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The year in sports: Believe the hype The year in sports: Believe the hype

2008 was a series of did you see thats that are destined to become do you remembers.
  • As goes Tennessee football, so goes the GOP

    Lane Kiffin, the new coach of the Volunteers, garners a Sarah Palin comparison. Get ready for a blowout loss
  • The real national champion -- and it isn't Utah

    The undefeated Utes, ineligible for the title, are this year's poster team for a playoff system. But one school has an even better claim.
  • Was this the greatest football game ever?

    OK, maybe not. But "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" still spins an improbable, Fitzgerald-meets-Updike yarn about two elite schools, a turbulent year and an unbelievable ending.
  • The year in sports

    There were some great moments in 2007, but it was a year of death and a steady rain of scandal.
  • Don't rile the Gators, Nancy Pelosi!

    A Florida Republican asks the speaker to postpone some congressional votes so he can go to the college football championship game.
  • Outdoor hockey, MLB Network, NFL predictions

    A great day for sports on TV -- even without college football -- gives way to a couple more as the playoffs get under way.
  • The crazy bowl system, explained

    Yahoo's Dan Wetzel on why college football outsources its best product to old dudes in colored blazers.
  • A quick look at the A-11 offense

    Piedmont High doesn't get much of a chance to run its famous scheme in a first-round playoff loss.
  • NFL Week 12: Big-game picks

    It's rivalry week on campus, but as great as Auburn-Alabama might be, how can it compete with Texans-Browns? Wait, let us rephrase that ...
  • The coach in waiting

    Texas makes defensive coordinator Will Muschamp the Lone Star State's Prince Charles.
  • BCS goes to "pay TV"

    Long-feared apocalypse for sports fans, a major championship on cable, is just a routine business deal.
  • The hot A-11 offense's female cousin

    Piedmont High's all-eligible scheme is the talk of football, but a coach in a women's pro league says he's been running it for three years.
  • Watching like it's 1985

    ESPN Classic is rolling out old USC-Ohio State games, and it's great to see the -- hey, where's the damn score bug?!
  • Letters: Celebration penalties

    The readers write -- and seem unable to find a middle ground between boorish taunting and stoic restraint.
  • "Celebration" crackdown hurts college football

    The NCAA's ham-fisted enforcement is a threat to the best thing about the game: the intense, celebratory atmosphere.
  • East Carolina: Schedule whoopser

    The Pirates looked like an annual easy win when the likes of Virginia Tech and West Virginia signed on for long series in '05. Whoops.
  • The squibs return to Capistrano

    The first sighting of a dumb but supposedly safe strategy by a football coach means autumn is in the air.
  • NCAA academic penalties flunk sniff test

    The big sports money's in the big conferences and the big classroom underachievers aren't?
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Georgia president has great idea after BCS title game snub: Let's have a tournament! Plus: Pete Carroll to Atlanta?
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Roger Clemens makes public a strange phone conversation with his accuser. Plus: LSU beats Ohio State for BCS title.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Where's the former trainer who says he was interviewed four times and blamed management, not players, for the steroid mess? Plus: Clemens, bowl-game grad rates.
  • Labor war on drugs

    Whatever the Mitchell Report was supposed to do, it's caused baseball and the players union to renew hostilities. Plus: NFL.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    S.I. Sportsman of the Year: Brett Favre. No, really. It's Brett Favre.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Ohio State vs. LSU: The BCS's answer to a wild, unpredictable year is a couple of usual suspects. Sorry, Hawaii.
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