Holiday Bowl

Not to dis Mickey Mouse, but Big Ten officials know their fans don't want to go to Orlando every year. Or Tampa. Or Houston. There is one exception. "Pasadena," Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon said. So to combat the bowl fatigue that affects...

Geography is the new Big Ten buzzword. First it was the new 2014 football division names, embracing East and West, and now it's spilling into the revised bowl plan. As the Big Ten athletic directors meet Tuesday and today at the Sofitel hotel in...

Iowa will face one of the toughest Big Ten slates next year based on its single-play rotation. Coach Fran McCaffery said this morning Iowa's single-plays include Penn State (road), Indiana (road), Purdue (home) and Nebraska (home). Only Indiana...

There's no use grousing about the NFL's stringent definition of what makes a prize quarterback, whether we're talking about Tim Tebow or Charlie Ward or anybody else. Not even under the far more colorful umbrella of the college game is there absolute...

The Sports Xchange College football roundup: Playoff picture become clear Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will be the site of the first College Football Playoff championship game on Jan. 12, 2015. Tampa, Fla., the only other bidder for the...

Atlanta's Chick-fil-A Bowl is expected to be named one of the rotating hosts of national semifinal games in the new College Football Playoff when the sport's power brokers vote on and announce the decision later today in Pasadena, Calif. The Chick-fil-A...

Eager to turn the page from the complex and convoluted BCS era, college football's power brokers gave the most basic name imaginable to the four-team playoff that will crown the national champion starting with the 2014 season. They announced Tuesday...

The Jim Mora coronation is over at UCLA, and the coach is happy to be moving on. There were Bruins faithful who grumbled when he was hired now giddy with the memory of a nine-win season and a victory over USC. But 2012 ended with a three-game losing...

UCLA safety Tevin McDonald has been released from the team after violating team policy. “It’s disappointing to me and disappointing for Tevin,” Coach Jim Mora said. “I have known him since he was a young boy. On a personal level,...

When Sonny Lubick landed his first Division I-A head-coaching job, at Colorado State in 1993, then-Western Athletic Conference rival San Diego State was a natural place to search for assistants to run the offense. First with Dan McGwire at quarterback...

As money managers are fond of reminding us, past returns are no guarantee of future returns. Same goes for coaches, football and otherwise. But if Steve Fairchild’s most recent nine seasons as an offensive coordinator are any indicator, and if...

The most accomplished high school cheer program in the Imperial Valley has received a change of the guard. Southwest High cheer coach Denise Harrison passed the Eagles spirit stick on to Kyleen Lopez at the culmination of the 2012 football season,...