Defense In The News

Defense, defense, defense.

Alabama?s relentless running style tore holes in the Auburn defense, leading to its victory in the instate rivalry called the Iron Bowl.

Defense will go a long way toward determining whether Burnsville improves on last year's 11-16 girls basketball record. "We know how to score, and we're better defensively this year," Blaze coach Steve Ray said. "Last year we could score, but we had trouble stopping people."

CLEMSON -- Anybody with a casual knowledge of these Clemson and South Carolina football teams knows defense will be pivotal to the outcome of today's game.

DUBLIN — Amherst’s defense was not about to let Pulaski County deny them another trip to the state championship.

The Stetson defense held Jack McClinton scoreless for an entire half, but the Miami guard still found a way to contribute.

Chicago, Nov.29 : US President-elect Barack Obama is likely to name the country's Defense Secretary on Monday, a senior Pentagon official told Fox News.

Early this season, the Arizona State football team lamented its inability to force turnovers. When the calendar turned to November, however, the Sun Devil defense not only started taking the ball away, but putting points on the board while doing it.

It may upset some of the Democratic Party’s more amped up liberals who want us out of Iraq now, but Barack Obama did the wise thing in asking the Bush administration’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, to stay on in that post.

LITTLE ROCK — A young Arkansas defense finally grew up. The Razorbacks’ green defense has even been blamed for head coach Bobby Petrino’s first campaign being in the red at season’s end with a 5-7 overall record. (Northwest Arkansas Times)