The Epiphany cross and its year of blessings went to a 17-year-old athlete already blessed with exceptional talent. ...more

January 6, 2009

Each day, as he enters the Moore Athletic Center, Bobby Bowden walks past a bronze statue created in his likeness. Fittingly, it is larger than life. But it wasn't built to scale, at least not when you consider Bowden's impact. ...more

November 29, 2008

Back in Malden, Mass., in November of 1942, my father, Mac, won two tickets at the Malden Elks Club for the Boston College-Holy Cross football game, to be played at Fenway Park in Boston on Saturday, Nov. 28. The BC team was undefeated and leading the nation while featuring a powerful sophomore fullback named Mike Holovak, from the coal mining town of Lansford, Pa. ...more

November 2, 2008

The War Canoe, the bounty that the Florida-Miami winner traditionally gets to hold, was once a big deal when the two schools were playing regularly. ...more

September 7, 2008

John Rauch, the Oakland Raiders head coach in Super Bowl II and a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Bandits assistant coach, died in his sleep Tuesday at his Oldsmar home. ...more

June 12, 2008

Former Florida State nose guard Ron Simmons and former Florida linebacker Wilbur Marshall were among 13 players and two coaches elected Thursday to the College Football Hall of Fame. ...more

May 2, 2008

Mike Holovak, a longtime NFL executive who coached the Patriots to their first championship game, died Sunday in Ruskin, a few hours before the team left for the Super Bowl. He was 88. ...more

January 28, 2008

Seemingly every season, the University of South Florida football program achieves another first. In 2011, the Bulls will make even more history by playing at Notre Dame. ...more

January 23, 2008

On the one-year anniversary of Florida State coach Bobby Bowden's induction into the College Football Hall of Fame, multiple sources confirmed Wednesday that FSU is close to finalizing a plan for offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher to replace Bowden when the iconic FSU coach retires. ...more

December 6, 2007

HONOR ROLL: Florida Athletic Director Jeremy Foley will be presented with the John L. Toner Award, which honors the nation's best athletic director, tonight during the College Football Hall of Fame Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. ...more

December 4, 2007