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Mark Ingram said his bruised hip is fine and he will "most definitely" be ready for the Southeastern Conference championship game against No.

SYRACUSE - Those bus trips home from Syracuse can seem like 15-minute joy rides, the wheels barely touching the road.

November 29, 2009 12:47 a.m. Glenville junior quarterback Cardale Jones passed for 199 yards and ran for 150 in the Tarbloodersa 31-17 Division I semifinal win over Massillon on Saturday night in Akron.

Back when Randy Shannon played at Miami, a 9-3 season would probably be cause for embarrassment.

A well-deserved chant for Toby Gerhart led by the Stanford student body as they stormed the field after the Cardinals' 45-38 win over Notre Dame.

Sunday afternoon at the Carrier Dome North Tonawanda won its first ever New York State Class AA championship, beating New Rochelle 14 to 7. The win capped and unbeaten season.

They'll take on defending state champions South Charleston. WELLSBURG -- The Brooke Bruins advanced back to the Class AAA state championship game with a 32-15 victory over University in a AAA semifinal game at Brooke Memorial Stadium.

Matthew Rogers' 1-yard plunge in the second overtime helped Wheaton Warrenville South knock off Glenbard West 31-24 to win the Illinois High School Association Class 7A title.

The momentum had shifted, and Fort Osage was definitely within reach of its first football state championship.Nine minutes remained in the third quarter of their Missouri Class 5 state championship game against Webster Groves, and hopes were high on the Fort Osage sideline just moments after receiver Garry Frisk hauled in a 79-yard touchdown catch.

James Franklin rushed for 269 yards, including touchdown runs of 25, 5 and 68 yards, as Olathe North crushed Wichita Heights 37-3 in the Kansas 6A state championship game at Washburn University's Yager Stadium.

The Centralia Panthers made it clear early they were going to be a force to be reckoned with.

So long , Tim Tebow. Farewell, Tim Tebow. Goodbye, Tim Tebow. And, mainly, good riddance, Tim Tebow.

Cary-Grove fans cheer on their team during player introductions Saturday in Champaign.

Clemson's C.J. Spiller has set an NCAA record with his seventh career kickoff return for a touchdown to start the Tigers ' game at South Carolina .

The cardiac kids are still alive. Erik Martin and his Los Banos teammates have put the thrill back in thriller, pulling off a second straight last-minute victory in the playoffs.

Marcus Patterson shrugged off two would-be tacklers at the point of attack and cut back across the field on the way to a 57-yard, third-quarter punt return for a touchdown as No.

For the first 13 weeks of the 2009 football season, the Williston-Elko Blue Devils dominated opponents, outscoring them by an average of 41 points per game and outgaining them by an even wider margin.

Brian Bleise rushed for three touchdowns and Kegan Rojas added two to help Beal City to a 41-23 victory over Crystal Falls Forest Park in the Division 8 championship game today at Ford Field.

Auburn's Gene Chizik and Alabama's Nick Saban meet on the field before the start of Friday's Iron Bowl.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth with a smooth touchdown Friday to end an 11-day flight that resupplied the International Space Station.

Thanksgiving Day high school football games mean different things to different people.

As if Masconomet needed further motivation than the chance to clinch a fourth straight playoff berth, the Chieftains got some anyway Tuesday when they opened the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune. The newspaper had led its Thanksgiving picks with a shocker: North Andover 30, Masconomet 24, in the winner-take-all-game to decide the Cape Ann League Large title.

It was one play that took about 20 minutes for the referees to sort out. And it turned out to be the biggest decision of Wednesday night's Northern Section Division I championship game between Paradise High and Enterprise.

Sallisaw tackle Matt Walkingstick protects quarterback Matt Oberste during last week's 20-14 win over Bishop McGuinness.

Alabama head coach Bill Curry and Auburn's Pat Dye talk before the start of the 1989 Iron Bowl at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

TALLAHASSEE - He's not strictly a fullback. Or a tailback. He's not just a blocker.

