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Keeping the Faith in Akron and Beyond
Months of time spent away from your team have made you soft. Given time to reflect on the year past and optimistically consider the future, you’ve started the process of raising expectations to a...
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Potential Layout of the New MAC
The MAC’s new 14-team alignment might seem like conference overload, but remember that this is a league that extends from Illinois to Massachusetts, touching on several points in between. So having 14...
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No. 108: Eastern Michigan
The losses continued to mount: 10 of them. And the losses were again routinely ugly: most by significant margins, including some so large they force you to double-check with another source to test...
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Forecasting the MAC in 2011
Finding the MAC favorite in August is never an issue: Temple played this role to perfection last fall, but ended the year third in its own division and home for bowl play. Projecting the end-of-year...
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Ten Themes for Saturday: Week 10
Ten teams, themes, games and players to watch for Saturday. Pretty straightforward. Here we go: Fickell makes his case He inherited an unenviable situation, in a way. Yes, Luke Fickell did get one...
View ArticleIt’s Still O.K. to Cheer. You’re Allowed.
You’ve resigned yourself to the following truths: Penn State will never be the same again; what we think of Penn State will never be the same again, more correctly. What happens from here on out takes...
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At Long Last, the MAC’s 2012 Schedule
@PeteThamelNYT @PreSnapRead Mid-week MAC is vital to me avoiding spending weeknights with my family. A lot riding on this.Thu Mar 29 18:03:26 via webPaulie PabstPaulPabst The MAC would have released...
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Among Optimism, One Bastion of Negativity
Twenty-five teams down, 99 to go. When you put it that way, it’s hard to find the light at the end of the tunnel. Perhaps I’d be wise to take a cue from the triple-digit portion of this summer’s...
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No. 92: Eastern Michigan
Just think of all the great lines that are no longer valid in everyday conversation – if you’re talking about Eastern Michigan in everyday conversation, that is, and if you are, let’s talk daily. No...
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Pick 10, F.B.S. Notebook: Week 3 (Sept. 15)
Do you remember the last time Notre Dame took a trip to East Lansing? You might not remember the game’s first 60 minutes and change, but that’s fine: things didn’t get wild until overtime, when...
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