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FWST: TCU’s Kenny Hill, like all QBs, finding the crown heavy By Gil LeBreton [email protected]  In the backwash of TCU’s double-overtime 41-38 loss last weekend, the knee-jerk reviews were not kind to Horned Frogs quarterback Kenny Hill. “Same old Kenny,” a friend of mine commented on Facebook. “Lost to Arkansas again,” tsk-tsked another. And then came…

http://www.gofrogs.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/091216aad.html GoFrogs: Turpin Repeats on Big 12 Weekly Honor IRVING, Texas — The Big 12 Conference has announced TCU’s KaVontae Turpin as its Special Teams Player of the Week. It’s the second straight week Turpin has received the honor. Turpin totaled 169 return yards (33 punt, 136 kickoff), including a career-long 64-yard kickoff return with less than a…

http://www.gofrogs.com/sports/w-golf/recaps/091216aaa.html GoFrogs: W. Golf in 4th Place at Minnesota Invitational MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — TCU sophomore Brooke Graebe carded a second-round 72 to lead TCU to a fourth-place standing after Monday’s opening 36 holes at the Minnesota Invitational in Minneapolis. The Horned Frogs are at 594 and just four strokes off the lead, held by Texas at 590. Graebe…

http://www.gofrogs.com/sports/m-golf/recaps/091216aab.html GoFrogs: Mazzoli Leads At The Olympic Club Live Scoring | Follow on Twitter SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – TCU sophomore Stefano Mazzoli is the individual leader, and the Horned Frogs sit in seventh, after two rounds of the USF Olympic Invitational at the historic Olympic Club. Mazzoli sits at 3-under-par and has a one shot lead over four other golfers…

DMN: Kenny Hill’s penalized gesture was religious symbol, not throat slash, TCU coach Patterson says By Grant McGalliard , Special contributor @GrantMcGTCU TCU quarterback Kenny Hill was making a religious gesture rather than a throat-slash taunt when he was penalized on Saturday against Arkansas, Horned Frogs head coach Gary Patterson said. The gesture means “Rising King”…

Des Moines Register: Iowa State trying to avoid bad history  Andrew Logue, [email protected] AMES, Ia. — There are two types of history: The type fans embrace and embellish, and the type players and coaches try to avoid. For coach Matt Campbell and the Iowa State football team, this week is about avoidance. The Cyclones have not…

FWST: Patterson: Hill celebration gesture was part of religious belief By Carlos Mendez [email protected] Quarterback Kenny Hill’s celebration gesture in the end zone was part of his religious belief, TCU coach Gary Patterson said, and something he would have liked to have known about before the game. “If he wants to do something like that,…

The Gazette: Iowa State notes: Hakeem Butler questionable, Nigel Tribune available against TCU Dylan Montz The Gazette Redshirt freshman receiver Hakeem Butler, who suffered an apparent leg injury late in the fourth quarter against Iowa, is questionable to play against TCU. He didn’t practice Sunday. “I watched it on the way home. It looked really…

Des Moines Register: Peterson: No change, for now, on Iowa State’s depth chart Randy Peterson, [email protected] AMES, Ia. — So it doesn’t sound like Matt Campbell plans to majorly shake up his Iowa State football depth chart, as he insinuated could happen after Saturday night’s loss against Iowa at Kinnick Stadium. Unless stuff goes really bonkers this…

NBC Sports: Bret Bielema calls TCU fans’ booing of Hogs LB Brooks Ellis “a very sick moment” By Zach Barnett One of the strange side effects of the hurry-up era of college football is that every defensive injuries must now be treated with suspicion. The entire gambit behind the hurry-up is to play so fast that…