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No conference starts out the 2011 season as well-positioned to produce a Heisman Trophy finalist as the Pac-12, considering the conference produced two in 2010. Here's a look at the candidates, from front-runners to dark horses. The front-runne...

Arizona State linebacker Vontaze Burfict was involved in a locker room fight with a teammate Wednesday, school spokesman Mark Brand confirmed. Brand called the fight between Burfict and receiver Kevin Ozier "a minor skirmish that was quickly resol...

It's time to start our preseason position reviews. And quarterback seems like a good place to start. For most Pac-12 teams, at least. For our new friends in Salt Lake City and Boulder, here's how we do this: We provide three evaluative categories:...

The reality of college football is that all players eventually leave and the best players often leave sooner -- for the NFL draft -- than fans and coaches would want. So while many view a count of returning starters as a great measure of what thin...

Welcome to the weekend that ends spring football and sends us -- officially -- into the offseason. I know: Yikes! Follow me on Twitter. To the notes! Brian from Portland writes: Ted, can you please compare and contrast Jake Locker with Ma...

ESPN draft guru has released his final 'Big Board' before the NFL draft begins Thursday. So where did your favorite former Pac-12 players end up? Well, truth be told, all the conference players listed ended up in the same place they were on the la...

One of the biggest uncertainties of this week's NFL draft is where former Washington quarterback Jake Locker will be picked. Some still project him as a first-round pick, while other see him going in the second round. ESPN's Scouts Inc. rates him 26t...

LOS ANGELES -- Last summer, four guys with a lot in common hung out in Manhattan and at the ESPN offices in Bristol, Conn. They had a good time. They traded war stories. But, no, Matt Barkley, Nick Foles, Jake Locker and Andrew Luck did not become go...

NFL.com's Mike Mayock rates his 32 top players available in the April NFL draft, and he ranks seven Pac-12 players between No. 13 and No. 31. He emphasizes that this isn't a "mock draft": "This is a list of the best 32 players in the 2011 NFL Draf...

Some Pac-12 players got mixed reviews at the NFL combine on Monday. Those who did well include a pair of defensive ends: Arizona's Brooks Reed and California's Cameron Jordan. Reed's 4.68 40-yard dash tied for third among defensive linemen, and...

Holy Stephen Paea! We knew Paea, Oregon State's two-time winner of the Pac-10's Morris Trophy, was a beast, but the defensive tackle proved it to everyone else when he set an NFL combine record with 49 reps at 225 pounds on the bench press. Fol...

Hope everyone is dealing well with a weekend without college football. You can follow me on Twitter here. To the notes. Jason from Eugene writes: Can you post an honest breakdown of returning players for the Ducks? Ted Miller: My honest o...

Here's an early look at the Pac-12 pecking order heading into the off-season. Count on this being fluid, particularly after I get to see teams practicing this spring. 1. Oregon: The Ducks likely will be ranked in the preseason top five even though...

First off, apologies to all the Stanford folks who e-mailed, Tweeted or otherwise reached out with this thought: Quarterback Andrew Luck wants to come back to Stanford next year. Lots of you did, and I sort of shrugged and discounted that talk. So...

Obviously, we'll have plenty of time this offseason to consider what is coming back in the Pac-12 -- 12! -- in 2011. But here's a quick look at returning starters. Note: We used season-ending depth charts, didn't spend much time fretting injury is...

If someone found a crystal ball in the preseason and, after giving it a good peering, had announced that one Pac-10 team would play for the national title and another would play in the Discover Orange Bowl, it's likely that Pac-10 administrators and ...