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Mike Woods column: Green Bay Packers need changes to rejoin NFL elite

We all know what went wrong with the Packers this year, and those who reside in the real world understand it had absolutely nothing to do with the dearly departed Brett Favre. For complete coverage of the Packers, visit...

An Insider's look at the annual Rose Parade

By Robert Niles: [Editor's note: In lieu of our regular Tuesday park visit, this week we are staying closer to home, with our annual look at the floats from this year's Tournament of Roses parade.]The 120th annual Rose Parade...

Six Hokies place at Southern Scuffle

Epperly takes fourth at 165 pounds GREENSBORO, N.C. - Below are final results for the Hokies: 125: #2 seed Jarrod Garnett (4-2, ELIMINATED) Pigtails: lost to Fred Santaite (Boston), 8-4 Consolations: def. Matt Snyder...

Siblings share love of Scottish music

By David Mirhadi Staff Writer Photo for The Union by John Hart Nicholas Ingersoll was five years old, walking in Santa Cruz with his family when he first heard the music that would change his life. “It’s something that really...

Endangered Desert Tortoise Must Flee the Advance of Solar

Our first Solar Refugee? That’s what it looks like for tortoises residing on a 3,700-acre stretch of land in California’s Mojave Desert. The bulldozers are coming once again to stamp down the bare-earth footprint of mankind....

The Bee's Female Athlete of the Year: Stephanie Brown Trafton

The weekend after she returned from Beijing, Olympic gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton helped clean up her church in Galt.As Stephanie Brown Trafton makes her post-Olympic rounds – Oprah, the White House, the San Luis...

Champs Sports Bowl features Seminoles and Badgers

The Wisconsin Badgers and Florida State Seminoles will meet for the first-ever time on the gridiron this weekend, as they square off in the 2008 Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando. With that near upset averted, the Badgers are now...

Cal's key for Emerald Bowl: Best running game

When Cal's video staff put together a montage of highlights for the Emerald Bowl kickoff luncheon, they probably had no idea that they were perfectly encapsulating the most important factor in deciding the Bears' game against...

Hokies might need to call long-term audible on offense

One program won the conference championship and goes to a BCS bowl for the second consecutive year. We speak, of course, of Virginia, meanwhile, sits home following a 5-7 season that turned up the heat under head coach Al Groh...

Owls top Central Michigan for Motor City Bowl crown

Florida Atlantic has played eight seasons of major-college football and already has the hang of it in bowl games. Rusty Smith threw for 307 yards and two second-half touchdowns to help the Owls beat Central Michigan 24-21 last...