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Byline: Jeff Miller Sacred Heart University hosted the International Collegiate Programming Contest at West Campus on Sunday, Feb. 26. Schools from all over the greater New York area came to [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller, Special to USA TODAY South Florida, you're in position to make 'winter sports' history. This is the 75th season in which the NBA and the NHL will [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller More than a million high school students and more than 2.5 million younger students play tackle football across the country every year. There is no higher priority, [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller, @Jeff55Jeff, Special for USA TODAY Sports What constitutes a rebuilding year for the Baylor women's basketball program has thus far resulted in a fifth consecutive Big 12 [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller, @Jeff55Jeff, Special for USA TODAY Sports Boys basketball games at Valentine High feature no home pep band and no cheerleaders. Then again, there's no student section. At [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller Team Tarmac has landed in the American League playoffs. Evan Longoria again provided a critical, final-game home run, augmenting a stellar complete-game performance by David Price to [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller Nelson Cruz arrived at Rangers Ballpark early Monday afternoon in advance of his first big-league appearance in almost two months, coincidentally in the American League wild-card tiebreaker. [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller A spot in the American League wild-card game represented purgatory for the Texas Rangers a year ago. This season, it's a path to redemption. The Rangers' 6-2 [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller, @jeff55jeff Even with the Oakland Athletics resorting to an emergency starting pitcher Sunday afternoon, the Texas Rangers' disastrous week ended with a 0-6 homestand during which the [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller The Texas Rangers didn't add any hitting at the trade deadline to the club's lowest scoring attack since 1988, an offense that also could lose its top [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller University of Texas senior Marquise Goodwin, the USA's top qualifier in the long jump for the London Olympics, has forged a bond with a 'Texas-Ex' that extends [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller That 'dear old Baylor spirit,' from the school song, has been tested mightily for decades. Losing was so pervasive among the football and men's basketball teams, the [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller The Dallas Cowboys remained unbeaten in November, closing out a four-win month by rallying for a 20-19 victory against the Miami Dolphins on Thursday. Rookie Dan Bailey [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller, Special for USA TODAY The Dallas Cowboys remained unbeaten in November, closing out a four-win month by rallying for a 20-19 victory against the Miami Dolphins on [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller FORT WORTH ù Those 'Rose Bowl Champions' banners hanging from nearly every light pole around the TCU campus were erected in great measure thanks to a quarterback [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller DALLAS -- Texas A&M women's basketball fans occupied every seat and then some at Dick's Last Resort, near American Airlines Center, as Tuesday night became Wednesday morning. [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller Three giants defeated and one left in their implausible path to the 1986 men's Final Four, the LSU Tigers were greeted by cheering fans at their Atlanta [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller Amber Branson could coach little Lipan, Texas, to its first state girls basketball title this weekend, but that would pale in comparison to what she did last [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller FORT WORTH -- The office of TCU football coach Gary Patterson now features a steady soundtrack of construction noises. Just outside its north windows, $105 million worth [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller FORT WORTH -- Everything Mountain West Conference football has worked toward over 12 years will be on display Saturday when No. 4 TCU (9-0) visits No. 6 [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller Louisiana Tech junior linebacker Jay Dudley has plenty of friends on the Grambling State football team. That's only natural, given the schools are separated by about 3 [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller Senior quarterback Colt McCoy trudged to Texas' sideline, his passing arm rendered useless five snaps into the Longhorns' opening possession against Alabama in the Bowl Championship Series [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller The offensive aerial circus at Texas Tech under coach Mike Leach ws a staple of college football during the past 10 years. The show should be operating [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller IRVING, Texas -- Turner Gill's tight travel schedule Wednesday for attending the Big 12 football preseason media session didn't allow the new Kansas coach to visit family [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller IRVING, Texas -- If Southern California's appeal of NCAA penalties levied last month is denied, Bowl Championship Series executive director Bill Hancock said Tuesday that the 2004 [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller IRVING, Texas -- The school kicking off the Big 12 Conference's three-day football preseason media session Monday was the one that definitely will depart the league next [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller BRYAN, Texas -- Dave Bliss could have chosen to live outside the public eye in the state where he was the public face in one of college [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller BARNSDALL, Okla. -- Heather Lanphear, a junior who plays third base on the girls slow-pitch softball team at Barnsdall High, parked just behind the left-field fence an [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller Texas A&M provided the biggest surprise of women's college basketball conference tournament play. The 11th-ranked Aggies handed No. 3 Nebraska its first loss of the season in [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas -- Grady Green long dreamed of playing major-college basketball, and he still dreams of playing in the NBA. He jokes about TV commercials featuring [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller WACO, Texas -- In Brittney Griner's first semester at Baylor, her school load included theater appreciation, sociology and a non-conference basketball schedule converted into a 13-1 start. [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller FORT WORTH -- Defense has been the bedrock in the renaissance of TCU football. But the Horned Frogs' offense took command Saturday night when No. 4 TCU [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller STRAWN, Texas -- The best little rivalry in Texas high school football will resume Friday night in rural Palo Pinto County. The Strawn Greyhounds host the Gordon [...]

Byline: JEFF MILLER Aaron McLaughlin Richey (1837-1912) and a girl believed to be his granddaughter pose for the camera. Richey settled near the mouth of the Pithlachascotee River in 1883, [...]

Byline: JEFF MILLER Aaron McLaughlin Richey (1837-1912) and a girl believed to be his granddaughter pose for the camera. Richey settled near the mouth of the Pithlachascotee River in 1883, [...]

Byline: JEFF MILLER Pasco High School, which is believed to the building on the left, was built in late 1898 or in 1899. The building on the right was built [...]

Byline: JEFF MILLER These are early photos of the Hacienda Hotel, which opened on Main Street in New Port Richey in 1927. A newspaper account reported that 800 people (the [...]

Byline: JEFF MILLER This car was decorated for first Chasco Fiesta in March 1922. The festival, the largest in Pasco County, continues each spring in New Port Richey. This picture [...]

TURIN, Italy If the United States men's hockey team looks on the bright side, there's little time to dwell on Tuesday night's 5-4 loss to Russia that closed the final [...]

Chris Chelios recently celebrated another birthday, a practice he has mastered more often than any other current NHL player. He bemoaned receiving mostly clothes from his family to mark No. [...]

Bishop Eddie Long: Responses to 'Bishop's charity generous to bishop,' Page One, Aug. 28 'A jaundiced perspective' What is problematic about Bishop Eddie Long is his diatribe disparaging fellow clergy [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller DALLAS _ Now you've done it. All of the complaining about the Bowl Championship Series _ from talk-radio chatter to sports-anchor diatribes to the hot glare of [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller LOS ANGELES _ They did it again Wednesday night at Staples Center, folks. The Indiana Pacers engaged the fans. One of them did, at least. As he [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller LOS ANGELES _ He was supposed to be the first one to leave, but instead he's the final one to stay. And Tuesday, Kobe Bryant also was [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller DALLAS _ The promise that Texas Tech men's basketball coach Bob Knight made 19 months ago to return a year's salary will be realized this season. Knight [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller ATHENS _ Thursday night will mark the final stage appearance for the 'fab five' of U.S. women's soccer. All that remains is to determine which portion of [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller WASHINGTON _ Pennsylvania's two U.S. senators say they believe the same thing when it comes to defining marriage: that it should be the union between one man [...]

Byline: Jeff Miller and Christina Gostomski KUTZTOWN, Penn. _ An upbeat President Bush swept through friendly Republican territory Friday, asking supporters to redouble their efforts to help him win a [...]