NCAA Baseball Page 181 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Impostors Posing As USC Reps Reach Out To Potential Football Coaches
So you know those reports that say USC has reached out to Tony Dungy and (possibly) Jack Del Rio to replace Lane Kiffin? Yeah, well, those overtures never happened. Oh, someone claiming to be from USC did call Dungy and a member of the Denver Broncos coaching staff. Whoever it was just wasn't actual...
Buckeyes' Last-Minute Cover Had Brent Musburger Chuckling His Ass Off
Ohio State covered the spread last night against Northwestern in the most bizarre and unlikely way that Brent Musburger, couldn't help giving voice to the cursing masses across the country. ...
Ohio State Blocking A Northwestern Punt, In Extreme Slow Motion
We're not entirely sure how, but as of this writing Ohio State's only put up one touchdown tonight—and they got it on a punt block that exhibited such dominance you wonder how they're losing to Northwestern....
Tennessee Ties Game On Blocked Punt, UGA Immediately takes Lead Back
Man, this was really exciting there for a second. Tennessee had tied the sixth-ranked Bulldogs and Knoxville was fired up heading into the fourth quarter....
Banner Plane Crashes On Flavet Field Before Florida-Arkansas Game
Around 4:00 pm this afternoon, a plane carrying an advertisement for Geico Insurance McDonald's crashed on an unoccupied car in Flavet Field, an open field at the University of Florida that, from the look of it, serves as a tailgating site for Florida games. The Gators are playing the Arkansas Razor...
Scott Shafer: Charter Member Of The Dabo Swinney Fan Club
Just before the half, Dabo Swinney's Clemson Tigers were thumping Syracuse 35-7. On fourth-and-goal inside the Cuse 1o, he went for it rather than just kicking the field goal. The Syracuse defense held them out of the endzone and head coach Scott Shafer pledged his everlasting love for Dabo....
Jonathan Johnson Narrowly Avoids Running Into Brick Wall
This, minutes into the second quarter in Tennessee, was almost a disaster. Jonathan Johnson stretches out for an overthrown fade pass in the back corner of the endzone and winds up running head first into the wall. Luckily, there was still some padding on that portion of the wall, but less than a fo...
SMU Ties Rutgers With Minute Remaining On Insane Two-Point Conversion
Somehow, today's Rutgers-SMU battle in Dallas is a conference game, and the two teams (okay, mostly the Mustangs) are doing their best to make it a worthy matchup. SMU tied it with a bit more than a minute left thanks to this two-point conversion they had absolutely no business completing....
'Bama Fans Made An Elephant-Float Out Of A Volkswagen
Warren: Hey Joel, know what I think I'm gonna do?...
ESPN Cameras Catch Nebraska Player Appearing To Relieve Himself
Can't a guy get a little privacy/patriotic whizzing?...
Jerry Kill Has Another Seizure, Will Miss Michigan Game
Jerry Kill suffered a seizure this morning—his second of the season—and will miss game action for the fourth time since joining the Gophers. The Gophers head coach was not feeling well Friday and did not accompany his team to its hotel in Dearborn, Michigan. He planned on traveling Saturday to join...
UVA Scores Three Last Week, Doubles It Right Here
UVA struggled to get any kind of offense going last week and lost 14-3 to Pitt. This week, against Ball State, it's an offensive smorgasbord—they currently lead 17-10 just inside the second quarter—including this diving and tumbling effort at the end of a 27-yard run from quarterback David Watford. ...
Show Us Your Tats: Northwestern-Ohio State <i>GameDay</i> Sign Roundup
The nerds near Chicago are hosting Ohio State tonight and also ESPN's College Gameday this morning. Be sure to grab your dictionary and the, uh, the-other-one-with-the-different-words-that mean-the-same-thing-ary. You'll need them both to get most of these signs....
Paul Rhoads Goes On Rant For The Ages After Officials Screw ISU
Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads, already on the hot seat after losing the Cyclones' opening game to Northern Iowa of the FCS, had a right to be upset with officials after tonight's game against Texas, a 31-30 Longhorns win....
Here's The Worst Late Hit You'll See This Year In College Football
Hope you're proud, Longhorns fans....
Meet Mr. Inside And Mr. Outside On The Hokies' Defense
Each week, Football Outsiders recognizes the most outstanding college linemen, defenders and other darkhorses from the previous weekend who are habitually overlooked in the hype for that other award (whatever it's called). These are the Lowsmen....
Report: Alabama Assistant Loaned Money To HaHa Clinton-Dix
After yesterday's practice, Nick Saban announced that standout safety Ha'Sean "HaHa" Clinton-Dix was suspended indefinitely. No reason given, just "violation of team rules," as with many of the other nine Bama players suspended over the past eight months. Now we've got a pretty good clue: Alabama ha...
Ole Miss Football Players Shout "Fag" At Actor In Gay Awareness Play
The Ole Miss theater department's production of The Laramie Project, which depicts the reaction to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, was interrupted Tuesday night by a stupid, hateful audience, which included (and was instigated by) about 20 Ole Miss football players. ...
The Student Who Didn't Win $2,000 At An NMSU Game Is A Badass
Recently New Mexico State University President Garrey Carruthers made a generous offer: Students who attended the games of the woeful post-WAC Aggies would receive prizes, including $2,000 cash for a certain lucky someone if he or she happened to be in the stands after the third quarter....
How Division-III Colleges Profit From Football No One Watches
Right up there with Chicago Cubs 1908 World Series Champions among great historical-minded sports T-shirts is the one that has floated around central Arkansas for years: The shirt that proclaims Hendrix College football "undefeated since 1960." The joke, of course, was that the little liberal arts c...