10/13/2008 - Chapel Hill, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - North Carolina senior wide receiver Brandon Tate will miss the remainder of the season because of a torn ligaments in his right knee.
Tate was hurt during the first quarter of Saturday's game against Notre Dame and tests revealed both a torn anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligament. He is expected to undergo surgery later this week.
With his collegiate career at an end, Tate finishes as the NCAA's all-time leader in combined kick return yards with 3,523. He was leading the ACC in all-purpose yards this season with 194.6 per game heading into Saturday's action.
On Saturday, Tate accounted for just nine yards on a punt return before the injury. He finished the season with 376 receiving yards, 305 kickoff return yards, 158 punt return yards and 143 rushing yards in six games for the 18th- ranked Tar Heels, who are off to a 5-1 start after the 29-24 win over Notre Dame.
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - It was Philadelphia that ended Montreal's bid for a Stanley
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tonight, as they travel to the City of Brotherly Love to battle the Flyers at
the Wachovia Cen
<< Rangers aim for 5-0 start vs. Devils
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New York Rangers will try to win their first five games
to start a season for the first time since 1983, as they host the rival New
Jersey Devils tonight at Madison Square Garden.
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - After sitting out New York's first two games of the season,
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Islanders' clash with the Buffalo Sabres at Nassau Coliseum.
DiPietro has been serving
<< Leafs host Blues in matinee
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Ron Wilson's home debut as Toronto head coach didn't
exactly go as planned. Wilson will try to get his first home win this
afternoon, as his Maple Leafs host the St. Louis Blues at Air Canada Centre.
Wilson, in his inaugur
Report: Romo sidelined with broken finger >>
Dallas, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will
reportedly be sidelined for a month with a broken finger on his throwing hand.
The Dallas Morning News reported Monday that Romo will be out for the next
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Report: Bowden out at Clemson >>
Columbia, SC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Clemson University has reportedly fired head
football coach Tommy Bowden.
According to The State, a Columbia, South Carolina newspaper, Bowden informed
his assistants of the decision on Monday morning.
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Around FCS: Why, Richmond, Why? >>
Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The question Richmond coaches, players and
supporters have to be asking this weekend is a simple one.
Why, Richmond, why?
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Sedin, Booth, Brodeur selected as NHL's Three Stars >>
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Martin Brodeur have been named the NHL's 'Three Stars' for the week ending
October
NEW YORK (AP) -By staying away from the cupcakes, Southern California earned itself a slim new ranking.
No. 1 always seems to fit USC.
Southern California jumped two spots to No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 on Tuesday, rewarded by voters for opening the season with a dominant performance on the road against a BCS conference opponent.
Georgia and Ohio State, the preseason Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, started their seasons with glorified scrimmages at home against FCS (formerly I-AA) teams. USC, however, traveled across country to face Virginia and could not have been more impressive in a 52-7 victory.
Georgia fell to No. 2 and Ohio State to No 3.
"We realize that rankings so early in a season are certainly fluid. But rankings do help establish a pecking order for things later in the season," USC coach Pete Carroll said in a statement. "As for moving into the No. 1 spot, it's nice to know that people think highly of our team."
Since reaching No. 1 on Dec. 7, 2003, the final-regular season AP poll of that season, USC has been No. 1 in 39 polls, by far the most of any team during that time.
"Some have said the voters are taking our schedule into consideration," Carroll said. "Our philosophy has always been to schedule outstanding opponents. We need to play challenging games like we just did, traveling across the country to open the season at Virginia. Games like that bring out our best and make us stronger as a team."
The latest voting was close. USC received 21 first-place votes and 1,539 points from the 65-member media panel. Georgia had 20 first-place votes and 1,506 points. Ohio State got 15 first-place votes and 1,497 points.
"I'd say we've evolved as pollsters," said Stewart Mandel of SI.com, who moved USC up to No. 1. "In the past, voters just kind of automatically moved teams up and kept teams where they were if they won."
Georgia beat Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday and Ohio State opened with a 43-0 win over Youngstown State.
"There's a bit of a growing backlash for the amount of teams that open with I-AA cupcakes," said Mandel, whose book "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls" chronicles college football's controversies. "To see a team [USC] go on the road and play a New Year's Day bowl team from last season, and not only play them but destroy them, how could you not reward that team?"
USC also jumped past Georgia to No. 1 in the USA Today coaches' poll, which has the same top five as the AP poll.
"It's definitely a privilege to be No. 1. But it's not heartbreaking to me if we drop," Georgia offensive lineman Josh Davis said. "It doesn't matter right now what we're ranked. What matters is our next game and right now, that's Central Michigan. The only time the polls matter is in December. That's when the polls matter."
While the Bulldogs opened easy, their schedule ultimately should be as difficult as any team's. Georgia's big nonconference test is at No. 15 Arizona State on Sept. 20. The Bulldogs also face six Southeastern Conference rivals that've been ranked in the first two polls.
As for Ohio State, the Buckeyes play at USC on Sept. 13 before getting into the Big Ten schedule.
But of the teams in this week's top 10, USC and Texas are the only ones that don't play an FCS opponent, and the Trojans are the only team that doesn't play a team from a non-BCS conference.
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The last team to drop from No. 1 after a victory was USC last season. LSU jumped from No. 2 to No. 1 when it beat Tulane 34-9, the same week the Trojans edged Washington 27-24 on the road.
The last preseason No. 1 team to lose the top spot after winning its opening game was Florida in 2001. The Gators beat Marshall 49-14, but preseason No. 2 Miami opened with a 33-7 victory over Penn State and the Hurricanes jumped to No. 1 with Florida slipping to second.
The next four teams in the new Top 25 stayed the same: No. 4 Oklahoma (two first-place votes), No. 5 Florida (five first-place votes), No. 6 Missouri (one first-place vote), No. 7 LSU (one first-place vote) and No. 8 West Virginia.
No. 9 Auburn and No. 10 Texas each moved up a spot, taking advantage of Clemson's big drop. Clemson, ninth in the preseason, fell out after losing 34-10 to Alabama on Saturday.
Also falling out after losses were Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh and Tennessee.
Moving into the rankings were No. 21 Fresno State, No. 22 Utah, No. 23 UCLA and No. 24 South Carolina.
Alabama moved up 11 spots after its big victory over Clemson.
The second 10 started with No. 11 Wisconsin, followed by Texas Tech, Alabama and Kansas. BYU and Arizona State were tied for 15th. Rivals BYU and Utah are both ranked for the first time since 1996.
South Florida was No. 17, ahead of Oregon, Penn State and Wake Forest at No. 20.
The final five were all the teams to move into the ranking, except for Illinois, which dropped four spots and tied South Carolina for No. 24.
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