06th October 2009
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It is not often when the coaches and the media agree on their opinion of who should be in the preseason Top 25 college football polls, but this year at least their Top 5 picks are mirror images—Florida (1), Texas (2), Okla...
06th October 2009
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Steel Magnolias - 4 Stars (Excellent)
It isn't often that a guy could get pulled into a movie about a bunch of women sharing their lives, loves, hopes, dreams, struggles and tragedies in a beauty shop, but Steel Magnolias...
06th October 2009
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It's a funny thing about winners—you never have to announce them, they announce themselves. That is exactly what happened when the University of Washington coaches and players stepped into the sunlight for the first time i...
06th October 2009
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Paris - When It Sizzles - 1 Star (Terrible)
We may never know how Audrey Hepburn ended up playing opposite William Holden in the romantic comedy "Paris - When It Sizzles". What we can say without doubt is that it was the ...
06th October 2009
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Chocolat - 4 Stars (Excellent)
It is rare when you can say that a movie is so warm and wonderful that it can even overcome a manipulative, vindictive authority figure and a husband guilty of spousal abuse, but "Chocolat" ...
06th October 2009
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Mamma Mia! - 3 Stars (Good)
Every now and then a movie comes along that makes no pretense of featuring great acting, singing, directing and writing, but seeks to be only what it is—just plain fun! The most recent of the...
05th October 2009
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Something to Talk About - 3 Stars (Good)
"Something to Talk About" stars Julia Roberts, which immediately makes me think romantic comedy, but trust me when I said that this 1995 film has more drama than comedy as it tackl...
05th October 2009
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A month of Saturdays hit the calendar when the Southern California Trojans traveled north to Seattle recently to face last year's 0-12 Washington Huskies.
Yes, Southern Cal was currently ranked No. 3 in the nation in the ...
05th October 2009
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(Editor's Note: The rankings in this article are from the AP Top 25 Poll of sportswriters and sportscasters, and any ratings are from Jeff Sagarin.)
No win in College Football's 4th week of action was any bigger than unra...
02nd October 2009
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(Editor's Note: All of the team rankings are based on the Top 25 Coaches' Poll, and the Sagarin Ratings, Jeff Sagarin's factual, mathematical ratings among competition between all 245 Division 1 teams.)
Only 7 teams remai...
26th August 2009
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When Mark Dantonio became the new Michigan State University football coach two years ago, he came to the East Lansing Campus with a pedigree that shouted success is on the way. He has not disappointed the Spartan faithful.
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26th August 2009
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Just as thinking heads argue about whether leaders are born or made, so do college football fanatics argue about whether the coach or the players make the team.
Let's settle the latter argument once and for all—coaches ...
26th August 2009
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Miss Congeniality - 2 Stars (Average)
"Miss Congeniality" had a real identity problem as a movie. Unfortunately for Sandra Bullock, the star of the film as FBI agent Gracie Hart, Miss Congeniality could not take her as f...
25th August 2009
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Radio - 4 Stars (Excellent)
"Radio"�the true story of high school football coach Harold Jones and a mentally-challenged young man named James Robert "Radio" Kennedy�might well be one of the most under-rated and under...
23rd August 2009
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Kingdom of Heaven - 1 Star (Terrible)
Unfortunately for the "Kingdom of Heaven", what started out as an ambitious epic film about a little known time in history, became an almost disaster at its release and was only avera...