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier knows about rivalries. In the early '60s at Scientific Hill High in the mountains of Tennessee, he said there's nothing he wanted to do more than knock off crosstown rival Kingsport High.

Friday will mark that time of year again when people gather in mass, yell, scream and, every now and again, riot.

It has been 20 years of agony for the Mohawk Trail Regional High School football team in its annual game with Frontier Regional School, but all of the pain from losing could go away with a win tonight in the battle of two Intercounty League teams.

Bumps and bruises, scrapes and sprains, Jason Fox has dealt with that and more since he began playing at Miami.

Coach Dave Wannstedt didn't need much time following Pittsburgh's improbable upset of then-No. 2 West Virginia two seasons ago to understand what the victory might mean to a program that had been in decline.

2 Hastings St. Cecilia beat Norfolk Catholic to win the Class C1 state championship with a 26-18 victory.

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says the Gamecocks are playing their biggest game of the year this weekend against Clemson.

A high school football player in western Kentucky has been charged with second-degree assault stemming from a fight that broke out during the Fulton County-Calloway County game last month.

Ponca won its first state championship by beating the Trojans for the second time this season.

Clint Belina ran for 332 yards and six touchdowns on 22 carries to lead Howells to a 68-28 victory over Giltner in the Class D1 state final at Memorial Stadium Monday afternoon.

Bronson Marsh ran for 157 yards and a touchdown and set the Nebraska high school career passing record, and Tre Sacks scored three times as Millard South finished a perfect season with a 45-17 victory over Millard West in the Class A final.

Along with the turkey and mashed potatoes, Justin Sinz finally can dish out a heaping helping of told-ya-so to his older brothers this Thanksgiving.

Just weeks after California first lady Maria Shriver apologized for parking in a red zone, her husband appears to have violated the same law.

This late in the college football season, time for proclamations. We hold these truths to be self-evident ... Behind every struggling coach ... there are players having their hearts stomped on.

This is going to be one torturous week for several freshmen and sophomores at Lowell.

FENTON - DeWitt scored with about a minute left in its Division 3 state semifinal Saturday at Fenton High School.

The McCallum Knights are still alive in the high school football playoffs.

It took the Inter-Lakes High School football team just 20 Division VI games to bring a championship to Meredith.

After taking a 10-0 first-quarter lead and racking up 114 rushing yards, Marine City seemed to have the game in hand.

WELLSBURG a ' Earlier this season, Ripley held a reunion for its wildly successful 1989 team that ultimately saw its season end against Brooke.

TUMWATER If defense does indeed win championships, then Archbishop Murphy and W.F. West both proved themselves worthy of wearing the Class 2A crown Saturday.

November 21, 2009 10:04 p.m. Baldwinsville quarterback Casey Colligan tries to make it past North Tonawanda's Sean McDonough and Steve Kijowski in the fourth quarter of Saturday's Class AA state football semifinal game at Paetec Park in Rochester.

Matt Lancaster's 8-yard touchdown pass to Eyad Salem with 1 second remaining Saturday lifted Illinois State to a 22-20 victory over Northern Iowa.

Glenbard West's football program has had plenty of memorable moments in its history, including a 1983 state championship.

This was why C.J. Spiller came back to Clemson. The Tigers' star senior awaited a Virginia punt in the fourth quarter with Clemson's 34-21 victory all but secure when the 77,000 at Death Valley broke into chants of his name over and over.

Sen. Blanche Lincoln will vote to move health care reform to Senate debate. University of Arkansas redshirt senior running back Michael Smith will not play the remainder of the season due to a hamstring injury Razorback football head coach Bobby Petrino announced today.

For the first half the Encinal High School football team was played evenly by No.

