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What are Hugh Two Lookin' At?
The big showdown between the Daniels and the McCoys comes your way this evening. Meanwhile, couple of early shoot-outs going on between Syracuse/South Florida and Texas's A&M and Tech, and Georgia is up a touchdown on Jay Cutler's alma mater. Was it obvious there I have no idea what I'm talking abo...
USC Receiver's Dad to Pete Carroll: "Treat My Boy!"; Grandma: "You're Drama!"
Odd little story coming out of Trojan land - USC wide receiver Vidal Hazelton's dad is apparently none too happy with how the team's medical staff has dealt with his son's injuries. So much so that Dexter Hazelton took to putting pen to paper in an angry letter sent directly to Coach Pete Carroll, u...
Lou Holtz Might Be Taking Some Time Off
So, we didn't see this live and, at 7:30 on a Friday, well, most people who handle the video uploading duties over here are out enjoying the weekend, but according to many readers, and a couple of message boards, Lou Holtz just dropped a Hitler reference during one installment of College Football Li...
College Football Preview: Colt McCoy and Chase Daniel Duel for Rights to All The Oil in Texas (And the Heisman)
Back when I wrote that I couldn’t wait to watch the BYU-TCU game, I meant it. Completely. But what I forgot was that I’d be on the road in a hotel room. I don’t know why it is but hotels have the most erratic cable channel selections known to man. If you’re anything like me you’ve found yourself ly...
Thursday Night Preview: Florida State at North Carolina State and #8 BYU at #24 TCU
I suppose even the genius who schedules Thursday night games at ESPN is entitled to a mulligan. That's the only explanation for how Florida State at N.C. State ended up tonight's featured game. N.C. State is 2-4 and Florida State is 4-1. N.C. State has taken down William and Mary and East Carolina,...
Halftime Entertainment In Wisconsin Is Different From Where You Live
The New Berlin Eisenhower High School football program — motto: When you gotta go, you gotta go — is under fire this week for the actions of its junior varsity team at halftime of a recent game against — and I'm not making this up — Pewaukee High. Believing that the restrooms were locked, visiting E...
Brent Musburger Offers Some Troubling News About Joe Paterno
Yesterday, ABC sportscaster Brent Musburger popped by the Dan Patrick show to talk about all things college football and one of the topics that came up was the remarkable success of Penn State this season under 82-year-old head coach Joe Paterno. But then the conversation turned a little grim. Musbu...
Fun With Ad Placement: Football Edition
If you're like me, you scour the Internet daily for wacky, unfortunate ad placement ... here's one of my favorites. And in a little added bonus to our coverage of that Ohio prep football fight yesterday, a reader points out a very hilarious ad placement on the Dayton Daily News web site. Notice that...
Down Goes The Ref
What you see here is a referee being struck in the face during a fight at a high school game in Ohio between Springfield and Shelbyville Kettering Fairmont on Friday. The official was taken to the hospital with a facial injury but will be OK. In case you've never seen one in person, there's no scari...
The Tragic, Live Unraveling Of A College Football Fan
Hey, Tommy Bowden's departure from Clemson was hard on all of us. But none moreso than Dave of Mount Pleasant, who called in to the Live 5 News sports report and tried to be brave, but dammit, he's been torn up ever since he heard the news, and now he's afraid that ... the whole program (gulp) is in...
Hey, Wait A Minute, Didn't Braylon Edwards Go To Michigan?
Here's Cleveland wide receiver Braylon Edwards proudly representing the school logo ... unfortunately though, it's the wrong school. We know that the Wolverines have been struggling lately, but Penn State, a Big Ten rival? That's cold, man. Edwards channeled the JoePa mojo to catch five passes for 1...
Giants Fear Dreaded Bone Lady Trap Game
I'll put some of the inevitable gloom-and-doom reports of the Red Sox/Rays game after it's over should the score hold up — still 5-0 Rays, Sox fans booing — but let's not forget there's also a Monday Night Football game this evening between the NFC East leading New York Giants and the still-waiting-...
John Madden Getting Sick of Riding Old Bones Across Country in a Bus to Cover Crappy Games
The Washington Post has just reported that NFL broadcasting stalwart John Madden will miss his first week blabbering about football for the first time in 476 games. He's not gravely ill and not planning on retiring soon either, so the Frank Caliendo suicide watch is also put off indefinitely. No, th...
Tommy Bowden's Firing: Is Coaching Clemson that Great of a Job Anyway?
In the wake of Tommy Bowden's firing after nine years at Clemson, current players are already piling on. The quarterback he benched, Cullen Harper, told ESPN, "They just told us. It's what he deserved." And this whole firing business might not be that big of a surprise since in the Clemson-Wake For...
College Football Roundup: Carnage Came and Carnage Conquered
For those of you who emailed and asked whether the bearded guy in the orange shirt on the sideline at UT-Georgia was me. Yep, it was. There's a refined sense of pleasure in being a fan and watching your team suffer a drubbing from the sideline. I think I spoke about five words the entire game becau...
Some Good, Old Fashioned Rooting Section Fail
Note to Kentucky fans: For best results, grasp sign gingerly with fingertips, not entire hand. Now your oh-so-clever double entendre has taken on an entirely different meaning. Hope your mom wasn't watching. And speaking of crazy college kids spelling out naughty things with their hands, check out t...
Tigers, Tigers, and Tigers: Time To Count The Bodies
LSU, Mizzou, and Auburn were all ranked heading into action yesterday, and all of them lost. The first two were still paving their way toward a national championship while Auburn, who had already lost two games in-conference, was treading water in their own league, having fired their offensive coord...
Is Chase Daniel For Real?
I've heard what everyone's been saying about the Heisman Trophy frontrunner with the video-game offense, but I don't know if I buy it. Yeah, they've put up 50 or more points in four of their first five games, but we've seen this before. These high-scoring teams kick the shit out of a handful of crap...
Hugh: Toledo's Record Against Michigan Improves To 1-0
The commenters have been discussing this game everywhere since it started. But now that the dust has settled, it's time to count the bodies: Michigan lost to a MAC team for the first time...ever. Michigan kicker K.C. Lopata had a chance to send the game to overtime...and missed. Toledo, who has lost...
Tommy Bowden Is Not Very Good
Right now Craig James and Doug Flutie are having a little fun comparing Michigan to Toledo. That came on the heels of the Wolverines' surrendering a pick-six to...Toldeo's Tyrrell Herbert? But to break it down, Michigan football is in Year One of installing a whole new program; everything from philo...