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Rush Limbaugh Interrupts Pac-12 Coaches Teleconference
The Pac-12 coaches teleconference earlier today was going along just fine. Then Rush Limbaugh suddenly popped in to shout, "But since you're a liberal!" at Oregon State football coach Mike Riley just as Riley began to answer a question....
Nick Saban Is A Lunatic
That's the only possible takeaway from this profile of the Alabama coach in this month's issue of GQ....
The History Of College Football In One Shiny Website
The fantastic, graphics-centric Sports Design Blog mysteriously stopped updating last fall, as its proprietor Steven Little began devoting more time to "other projects." One of those projects was finally revealed yesterday with the launch of Winsipedia, a data viz database of the history of college ...
Reports: Johnny Manziel Meets With NCAA, Denies Taking Money
NCAA heavies traveled to College Station on Sunday and met with Johnny Manziel for nearly six hours, grilling him on allegations that he accepted money to sign autographs. Manziel reportedly maintained his innocence, setting up a collision course with the enforcement of an immoral yet immutable rule...
Texas A&M Won't Talk About Johnny Manziel This Week
Texas A&M will hold a press conference tomorrow in anticipation of Saturday's season-opener against Rice and Johnny Manziel will be noticeably absent, in body and spirit. The Aggies will not make Manziel available to reporters and the athletic director, Eric Hyman, has instructed the coaches and pla...
The Arizona Wildcats Celebrated The End Of Camp With A Dance-Off
With camp finally over, Arizona Wildcats head coach Rich Rodriguez let his players show their joy through the power of dance. And dance they did....
A&M Chancellor Blasts Darren Rovell, Declares Johnny Manziel Innocent
Big-time college football! Where a university system chancellor can be indistinguishable from a Paul Finebaum caller. Administrator John Sharp sent out a bizarre screed that decried the biased and untrustworthy media, and declared Johnny Manziel innocent of all the allegations against him, before ad...
How Jadeveon Clowney Became A Folk Hero
South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney got The New York Times long-form treatment yesterday, with writer Greg Bishop hieing himself to Rock Hill, S.C., to get a snapshot of Clowney's upbringing. It's an important story, because it finally attaches a prologue to a figure whom most of the coun...
Tulsa's Puppy Mascot Will Be The Best Part Of College Football Season
Part of me thinks Tulsa's introduction of a Golden Retriever mascot is a way to distract attention from the FBI investigation into a sports betting ring involving the former AD. But another, more insistent part of me says shut up look at the puppy look at her little face!...
Two Teens Charged With Murder Of Australian Baseball Player
Two Oklahoma teenagers, ages 15 and 16, were charged with first-degree murder in the thrill killing of college baseball player Chris Lane, and will be tried as adults. A third was charged as an accessory....
Purdue Pride Proves There's No Such Thing As Purdue Shame
Boiler Up! And then never speak of this again....
Freshman Hits Half-Court Shot For Free Tuition
Congratulations to Markus Burden, an incoming freshman at Ball State. For hitting this half-court shot at the university's "Welcome Week," Burden wins a semester of out-of-state tuition, roughly $11,000....
What's The Most Accurate College Football Preview Magazine?
Republished with permission from PunditTracker....
Former Marine Can't Play Football This Year Because Of NCAA Oversight
The NCAA has ruled that Steven Rhodes—a 24-year-old former Marine, now a walk-on freshman at Middle Tennessee State splitting time at tight end and defensive end—must redshirt his freshman year because he played intramural football at his military base. Hooray, NCAA!...
Here Is Michael Jordan's First Career Basket At UNC
Eye On Basketball unearthed this little gem today from YouTube's wayback machine. It's footage of a game that matched preseason No. 1 North Carolina against unranked Kansas on Nov. 28, 1981. It was the season opener at the Charlotte Coliseum. And it featured the first two collegiate shot attempts by...
Cops: John Mellencamp's Sons, Son Of IU Baseball Coach Stomped A Guy
This story has a lot of moving parts, college football players, and the offspring of an aging rocker, so try to keep up....
Notre Dame RB Wrecked By Backward Sled
Despite being warned ("No, it's not backwards!"), Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly sent his running backs into a gauntlet sled that was indeed set up backward and would not permit entry. This is not the sort of training they need—most of them remember the BCS title game well enough....
The Long Con: How The Manziels Conquered America
When news broke eight days ago that reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel faces an NCAA investigation into whether he sold autographs, the college football world reacted with either confusion or outright skepticism. After all, the press had created an image of the Manziel family that sugges...