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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The long-languishing football program at Minnesota has experienced plenty of potential breakthroughs over the last half-century, only to plateau or regress in the games and years that followed. Well, the Gophers have arrived at another pivotal season. With Paul Bunyan's Axe returned to that often-empty trophy case

BOCA RATON — By all rights, Florida Atlantic's defense could have folded the second that all-conference linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair collapsed on the Oxley Center practice fields with a torn ACL and MCL in his left knee last season.That's the funny thing about football, though. FAU's linebackers stepped up their play when Al-Shaair, now with the San Francisco 49ers, was sidelined in mid-October.Fifth-year senior [

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