Bob McCarty Writes

Deadly violence has once again visited the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg.  Unlike events that took place 21 months ago, only one person — not 33 — died in the violence yesterday.  The murder weapon was a knife, not a gun.  And, if it’s possible to find one in such a tragedy, the [...]

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The Big 12 North’s Kansas Jayhawks defeated the Big Ten’s Minnesota Golden Gophers, 42-21, late yesterday afternoon in the Insight Bowl in Tempe, Ariz.
Because the game was aired on NFL Network, I didn’t watch it and will not give spend much time writing about the efforts of these two unranked teams.  I will, however, thank [...]

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Due to the fact that there are seven — count ‘em, seven — Big 12 Conference teams involved in college football bowl games between Dec. 29 and Jan. 8, I decided to include all of their games as well as all of the BCS bowl games in my predictions this year which appear below:
Monday, Dec. [...]

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I must be honest and admit that the college football bowl games that matter begin tomorrow morning. That in mind, I offer my predictions below for the eight major bowl games* being played during the next seven days:
JANUARY 1
OUTBACK BOWL
Tampa, 11 a.m. ET, ESPN HD

Wisconsin Badgers vs. Tennessee Volunteers
Though Wisconsin has won seven of [...]

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