Brian Kelly News

Like most football fans in northern Indiana, Micah Staley is keeping a close eye on the Notre Dame coaching search.

Nick Saban will have a month to create a scheme for Texas' potent offense. 1. Citi BCS National Championship Game No.

One man's opinion on the top five local sports stories from this past week: The Skinny: For one school it was a first and for another it was business as usual as both Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky high school football teams won state championships on Friday.

Grand Rapids Press columnist Brian VanOchten joined Bill Simonson on "The Huge Show" to talk about the Detroit Lions' loss to the Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving, where rookie tight end Brandon Pettigrew was lost for the season.

We all have family members that represent certain things to us. Our Grandma always has something special cooking, an uncle that shows up late and leaves early and a cranky family member who is always complaining about something.

Every Tuesday two Enquirer sports writers will talk sports as if you were listening to them around the office.

Game of the week TCU 42, Utah 16 - The Horned Frogs are ready to leap forward in the BCS rankings, and they need a big win over the Utes to keep it going.

Music from Central Michigan's marching band pounds the walls inside of Warriner Hall, drawing a few visitors inside to listen to the final rifts of the school fight song on a sunny Saturday afternoon.

The decision makers in East Lansing and Ann Arbor made a big mistake when they passed up Brian Kelly, who has led Cincinnati to a 9-0 record and No.

Jerome Dyson scored 32 points in his season debut, and No. 12 Connecticut breezed to an 88-50 exhibition victory over UMass Lowell on Sunday.

Let's think about the word improvement. Teams are always looking to improve from what they were the year before, even title-winning teams want to improve.

Cincinnati will hit the road for the final time in BIG EAST action when it heads to Georgetown and USF this weekend for a pair of crucial conference tilts.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; - Joe Paterno has been named to the Paul "Bear" Bryant College Football Coach of the Year Watch List.

Penn State defensive end Jerome Hayes doesn't like thinking about the last-second loss to Michigan in 2005.

After six weeks of the college football season, it is time to evaluate the rankings.

The Florida Gators held the No. 1 spot in the first Bowl Championship Series rankings, despite playing a relatively weak schedule and struggling offensively in recent weeks.

Posted on Oct 11, 2009 by Mike Hlas . Had Florida lost at LSU, I was going to jump Alabama from third to first.

Penn State used a crushing third quarter to bounce back from its loss to Iowa and extend Illinois' rough season with a 35-17 win Saturday in Champaign, Ill.

Les Hookeuses de Boutouche is holding a meeting today from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Bouctouche Marina.

The Shark stops by The Trenches every Friday to offer his against-the-spread picks for Sunday's NFL card.