Jan 31
Taking a look back at every Mountain West team’s 2007 season.
2007 Mountain West Lookbacks/Recaps
– 2008 Mountain West Early Lookaheads
Air Force | BYU | Colorado State | New Mexico
San Diego State | TCU | UNLV | Utah | Wyoming
2007 Pages
2007 Mountain West Season
Air Force | BYU | Colorado State | New Mexico
San Diego State | TCU | UNLV | Utah | Wyoming
Air Force
Recap: Pegged as an also-ran in the Mountain West before the season began, Air Force soared past expectations in 2007, winning six of its final seven games to finish in second place and earn a date with Cal in the Armed Forces Bowl. First-year head coach Troy Calhoun was the architect of the revival at the academy, shrewdly increasing the role of playmaker Chad Hall, and getting sound contributions from a veteran defense. Even after blowing a big lead to the Bears on New Year’s Eve, the Falcons can look back on last year as a truly remarkable season that began with very modest goals.
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Jan 31
BYU has gone 11-2 in Bronco Mendenhall’s first two seasons, and now, led by QB Max Hall, the team is loaded for a possible BCS run. The rest of the league should also be improved. Here’s an early look ahead at each Mountain West team with what needs working on and why to be excited and grouchy.
2008 Mountain West Lookaheads
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Jan 31
Ronaldo, with 27 goals, has already bettered his tally from last season
Cristiano Ronaldo’s stunning double in the space of three minutes was the highlight as Manchester United returned to the top of the Premier League table.
With the influential Paul Scholes back, the champions ran riot early on and Ronaldo put them ahead after a slick one-two with Nani on nine minutes.
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Jan 31
Noble kept his cool in the final minute of the match
Mark Noble’s injury-time penalty gave West Ham a deserved victory over Liverpool at Upton Park.
Noble slotted the ball low past Pepe Reina with virtually the last kick of the match after Jamie Carragher had brought down Freddie Ljungberg.
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Jan 31
MONTREAL — Montreal police have issued an arrest warrant for former hockey star Guy Lafleur, accused of giving contradictory evidence as a witness at his son’s bail hearing.
Lafleur’s lawyer, Jean-Pierre Rancourt, says the former Montreal Canadiens great will turn himself over to police Friday morning.
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Jan 31
CLEVELAND — Cavaliers forward Anderson Varejao is expected to miss at least three weeks with a sprained left ankle, the team announced Wednesday.
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Jan 31
NEW South Wales and former Australia lock Al Kanaar has retired from rugby union after a year-long battle with a chronic knee injury.
Kanaar missed the entire 2007 season after an knee reconstruction on his left anterior cruciate ligament after a fall in the trial match against the Brumbies in January last year.
The 24-year-old played 26 Super rugby matches for the Waratahs and made one appearance for the Wallabies, against New Zealand at Eden Park, in 2005.
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Jan 31
You know how shocked I was when I read that Nicole Vaidisova and Radek Stepanek, Martina Hingis’ ex-fiancé, were about to marry. Well, it proved to be just a rumor, to many people’s relief. However, they are dating.
Here are some pics of the couple. We’ve been waiting for a long time to actually see Nicole and Radek together.
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Jan 31
Deonta Vaughn scored 18 points and Cincinnati held West Virginia to the worst shooting night in school history Wednesday night, beating the Mountaineers 62-39 and spoiling the first game for Mountaineers coach Bob Huggins against his former school.
West Virginia’s 20 percent (10-of-50) shooting also was among the worst for a Huggins-coached team.
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Jan 31
Another year brings another jersey for the US Men’s team as US Soccer has revealed the new home kit for 2008.
As you can see in the picture, the jersey has thin red stripes with alternating fields of white and light blue. It is collarless and along the back of the neck reads ‘Don’t Tread On Me.’ This shirt will be the one the team wears next Wednesday night when they face Mexico in Houston.
What to make of this shirt? Well it is very polo isn’t it and on top of that, it is not very attractive. It seems like a knockoff of some Tommy Hillfiger design or something you would find in the clearance bin of Old Navy. Let’s hope it looks better in action then it does in a picture. But I don’t want to be all negative, I do like the lack of gold trim around the crest and I guess it could almost be worn as a work shirt.
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