NCAA bowl games: Virginia Tech football a surprise pick for Sugar Bowl

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After three straight appearances in the NCAA Women's Soccer national championship game, Stanford (25-0-1) has ended its College Cup misery with a 1-0 win over Duke to capture their school's first national title. NC State won't have to travel far to

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After three straight appearances in the NCAA Women's Soccer national championship game, Stanford (25-0-1) has ended its College Cup misery with a 1-0 win over Duke to capture their school's first national title. NC State won't have to travel far to

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Contributor Network 16 minutes ago The NCAA bowl season begins in earnest Dec. 17 with three bowl games. The major bowls don't happen until early January, but there is plenty of action to check out from mid-December until the national title game Jan.

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Tony Stewart storms to Sprint Cup title with win in finale

USA Today

After an epic night at Homestead, our SB Nation Motorsports Editor found it hard to leave the track when it was time to go home.

In other words, it was a series built for drivers like Tony Stewart, then the 1995 USAC Triple Crown champion, but priced out of a ride in CART by expensive technology and ex-Formula 1 drivers. Nearly two decades and four major national championships

Tony Stewart was a mile and a half from the checkered flag Sunday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway when he keyed his mic the last time during the Ford 400. By Kevin Liles, US Presswire Tony Stewart celebrates his race win and championship in victory

By Cindy Boren Darian Grubb, whose pit call stretched the gas in Stewart's car to the limit and put him in position to outduel Carl Edwards and win the Ford 400 and Cup on Sunday, won't be returning. Stewart, the first owner-driver to win the title

Stewart beat Edwards, the overall points leader, and took the checkered flag at Homestead, Fla.

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Tony Stewart storms to Sprint Cup title with win in NASCAR season finale

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Something poked a hole in the front grille of Tony Stewart's Chevy. The championship contender told his crew he never felt anything, but repairs set him back in the early laps of the Ford 400. Stewart never lost a lap and recovered.

Tony Stewart likes to play up the fact that he's just a simple, loyal good old boy from Columbus, Ind. "I still have the same friends I had growing up," Stewart said Sunday. He may have the same friends he had more than 30

Tony Stewart has won his third NASCAR championship today at the final round of the season at Homestead, FL. Stewart tied his rival Carl Edwards on points, winning the title in a tiebreaker by winning more races during the

COM It was Hendrick, whose powerhouse motorsports team supplied engines and equipment to the organization then known as Haas-CNC Racing, who a little more than three years ago helped convince Tony Stewart to make the leap into car ownership.

AP The central Indiana Dairy Queen owner who first sponsored Tony Stewart as a go-kart racer 25 years ago says he could hardly stand still as Stewart closed in on winning his third NASCAR championship. Stewart's title-clinching race victory on Sunday

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Plane crash kills Oklahoma State women's basketball coach

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When firefighters from Strasburg Fire Department heard about a plane crash that claimed the lives of two coaches from the Oklahoma State women's basketball program their thoughts immediately went back in time ten years and ten month. It was January 27,

The pilot who died Friday afternoon in a small-plane crash at the county fairgrounds in Pomona was flying alone, authorities said. The cause of the accident is unknown, said Ian McGregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

17, 2010, UVU flight instructor Jamie Bennee and student pilot David Wayne Whitney Jr. were killed when their single-engine plane crashed in a Payson neighborhood, about 300 feet from Wilson Elementary School. Witnesses told crash investigators they

One person is confirmed dead in the crash. Emergency crews found the wreckage of a Cessna Skymaster sometime before 4 pm in a stretch of prairie within sight of Interstate 25. Officials cannot yet confirm the number of people on board the aircraft,

STILLWATER, Okla. — Former Oklahoma State University men's basketball coach Eddie Sutton says the plane crash in Arkansas that killed two OSU women's coaches brings back painful memories. Friday, November 18

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A Throwback Is True to Form, Feisty Right to the End

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While his co-host got teary when she said a few words about their 11-year stint, Philbin preferred to joke about his last day on 'Live with Regis and Kelly'.

And in other news from the bizarro land that results from the collision of reality with “reality,” Kelly Ripa and Nick Lachey dressed up as the presumably happy couple for this morning's Live! Halloween show just an hour before the divorce was

Kelly Ripa gave Regis Philbin an emotional farewell on Friday's program, recounting the time they spent together and thanking him for changing her life.

When Kelly Ripa kicks off her tenure as the lone host of Live! on Nov. 21, she'll have a little company. WABC-TV announced that Jerry Seinfeld will sit beside her during the first week following co-host Regis Philbin's official departure.

Consuelos, who is well known for his own marriage to Live with Regis and Kelly co-host and his former All My Children co-star Kelly Ripa, chatted with Broadway.com shortly before the show's opening about supporting marriage equality, his stint as a

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Syracuse's Boeheim Stands By Assistant Accused of Abuse

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Nancy Cantor, the Syracuse University chancellor, must have been thrilled last night to discover that ESPN had learned that her school's assistant basketball coach, Bernie Fine, was under investigation for molesting his team's

SYRACUSE, NY (AP) — The chancellor at Syracuse University in New York says the school won't turn a blind eye to the allegations of child molestation that are now surfacing against assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine.

