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Penn State football players given favorable treatment, ex-of...

Penn State University football players received special treatment when they got into trouble, the university's former chief disciplinarian said on Tuesday. The disclosure came as the university is reeling from allegations of child abu [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

College football all about money

If there ever was any doubt about the venality of those running big time college football, it has been dispelled in recent weeks by a series of piratical raids so audacious they would leave Blackbeard envious. Seemingly without a secon [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Manchester United target & Lens defender Raphael Varane inte...

Manchester United target Raphael Varane insists that he will leave Lens only for a club that can offer him regular football. The Red Devils have been linked with a move for the young defender over the past few months, and recent reports p [...]

Posted On : Jun, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Football transfer rumours: Bojan Krkic to Arsenal or Liverpo...

One could be forgiven for presuming that, having previously offloaded a promising young midfielder to Arsenal only to decide several years down the line that they'd quite like to buy him back at an enormous financial loss, Barcelona w [...]

Posted On : Jun, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Manchester United should throw the book at Wayne Rooney as F...

Enough, it seems, is finally enough. There is definitely a mood afoot to deal with such matters and the only hope is that the FA will now be consistent and carry on. The organisation appears emboldened — perhaps the Premier League& [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Manchester United & South Korea midfielder Park Ji-Sung set ...

South Korea captain Park Ji-Sung is expected to fly back to the East Asian nation once their 2011 Asian Cup campaign has concluded to announce his international retirement. There is no certainty that the 29-year-old Manchester United mid [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Football Focus: EPL prophecy: Liverpool top 4, United for ti...

The English Premier League season is shaping up exactly as expected and in my mind there is still no doubt that Manchester United will be crowned champions next May. That’s not to say that many of the events which occurred in the e [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

College football midseason report

College football’s first six weeks gave us coaching genius (“Little Giants”) and coaching craziness (Les Miles). It introduced Denard Robinson and Oregon’s hurry-up. It re-introduced Nebraska and Steve Spurrier. A [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Pakistan to face Oman in Asian Games football

The opening match will be played 5 days prior to the opening ceremony at Haixinsha Island in the Pearl River. Other opponents of Pakistan in Group F will be Thailand and Maldives. The competition, like the Olympic football tournament, wi [...]

Posted On : Oct, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Fifa medical officer concerned by 'criminal' tackles in top-...

Speaking on the back of Nigel de Jong's leg-breaking collision with Hatem Ben Arfa, and Danny Murphy's assertion that it is the managers to blame for effectively inciting their own players, D'Hooghe believes the 'beautifu [...]

Posted On : Oct, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Manchester United's Wayne Rooney a big loser in football ric...

Wayne Rooney's value has fallen by £12m according to the latest football rich list. The Manchester United striker has slumped from 65th to 89th in the main list and from third to sixth in the players' rankings. The for [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2010 | Comments : 0

Football Ferns record another big win

New Zealand were forced to play a patient game in their final Oceania Nations Cup women's soccer group match against Tahiti today before eventually winning 7-0 in Auckland. The win rubber-stamped New Zealand's position as group A [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

2010 fantasy football rankings update

Happy 2010, everyone! It's our "new year," and with it is our first season-to-end rankings column. In future weeks, we'll hop right into the rankings; but this being the debut, let's talk a little about rankings phi [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Looking back at the highlights in college football

USA TODAY's college football staff tells you what college football's past weekend meant to the six BCS conferences and the rest of Football Bowl Subdivision.ACC: In what will be remembered as one of the blackest Saturdays in conf [...]