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Profile: Danny Sullivan That one pass, that last gasp of redemption that found the inviting arms of Chris McGaha, is the product of six long weeks of blind faith.

Much has been made about the front seven of the ASU football teama s defense. And given the results through three games, the hype seems warranted.

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It's a positive, their coach believes, that Arizona State could start any of four safeties without much difference.

Warning: offensive deficiencies may be smaller than they appear. Some of the best lore from ASU football coach Dennis Erickson's time with the Miami Hurricanes of the early 1990s, which included the likes of Ray Lewis and Warren Sapp, was of how the defense would dominate the offense during training camp, only for the offense to explode on ...

Remember those "Bring on Georgia" signs the student section hoisted up in the waning moments of the Stanford game last season? Oops.

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University issued the following press release: Troy Nolan, a safety on the 2008 Arizona State University football team, is the 2009 recipient of a postgraduate scholarship presented annually by the Valley of the Sun Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame, Chapter Executive Director Dan Manucci announced Thursday.

On Thursday, the last day of organized team activities, the Texans agreed to terms with Grossman on a one-year deal for the minimum $620,000 for a veteran with his experience.

The Texans signed S Troy Nolan, their seventh-round pick, on Thursday. Terms were not disclosed.

Spring practice has wrapped up across the country and we are a little over three months away from kickoff.

Canyon High graduate Andrew Schantz signed a rookie free agent contract Tuesday with the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers.

NFL draft headlines you might have missed - Apr 27, 2009 12:15:06 Arizona's draft streak lives The Sun Devils were in danger of ending its 46-year streak of having at least one NFL draft pick, but guard Paul Fanaika was pickled by Philadelphia in the seventh round .

Rudy Carpenter is second behind only Danny White in wins as a starting quarterback at Arizona State.

After being passed up during the NFL draft over the weekend, former ASU quarterback Rudy Carpenter signed a free-agent contract with the Dallas Cowboys on Monday, according to the teama s Web site.

Arizona State did not have a player taken in the NFL Draft until the seventh round, when the Philadelphia Eagles took guard Paul Fanaika 213th overall.

Despite the long lineage of Arizona State Sun Devils being selected in the NFL Draft over the years, no one has ever regarded ASU as being a football factory.

This is not Knowshon Moreno diving for the pylon against Arizona State in Tempe.

We covered a couple options for the Bears at safety earlier in the week when we touched on Alabama's Rashad Johnson and Ohio's Mike Mitchell .