Column: A real chance for change in the BCS
LSU fans had all but disappeared into the New Orleans night by the final minutes of last month's dreary BCS title game, leaving en masse when they figured out a team that couldn't get past the 50-yard-line wasn't going to magically find a way to cross the goal line. They weren't alone, with people across the nation abandoning their TVs in hope of finding something even remotely more interesting....
APNewsBreak: UConn wants to impose own penalties
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The University of Connecticut has proposed reducing the number of games it will play next season if the NCAA grants a waiver to allow the Huskies to play in the 2013 men's basketball tournament....
Cavaliers G Kyrie Irving has concussion
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Cavaliers rookie guard Kyrie Irving has a concussion and is being kept out of Cleveland's game against the Los Angeles Clippers....
Memphis is final piece for coast-to-coast Big East
The Big East has acquired all the pieces needed to build a new coast-to-coast conference. Putting them all together, though, is going to take a while....
Sandusky seeks State College-area jury for trial
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Jerry Sandusky's lawyer filed court paperwork Wednesday arguing that jurors in his child sex abuse trial should be chosen from the community where he lives and suggesting that a trial delay might be the best way to address the intense publicity generated by the case....
Calhoun to miss UConn's next game
STORRS, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun will miss Saturday's game against No. 2 Syracuse while on an indefinite medical leave of absence because of spinal stenosis, a painful condition in his lower back....
A beautiful week awaits at Pebble Beach
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- In what Robert Louis Stevenson called "the most felicitous meeting of land and sea," the sea was winning Wednesday at Pebble Beach....
Another England soap opera as Fabio Capello quits
LONDON (AP) -- The soap opera of English soccer reached yet another a noisy climax Wednesday when national team coach Fabio Capello quit angrily just eight hours after potential successor Harry Redknapp was cleared in a London court of tax evasion charges....
Baseball Hall to begin drug education program
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Baseball Hall of Fame is starting a drug education program for students and young adults - in the same year Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa will appear on ballot for the first time after careers tainted by steroid accusations....
