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College Football Season Preview: PAC 12

Forgotten in the pacific northwest, the PAC 12 conference has quickly turned into one of the top power conferences in college football. Not only is this conference one of the top in division one, it is also one of the most competitive. Here are several strong teams that look to grab the crown every season.

The top tier of the PAC 12 includes a few teams, Oregon being the best one who have made trips to the national championship game. In recent years, Stanford and UCLA have also emerged as power teams. They are closely followed by Arizona and Washington in the second tier with up and coming programs like Washington State and USC not far behind them. So many quality teams in a conference provide that there will be many upsets for the top teams.

With so many possible games to choose from, the game that fans should most look forward to is when the Stanford Cardinal visit the UCLA Bruins. This game not only features two of the top teams in the college football rankings facing off, it also provides for a matchup from a historically strong defense and a dynamic offense. Stanford's strength comes from their defense while UCLA quarterback Josh Rosen is seen as one of the best in the country. It could be the classic matchup of the immovable object and unstoppable force.

The most electric player to watch going into the PAC 12 season will be Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey exploded onto the scene for the Cardinal last year and did a little bit of everything. Not only did he rush for over 2,000 yards and eight touchdowns, he also had 600 receiving yards and five touchdowns. He even returned a kickoff and a punt for a touchdown. With someone as explosive McCaffrey in the conference, he is the one player that everyone should have their eyes on.

The one coach that may be under a lot of pressure this season is Arizona State head coach Todd Graham. After a strong start to his career with the Sun Devils, rival Arizona has seemed to develop and become competitive a lot faster under Rich Rodriguez. With other teams making improvements around them, the Sun Devils may decide to go in another direction hoping to become a stronger force in the conference.

With all of the competitiveness and explosive players in the conference, the PAC 12 will definitely be a conference that the sports ข่าวฟุตบอล media will have their eyes on.

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Football and Violence - Football Or Fireball?

Recently concluded Euro 2008 was widely covered in the international media, but there was another news that attracted lesser coverage and readers. Spain's Euro 2008 football victory party turned sour when one fan died and nearly 100 suffered injuries during wild celebrations in Madrid.

The victim, a 40-year-old man, was found lying in a pool of blood by street cleaners in the centre of the capital. The initial media reports suggested that he probably suffered a head wound.

After the national team had broken a 44-year spell, Spaniards took to the streets in wild celebrations that lasted well into the following day. Wrapped in Spanish flags fans let off fireworks and honked car horns.

Police tried to stop fans from jumping into the Cibeles fountain, the traditional way to celebrate a football victory and made baton charges to break up isolated rioting in the capital. More than 50 supporters were arrested for acts of vandalism and public disorder. Luckily there was only one reported death.

The game of football has been closely associated with hundreds of death. Many times it was a result of hooliganism or football riots and many times it was an out come of accidents or stampedes or fights among the fans.

Football and violence have been moving closely since many years. In 1314 King Edward II of UK banned football to prevent football related violence. Most of the football playing nations, have witnessed football-related deaths from time to time.

In 1968, over 70 people died when crowds attending a football match in Argentina, stampeded after some youths threw burning papers on each others. In 1971, a fight broke out at a match in Brazil, killing four and injuring 1,500.

In 1964, in another football accident more than 300 football fans died and another 500 were injured in Peru in a riot during an Olympic qualifying match between Argentina and Peru.

In June 2006, Germany beat Poland in a world cup finals match, a result that meant Germany qualified for the second round in the finals. The match was marred by violent clashes between German and Polish fans. The police detained over 300 people in Dortmund after clashes broke out. German fans threw chairs, bottles and fireworks at the police. Various groups of German and Polish fans fought with each other in separate clashes. In February 2007 in Saxony, all German lower league matches were cancelled after about 800 fans attacked 300 police officers after a match.

In Turkey, before Galatasaray's semifinal UEFA cup match with Leeds United A.F.C. in 2000, many fans were stabbed to death following street fights between Turkish and British hooligans.

At the 2006 FIFA world cup in Germany, there were limited incidences of violence, with over 200 preventative arrests. During that time, Police believe that on average each rioter consumed or threw 17 litres of beer.

In more serious situation, police had to protect Libyan fans in the Egypt from missiles being thrown at them by Egypt fans in the tier above them during a match between Egypt and Morocco.

In another football accident 125 people died and hundreds were injured when football fans stampeded at a match in Ghana in 2001. In Johannesburg, South Africa, on 14 January 1991 forty people died when fans surged toward a jammed exit to escape rival brawling fans at a match south west of Johannesburg.

On April 15, 1989 in England, Ninety-five people are killed and at least 200 injured in Britain's worst sports disaster after a crowd surge crushed packed fans against barriers at the English F.A. Cup semifinal match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough stadium.

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