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The Big Ten is preparing to end games against FCS schools.Are they running scared?Well, not quite, but FCS schools are coming off a banner season against FBS programs, winning 10 matchups - the most since 2003. Included was eventual national champion North Dakota State claiming an FBS win for the third straight season.FCS schools, who are always on the road for the games, hope for more success this season. Three conferences - the Missouri Valley, Southern and Southland - have all of their teams playing at least one FBS opponent. Only the non- scholarship Ivy and Pioneer leagues won't get in on the fun and understandably so.Following is a conference-by-conference breakdown of the FCS-vs.-FBS matchups:BIG SKYThe Matchups (17) - Cal Poly at Fresno State (Sept. 7) and Colorado State (Sept. 14); Eastern Washington at Oregon State (Aug. 31) and Toledo (Sept. 14); Idaho State at Washington (Sept. 21) and Brigham Young (Nov. 16); Montana State at SMU (Sept. 7); Northern Arizona at Arizona (Aug...
The only top seed to survive the NCAA Tournament to this point, Louisville, takes part in its second straight Final Four, as the Cardinals meet the surprising Wichit...
Around the Final Four and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the games.___Chilly, Sog...
The Super Bowl XVII champion Baltimore Ravens will be involved in one of 11 games televised nationally during the NFL's 2013 preseason schedule, which was announced ...
Around the Final Four and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the games.___LAETTNER'S ...
Michigan brushes off any comparisons to the Fab Five.Besides, the Wolverines have a chance to do something that group never did.Win a national championship.Michigan,...
Rick Pitino capped the greatest week of his life with the prize he wanted most of all.Luke Hancock produced another huge game off the bench, scoring 22 points, and P...
Someday soon, Rick Pitino is going to have to explain to his grandkids how he got his first and only tattoo.But before that, he's going to tell them the story of how...
The Louisville Cardinals came into the NCAA Tournament as the top overall seed and vindicated themselves Monday by beating Michigan, 82-76, in an intense national ch...
When Kevin Ware went down last week with a gruesome injury that sent his teammates and coaches into tears, Louisville's chances at winning a national title took some...
Louisville's celebration following the Cardinals' 82-76 victory over Michigan for the NCAA championship eventually required riot police and an armored carrier to que...
What a week for Rick Pitino! He's elected to the Hall of Fame. His horse is headed to the Kentucky Derby. His son gets a prominent head coaching job.Then he caps it ...
Rick Pitino held court in a tunnel beneath the Georgia Dome, going on and on about the grittiest bunch of guys he's ever coached.One of them sat in the corner of the...
A 20-year-old man from Tennessee who plunged about 35 feet from the upper level of the Georgia Dome and struck another fan during the Tennessee-North Carolina State ...
A 46-year-old man has been arrested in a stabbing near the Georgia Dome following the Falcons' NFC Championship game loss.Georgia Dome spokesman Jason Kirksey says J...
Around the Final Four and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the games.___LOUISVILLE ...
Around the Final Four and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the games.___FINAL FOUR ...
Michael Vick thrilled Georgia Dome fans for six seasons. Many of them felt betrayed by subsequent events that led to Vick doing jail time for his role in a dogfighti...
Tip-off time is nearing. Time to see if Louisville can live up to the hype or one of those other guys can turn the Final Four into their party.The Cardinals are not ...
Jerry Reimond remembers the captain coming on over the speakers in the airplane cabin, asking a bunch of wide-eyed kids from Wichita State to gaze out the windows.On...