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Visiting Miami Hurricanes no strangers to this house

When the Champs Sports Bowl kicks off at 8:06 p.m. Tuesday at the Florida Citrus Bowl, the University of Miami will be the designated visitor.

Well, sort of the visitor.

The No. 14 Hurricanes (9-3) will be wearing their slick, all-white Nike Pro Combat uniforms, the ones they debuted in their regular-season finale at South Florida.

Miami Hurricanes' Leonard Hankerson `80 percent` certain of draft decision

University of Miami junior wide receiver Leonard Hankerson said on Sunday that he likely will make his decision a few days after the bowl game about whether he will enter the 2010 NFL Draft.

He said he's ``pretty sure'' of what he'll do, but he's not ready to reveal it.

``It's either 80 percent whether I'm going to stay or 80 percent chance whether I'm going to leave,'' said Hankerson from DisneyQuest at the Walt Disney World resort, where some players were paired with underprivileged children and others were set loose to play video games. ``It's either or. I'm not really saying right now, but that's what it is.''

Coral Reef player makes choice

Miami Coral Reef incoming senior guard Charles Hankerson Jr. has been busy since he helped his school win its first state basketball championship last spring.

Hankerson, a 6-5 guard, orally committed to the University of Alabama this week, choosing to play for Crimson Tide coach Anthony Grant, a former assistant at Miami High.

``I've had a good relationship with coach [Grant] ever since he was at [Virginia Commonwealth] and I loved everything about the school,'' Hankerson said. ``I'll have a great chance to compete for playing time early.''

South Florida cornerback the one that got away from Miami Hurricanes

Jim Leavitt began his National Signing Day press conference last February by saying two words: Kayvon Webster.

For Leavitt, the moment was as much about keeping a promise to a recruit as a declaration of victory over the University of Miami in its own back yard. Webster, a star cornerback and The Miami Herald's Class 3A-1A Defensive Player of the Year in Miami-Dade County, didn't just pick the Bulls over the Canes -- he basically slapped the hometown team in the face before signing his national letter of intent.

``Twenty-four hours before Signing Day, I was a Cane,'' said Webster, who decommitted from UM -- the program he grew up rooting for -- and surprisingly chose the Bulls on signing day during a ceremony in the school lunch room at Miami Monsignor Pace. ``I just remember being nervous and thinking about a conversation I had with Coach Leavitt, how he told me I should do what I want to do. In the end, I just went with where my heart told me to go. Now, I feel like I'm at home at USF.''

Miami Hurricanes' Orlando Franklin filling in well at left tackle

No team wants to lose its Most Valuable Player -- especially if that player protects the quarterback's blind side.

But with University of Miami team MVP Jason Fox out of the Champs Sports Bowl, the Hurricanes will turn to big Orlando Franklin to be Jacory Harris' bodyguard on Dec. 29 against Wisconsin.

In doing so, Franklin, the 6-7, 318-pound usual left guard, is expected to be replaced by true freshman Brandon Washington, a Miami Northwestern graduate who protected Harris as a left tackle when both were national champion Bulls in 2007.