Coaches hoping rivalry brings out teams' best
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If you ask Boston College coach Jerry York what grade his squad deserves now that roughly a third of the season is over, he acknowledges room for improvement.
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As we head down the stretch of the season, the significance of each game will be amplified. While it is difficult to envision any team looking past an opponent at this juncture of the season
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Joe Gibbs and Bill Parcells will be separated by the width of the field, but they&#39;ll go headset-to-headset Monday night in a duel of coaches who&#39;ve won five Super Bowls â-nd come back for more.
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By todayÂs model, an elite college football coach is only one mediocre season away from being fired. Just ask MiamiÂs Larry Coker or AlabamaÂs Mike Shula.
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One of the biggest Eagles-Steelers games since their long-ago days as conference rivals is reviving memories of the year two of pro football's best cities shared a single team.
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A 10-point win to keep the No. 1 ranking and remain unbeaten would make most coaches happy. Probably very happy. Not Roy Williams.
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A pair of coaching legends will square off at FedEx Field on Monday night, when Joe Gibbs and the Redskins play host to Bill Parcells and the rival Cowboys in a primetime matchup.
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Maybe Jim Bates can be a good head coach. Maybe A.J. Feeley is the quarterback of the future. Or maybe the Miami Dolphins just had a magical night against the defending Super Bowl champions.
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The Kentucky-Louisville rivalry is one of the best in college basketball, right up there with Duke-North Carolina. The Red vs. Blue rivalry continues on Saturday at Louisville (ESPN, noon ET) and it should be something special.
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Going into Week 4 of the NFL season, league aficionados already have been treated to classic matchups between coaching legends (Parcells vs.
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It will never be Yankees-Red Sox, but this may very well be the best rivalry in the NFL. All the big ones - Bears-Packers, Redskins-Cowboys, Steelers-Browns, Broncos-Raiders - have lost some of their luster
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With all the dynasty talk surrounding  the New England Patriots as they prepare to face the  Philadelphia Eagles at Super Bowl XXXIX Sunday, it comes as no  surprise that coach Bill Belichick is also being linked with  greatness.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas Texas A-and-M and Kansas State are no longer in the Top 25. But the perennial powers are hoping experience gained this season can return them near the top of the league -- and the nation.
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There is no conference or in-state affiliation between these two programs, but it hasn&#39;t prevented the annual Notre Dame-Michigan State game from becoming one of the most heated rivalries in all of college football.
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Geno Auriemma has coached many great players while turning Connecticut into a five-time national champion. He will coach against one of them for the first time Tuesday night.
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Bill Belichick and Eric Mangini met near midfield, exchanged a fleeting, businesslike handshake and again went their separate ways. No warm embrace, and barely a word spoken. That's the way it's been since the student left the teacher's New England Patriots to become the head coach of the New York Jets, adding to an already spicy rivalry.
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Bob Bowlsby hopes his search for Stanford's new football coach works out as well as it did the last time he hired a coach.