1st half highlights from Bishop Luers' 52-21 win over Rensselaer Central in the 2A semi-state. Knights RB Kenny Mullen scores four touchdowns to lead Luers to Lucas Oil Stadium where they'll face Monrovia in the 2A title game on Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Mike Sirko is not ready to take off the walking boot just yet. Ever since a large television fell off a rolling stand and landed on his right foot, the Aspen football team has won four straight, the superstitious head coach points out.

Growing up on the same football fields in South Florida, Thaddeus Lewis was the mentor, Jacory Harris the pupil.

Junior quarterback Chad Mazur ran for two touchdowns in the second half and threw for one score to lead Reedsburg to its first WIAA Division 3 state football title Friday, beating West De Pere 34-27 at Camp Randall Stadium.

Eight-man final: Armstrong-Ringsted 49, Lenox 30 Tyler Tonderum and Craig Tigges both scored three touchdowns and Armstrong-Ringsted avenged last year's championship loss to Lenox.

MADISON -- The Edgar football team put the exclamation point on the most dominant season in the program's history on Thursday afternoon at Camp Randall Stadium.

Senior Michael Walker has rushed for 255 yards and set a WIAA Division 4 state finals record with five touchdowns to help Walworth Big Foot storm past Kewaunee 42-13 to win its first state title.

Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman who led a public fight against breast cancer, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with the disease.

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Senior quarterback Brian Fliess ran for three touchdowns as Burlington Catholic Central repeated as WIAA Division 7 state football champion beating Chippewa Falls McDonell 27-15 Thursday at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.

SHELBY -- It's a long, twisting and sometimes unpaved road that has led Ohio State back to the Rose Bowl for the first time in 13 years.

Second round of high school football playoffs kicks off Friday night. The South Charleston Black Eagles are continuing their run toward a state championship.

Windsor senior Conner Glenn runs in the secondary while playing Northridge earlier this season in Greeley.

Opposing coaches have compared Vista Murrieta junior Derrick Brown 's game to Tim Tebow 's style of play.

He has won two national championships and more games than all but one other major college coach.

Johnny Smith coaches the defense during friday night football as Barron Collier had their homecoming game against Golden Gate High School on Oct.

PHS's Cory Lee scores on a short run in the first half as the Lions took on Central in Prattville Friday.

Bo Wallace has all the numbers - height, weight, speed, yardage, grade-point average, test scores - that would seem to make him attractive to multiple major-college football coaches.

A season with high hopes of a state championship ended Saturday, when Jesus Cardenas kicked a 31-yard field goal with six seconds left to propel the Brush High School football team to a 10-7 victory over Florence at Husky Stadium.

Jacory Harris walked into the Miami football meeting room Tuesday, his hands stuffed into the front pocket of his green hooded sweatshirt.

AUBURN, Ala. - Two weeks ago, Auburn's Demond Washington was a backup cornerback.

The Lakeland Dreadnaughts forced 25 turnovers and ran away from a depleted Haines City team for a 72-32 victory Monday on the first night of the Josh Giles Tip Off Classic at Polk State College.

One is a 30-year-old veteran who keeps his battered body limber with mixed martial arts, treadmill work and Filipino fighting sticks.

FRANKLIN TWP. It was better than having a bye week, but wasn't all that different for the offensive starters on the Delsea Regional High School football team.

Those crisp autumn leaves and incredible fall colors that sprinkle the state are just part of what makes Ohio special this time of year.

Merrill is out and Swan Valley is in -- they are just two Mid-Michigan schools dealing with the high stakes drama that is high school football.

Wynford coach Travis Moyer couldn't have scripted the first 10 minutes of the game any better than the way it unfolded.

This rivalry has never been a bed of roses for Hillsdale High, and on Saturday the Knights made themselves a whole new bed of thorns.

Jake Heaps needed just a half to produce a stat line that most quarterbacks wish they could have for an entire game.

ZANESVILLE -- The Aces of Amanda-Clearcreek have come up with blackjack on more than one occasion in the playoffs.

Perhaps not one of great significance to the rest of the college football world, but very important to the octogenarian coach who hopes to coach one final season here in 2010.

