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Patriots President: Belichick Didn't Tell Hernandez To Get Safe House
Many of the most interesting details to come out of Rolling Stone's big story on Aaron Hernandez concern the Patriots' handling of Hernandez in the months leading up to his arrest. Specifically, the story alleges that a drug-addled Hernandez told head coach Bill Belichick that he thought his life wa...

Jordan Matthews Hit His Head, Vomited, And Stayed In The Game
Ole Miss rallied twice late to take a 39-35 thriller, but the real story, and the breakout star of college football's opening night, was Vanderbilt receiver Jordan Matthews. Matthews put up ridiculous numbers, but his game will be more remembered for puking all over the field....

Wake Forest Tries To Clock Ball At End Of Half, Turns It Over Instead
ACC football at its best: a team trying to spike the ball, stop the clock, and set up a field goal attempt instead turns it over....

UNLV Opens Season With First-Quarter Hook & Lateral Play
These are usually desperation gimmicks, used when a team needs to win but is losing late in a game. UNLV, being UNLV, ran the hook & lateral early in its first game of the season....

College Football Already Has Its Weirdest Injury Of The Season
It's still only August, but as freak football injuries go, it's going to be tough to top this one from this morning at Grand Valley State, a Division II school in Allendale, Mich.:...

Entire Team Pranks QB By Playing Dead
Tonopah Valley (Ariz.) played a fun little trick on its QB. At the snap, they all hit the deck. The only thing that would have made it funner is if the pass rushers kept coming. ...

NY Post Declares "Carolina" Its Own State
Make sure to pick a copy of next Thursday's Post for a preview of the Potato Bowl, where we'll finally get to see who's the best team in "Dakota."...

125 College Football Teams, Ranked And Explained
College football kicks off the 2013 season TONIGHT. Here's the absolute minimum you can get away with knowing about each of the 125 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision, in the order that I, Matt Hinton, personally project them to finish at the end of the season....

Cops Bust Late-Night Alcohol And Weed Party On Michigan Stadium Field
Party at The Big House!...

Is Nick Saban Crazy? Ask The <em>GQ</em> Writer Who Profiled Him
This month's GQ includes a great profile of Alabama head coach Nick Saban by Warren St. John, author of Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer and Outcasts United. The profile includes plenty of anecdotes that make Nick Saban seem like an absolute lunatic, so we invited St. John to come and talk about what han...

Note In A Fan's Notes
Found this copy of Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes in a bookstore on the Upper West Side last week. Dig the inscription:...

Ricky Williams: America's Most Blunted
Chris Jones puts one—or many—in the air and gets lifted with Ricky Williams. "The Runaway" appeared in Esquire back in December of 2004:...

Deep Cover
That's what J.R. Moehringer went when he wrote this story for the L.A. Times magazine on Pete Carroll, who was still coaching college football at the time. It's a self-aware piece but still intriguing: ...

A&M Website Tries To Sell Manziel Photos While Announcing Suspension
Consider this screenshot—which was snapped by CBS Sports' Will Brinson from the Texas A&M website shortly after Johnny Manziel was suspended for 30 minutes for possibly profiting from the use of his own name—your latest reminder that the NCAA is a joke....

Jerry Jones Says He Has A Super Brain
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones recently got a CT scan, and afterward he had this to say about it to the Dallas Morning News' Rainer Sabin:...
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Johnny Manziel Suspended For 30 Minutes [Update]
As first reported by TexAgs' Billy Liucci, and confirmed by ESPN, Johnny Manziel will be suspended for the first half of Saturday's season opener against Rice....

Michigan Recruit Breaks Tackles Like A Video Game Character
Paramus (N.J.) Catholic senior Jabrill Peppers, who's already verbally committed to Michigan, is one of the nation's top recruits for the Class of 2014. He's going to play defensive back in college. This is Peppers running for a touchdown during a scrimmage Tuesday against Red Bank (N.J.) Catholic. ...


