10 at Falcon Stadium, and Las Vegas bettors have already invested heavily on the Falcons. Last week the Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas posted betting lines on some of college football's games of the year, and the Air Force-TCU matchup got plenty of attention. TCU opened as a 6.5- point favorite, but because of heavy betting action on Air Force, the betting line moved five points, an unusually large jump. The line finally settled at TCU as a 1.5-point favorite. The amount of money coming in on Air Force didn't really surprise Golden Nugget sportsbook director Tony Miller, who thinks the Falcons will be very good this season.
Air Force plays TCU on Sept. 10 at Falcon Stadium, and Las Vegas bettors have already invested heavily on the Falcons. Last week the Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas posted betting lines on some of college football's games of the year, and the Air Force-TCU matchup got plenty of attention. TCU opened as a 6.5- point favorite, but because of heavy betting action on Air Force, the betting line moved five points, an unusually large jump. The line finally settled at TCU as a 1.5-point favorite. The amount of money coming in on Air Force didn't really surprise Golden Nugget sportsbook director Tony Miller, who thinks the Falcons will be very good this season.
Quote "Now comes the truly daunting part of the job for the oft- perceived overmatched [WVUcoach Bill] Stewart: Winning without the ultra-dynamic [Pat] White, the greatest player in school history and MVP of last month's Senior Bowl." STEWART MANDEL SI.com writer, assessing offseason college football story lines Names in the games
Tomorrow's BCS clash is refreshingly defined by defensive personalities. College football's national title game typically features a distinctively offense-driven set of story lines.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - In a college football series that has had more than its share of intriguing story lines , today's annual Tennessee-Florida showdown here at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium adds an unexpected angle. No. 1 Florida, a 28 1/2 -point favorite after a 2-0 start in a couple of nonconference laughers, is starting its run toward its third national championship in four years.
Friends looked at Trent Clemen and Eric Didesch as if they had lost their minds. Senior year, 1998: Clemen and Didesch announce they will play college football at Northern Illinois. Friends had their punch lines ready.
MORGANTOWN - If you think Division I-A coaches have cornered the market on innovation in college football, think again. When West Virginia lines up against Wofford Saturday night at Mountaineer Field, the Mountaineers will be using something stolen straight from, well, Wofford.
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