Florida's Justin Trattou looks for running room after his fourth-quarter interception of USC quarterback Stephen Garcia.

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 12:16 a.m. Read more: High School The Westhill Warriors reached new heights Saturday night with a 41-14 win over Johnson City at Union-Endicott. The win put Westhill in the semi-finals and got them off to their first 11-0 start in school history.

KIMBERLY - The Waupaca football team wanted nothing to do with West De Pere's attempts to push, shove, block and tackle the Comets out of the WIAA Division 3 state semifinal football game at Papermaker Field on Saturday.

St. Charles North quarterback Jake Bergren and a teammate watch the late stages of Saturday's loss to Glenbard West in the 7A quarterfinals.

Matt Perez was sick. He was hurting. And again, he was too much for Glenbrook South.

The Windsor Wizards have survived the first round of the Colorado Class 3A state football playoffs, with a 33-20 win over Pueblo County from H.J. Dudley Field in Windsor.

On Saturday, Tebow and the No. 1 Gators face South Carolina and coach Steve Spurrier, a Florida alum, star player and national championship coach.

2-ranked Velva shut out Langdon-Munich 20-0 for the North Dakota state Class A football championship.

On Friday the LBJ Jaguars played the Killeen Kangaroos in the high school football playoffs.

Authorities say a wall has collapsed at a high school football playoff game in northwest South Carolina and a dozen students have been taken to the hospital.

The last time Southern California hosted Stanford in 2007, the nation was stunned when the 41-point underdog Cardinal got the best of the high and mighty Trojans.

There was a real playoff atmosphere Thursday night at Citrus College, and for good reason.

For three quarters Thursday afternoon Springville could do no wrong. Then for five minutes it could do nothing right.

Perfection. That's what the Essex Junction football team goes for tonight. Rutland High School would settle for something close to perfect, but it might have to be very close to stop the Hornets' drive to an undefeated season and a Division I state title.

For the first time in seven years, North Tonawanda is traveling to Rochester to play more football.

From a surface level, it seems like we've been here before. It was four years ago that Corning East handed Whitesboro a 35-14 loss in a Class A state quarterfinal football game at Union-Endicott's Ty Cobb Stadium.

Juan Diego is one step closer to potentially repeating as 3A champions after using its running attack to dominate Wasatch's defense.

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier says the Gamecocks will be without defensive end Devin Taylor for Saturday's game with No.

South Carolina and Maryland will emerge from their locker rooms Saturday wearing camouflage uniforms with military values such as "Duty," "Honor," and "Courage" on the back in place of names to honor those who have served.

The triple A High School football playoffs are scheduled to get underway Friday night, and in Division five, an intriguing match up between Hampton and Norcom.

Bovina and Farwell have passed Step 1, making the Class 1A playoffs. Step 2 promises to be a little tougher.

Here's a change in Atlanta: A Falcons player showing some love for animals. Providing quite a contrast to Michael Vick's gruesome dogfighting operation, tight end Tony Gonzalez and his wife, October, posed in the nude for an anti-fur advertisement from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Ryan Mallett is right on schedule. The Arkansas quarterback has been exactly what the Razorbacks expected after sitting out last season as a transfer.

Same old same old in the NFL? Not even close this season. Sure, the Indianapolis Colts ripped through the first half of their schedule for the fourth time in five seasons, and the New England Patriots are dominating the AFC East.

When Interlake head coach Sheldon Cross took his junior quarterback to Sunday's Seattle Seahawks game, he used the opportunity to give Matt Malos a bit of an NFL education that paid off big for the Saints Tuesday.

The Velva Aggies are in the State Championship game once again taking on the Langdon Munich Cardinals on friday.

Today, he called it a firing. Pricer said today he could not discuss the particulars of the grievance, but did say he had received two hearings before an assistant superintendent, per the grievance policy procedure.

From preseason talk about perfection to star linebacker Brandon Spikes' suspension for dirty play, Florida has faced plenty of potential distractions.

