Season lidlifter renews heated conference rivalry
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Season openers like tonightâs donât get much more exciting than this. The NFL schedule-makers knew what they were doing when they sent
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There is symbolism in the matchup: two Big East teams, each moving into a new neighborhood, opening up their conference schedule.
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The Baltimore Ravens have put a lid on the trash talk this week. With an 0-1 record, a depleted offensive line and a thin receiving corps, the defending AFC North champs have more on their minds than merely trading barbs with their hated rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Fresh off their first trip to the Major League Lacrosse championship game, the Boston Cannons will open their fifth season May 29 at Philadelphia, a rematch of last season's finale against the defending champion Barrage.
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As great as a conference championship game can be, and there are five being played in the next three days, deciding a league champ the old-fashioned way can be fun.
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Points: Though it is still September, this key divisional clash could determine who represents the East Division in the Mid-American Conference title game - as it has for five of the past six years.
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The month of August was rife with arrogance, malfeasance and criminality in professional sports, but all is not lost for cynical fans seeking a new start.
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The defensive coordinator Jim Johnson is crafty at undermining an opponent's main strength, forcing teams to attempt to beat Philadelphia with lesser assets.
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Blood poured from his nose and onto his lip, chin and the court. The latest bruised face of college basketball's nastiest rivalry belongs to North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough. "Just a little bump and bruise," teammate Reyshawn Terry said. "Nothing that a little ice can't handle."
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The week of a world heavyweight title fight is usually the time for the champion to engage in trash talk. According to boxing&#39;s book of traditions this is when
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As if there were not enough vitriol between Duke and North Carolina, fans now have The Foul to add to the lore of perhaps the most intense rivalry in college sports.
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Jim Mora gathered his team for its first meeting in late March and built a fire. A lot of new coaches do that and six months later there are just embers.
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The West Virginia team that Bob Huggins takes into Freedom Hall on Thursday to face Louisville is a hybrid of sorts.
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Across the spectrum of mass-appeal professional sports, Americaâs greatest regional rivalry has not been a pretty sight for New York fans.
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So many angles. So many sub-plots. So much intrigue for a game pitting two non-winning teams holding one-way tickets to irrelevance.
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ST. LOUIS -- Don't look now, but there's a bit of drama building in the &quot;other&quot; League Championship Series.
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What was shaping up as a subpar season for Holy Cross has turned into a surprising tournament run.