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• Mr. PERFECT LIVES UP TO THE BILLING

  - 2008-08-16

  -- ENGLEWOOD Pearl Royal was sifting through some of her son Eddie's belongings, preparing to send some things to him in Denver when she came across a box of notes he wrote as an introspective and quiet child. One note by Eddie Royal, a rookie...

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• KU looks prepared to stay

  - 2008-01-05

  Thursday night was the Jayhawks' turn to crow, a right they earned after their impressive 24-21 victory over No. 5 Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl. After hearing for a month that they didn't belong in Miami - that their 11-1 record was built on a cupcake schedule,...

  Tags: football, team, underdog, Virginia Tech

• KU looks prepared to stay

  - 2008-01-05

  Thursday night was the Jayhawks' turn to crow, a right they earned after their impressive 24-21 victory over No. 5 Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl. After hearing for a month that they didn't belong in Miami - that their 11-1 record was built on a cupcake schedule,...

  Tags: football, team, underdog, Virginia Tech

• Link to today's hot topics at usatoday.com

  - 2007-12-04

  Fans: LSU belongs Did the BCS get it right with LSU joining Ohio State in the BCS Championship Game? Who do you think should play the Buckeyes in the BCS title game? Results of voting at sports.usatoday.com: LSU 28% ...

  Tags: baseball, football, Games, Virginia Tech

• On College Football | Good times replacing gloom for Tranghese and Big East

  - 2007-10-19

  PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Last year, Rutgers went into November undefeated, and the national media arrived to chronicle the surprising rise of the Scarlet Knights. This week, South Florida got the full-scale USA Today, Sports Illustrated and ESPN treatment.A program that began a little more than a decade ago, operating out...

  Tags: Boston College, conference, football, Games, Miami, South, team, Virginia Tech

• Football unites Virginia Tech

  - 2007-08-29

  BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Sports is often an amnesia machine, allowing fans a fantasyland for forgetting their troubles. That's not how it will go Saturday at Lane Stadium. Virginia Tech will use football to remember. "What happened isn't going anywhere," quarterback Sean Glennon...

  Tags: football, Football, Games, Virginia Tech

• Manuel, Wagner share ache of their native Virginia

  - 2007-04-18

  LONG BEFORE LAST night's Phillies-Mets game began, Charlie Manuel and Billy Wagner, native Virginians, met near home plate. They weren't talking baseball.They discussed death.Manuel, the Phillies' manager, was raised in Buena Vista, about 80 miles northeast of Blacksburg. His mother still lives there.Wagner, the Mets' closer and a Phillie in...

  Tags: football, Games, Virginia Tech

• Rich Hofmann

  - 2007-04-17

  SOME DAYS, you are reminded more of your insignificance than others. Yesterday was one. The Phillies were rained out again, a column needed to be written, a sports column, and it was so hard to concentrate as the television told the awful story in the background. I have never been...

  Tags: football, heroe, TVs, Virginia Tech

• Brother-sister bond stays tight

  - 2005-10-06

  BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Eddie and Christina Royal have to make time for each other, what with the demands on him from football and on her from leading the Corps of Cadets. That's why their two years at Virginia Tech have made a close brother-sister relationship even closer. They attend...

  Tags: apartment, bond, Eddie, food, football, Manufacturing, Virginia, Virginia Tech

• Syracuse's Boeheim picks on ACC football

  - 2004-12-07

  Syracuse's Jim Boeheim is the only basketball coach who has been part of the Big East since the league started in 1979. So he has seen a lot of Big East hoops and quite a bit of Big East football too, down through the years. Boeheim, a master of...

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