The news is having serious reprecussions in Utah, as Cowgirls commit Brittney Martin of Syracuse High School learned of the news this morning. A former assistant coach on the basketball team heard the news and immediately pulled her out of class.

On Thursday evening, ESPN reported on an active investigation into accusations of child molestation against assistant Syracuse basketball coach Bernie Fine. Two alleged victims spoke with ESPN's 'Outside The Lines,'

Salina (WSYR-TV) – Sheriff's Deputies are investigating an accident that occurred early Friday morning when a woman lost control of her car on the Onondaga Lake Parkway and ended up in Onondaga Lake. According to Sheriff's Deputies, they responded to

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Syracuse asst. basketball coach Bernie Fine put on leave following allegations …

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By John Kekis, The Associated PressSYRACUSE, N.Y. — Just two weeks after Penn State was rocked by a child sex-abuse scandal, ESPN reported Thursday that police were investigating an assistant basketball coach at

By John O'Brien / The Post-Standard Investigators from Syracuse on Thursday were searching in Oswego County for the body of at least one of two women murdered more than 18 years ago by the same man. Investigators with the Onondaga County District

By John Kekis, The Associated PressSYRACUSE, N.Y. — Just two weeks after Penn State was rocked by a child sex-abuse scandal, ESPN reported Thursday that police were investigating an assistant basketball coach at

Good grief. ESPN had this story in 2003, but couldn't corroborate one alleged victim's account until Sandusky coverage prompted another man to come forward. And now ESPN again has the story:

By John O'Brien / The Post-Standard Investigators from Syracuse on Thursday were searching in Oswego County for the body of at least one of two women murdered more than 18 years ago by the same man. Investigators with the Onondaga County District

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School-closings meeting: Options in Brookhaven area have problems

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Changing demographics have been blamed for several recent Catholic school closings in St. Paul, including St. Bernard's High School last year. In March 2011, the local task force began discussions that led to the regional school recommendation

This weekend's unusual weather has walloped many Tri-State Area school systems.

DialMyCalls will spread the word quickly and efficiently of school closings and emergencies related to harsh winter weather with the launch of their snow day calls. With DialMyCalls and their snow day calls, schools can send out alerts via voice

Changing demographics have been blamed for several recent Catholic school closings in St. Paul, including St. Bernard's High School last year. In March 2011, the local task force began discussions that led to the regional school recommendation

School closures are more widespread. An updated list of closings can be found here. The storm played a role in three deaths, two in a car accident and one becau.

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CPS releases school-closing guidelines

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Damage and lack of power has led to many school closings and other closings Monday, including: Amity Region 5, Orange, Woodbridge, Bethany, Cheshire, Wallingford, Hamden, North Haven, Notre Dame High school of

Thousands of school children across the Northeast face school closings today. HARTFORD, Conn. — Residents across the Northeast faced the prospect of days without electricity or heat Monday after an early-season storm dumped as much as 30 inches of wet

He noted that reverse phone calls and emails and radio and television announcements about closings require power, which is a problem, given all the homes without electricity. "We'll keep adding to the end of the school year and then go back,"

More DCPS School Closings On The Horizon! DC GOVERNMENT IS PLANNING ON CLOSING MORE SCHOOLS! Did you know that the Deputy Mayor for Education (De'Shawn Wright) has hired a Chicago based firm to do a

New Jersey School Closings became a considerable case now in some Counties after the snowstorm hit the town on Saturday (10/29). The snowstorm made the New Jersey residents powerless to get the streets because it

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Peyton Hillis doubting future with Browns

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The Cleveland Browns Peyton Hillis was told not to play in week three by his agent. In a story just published by USA today,Kennard McGuire told The Associated Press that Hillis was too sick to play, and that if he had chanced

AP BEREA, Ohio — Peyton Hillis was too sick to play Sunday, and the Browns running back doesn't feel like he needs to provide a doctor's note to prove it. Hillis spoke in detail Thursday for the first time since missing last week's game against Miami

Complaining running backs: Over the past week, the Browns' Peyton Hillis has questioned his future because he hasn't received a new contract, and the Bengals' Cedric Benson is voicing his frustration over a lack of carries. Isn't the AFC North supposed

Cleveland Browns RB Peyton Hillis said Monday, Oct. 10, that he worries he might not have a long-term future with the team. 'Yeah, definitely worries me,' Hillis said when asked about his future with the team. 'You feel

Complaining running backs: Over the past week, the Browns' Peyton Hillis has questioned his future because he hasn't received a new contract, and the Bengals' Cedric Benson is voicing his frustration over a lack of carries. Isn't the AFC North supposed

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