[TS] Sports of The Times: The Wal-Mart of College Sports
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At the University of Arkansas, boosters and alumni now act as shareholders, whipped into go-team frenzy to form a new breed of extreme fans as they seek a return on their increased emotional and financial investments.
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First things first. Major college football is no closer to a playoff than it was before this season erupted in controversy, before the Associated Press grew so uneasy with the Bowl
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Remember when one of the trademarks of a good season for a college football team was a Top 10 ranking? Or even better, of course, being ranked as one of the top two teams?
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Good morning, Lloyd Carr and Charlie Weis, coaches of the No. 1- and No. 2-winningest programs in the history of college football. How does it feel to be knocked out of contention for the national championship before Labor Day?
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Subversives who enjoy seeing the college football establishment squirm have found their team for 2004. In embarrassing Texas A&amp;M 41-21, the No.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the  world's biggest retailer, is ready for some football.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's  biggest retailer, is ready for some football.
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Critics of college rankings say universities aren't like their sports teams: you cannot settle who is best with head-to-head competition on the playing field. But in a new paper, a group of economists and statisticians begs to differ.
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The most important intercollegiate competition of 2004 didn't involve football, basketball, hockey, or baseball. It involved bacteria. The teams hailed from California Institute of Technology, Princeton, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas at Austin, a group of schools that might soon be known as the E. Coli League.
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For the college football fan who can never get enough, this weekend is for you.
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Three weeks have passed in the college football season, and the landscape has been scattered with bizarre upsets and serious struggles for traditional powers.
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Brawled-out yet? I guess we all are. We've all seen Ron Artest bolt off that table even more than we've seen Flutie roll to his right. But the fallout from L'Affaire Auburn Hills is enormous, and I don't just mean the South Carolina-Clemson dust-up that has resulted in each institution punishing itself by eschewing bowl bids.
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Game for the ages? Sorry. Game of the season? Nope. Game of the day? Maybe, but that was only because it was a Friday night and the college football schedule was light.
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AMHERST -- When the Commonwealth Classic was born, it more than lived up to its name. In 1995, the occasional basketball battles between Boston College and the University of Massachusetts were codified into a yearly series. On a snowy December day, 18,974 people, paying $35 or $50 a ticket, packed the newly christened FleetCenter to watch a Final Four-bound UMass ...
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North Carolina State has the most turnovers in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Florida State is among the conference leaders in takeaways.
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From the weekly media and coaches polls to the preseason rankings in a bevy of magazines to the annual end-of-season debate about the Bowl Championship Series, no sport is tied to polling as much as college football.
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The board-sports retailer enjoys back-to-school season.