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2007 Season Stats Att Comp Yds TD Int Rat 99 53 533 2 3 63.8 ST. LOUIS — Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart fractured his left collarbone while getting sacked late in the first half of Sunday’s 34-31 victory over the St. Louis Rams.
Coach Ken Whisenhunt said Leinart, the team’s first-round pick in 2006, would be out indefinitely.
What a night, what a week, what a season … these are the good old days for college football.
While baseball in 2007 is all about steroids and sweeps, the NFL is all about fantasy points and point spreads, and the NBA is basically a stinking mess, fall Saturdays are providing enough excitement and high drama to last the whole year.
And the BCS rankings don’t even start for another week.
SOUTH Africa progressed to the Rugby World Cup semi-finals with a hard-fought 37-20 victory against Fiji in a brutal but enthralling quarter-final in Marseille overnight.
The Springboks briefly looked to be in danger of joining Tri-Nations partners New Zealand and Australia as shock early casualties when Fiji launched a second-half fightback, but they maintaied their composure to secure victory.
Fiji, which made the quarter-finals for the first time in 20 years with a stunning win over Wales in the pool stage, threatened to produce another boilover when it scored two tries in three minutes to draw level midway through the second half only to run out of steam in the final 17 minutes.
Read reaction to Oklahoma’s 28-21 win against the Longhorns in Dallas.
News from Texas
Then it was hello, America, with Murray introducing himself to fans via an ABC regional telecast and, no doubt, highlight tapes to come. Not that he had been hiding. Stoops rotates three running backs: senior…
Austin American-Statesman
At this small school 12 miles from the Oklahoma border, there’s no room for middle ground about the Longhorns and Sooners. Some teachers live in Oklahoma, although the town of about 1,600 tends…
Dallas Morning News
Sam Bradford walked up the tunnel and out of view, but those in the Cotton Bowl could sense where he was headed. A baby-faced freshman quarterback with unflappable poise and an accurate arm, he had not…
San Antonio Express-News
Sterling Boon of Austin said he felt like “going home and kicking the cat” as he left the stadium with his family all decked out in orange and white. “It’s going to be a long ride home,” the Longhorns fan said…
Dallas Morning News
On the Sooners’ next drive, freshman running back DeMarco Murray took over. He needed one play to turn the game as he rushed to the left, beat Texas linebackers Scott Derry and Rashad Bobino..
Austin American-Statesman
The decisive contributions of the Sooners’ newcomers provided an ironic plot twist in a rivalry where Texas’ list of victorious freshman quarterbacks includes Colt McCoy (2006), James Brown (1994), Peter…
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Using speed and power, Murray arguably was Oklahoma’s best all-around player Saturday. His three kick-off returns for 67 yards included a 40-yarder. And late in the fourth quarter, as the Sooners clung…
Dallas Morning News
The No. 10 Sooners took control in the fourth quarter to pull out a 28-21 victory over the No. 19 Longhorns before a crowd of 80,000 at the Cotton Bowl, snapping a two-game losing streak in the Red River…
Houston Chronicle
The Longhorns decided to show OU a new defense early in the game when the Sooners faced third-down-and-11 on their first drive. The Longhorns used three down linemen and went into a dime package with six…
Austin American-Statesman
The rivalry lived up to expectations. The Texas Longhorns lived down to theirs. In their annual Cotton Bowl measuring session, the Longhorns lost the turnover battle, the quarterback battle and the…
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
And what’s not to appreciate about Oklahoma’s performance? Sam Bradford, a freshman playing in his first Texas-OU game and beyond his years, passes for three touchdowns and 244 yards and drops balls…
Dallas Morning News
The good, grand rivalry between the states rose again Saturday to its mythic proportions. Oklahoma beat Texas 28-21 before a record 80,000 madly partisan spectators who weathered sun, rain, humidity…
Austin American-Statesman
If Sam Bradford goes on from his first Texas-Oklahoma game to rate a statue alongside those of Billy Vessels, Jason White, Steve Owens and Billy Sims outside Owen Field in Norman, Okla., it will…
Houston Chronicle
Saturday’s game was played before a crowd of 80,000 at the Cotton Bowl, the 62nd-straight sellout in the series. … OU defensive end Auston English keyed a determined pass rush that produced four…
San Antonio Express-News
He’s 3-6 against Bob Stoops, but this one may have stung more than some of the others because Texas had positioned itself to win on a day when few gave the Longhorns a real chance. Give Texas credit for…
Houston Chronicle
“Before I answer about why we’re so good at running the ball, I want to say that Adrian Peterson is one of the most talented running backs I’ve ever seen,” Oklahoma center Jon Cooper said. “But I think a…
Austin American-Statesman
His jaw and fists clenched in anger, Colt McCoy marched toward the Texas locker room. Eyes cast downward, he didn’t even watch as just a few feet away, an Oklahoma player planted a giant crimson…
The Canadian Press
I was wrong. I thought Jamaal Charles would be a star. I should have known better. The Texas hybrid/spread offense would have forced Earl Campbell to start from a standing position. Besides…
San Antonio Express-News
“We didn’t give (Texas) a short field,” Wilson said. “The defense held them. We got the ball back and scored. Little things like that go unnoticed, but it was really big. That was some decent offense at a critical…
Houston Chronicle
National Coverage
That play was even more ridiculous than his 65-yard touchdown, which was plenty ridiculous. Murray bounced a handoff left, bolted through a seam and encountered Oklahoma tight end Joe Jon Finley on…
CBS SportsLine
STUTTGART, Germany — Top-ranked Justine Henin rallied to beat Tatiana Golovin 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 Sunday and win the Porsche Grand Prix, her eighth title of the year.
Steve McClaren announced a 27-man England squad yesterday for the European Championship double header against Estonia and Russia and did his best to suggest that his focus is on the first game, against Estonia at Wembley next Saturday. However, the fact that McClaren is considering omitting the captain, John Terry, against Estonia revealed that the England manager has mainly Moscow on his mind.
There is no guarantee that words will be followed by actions when Sepp Blatter embarks on one of his crusades, for which Arsène Wenger, Rafael Benitez, and whoever is managing Chelsea next season, will be grateful.
Top seed Justine Henin won her seventh singles title of the year after beating Tatiana Golovin 2-6 6-2 6-1 in the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix final in Stuttgart.
World No.19 Golovin was shining in the first set. As usually, Henin didn’t have any significant weaknesses in her play, but what an opponent Golovin was in the first set! She was confident and motivated and amazed me with her performance. But, as the second set progressed, Henin’s domination was ever greater, while Golovin was more and more just a shadow of the player from the first set. In the decider, the story from the second set continued, and Henin took the victory.