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All-America Team: ESPN.com's 2009 All-America Team
Mark Ingram and Toby Gerhart, the top two finishers in the Heisman race, lead ESPN.com's All-America team.

BCS Championship: Mack Brown's personal liberation paved way to professional vindication
Mack Brown finally won big when he quit wanting it so badly. The Texas coach realized there was more to life than simply trying to pile up accomplishments so high that even a deceased man could see them.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish athletic director: Conference expansions could end our football independence
Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says the possible expansion of the Big Ten could create changes in major college football that force the Fighting Irish to give up their football independence.

Texas A&M-Commerce football coach apologizes for supporting players' removal of student newspapers
A Texas college football coach has apologized for applauding his players for removing campus newspapers from their racks because of a story about the program.

Texas Longhorns, Maryland Terrapins get reprieve on recruiting rule
The NCAA has given Texas and Maryland a one-year reprieve from a new rule that limits off-campus football recruiting by a coach designated as the head coach-in-waiting.

Utah Utes quarterback recruit Tyler Shreve says scholarship OK despite expulsion
A high school quarterback in Southern California said he still has a full scholarship offer from Utah despite being expelled after an altercation with his baseball coach.

NCAA Basketball Headline News

Dana O'Neil: The Big East tournament primer
The Big East tournament has arrived. Here's what you need to know about the teams that will be on the court at Madison Square Garden.

Dana O'Neil: Pitt Panthers guard Jermaine Dixon counts his blessings despite what he lost
The things Pitt's Jermaine Dixon has -- not the things he has lost -- have made him into the man he is today.

Report: Ernie Kent tells players he'll be out at Oregon
Oregon coach Ernie Kent reportedly told his players that he will not return next season.

Butler runs streak to 20 in rout of Wright State
Shelvin Mack scored all 14 of his points in the first half, and Matt Howard had 14 points and nine rebounds to help No. 12 Butler rout second-seeded Wright State 70-45 in the Horizon League title game Tuesday night.

UConn routed by St. John's in Big East tourney
Sean Evans had 19 points and 10 rebounds to lead St. John's to a 73-51 victory over Connecticut on Tuesday.

Chris Allen of Michigan State Spartans suspended indefinitely
Chris Allen has been indefinitely suspended from the Michigan State basketball team and will miss at least the team's Big Ten tournament opener.