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Chase Daniel talked with quarterbacking pals Mark Sanchez of USC and Matthew Stafford of Georgia, who each suffered an upset loss last week, about maintaining focus as a team. Read the Article

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‘Don’t let your team do it’
By DAVE MATTER of the Tribune’s staff
As college football powerhouses plunged like the Dow last week, Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel got on the phone and made sympathy calls to his brothers in arms. 

Bruins can’t buy break in deflating loss
By SAM MILES of the Tribune’s staff
Despite the mounting evidence, it never appeared as though the Helias Crusaders would blow out the Rock Bridge Bruins last night. It was not that sort of game. 

Bruins show signs of life
By STEVE WALENTIK of the Tribune’s staff
Don’t think Kyle Austin wasn’t feeling an urgent need to inject some life into his team’s struggling offense only days before its meeting with crosstown rival Hickman.

Errors cost Bruins in volleyball defeat
By JOSH MOSLEY of the Tribune’s staff
Bad bounces were all too familiar for the Rock Bridge volleyball team last night against East St. Louis. The ball bounced off the net, out of bounds and even off the flailing limbs of the Flyerettes desperately trying to keep it in play.

Cowan pitches one-hitter; seniors lift Kewpies to win
By the Tribune’s staff
Taylor Cowan completed a one-hitter as the Hickman softball team rolled over Pilot Grove 10-0 in five innings on senior night.

TAKE 2: An alternative look at the day in sports
By JOE WALLJASPER
Continuing its tradition of never trusting any performer under 50 since Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson got down to bid’ness onstage in 2004, the NFL tabbed Bruce Springsteen as its halftime act for Super Bowl XLIII.

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