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By NEIL IRWIN and KEVIN QUEALY
Data from Facebook provides insight into where the sport’s biggest fans live.
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By TOM GIRATIKANON, JOSH KATZ, DAVID LEONHARDT, KEVIN QUEALY and MARC TRACY
We’ve published maps showing where fan support for one team begins and another ends for baseball and basketball. Now we’re pleased to offer another one: the United States according to college football fans.
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Homeless Former U.N.C. Player Balks at Efforts to Help Him
By JULIET MACUR
Ryan Hoffman, 40, who is homeless in Florida and difficult to find, has not embraced offers from old friends, his former university and the football community, frustrating his sister.
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A Former College Lineman Now on the Streets, Looking for Answers, and Help
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Nearly 20 years and more than 100 pounds ago, Ryan Hoffman was a hulking offensive lineman for North Carolina. Now he is a panhandler plagued with short-term memory problems and other troubles.
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A frenzy of realignment has transformed college athletics: about one in four schools has switched conferences since 2010.
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