Temple Owls: Enough Weapons To Blow Up a Scoreboard

Published on: 7th October, 2009

It's got be good to be Temple quarterback Vaughn Charlton now. He's got more weapons than an F-15 fighter pilot and the plane hasn't even gotten out of the hanger yet. That's what they've been working on all week in the command center of Temple football, otherwise known as the Edberg-Olson Practice Complex, shining ...

Temple vs. Ball State: Wishing For Turnovers Won’t Do

Published on: 6th October, 2009

There's a reason why football is the greatest game ever devised. It's simple. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going on down on the field. After years of watching the game closely, I've narrowed the keys to winning down to this: 1) Put the other guy's quarterback on ...

Temple-Eastern Michigan: No Such Thing as a Trap Game for Owls Football

Published on: 30th September, 2009

Message boards are a beautiful thing. You can catch the pulse of a sports fan, or a sports community, by sitting down with a cup of coffee and paging down a list of threads. Occasionally something will catch your eye, so you will click on it. So it was with me on the ...

Temple 37, Buffalo 13: A Can of Whoop, Err, Arse

Published on: 27th September, 2009

There's a word radio sports jock Jim Rome likes to use. Arse. Like, they kicked arse. Like, they whooped arse. You get the idea. I had to do a double take at the tailgate prior to the Buffalo at Temple football game on Saturday. Somebody was wearing a blue University of Buffalo T-shirt that said: "Buffalo Football: A ...

We’re Temple Football Fans, but We’re from Missouri on Saturday

Published on: 24th September, 2009

They might have stumbled out of their dorm rooms at 10 a.m. and taken the 10-minute subway ride to the game in Philadelphia, but the estimated 6,000 Temple students will be from Missouri for Saturday's game against Buffalo. You can say the same for 5,000 or so Temple alums and maybe ...

Under Wayne Hardin, Temple Owls Used to Scare Wits Out of Nits

Published on: 16th September, 2009

Back in the day is a phrase kids like to use about crazy things they heard of way back when. Here's something really crazy: Temple and Penn State used to play great, great football games back in the day. It's true. Back in the day, doesn't seem so long ago to those of ...

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