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Freshman guard Dwayne Bacon on roll as Florida State begins ACC play

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Florida State guard Dwayne Bacon is peaking at the right time. With the Seminoles beginning Atlantic Coast Conference play on Saturday at Clemson, Bacon is the first Florida State freshman to have four straight games scoring 20 points or more. He’s averaging 21.8 points while going 33 of 58 from the field and 16 of 21 from the line during that span. In Tuesday’s 73-71 win over Florida, Bacon scored 23, including the deciding points on a 10-foot jumper with…

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Florida State’s Dalvin Cook uses ‘inner motivation’ for bowl game

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Dalvin Cook is ready to get to work, start preparing for Florida State’s matchup against Houston in the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl on Dec. 31. He isn’t eager because he feels like he has something to prove after finishing seventh in the in Heisman Trophy balloting. Cook said he doesn’t need extra motivation. “Derrick Henry is a tremendous back. It doesn’t motivate me at all,” Cook said on Monday. “I like competing. That’s it. I got the inner motivation.” Cook set a…

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Florida State-Florida rivalry returns to national relevance

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The Florida State-Florida rivalry is nationally relevant again. It has championship implications, big-time bowl possibilities and maybe even a Heisman Trophy contender. It hasn’t been that way very often since 2000. And when the No. 14 Seminoles play at the 10th-ranked Gators on Saturday night, it will be just the third time in the last 15 years that both teams enter the in-state matchup ranked in the top 15. With so much at stake, it raises the intensity in a…

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Jimbo Fisher: No. 14 Florida State, No. 10 Florida very similar

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As Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher prepares for Saturday’s game against No. 10 Florida, he sees a mirror image of his own squad. “It’s funny how that evolves. That wasn’t planned, I promise you, by either one of us,” Fisher said on Monday. “One of the key roles as a coach is identifying who you are and what each team is. And (Florida coach Jim McElwain has) done a great job of that. “It’s ironic that we are very similar,…

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Lawyers for Jameis Winston, Erica Kinsman unhappy on eve of documentary

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The back and forth between the representatives of Jameis Winston and Erica Kinsman has ramped up on the eve of CNN’s airing of the film “The Hunting Ground.” The cable news station is scheduled to show documentary about sexual assault on American college campuses Sunday. The film aired at the Sundance Film Festival and features Kinsman, who accused Winston of sexual assault while the two were students at Florida State. The Hollywood Reporter said Friday that a Winston lawyer sent…

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RB Dalvin Cook running down Florida State single-season mark

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Dalvin Cook met Warrick Dunn for the first time three weeks ago before Florida State’s game against Georgia Tech in Atlanta. The two are likely to talk again this weekend when Cook is expected to break the Seminoles’ single-season record. Cook goes into Saturday’s game against North Carolina State needing 12 yards to surpass Dunn’s mark of 1,242 yards in 1995. Dunn, who played 12 years in the NFL and turns 41 in January, will be at the game. “He…

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No. 19 Florida State RB Dalvin Cook lists his 5 biggest runs

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In a season that has seen plenty of highlight-reel runs by Dalvin Cook, the tailback for 10th-ranked Florida State listed his top five jaunts in an interview with The Associated Press: — Sept. 12, vs. South Florida: Cook broke two tackles en route to a 74-yard touchdown run. It was the first of three TDs in a 30-carry, 266-yard performance. “I feel like that got the momentum going for the rest of the season,” Cook said. “I just put in…

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