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Credit O'Leary for UCF's successful NCAA appeal
Running off at the typewriter … Let's give it up for UCF football coach George O'Leary, who recorded his biggest victory four months after last football season ended. UCF won its NCAA appeal on Friday to have its postseason ban overturned and will...
Tags: Sports, Philadelphia 76ers, UCF Knights, Emmitt Smith, San Antonio Spurs
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25 most powerful people in Central Florida
They control some of the largest work forces in town. They can affect your health care, your daily commute, even your kids' education. Some of them have direct lines to the White House. They are Central Florida's power players. And you deserve to...
Tags: Radio Industry, Andy Gardiner, Alan Grayson, Companies and Corporations, John Morgan
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UCF, USF must try to bolt Big East for ACC or Big 12
If UCF President John Hitt and USF President Judy Genshaft haven't already scheduled appointments with Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford and Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, then they are being seriously derelict in their duties....
Tags: Sports, Florida Gators, UCF Knights, West Virginia Mountaineers, Football
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UCF can compete for C-USA title now, but what about Big East title next year?
This could still turn out to be a bad decision. A horrible one, in fact. But we will get into that a few paragraphs from now. Right now, though — in this frozen moment in time — it feels like UCF President John Hitt did the right thing...
Tags: Basketball, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Sports, College Sports, UCF Knights
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UCF, Tribble get what they deserve from NCAA
A dark day for the Knights. One of the darkest days in UCF sports history. On Tuesday, the Knights were hit with the four damning words that every university athletic department dreads hearing from the NCAA Committee on Infractions: "Lack of...
Tags: Sports, College Sports, UCF Knights, National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Football
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UCF welcomes innovation — by punishing innovator
Rob Rankin created a website to help fellow University of Miami students find spots in the classes they need. UM let its advisers link to the site and the IT department offered to hire Rankin for other projects. Young hacker Chris Putnam made profiles on...
Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, Invention and Innovation, Students, University of Miami
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UCF President John Hitt not above criticism for NCAA mess
UCF President John Hitt has always stood above the fray, untainted by the criticism and corruption that big-time college football and basketball coaches so often endure. Hitt's legacy is secure as one of the country's premier college presidents, a man...
Tags: Sports, College Sports, College Football, Football, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Finally, Big East gives UCF some much-needed good news
Finally, the day we’ve all been waiting for has come.
At long last, there is good news and wide smiles at UCF instead of bad vibes and grim faces.
At a time when UCF fans have had to endure a miserable football season, an embarrassing NCAA...Tags: College Sports, Southern Methodist Mustangs, UCF Knights, Southeastern Conference, College Football
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25 most powerful people in Central Florida 2008
There's a new No. 1 this year. But before we get to him, let's first reveal the others who topped this year's list of "The 25 Most Powerful People in Central Florida." The top 10 includes three business executives, two mayors, two members of Congress, one...Tags: Mel Martinez, Blindness, Andy Gardiner, Kathy Waltz, Finance
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With Hitt at helm, UCF has thrived
There aren't too many genuine leaders in these parts.
John Hitt is one of them.
In 1992, when Hitt took over the University of Central Florida, the school had 21,000 students.
Now it's one of the largest in America, with more than 58,000.
But it...Tags: Sports, College Sports, UCF Knights, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Florida
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The 25 Most Powerful People in Central Florida
They control some of the largest workforces, biggest budgets and loudest bully pulpits in town.
And they can impact everything from your morning commute to your family's health care and entertainment options.
They are Central Florida's power players....Tags: Andy Gardiner, UCF Knights, Mike Haridopolos, Local Government, John Morgan
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Would UCF be joining Big East or Big Deceased?
The situation is a little bit sad and a whole lot ironic.
Big East officials snubbed UCF forever and ever because they felt the Knights weren't worthy of their high-and-mighty conference. Now the Big East is scrambling to add schools like UCF in order to...Tags: Groucho Marx, UCF Knights, West Virginia Mountaineers, Football, Conference USA
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