Flowery Branch High School athletic director Shannon Benton has announced that the Falcons' first-round playoff game against Ridgeland on Friday has been moved to Finley Stadium in Chattanooga, Tenn.

JON M. FLETCHER/The Times-Union Raines senior Tavadis Glenn kneels in dejection on the field after the Vikings lost to Ribault 3-0 on Monday.

MERSEYSIDE'S Magnificent Seven lottery winners publicly toasted their huge win today.

One win. That's all the West De Pere and Kewaunee football teams need to advance to the WIAA state football championships at Camp Randall Stadium next week.

Its the rematch everyone's been waiting for, and in less than a week, it'll be round two between Bismarck High and Fargo South for the 3A football title.

Talk about a tough day for the Hawkeyes . Iowa lost its quarterback, its unbeaten season and likely any shot to play for the national title in Saturday's 17-10 defeat to Northwestern.

OLYMPIA It was a lopsided win with a warning. In a 42-7 blowout win against Enumclaw, Capital proved Saturday it's not just a one-man team, living and dying on the running of Tyler Sundberg.

Relatives of famed American Indian athlete Jim Thorpe plan to go to federal court in Philadelphia in their long-running effort to win the return of his body from the Pennsylvania town that changed its name to provide him a final resting place - even though he never set foot there.

What we learned on the gridiron this weekend is that while the North Suburban Conference Lake Division plays a pretty good brand of football, it's just not the same as what they're doing in the Chicago Catholic League's Blue Division.

The WVSSAC AAA high school football playoff bracket was released Sunday morning, in Parkersburg.

It was not the disciplined effort head coach Chuck Kyle wanted from his top-seeded St.

The Pulaski football team found out why many before it had already learned the last few years.

Ironton running back Tres Wilks runs to daylight against Highland during playoff action Saturday.

Brillion coach Pete Kittel's game plan was thrown out about 5 minutes into the first quarter of Saturday's WIAA Division 5 playoff game against Peshtigo.

Quarterback Pat Grace ran for two touchdowns Saturday as Northern Iowa's rushing game stood dominant in a 28-7 win over Youngstown State.

Lake Zurich fans, players and coaches are thankful that field goal kicker Max Methling decided to stop by Saturday afternoon before heading to the Class 3A state soccer championship in Naperville on Saturday night.

Ryan Mallett went 23 of 27 for 329 yards to lead Arkansas to a 33-16 victory over South Carolina on Saturday.

Even Josh Furman's first fumble wasn't enough to salvage Broadneck's season. Broadneck's Ronnie VanMeter sees an opening in the Old Mill defense during Friday night's game.

The Borger Bulldogs' defense spent most of the night on the field chasing Lubbock Estacado backs Augustine Abigide and Deverick Stubblefield.

Every playoff scenario, every power point was accounted for by the Brick Memorial football coaches entering Friday's game against East Brunswick.

Submitted by WWAY on 6 November 2009 - 1:56pm. Showdown at Legion Stadium: Hoggard vs New Hanover The Hoggard High School football team got off to a slow start this season, but they are on a roll now.

November 06, 2009 12:21 p.m. The Solon Comets are just one Northeast Ohio team seeking a state championship as the playoffs begin tonight.

The biggest surprise the second half of this high school football season has been hands down the Princeton Tigers.

Owen-Withee coach Terry Laube and his Blackhawks are looking at the their deep playoff run as a second chance.

FOX 5 Sports confirmed Thursday that the Stone Mountain High School football team must forfeit five of their six victories for using an ineligible player.

This was one hole Mosley couldn't dig its way out of. Not even close. Barring an upset tonight by Crestview, Fort Walton Beach has earned a playoff spot in District 2-4A. The Vikings did so by handing Mosley its fifth straight defeat, 23-6 Thursday night at Tommy Oliver Stadium.

Two former University of Montana football players and one Montana State player face federal cocaine charges.

