We don't do a lot of feel-good stories here on Dr. Saturday, but every once in awhile, one falls into our laps that makes us smile and even get a little misty-eyed.

Meet 6-year-old Ross Keeler, a young man from New Mexico who is in remission from medulloblastoma, a form of brain cancer. He's the newest fan of the Rice football team.

Keeler was receiving treatment at the Texas Children's Medical Center across the street from the Rice campus when he and his father decided to attend a football practice. Coach David Bailiff learned of Keeler's condition and immediately took to him, as did the entire football team.

Rice did a fantastic piece about Keeler and his relationship with the team. It's just a little feel good for a Wednesday evening.

Tennessee's mascot, Smokey, will likely be on the field for this weekend's game against Buffalo after tearing his ACL against Cincinnati two weeks ago.

While running through the end zone during a second-half touchdown against the Bearcats, Smokey pulled up lame, favoring his back right leg. Dr. Darryl Millis, his vet, said he suffered a partial tear in his right knee and that the left is starting to go as well.

But that hasn't stopped Smokey, an 8-year-old blue-tick coonhound, from working his way back on the field. He rehabbed enough last week to make the trip to Florida and Millis is confident he'll be on the field this weekend for his traditional runs across the field pregame and during touchdowns.

"He's doing very well," Millis said. "He's pretty sound. He doesn't really have a limp at all. So, unless he has some kind of a major setback between now and Saturday, and hopefully through the rest of the season, he should be on the field."
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Minnesota coach Jerry Kill is still in the hospital, but defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys, who had been named the interim head coach for this weekend's game against Michigan, isn't ready to rule him out.

On Sunday, Kill was admitted into the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to address lingering seizures that have occurred since Kill suffered a major incident during the Gophers' home opener against New Mexico State two weeks ago.

Kill had suffered multiple seizures since the New Mexico State game, including one on Sunday, which prompted the admittance to the hospital. He said in a statement Sunday that he was going to put football on the backburner to concentrate on his health.

"The seizures continue to be a concern for me and my family," Kill said. "(My wife) Rebecca and I have made the decision to do what it takes to find a solution. I hope to be back to work soon, but we believe that taking some time away to get a handle on this is the right thing to do."

But Claeys, who has been

What, you didn't know Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy is a killer dancer? At least that's what his players tell him.

Gundy's moves are so fresh, you can't even find them in the standard b-boy repertoire. You can, however, find them on YouTube, thanks to the determination of the OSU athletic department following last Saturday's 30-29 win over Texas A&M. Although, frankly, his version of "break dancing" is closer to the disco scene in the movie "Airplane."

At any rate, Gundy — who has been a breakout YouTube sensation in the past, on more than one occasion — must have momentarily forgotten the website existed.

Bad for him, good for us.

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After weeks of back-and-forth, threatened legal action and conference break-ups and make-ups, Texas A&M is finally on its way to the SEC.

And Baylor would like the credit for "allowing" the Aggies to go.

Spurred on by a Baylor fan site, some enterprising Baylor fans came up with a T-shirt stating that Texas A&M now has Baylor's permission to leave the conference.

The shirt has a dog on the front — presumably A&M's collie mascot, Reveille — with its head in a cone of shame. There are two different versions of the shirt, one with the dog trying to eat out of a bowl with "$EC" on the side and the other has a bone with the same lettering. On the back, the shirt reads, "You Have Our Permission" signed by Ken Starr.

Remember when Baylor football was irrelevant? Man, the Bears get a potential Heisman candidate and the fans get pretty high and mighty. If anything, Baylor's threatened lawsuit to keep A&M in the Big 12 was petty and a low point for the entire conference, but hey, it makes good

Weekly notes from the undercard.

After a four-point loss to Penn State last week, Temple finally got the win against a "Big Six" conference team it deserved. The Owls jumped on Maryland early and defeated them 38-7 in College Park, ending a six-game losing streak to the Terps in dominant fashion.

While Temple should be thrilled about this win, big wins at the beginning of the season are starting to become the norm for the Owls. They defeated UConn last year in what was considered a program-defining win, but failed to finish the season strong in their own conference. One of the things coach Steve Addazio questioned during the preseason was whether his team had the mental fortitude to finish a season, because while a win against Maryland is great, a MAC title and a bowl berth would be a lot better.

"If you can't finish a season, then you're not very mentally tough," Addazio said in an earlier interview. "And that's where we need to improve. We need to be a good football team in

Saban-Yoda

Press conferences are boring.

It's usually the same humdrum questions about the opponents, position battles, injuries and the meaning of the upcoming game. So when a reporter asked Florida coach Will Muschamp about his relationship with Nick Saban using a Star Wars reference, well, let's just say it livened up that press conference really quick.

"Excuse the Star Wars reference, but you kind of have a master vs. padawan thing going on between you and Nick (Saban)," the reporter asked.

"What's a padawan?" Muschamp replies

Here's the rest of the transcript:

Reporter: You've never seen Star Wars?

Muschamp: Haaa?

Reporter: You guys ...

Muschamp: I watched Star Wars I and after that I watched "The Empire Strikes Back" and I ain't seen nothing after that.

Reporter: Well, uh ...

Muschamp: I don't know what a padawan is. You didn't call me a bad name, did you? I don't speak French either.

Reporter: You guys have a kind of master vs. student kind of thing going on. Is there any sentiment in

With all the things Mike Locksley has done during his three seasons with New Mexico — both on and off the field — it's something he may not have done that ended up costing him his job.

Prior to Saturday's 48-45 overtime loss to Sam Houston State, 19-year-old Joshua Butts was stopped outside of the stadium for driving while intoxicated, among other things. He told police he was a New Mexico football recruit and that he was driving Locksley's car. The car was, in fact, registered to Locksley and his wife and belonged to his son Meiko, who was friends with Butts from their high school days in Champaign, Ill., where Locksley was offensive coordinator on Ron Zook's staff at Illinois before landing the New Mexico job in 2008.

The school tried to diffuse the situation with a release stating the facts about the car and that Butts had nothing to do with the program, but the mere mention of Locksley's involvement coupled by the embarrassing loss on homecoming was enough to finally push vice