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7:05, Xavier at Charlotte
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College basketball
Kentucky
Calipari: "We took a step back"
Xavier at Charlotte
How important is Semaj Christon to Xavier?
10 wins: .566 FG, 17.0 points per game.
6 losses: .358 FG, 10.8 points per game.
How about Brad Redford?
11 wins: .500 FG, 11.09 points per game.
6 losses: .258 FG, 4.3 points per game.
Bearcats watch Lawrence
ZagsBlog
Cincinnati head coach Mike Cronin watched Jermaine Lawrencework out on Tuesday.
The 6-foot-10 Lawrence of Pope John XXIII is considering Cincinnati, St. John’s and UNLV and is expected to announce soon.
He will visit St. John’s this coming weekend, according to Evan Daniels of Scout.com. After visiting Rutgers Wednesday, the Johnnies host Seton Hall Sunday.
Huggins goes door to door
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College football
Ranking the new coaches: The confidence game
The Sporting News
Ever entered a weekly confidence pool during the NFL season? If there are 16 games, you assign 16 confidence points to the team you most expect to succeed, 15 to the team you like second-best, and so on. It ain’t complicated.
And neither is this confidence pool-style rating of the 16 new coaches mentioned above.
1 points: Tommy Tuberville, Cincinnati. Wow, even we’re surprised to have Tubs all the way down at the bottom of this list. But you know it as well as we do: There’s nothing whatsoever about this man that says Cincinnati. And how can Bearcats fans trust him after the shocking abruptness with which he dumped Texas Tech? It’s been a long way down from 14-0 at Auburn. Something tells us there’s no going back.
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Bengals
Drop rate: TE
ProFootballFocus.com
% of drops this season
16.39 Hernandez
15.00 Graham
13.24 Pettigrew
12.86 Finley
12.31 Celek
11.29 Gronkowski
11.11 Gresham
Supplemental draft
Geoff Hobson, Bengals.com
Rob Rang, the draft guru of CBSSports.com, believes the Bengals can go to town because while others teams are filling the most important positions, they focus on immediate needs.
"This is a draft where you don't want the top 10 pick. You want to have a number of picks in the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s. The player at 35 is pretty much the same player at 10. To me, that's one of the reasons I kind of like Cincinnati's position.
Found on YouTube
1986 CBS NFL Today postgame: Bengals-Bears
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NFL
Terrelle Pryor will have chance to start for Raiders
Fox Sports
Not all of Oakland’s woes were his fault, but Palmer has failed to become the franchise quarterback the previous Raiders regime thought it was acquiring when sending first- and second-round picks to Cincinnati for his services midway through the 2011 season. The 33-year-old Palmer is a potential candidate for release because of his scheduled $13 million salary in 2013, but McKenzie didn’t indicate that such a move was in the offing.
Minter to join Eagles
CSNPhilly.com
Rick Minter is the latest veteran college coach apparently joining Chip Kelly’s Eagles coaching staff. Minter, who has coached at 12 colleges but never in the NFL, is believed to be joining as the Eagles’ linebackers coach.
John Harbaugh's remarkable journey
CSNPhilly.com
John Harbaugh felt trapped.
It was the mid-1990s, and Harbaugh had been coaching special teams at the University of Cincinnati since the late 1980s. He was in his late 30s, and his coaching career seemed to be headed nowhere.
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Reds
Prospect Watch: Top 10 left-handed pitchers
MLB.com
6. Tony Cingrani, Reds: Taken in the third round by the Reds in 2011, Cingrani was a senior reliever when he signed out of Rice. He has pitched extremely well as a starter in pro ball, topping the Minors in ERA and finishing second in strikeouts during his first full season. That earned him a brief callup to the big leagues. Cingrani’s fastball and changeup are both above average and are good enough for him to excel out of the bullpen. If his slider can improve, the 2012 California League All-Star will have the chance to be a very good starter.
Eric The Red
iBaseballChannel.com
Former Professional Manager Greg Riddoch Reflects on His Experiences Managing All-Star OF Eric Davis While He Was a Shortstop Fresh Out of High School and The Eventual Move to Center Field.
Opening Day 2013 ticket opportunity
From the Reds: In a continuing effort to make Opening Day tickets available to as many fans as possible, the Cincinnati Reds are pleased to announce our annual Opening Day Ticket Opportunity for the April 1 game vs. the Los Angeles Angels. Now through Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at 12:00 p.m. ET, fans can register below for an opportunity to purchase up to four (4) individual Opening Day tickets. Since there are a limited number of tickets available through this opportunity, applicants must complete and submit the registration form below to participate in this opportunity to purchase Opening Day tickets. There is no purchase necessary to register and no obligation to purchase Opening Day tickets if your name is selected. Register here.
