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UConn's Starting Quarterback Retires Due To Concussions

Casey Cochran, the UConn quarterback who won the starting job—and our hearts—before the college football season, has stepped away from the game due to concussions....

Huge Brawl Breaks Out In Tailgating Area Before Texas Tech-UTEP Game

Video has surfaced of a brawl that went down before Saturday's football game between Texas Tech and UTEP. This is a mother brawl. It's a brawl that spawns other brawls, and several people are knocked out in the process. It's a mess....

NCAA Relaxes Penn State Sanctions, Continues Power-Mongering

Today, the NCAA announced significant reductions in its punishments for Penn State stemming from the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Specifically, the school's four-year bowl ban has been lifted immediately, and starting next season, it will have all 85 of its scholarships restored. This, like all power mov...

Ohio State Fan Stays Strong, Keeps Doing Her Half-Hearted "O-H-I-O"

Ohio State was losing by two touchdowns to Virginia Tech last night, and the majority of Ohio Stadium's attendance was gloomy, waiting for the Buckeyes to do something productive, but one Ohio State fan wouldn't give up hope. The team needed her "O-H-O-O-O-H-O" chant. Never give up!...

Exasperated Vanderbilt Fan Throws Shirt And Hat Onto Field During Game

One Vanderbilt fan was so sick of the Commodores' performance in a 41-3 loss to Ole Miss that he walked down the stands and threw his shirt and hat onto the field, then walked away, shirtless and presumably still fuming....

Stanford Refuses To Beat USC

Seven times, Stanford ventured inside the USC 35-yard-line, and in those seven trips, they picked up an average of 1.43 points. Advanced metrics say that is bad. They fumbled four times, all in USC territory, and lost two of them. In fact, the game ended when Stanford fumbled one last time inside th...

USC AD Pat Haden Runs Down To The Field To Yell At Officials

Far be it from me to tell Pat Haden how to do his job, but it has to be difficult to ask student athletes to not react to things childishly and emotionally when you're running down to the field because you just have to yell at an official for a call you didn't like....

Syracuse Soccer Player Squeezes N-Word And F-Word Into Same Insult

Here's an awful story about a young woman saying awful things and now likely paying an awful price for it. The woman in the video is Syracuse midfielder Hanna Strong, and as of this afternoon, she is suspended from the soccer team....

Nebraska Gets Crazy Last Minute TD, Bums Everyone Out

McNeese State vs. Nebraska was super fun for three hours, but it only takes a few seconds to remind everyone anew that there are Nebraska athletes and there are McNeese State athletes, and that's kind of not fair....

A.J. McCarron Never Did This

Alabama is, predictably, crushing FAU—and Blake Sims is a big reason....

This Is What Happens When Punters Try To Tackle

(CMU is still, at the moment, beating Purdue.)...

Today's College Football Viewing Schedule

The rest of the college football world was good enough to get out of the way of Stanford vs. USC at 3:30, and that was very nice of them. The only exceptions were a handful of Ohio and Kentucky schools who just had to make 3:30 today the time when all Ohio vs. Kentucky football beefs were settled....

You Will Never Be As Cool As Brock Hekking

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The <em>College Gameday</em> Curse Is Real... For Some Teams

The college football season is underway, and with it, the 28th season of ESPN's pregame show, College Gameday. With it also, the College Gameday curse, or at least rumors of its existence....

EMU Players Accused Of Attacking Relative Of Teammate's Murderer

Three Eastern Michigan football players have been charged with assault after allegedly attacking a cousin of the man who pleaded guilty to shooting and killing an EMU player last October....

NCAA: Geno Auriemma's Phone Call To Mo'ne Davis Was A Violation

UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma called little league pitcher Mo'ne Davis last month to congratulate her success with the Taney Dragons. Someone anonymously reported the call to the NCAA as a recruiting violation, because Davis, who is 13 years old, also plays basketball. The NCAA actual...

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After Rout, Mark Richt Writes Letter To Trash-Talking Clemson Fan [UPDATE]

Update: Richt says it's "bogus." See the bottom of the post....

UALR AD Resigns After Talking About Athlete's Mom's Boobs On Broadcast

Arkansas-Little Rock athletic director Chris Peterson is out of a job after being caught talking about an athlete's mother on a live soccer stream....

Don't Step To Will Muschamp About His One-Play Suspensions

Florida's season opener on Saturday was suspended after just one play, a kickoff, after rain and lightning strikes made the game unplayable. Two days later, coach Will Muschamp announced that three suspended Gators would be reinstated. This struck some observers as funny. It was not funny to Muscham...