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Head coach Lane Kiffin of the USC Trojans reacts during the college football game against the Arizona State Sun Devils at Sun Devil Stadium on September 28, 2013 in Tempe, Arizona. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images North America) 
Southern California has fired Lane Kiffin, ending the coach's tumultuous tenure a few hours after the Trojans lost 62-41 at Arizona State.
Ed Orgeron was picked as USC's interim head coach by athletic director Pat Haden later Sunday. The Trojans (3-2, 0-2 Pac-12) ha
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No. 1 Alabama to Kick Off Season

 

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Alabama will begin this season the way it ended the last two -- No. 1.
Nick Saban's two-time defending national champions are top-ranked in The Associated Press preseason college football poll, with the Crimson Tide trying to become the first team to win three straight national titles.
Much like the BCS championship game against Notre Dame, the vote was an Alabama landslide. The Tide received 58 of 60 first-place votes from the media panel Saturday to easily outdistance No. 2 Ohio State. Alab
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SCOTT HARRIS

 

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Athletes, coaches and fans are a superstitious lot. When the stakes get high, you can't even say the word "jinx" without touching off a flurry of groaning and salt-throwing.

So why, on the eve of their biggest game this year, are fans of theAlabama Crimson Tideicon1.png tempting fate in this manner?

As you may have heard, there's kind of an important football game happening Saturday in Atlanta. This game will determine the champion of this group ofcollege football

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hcsp.jpgA Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed on a bus asked to go through the ordeal because it was seen as an honor, a criminal defendant in the case said in a deposition released Wednesday. 
 


 
Twenty-six-year-old Robert Champion (pictured right) had asked all season to go through the hazing ritual, defendant Jonathan Boyce said.
"It's a respect thing, you know," Boyce told detectives. "Well, he was wanting to do it all ... all season."
Champions' parents have said their son wa
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