Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Sports update 12/21/11

Here is your sports update for Wednesday...

Ohio State receives one year bowl ban. The NCAA hit Ohio State with a one year bowl ban, put the Buckeyes on probation through December 19, 2014 and reduced football scholarships from 85 to 82 through the 2014-15 academic year. Still considering all that USC got this seems pretty light. It's also curious to a lot of people that Ohio State is allowed to have two coaching staffs. The current leftover staff from this season is there to coach for the bowl game while Urban Meyer's staff is allowed to go out and recruit - obviously something other programs aren't able to do to the same extent since they have to practice for their bowl games. So let's not get carried away thinking anything bad happened to them. The only way this slap on the wrist means anything is if Ohio State goes undefeated and should be in the national championship game - since they won't be able to based off of the bowl ban.

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Derrick Rose and Bulls agree to contract extension. 5 years, $94.8 million. Good for D-Rose, great player.

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Braves vs Disney/Pixar. The Braves aren't crazy about the new Brave movie's name. Awww...

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 LSU's Les Miles wins AP Coach of the Year.

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John Elway endorses Tim Tebow.

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UGA head coach Mark Richt paid coaches from his own pocket. Apparently this is a secondary violation.

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Mike Tomlin never thought of sitting Ben Roethlisberger.

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NFL adds trainers to address concussion symptoms.

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Norm Chow to accept Hawaii head coaching job.

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Southern Miss hires Ellis Johnson.

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Abby Wambach wins AP female athlete of the year.

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Colby Armstrong hid concussion symptoms. Given all the attention concussions are receiving you hate to hear guys are trying to hid that they're dealing with symptoms.

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Cubs, Red Sox strike deal to keep Epstein from hiring from Red Sox organization.

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Endy Chavez agrees with Baltimore Orioles. 1 year, $1.5 million for the veteran free agent outfielder.

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Andrew Luck plans week off after Fiesta Bowl prior to NFL Draft prep.

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Louisville survives scare from College of Charleston to improve to 11-0.

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Marshall beats FIU in Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl. Interesting connection to this game - it appears that FIU's head coach is a leading candidate for the vacant University of Pittsburgh head football coaching job.

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WVU news:

WVU women beat Mount St. Mary's, 94-32. Sophomore Taylor Palmer led all scorers with 21 points.

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WVU recruiting news: Not much at the moment. Had heard Tavon Rooks may decide today (Wednesday) but we'll see if it actually happens. Deaysean Rippy did indeed visit over the weekend, as I said the other day but there's no word on what he will do yet. Although as Eerinsider.com points out it appears the WVU staff wants an answer soon or else they'll move on. See the link below for more information.

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Eerinsider.com has a recruiting update.

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I'll probably take a few days off from posting complete updates, but if there's any big news or WVU recruiting news I'll try to post that stuff. If this is the last post before...have a very Merry Christmas (or insert your own holiday) and a Happy New Year!!


Let's Go Mountaineers!!

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