Jesse Delgado became the first Gilroy High wrestling alumnus in history to garner All-American status after placing seventh at the NCAA National Championships in St. Louis over the weekend.
Gilroy High alumnus Jesse Delgado, a four-time Central Coast Section champion, four-time state medalist and the 2009 state champion while with the Mustangs wrestling team, qualified for the NCAA National Championships with the No. 5 Illinois Fighting Illini.
Joe Paterno, the Ivy League-educated coach who transformed sleepy Penn State University into a national football power with an academics-based philosophy only to see his career end abruptly and his legacy tarnished by a child sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant coach, has died. He was 85.
NEW ORLEANS – Hours after a 21-0 championship game and the conclusion of a bowl season that registered a slide in television ratings, Football Bowl Subdivision conference commissioners met in a downtown hotel Tuesday to discuss possible changes to the postseason model.
NEW ORLEANS – In the end, Alabama was the better team.
It's here. It's finally here. After weeks of sampling the appetizers of the other 34 bowls, the main course is at hand. Alabama is looking to avenge its only loss of the season, when it fell in overtime to visiting LSU in November.
MIAMI – The 78th Discover Orange Bowl exceeded the lofty expectations of even those who knew this would be a high-octane extravaganza. It was fast. It was frenetic. And it was ferocious. In other words: an Orange Bowl on steroids. When the clock finally ticked to 0:00, and the season had officially ended, three-point underdog West Virginia left Clemson in a stupor, dominating its first Orange Bowl 70-33 Wednesday at Sun Life Stadium.
Victory never tasted so sweet.
Quinn Sharp kicked a 22-yard field goal in overtime Monday night to lift Oklahoma State to a dramatic 41-38 victory over Stanford in the Fiesta Bowl. The crowd at University of Phoenix was announced at 69,927.
The Chip Kelly era at Oregon has featured conference championships, multiple 10-win seasons, cutting-edge pyrotechnic offenses _ even space-age uniforms that have made the Ducks the talk of college football. The only thing missing was a victory in a Bowl Championship Series game. And though Kelly and his players downplayed that fact throughout the week leading up to the 98th Rose Bowl, the jubilant scene on the field after a 45-38 victory over Wisconsin on Monday said otherwise.
