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Steelers hope Carter capable of filling in for Clark
Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has listed five possibilities to play free safety when they take the Mile High plunge Monday night in Denver, and if one of them is not named Ryan Clark the correct answer will be Tyrone Carter.
Patton: Oh, the USC nightmare
LOS ANGELES - Woe are the University of Southern California Trojans.
How will they go on? Is football really worth pursuing anymore? Should the team even bother going to Arizona State this week, or would it be better off attending a Tony Robbins seminar to rediscover the merits of their existence?
Lindsay: Could Georgia, Florida State dump Richt, Bowden?
November is the cruelest month for coaches. And since no one has been officially axed yet, here's a list of who will in the coming weeks.
GOOD AS GONE
Higgins: LSU, 'Bama will settle SEC West: Other notes
Top-ranked Florida solved one half of the Southeastern Conference football puzzle by beating Georgia on Saturday, 41-17, to clinch the Eastern Division title.
The Gators captured the Eastern championship earlier than anyone in the division since the Gators on Oct. 29, 1994. The last SEC West team to clinch the division earlier was Auburn on Oct. 30, 2004.
Hartman: Vikings' draft gambles paying off
The Minnesota Vikings have landed two great players in the draft over the past three years by taking gambles that teams ahead of them apparently didn't want to take.
Superstar running back Adrian Peterson was the seventh choice in the first round in 2007, and wide receiver Percy Harvin was the 22nd pick in the first round this year.
Ostler: With 'Creepshow' Raiders hitting all-time low
The Oakland Raiders quite possibly are setting up coach Tom Cable to walk the plank.
That would fall into the category of zany Raiders' hijinks, like the kind in which coaches get fired by the light of an overhead projector and assistant coaches attack filing cabinets with their jaws.
But we have entered a new territory: "Creepyland.''
Tafur: Early troubles distant memory for Ducks
The way the schedule worked Saturday night, every other Pac-10 team besides Washington State was off or done playing in time to watch the Oregon-USC game. And just imagine how much those coaches and players enjoyed seeing the Trojans, the bullies of the conference, get run around in circles by the Ducks.
McNulty: How good are Gators?
Two questions gnawed at me Saturday as I watched top-ranked Florida crush arch-rival Georgia 41-17 in college football's annual outdoor cocktail party in Jacksonville: Are the Gators that good? Or is the Southeastern Conference that bad? Here's what I've come up with.
Yes.
And yes.
Gholson: Minus T.O., Cowboys sing different tune
ARLINGTON, Texas - Ever since T.O. left town, I have been up and down on whether handing him his walking papers was really the right decision for the Dallas Cowboys.
Love him or hate him, the guy is one of the best wide receivers in all of pro football.
Don't believe me. Just ask him.
Having nothing to prove, Favre does it his way vs. Packers
GREEN BAY, Wis. - As a Green Bay Packer, Brett Favre always felt sympathy for opposing teams required to take the half-hour bus ride from Appleton, Wis. to Lambeau Field.
And those players didn't have to face the gantlet Favre did on Sunday, as Packer fans lined the bus route and offered specific and sometimes vulgar signals to their former quarterback.