Fans at Arkansas football games have been treated to a weekly dose of super-sized offensive plays.

Coach Urban Meyer obliged, saying Wednesday that it was in the top-ranked Gators' best interest that Spikes sit out Saturday's game against Vanderbilt.

One is the winningest team in the WPIAL with 687 wins; the other is second with 658.

Bartlett Panthers High School Running Back Willie Matthews enters Friday's Class 5-A Playoff Game against Melrose H.S. 11 yards shy of becoming the School's all-time leading rusher.

It can come quickly in the MSHSAA football playoffs. Branson has that opportunity tonight in the first round of the Class 4 playoffs.

Beating a team once in a season can be tough to do. Doing it a second time, and in the playoffs, makes it an even more difficult task.

Tennessee has lost its starting middle linebacker because of a season-ending injury for the second time this season.

Bowl-eligible for the fifth time in his five years at USC, Steve Spurrier said the Gamecocks this year set realistic goals for a team with just five senior starters.

Fourty-four percent of the more than 2,000 Placer Sports readers who participated in the voting for last weeka TMs Placer Sports Athlete of the Week selected Del Oro water polo star Alex Obert for the honor.

For much of their history the Arizona Cardinals haven't had to deal with success.

Foley's Willie Holmes says he is often asked for autographs because of his resemblance to Alabama nose tackle Terrence Cody .

JOHN PEMBERTON/The Times-Union After a 911 call from a woman inside the house in the Margaret's Walk subdivision on Fleming Island, Clay County police arrived to find 3 people fatally shot in the house.

WEST BRANCH -- West Branch entered last night's first round playoff game with Eddyville-Blakesburg looking to prove it wasn't a one-man team.

Mount St. Joseph Academy parents, faculty and staff received an e-mail Monday informing them that the administration will be petitioning the Vermont Principals' Association and Vermont Interscholastic Football League to move the school's football program from Division I to Division III for the 2010 season.

There appears to be some explanation for South Carolina free safety Chris Culliver's off night at Tennessee.

After its win Friday, Coppell celebrated its second straight playoff berth. The players had more reason to cheer when they heard where they would play their first playoff game: Cowboys Stadium.

PULASKI - A.J. Huxford reached in to Derek Anderson's face mask and tried to pull out the mud and grass stuck there.

Xavier has gone down this road before. This is the Hawks' eighth straight playoff appearance, and for the second time in three years, they find themselves at Level 3 of the playoffs.

STANHOPE - The Lenape Valley High School football team took possession deep in their own territory with seven minutes remaining on the clock and leading by seven.

Kentucky coach John Calipari says he can't figure out if his team is really good on offense or just really bad on defense.

Homecoming was three weeks ago at Bowling Green, but for the Falcons' head football coach, it will be Tuesday.

The Auburn Tigers won't be home for the holidays. The Tigers became bowl eligible with Saturday's 33-20 win over Mississippi, improving to 6-3. Tight end Tommy Trott says every win from here on is just "icing on the cake." Each win could also move Auburn up the bowl ladder.

The game was barely lukewarm, and St. John's was already cooked. Yesterday, in a battle between the top-rated teams in Eastern and Central Mass., Xaverian proved dominant, scoring 21 points in the first seven minutes en route to a 42-14 victory.

It was Little Rock night for the Arkansas Razorbacks as central Arkansas natives Joe Adams and Broderick Green combined for four touchdowns as the Razorbacks dominated Eastern Michigan, 63-27. Also: This is a developing story that will be updated soon.A You can also get the latest breaking Razorback news by following @RazorBloggers on Twitter.

Waubonsie Valley kicker Scott Kuehn and Eric Josupait react after Kuehn misses a 40-yard field goal in the fourth quarter Saturday during playoff action at Benedictine University in Lisle.

Sycamore running back Marckie Hayes and quarterback Trevor Mathey react after defeating Kaneland in the class 5A playoff game at Kaneland High School in Maple Park on Saturday.