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After 3 unbelievable days, aching Miami goes back to work

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The top cornerback is grieving the sudden death of his mother. The quarterback is concussed and at best questionable to play this weekend. The coach was fired. The staff faces a most uncertain future. The program is reeling. Miami calls this adversity. It’s more like an avalanche. The Hurricanes returned to the practice field Tuesday after three painful days. Interim coach Larry Scott led practice for the first time, replacing the fired Al Golden. If the day wasn’t daunting enough,…

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No. 11 Florida State not flashy but just keep winning

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Florida State doesn’t have the flashy offense of two years ago, when the Seminoles averaged 51.6 points en route to their third national championship. They also aren’t the Cardiac Seminoles of a season ago, where they won six games in the fourth quarter. But the one thing this year’s Florida State team has in common is it keeps winning. Saturday’s 29-24 win over Miami extended the Seminoles regular-season win streak to 32 and marked their 27th straight in Atlantic Coast…

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Coach Leonard Hamilton likes mix on Florida State basketball roster

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Florida State is the only team in the Atlantic Coast Conference that returns all five of its starters from last season. For most teams that would be cause for celebration. For coach Leonard Hamilton it means he is hoping the struggles of the past two seasons have been valuable experience. The Seminoles had their first practice on Wednesday as they are looking to bounce back from a season in which they went 17-16 and didn’t play in a postseason tournament…

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Gators join AP Top 25; Florida State drops while idle

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For the first time in two years, the Florida Gators are back in the AP 25. Following their thrilling 28-27 come from behind win over Tennessee, Coach Jim McElwain’s Gators slid into the Number 25 slot. In a week where Southeastern Conference teams otherwise made little to no movement, Florida vaulted from the “also receiving votes” group into the rankings. The Gators are one of 6 SEC schools represented in the Top 25, including Mississippi State, who also jumped into…

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FSU’s Jimbo Fisher: Jameis Winston’s free-food caper isolated incident

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Florida State athletic director Stan Wilcox says the school will investigate Jameis Winston‘s comments that the ex-Seminoles quarterback believed he had an understanding with an unidentified grocery store employee that led to last year’s much-publicized crab legs shoplifting incident. In a statement Wednesday, Wilcox says Winston’s comments were new details to the school, which will work with the NCAA to determine if a violation occurred. Speaking earlier during an Atlantic Coast Conference coaches teleconference, Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher says Winston’s…

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Playboy model search at FSU

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Playboy is in full pursuit of the sexiest girls from the Atlantic Coast Conference. This spring, Playboy photographers will visit all 12 schools of the ACC in search of hot coeds to appear in the magazine’s annual college girls pictorial. The Girls of the ACC feature will run in Playboy’s October 2009 issue. For the past 32 years college pictorials have been one of the most talked about and popular features in Playboy. Thousands of coeds have auditioned over the…

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