Despite a spectacular year from quarterback Jake Locker, the Washington Huskies managed to barely finish the 2010 season with a better than .500 after a 19-7 win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers in last year’s version of the Holiday Bowl.
Edsall comes to College Park after building the program at the University of Connecticut basically from the ground up. He was the 2010 Big East Coach of the Year and looks to assert a Terps team that has an excellent underclassmen quarterback, but not much else.
Cutcliffe has made some progress with the Blue Devils, though with a team that went 3-9 last year, progress is a relative term.
The Cavaliers had some good years in the middle of the last decade, but they’ve had a bowl-less drought since 2007. Coach London is now in his second year in a bid to bring UVa back to respectability in the conference.
With Coach Johnson’s gameplan, which bucks convention but at the same time is tried, tested and true, he has a reputation of out-performing expectations.
When one thinks about top-shelf ACC programs, Boston College may not be the first team to come to mind, yet the Eagles have been surprisingly consistent over the years.
Between unsavory academic behavior and improper dealings with student-athletes hiring agents, it has been a shaky boat recently in Chapel Hill.
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The New York Yankees and the Chicago White Sox continue their four-game series this Thursday night in a showdown of AL teams in hot pursuit of the lead in their division. Game time is set for 8:10 p.m. and it will be broadcast nationally on ESPN.
Things are getting serious in the National League West. Through Monday, the Arizona Diamondbacks a had won three straight and seven of nine while the San Francisco Giants had lost three straight, seeing their lead shrink to one game.
Are the St. Louis Cardinals on the verge of disaster? They mortgaged a huge piece of their future in Colby Rasmus last week to prepare for their National League Central playoff push.
UFC 133 limps into Philadelphia this Saturday night. This fight card was among the most cursed in recent memory, as injuries to Phil Davis and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira screwed up two of the top three matchups.
The St. Louis Rams will enter the 2011 season as the team to watch in the NFC West. They are prime for success after making enormous strides in 2010.
The Seattle Seahawks are coming off a year in which CHANGE was the order of the day. With a slew of roster moves, Coach Pete Carroll attempted to reshape this team by creating competition for every position.
After coming up just short in last year’s Super Bowl, the Pittsburgh Steelers are once again poised to make a championship run. Still, the club has plenty of questions to answer heading into the 2011 season.
With new management in place, the Cleveland Browns finally showed signs of progress last season. Sure, they only won five games, but the club was competitive and has some interesting players to work with. They’ll be looking to take more steps forward in 2011.
