By Sarah Bahr and Alaa Abdeldaiem | @smbahr14 @Abdeldaiem_Alaa PASADENA, Calif. – The 104th Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual will feature programs appearing for just the second time in their histories. Oklahoma, which won here in 2003, and Georgia, which won 75 years ago, will meet in a semifinal of the College Football… Read more »
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Two Quarterbacks In Search of a Championship
By Sarah Bahr | @smbahr14 Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES — When freshman Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm takes the field New Year’s Day in Rose Bowl Stadium to the roar of thousands of screaming fans, he doesn’t expect to feel nervous. Pitching in front of 30,000 fans in the Little League World Series tends… Read more »
Mayfield Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired
By Alaa Abdeldaiem | @Abdeldaiem_Alaa Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES –– It was time to make an appearance. Baker Mayfield had missed all non-football activities with the Oklahoma Sooners over the last three days due to illness, and he was prepared to miss another. But when the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback turned on the television… Read more »
Georgia Tailback Tandem Key to Neutralizing Oklahoma
By Sarah Bahr | @smbahr14 Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES — In Georgia offensive coordinator Jim Chaney’s dreams, Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield’s cream pants are spotless as a clergyman’s cassock. His helmet gleams in the Southern California sunshine. His cleats? Marshmallow-white. In Chaney’s fantasy, Oklahoma’s one-man offensive juggernaut never sees the field, throwing for… Read more »
Sooners’ Defense Aims to Silence Doubters, Defend Pride
By Alaa Abdeldaiem | @Abdeldaiem_Alaa Sports Capital Journalism Program LOS ANGELES –– Ogbonnia Okoronkwo is tired of hearing it. The senior defensive end is facing a Southeastern Conference opponent in a bowl game for the second straight year, and as his Oklahoma Sooners prepare to take on Georgia at the Rose Bowl Game presented by… Read more »
Students from IUPUI Sports Capital Journalism Program to cover College Football Playoff
INDIANAPOLIS — This is the fourth year of the College Football Playoff, and in Atlanta on Jan. 8, the usual organizations who cover it every year will return — outlets such as The New York Times, USA Today and ESPN. Put the IUPUI Sports Capital Journalism Program in that group, too. For the sixth consecutive year —… Read more »
Weekly Roundup: Nov 28-Dec 4
Lee Jenkins (@SI_LeeJenkins) of Sports Illustrated profiles Ben Simmons and his quest for NBA stardom. Dirk Chatelain (@dirkchatelain) of the Omaha World-Herald writes about Scott Frost’s return to Nebraska and what it means for the program going forward. Chris Johnson (@bychrisjohnson) of Sports Illustrated profiles Zion Williamson and how he came to prominence as a high… Read more »
So close to perfection, Wisconsin’s championship hopes end
By Mark Alewine (MR_Alewine) Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS— Troy Fumagalli and the Wisconsin seniors have been here before. Watching the confetti cover the turf at Lucas Oil Stadium. Filing into the tunnel with the deafening cheers behind them. O! H! I! O! It’s been three years since Wisconsin lost to Ohio State, 59-0, in… Read more »
The stress of seeding the College Football Playoff
Editor’s Note: Jonathan Sauber, a graduate assistant in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations, was the chair of the inaugural College Football Playoff mock selection exercise for student journalists. IUPUI is the only school that has had students serve as voting members of mock exercises of the College Football Playoff and the NCAA men’s… Read more »
Reflections on Arizona: The fondest memories aren’t about the game
It wasn’t until I was on the plane ride back to Indianapolis that I realized that the fondest memories I carried from the previous five days in Arizona had very little to do with the game that took place between Alabama and Clemson. The fact that the game was so competitive on Monday night was… Read more »