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FSU’s Fearsome Foursome faces challenge in Louisville

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Through two games, they have been more than impressive. They have been fierce. While much of the conversation about the FSU football team has surrounded the offense, what with its old weapons (Dalvin Cook) and its new one (Deondre Francois), the rock for the Seminoles has been its defense, in particular, its defensive lline. Just Wednesday, in fact, Bleacher Report ranked the Seminoles fourth in the country among defensive lines, Well, guess what. If FSU is going to say undefeated,…

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Bucs could get their receiving corps together again vs. Eagles

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The Tampa Bay Bucs seem closer to having their regular group of wide receivers to play against the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday. Both wide receiver Vincent Jackson and tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins have practiced with the Bucs, which could indicate a return to the lineup. Jackson injured his knee in the team’s loss to Washington, while Seferian-Jenkins was hurt against New Orleans in the second game of the year. Without them, quarterback Jameis Winston has thrown mostly to receiver Mike Evans.…

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Bucs to host Dallas in “Desperation Bowl” on Sunday

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Yes, the Dallas Cowboys are a desperate football team. But Bucs’ coach Lovie Smith doesn’t think they’ll be the only desperate team on the field. “I never quite understood that one team [is] more desperate than the other,” Smith said. “They have six losses, we have five. You would be hard-pressed to find someone in our locker room that didn’t feel like this is a must [win] game. That’s how we’re looking at it. “What’s going on at their place…

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Bucs’ Jameis Winston might be without receiver Vincent Jackson Sunday

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It is appearing more and more that Tampa Bay Bucs’ quarterback Jameis Winston will be without receiver Vincent Jackson when the team plays at Atlanta Sunday. Jackson, who missed the latter stages of the team’s loss to Washington with a knee injury, has been unable to practice all week, although head coach Lovie Smith refused to call him out. “We know what we would like to get accomplished,” Smith said. “If Vincent can’t go, that’s just a part of it.…

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Bucs’ Vincent Jackson may miss several weeks with knee injury

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The Tampa Bay Bucs may be without one of their leading weapons Sunday, and perhaps for several Sundays afterward. Wide receiver Vincent Jackson missed practice Wednesday with an injured knee, and there are reports that he could be absent for weeks to come. “We’re not there,” Bucs coach Lovie Smith said. “He didn’t practice today. He has a knee injury. As far as multiple [weeks], we’re not ready to go into much more detail than that because we don’t know…

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Tampa Bay Bucs ponder an NFL where they have a winning record

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Even to the players of the Tampa Bay Bucs, it sounds mesmerizing. A winning record? Them? This is the franchise that finished 2-14 last season. The team that lost its opener in embarrassing fashion. A team that hasn’t’ had a winning record since 2010. Yet, as the Bucs prepare to play the 0-2 Houston Texans, they have a chance to improve their record to 2-1. Really. “It would be huge,” said receiver Vincent Jackson. “Obviously, being 2-1 in this first…

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Baseball: Black Sox player Shoeless Joe Jackson still banned

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For Shoeless Joe Jackson, it still isn’t so. Jackson, the old outfielder for the Chicago White Sox (or Black Sox), has been denied reconsideration for his lifetime ban by baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, which might have led to admission into the Hall of Fame. The story is almost 100 years old, but it remains one of baseball’s most fascinating tales. Eight members of the White Sox (made famous in Eliot Asinof’s book and the subsequent movie Eight Men Out), conspired…

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