Brian Bennett

Brian Bennett

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Bennett joined ESPN.com in August 2008 after nine years at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., where he covered college sports and the University of Louisville beat. He lives in Louisville.

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Pittsburgh Panthers season recap

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The view on Pittsburgh has changed drastically since Thanksgiving. On Turkey Day, the Panthers stood at 9-1, were ranked in the Top 10 and had a Big ...

Blog | December 09, 2009

Report: Kelly met with Irish last week

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The Chicago Tribune's David Haugh is reporting that Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly met with representatives from Notre Dame last week before the Pittsburgh game, and that he could...

Blog | December 08, 2009

ESPN.com's All-Big East team

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The official league selections will come out tomorrow. Here are my choices for the best of the Big East, from a season's worth of observations and som...

Blog | December 08, 2009

Wrapping up the Big East regular season

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It was supposed to be a down year for the Big East. The league entered the season with no ranked teams and much uncertainty. Every team had at least ...

Blog | December 08, 2009

Ranking the Big East bowls

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Colleague Mark Schlabach undertook the gargantuan task of ranking all 32 bowl games from 1-to-32 today. Here's how the Big East bowls fared in those r...

Blog | December 08, 2009

Big East mailbag

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...extra teams could shake the conference up a little and make things a lot more exciting. Brian Bennett: I'm not sure you could have made the Big East race much more exciting than...

Blog | December 08, 2009

Big East lunchtime links

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Cincinnati running back John Goebel says the Bearcats players understand why their coach is talking with Notre Dame and they're not mad, Bill Koch wri...

Blog | December 08, 2009

Is Edsall meeting with Notre Dame, too?

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...athletic director Jack Swarbrick in New York today. Swarbrick is already scheduled to meet with Cincinnati's Brian Kelly, who announced that development via Twitter on Monday afternoon. Edsall, though, has been completely mum on...

Blog | December 08, 2009

Kelly tweets that he'll meet with Irish

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Brian Kelly doesn't have to worry about the media spreading "misinformation," as he lectured to us after...

Blog | December 07, 2009

Video: Big East bowl winners and losers

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Big East blogger Brian Bennett gives his first take on the conference bowl lineup

Blog | December 07, 2009

Kelly: Will decide future by Saturday

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Brian Kelly isn't going to talk about job speculation. Except, you know, when he feels like it...

Blog | December 07, 2009

Big East lunchtime links

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West Virginia's biggest opponent in the Gator Bowl may be escaping the glass case of emotion surrounding Bobby Bowden's final game, Dave Hickman write...

Blog | December 07, 2009

Schiano not thrilled with St. Pete

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You almost always hear coaches talk about how excited they are to be going to whatever bowl game invited their team, even if it's some low-level game ...

Blog | December 07, 2009

Leavitt, Schiano had Bearcats No. 2

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...by USA Today, and as always there's some serious intrigue. As I noted yesterday, Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly voted his team No. 1, the only coach to do so. But fellow Big East coaches...

Blog | December 07, 2009

Source: Kelly, Irish to meet Tuesday

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Notre Dame plans to interview Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly Tuesday, most likely in New York City, a person close to the situation told ESPN's Joe Schad on Monday.

Story | Conversation | December 07, 2009