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TGS NFL SPECIAL REPORT...PRESEASON WEEK FOUR QB UPDATE  Following are updated NFL team-by-team QB situations as of September 2. TGS will be updating this list weekly throughout the preseason...
OAKLAND-Jason Campbell, Kyle Boller, Bruce Gradkowski, Colt Brennan.
PHILADELPHIA-Kevin Kolb, Michael Vick, Mike Kafka (4th round, Northwestern). PITTSBURGH-Ben Roethlisberger, Dennis Dixon, Byron Leftwich, Charlie Batch. ST. LOUIS-Sam Bradford (1st round, Oklahoma), Keith Null (2nd year, W. Tex. A&M), Thaddeus Lewis (FA, Duke Read more... |
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...CHECK SIGNALS AGAIN ON BYU  For those who believe the BCS only impacts college football, think again. In the past, it's been the big-time football-playing conferences that have had to deal with BCS ramifications and conference shifting. But no longer. Non-football leagues are now feeling the indirect impact of the BCS as well.
It says here that BYU's sudden about-face late Tuesday afternoon, announcing that it was leaving the Mountain West and going the independent route in football while joining up with the West Coast Conference for basketball and other sports, is a regrettable development. Not that it is going to be bad financial deal for the WCC; to the contrary, it might Read more... |
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NEW TGS COVER STORY...COLLEGE FB TEAM TRENDS TO WATCH  Handicappers and sports book patrons still value nuts and bolts performance and results information on all of the teams and upcoming matchups, especially in college football. Which is why we devote extensive space each week in our sister publication, The Gold Sheet EXTRA!!! , to highlight various team and series trends and patterns worth reviewing in the Technician's Corner feature. And at the outset of each gridiron campaign, it's usually a good idea to make note of some of the most compelling team trends. Following are some of the more interesting of those "base" team spread angles worth reviewing as the Read more... |
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TGS 2010 PRO FOOTBALL PREVIEW...TAMPA BAY BUCS  Following is the next in a series of pro football previews that will be updated weekly up until the kickoff of the season in early September. Remember, THE GOLD SHEET's comprehensive 2010 Pro & College Football Preview is available FREE online now!
Next up: an early look at the Tampa Bay Bucs... Blame it on...Manchester United?
No, we're not supporters of Chelsea, Arsenal, or one of those English Premier League teams that have a never-ending vendetta against Man United. Rather, we suspect there is something of a correlation between the recently declining fortunes of the Bucs Read more... |
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TGS 2010 COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW...NEVADA WOLF PACK  Following is the next in a series of college football previews that will be updated weekly up until the kickoff of the season in early September. Remember, THE GOLD SHEET's comprehensive 2010 Pro & College Football Preview is available FREE online now!
Next up: an early look at the Nevada Wolf Pack... When last seen, Nevada's gridders were suffering from their own Pearl Harbor episode, right next to where the real thing happened December 7, 1941. The consequences weren't nearly as serious regarding the demise of the Wolf Pack's fortunes, which took a Read more... |
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...THE CONFERENCE SHUFFLE CONTINUES  What next, schools changing conference affiliations in the middle of football season?
Forgive us for sounding a bit cynical about the latest developments in college athletics, but we really can't help ourselves. If you recall, we predicted as much back in the spring, that all hell was about to break loose in the college sports ranks. But even we didn't expect so much to happen in a three-month span prior to the kickoff of the 2010 football season, which is rapidly approaching. We can recall the days when it was rare to have much movement in conference memberships for Read more... |
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GOLD SHEET 2010 PRO FOOTBALL PREVIEW... ST. LOUIS RAMS  Following is another in a series of pro football previews that will be updated weekly up until the kickoff of the season in early September. Remember, THE GOLD SHEET's comprehensive 2010 Pro & College Football Preview is available FREE online now!
Next up: an early look at the St. Louis Rams... Although no one seemed to ask top pick Sam Bradford about it on draft night at Radio City Music Hall, we have to wonder if the former Heisman Trophy-winning QB from Oklahoma is wondering about his decision to bypass last year's selection show, when the Lions had the top pick, for this past April, when the Rams had the first Read more... |
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TGS 2010 COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREVIEW...TCU HORNED FROGS  Following is another in a series of college football previews that will be updated weekly up until the kickoff of the season in early September. Remember, THE GOLD SHEET's comprehensive 2010 Pro & College Football Preview is available FREE online now!
Next up: an early look at the TCU Horned Frogs... Although it might surprise the new ESPN-generation of sports viewers, TCU football had some glorious moments in its history prior to the creation of the BCS. But, in college gridiron terms, unearthing those old highlights requires the equivalent of an archaeological dig. Legendary HC Francis Schmidt enjoyed spectacular success during Herbert Hoover's administration before moving Read more... |
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TGS SPECIAL REPORT...WHEN PRESEASON WAS REALLY A BLAST!  The kickoff of NFL preseason action always gets us in a wistful mood at TGS. And it's not just because another gridiron campaign is ready to commence. Rather, it's the preseason itself that gets us in a reflective mood, and harkens back to a time when the results of these exhibition games really meant something, not only to the fans, but to the players and teams themselves.
That's not to say there isn't any significance attached to the preseason games of today (especially to players fighting for jobs), but, frankly, the modern NFL preseason exercise is easy to Read more... |
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SPECIAL REPORT...UPDATED TGS PRESEASON TOP 25!  Who's number one? Here's a sneak peek of THE GOLD SHEET's preseason college football Top 25, just part of our comprehensive Pro and College Football Preview, available FREE online NOW!
6-IOWA...Who knows, were it not for that ankle injury suffered by QB Ricky Stanzi in November against Northwestern, maybe the Hawkeyes would have made it into last January's title game (no consolation to Georgia Tech, which was manhandled by Norm Parker's Iowa defense in the Orange Bowl). Now, with a healthy Stanzi, most of the pieces seem to be in place for another run Read more... |
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THE BEST OF TGS...BATON ROUGE TRAVELOGUE REWIND  Following is another in our recurring series of "Best of TGS" installments. This one recalls a memorable travelogue entry from Baton Rouge, penned last September...
It was road trip time for us last weekend, down deep into SEC country when traveling to Baton Rouge for last Saturday's Vanderbilt-LSU tilt...
Those familiar with our recurring travelogue segments know that our tastes in college football venues tend to veer from the mainstream. We've been to enough big-time settings in the past to know that we don't want to return to most of them if we can help it; indeed, if anyone can show us a more uncomfortable experience than watching a Southern Cal game Read more... |