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College football coaches get creative with walk-on rewards

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The camera panned through the crowd inside Kauffman Stadium on a warm, late summer night, jumping from kids to parents to grandparents, all of them wearing their blue and white Kansas City Royals gear. When it stopped on a group of young men seated in the first row of Section 208, a message quickly flashed on the crown-shaped video board in centerfield — and their jaws immediately dropped.

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Texas Coach Charlie Strong’s future bleak after Kansas loss

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Texas coach Charlie Strong walked slowly off the turf at Memorial Stadium, swimming upstream against thousands of Kansas fans trying to join the jubilant celebration at midfield. His wife was weeping outside the Longhorns’ locker room. His boss walked by with nothing to say. The Longhorns’ 24-21 overtime loss to lowly Kansas on Saturday may have been the final blow to Strong’s fragile tenure in Austin. Even if he coaches in next week’s regular-season finale against TCU, few believe he…

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