No. 1 Wake wakes up in time to foil Arizona
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For more than 25 minutes last night, the No. 1 team in the nation looked awfully ordinary, awfully ripe for the taking. But with the national ranking the Wake Forest basketball program
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McLEAN, Va. (SportsTicker) - Wake Forest took over the top spot in the USA Today/ESPN coaches poll but North Carolina and Arizona were the biggest losers.
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Justin Gray scored 21 points for the second straight game and the top-ranked Demon Deacons beat No. 18 Arizona 63-60 on Friday night in the championship game of the 16-team tournament, a game that had a March feel to it in late-November.
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Pat Tillman used to climb the light towers over Sun Devil Stadium to meditate. He was a fierce Arizona State football player and an honor student who graduated in 3 1/2 years.
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LOS ANGELES (Sports Network) - Dwayne Jarrett tied a school  record with three touchdown receptions and finished with 139  yards through the air to lead No. 1 Southern California over  15th-ranked Arizona State, 45-7, in a Pac-10 matchup at L.A.  Memorial Coliseum.
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If waking up before dawn would guarantee him a sensational round of golf, Don Pooley would be delighted to set his alarm clock at 4:30 a.m. on a daily basis. Pooley made the most of a very long day, birdieing half the holes Saturday in an 8-under 64 that left him a stroke ahead of Keith Fergus and Massy Kuramoto after two rounds of the Constellation Energy Classic.
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Wake Forest reached No. 1 for the first time, switching places with Kansas atop The Associated Press men's basketball poll Monday &#151; even though the Jayhawks didn't lose.
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I've been getting early wake-up calls lately. Waking up before the sun has cleared the line of trees east of my house may be the result of age, but I prefer to think of it as a creative surge, or a greater degree of alertness.
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TUCSON, Ariz. (U-WIRE) -- If the Arizona football team (1-1) wants any shot at defeating No. 17 Wisconsin (2-0) Saturday afternoon, it&#39;s going to have to turn up the heat.
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aybe Fabrice Santoro was just as slow to wake up yesterday morning as the late-arriving fans at the United States Open. Before many seats at Arthur Ashe Stadium were occupied, Roger Federer
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Dust off those old Michigan No. 16 jerseys - John Navarre is back in town. As of yesterday, Navarre is the starting quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, and that means that â-ome Sunday, when the Cardinals
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Channing Frye scored 14 of his 18 points in the second half and No. 11 Arizona made 38 of 40 free throws to beat No. 10 Washington 91-82 on Thursday night, taking over first place in the Pac-10.
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Dusty Baker, manager of the Chicago Cubs, found himself awake at 3 am yesterday morning and immediately turned on the Weather Channel for an update on Hurricane Frances.
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The Connecticut Sun got a wake-up call Saturday when then were defeated by the Washington Mystics in the first game of their best-of-three WNBA Eastern Conference semifinal series.
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When the alarm goes off today for the players at Boise State and San Jose State, they'll yawn, stretch and mutter something like, "It must be noon somewhere." Think television is an innocent bystander in college sports? If so, hit the snooze button. The Broncos and Spartans will kick off their Western Athletic Conference tilt at 9:02 a.m. Pacific Time, for the benefit of ESPN2. To adjust, Boise State Coach Dan Hawkins has had the team up at 5 a.m. all week. "We're used to having to play whenever ESPN wants to cover it," Boise State's    Daryn Colledge  told the Idaho Statesman. Ah, the purity of college athletics.
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Wake Forest, which is ranked No. 1 for the first time in the 99-year history of its program, could have picked up a nose bleed from the altitude, but 6-2 junior guard Justin Gray, a first-team
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The Detroit Red Wings' sleeping power play appears to have woken up.