leg Page 294 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
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...
Goalie Completely Whiffs On Clear-Out Kick, Gives Up Easy Goal
I'm not sure how extensive the complete list of things goalkeepers are not supposed to do is, but I imagine it contains something along the lines of "Don't ever dribble the ball back toward your own goal," and "Don't whiff like a goddamn fool when you try to kick the ball and there's an attacking o...
Why Jameis Winston Will Be Your New Favorite College Football Player
Much as it hurts me to my heart to say this as a Florida fan, Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston is going to be one of the most fun college football players of 2013 and beyond. The glorious quotes that come out of his mouth are only part of why....
There Is So Much Going On In This LeGarrette Blount Run
LeGarrette Blount's 51-yard TD run against the Eagles last night is impressive enough to share on its own, but a couple things happen away from the play that make this clip funny....
Four Former Vanderbilt Football Players Charged With Rape
Some details of the sex crimes investigation that led to the dismissal of four Vanderbilt football players in June have been released, and the four players linked to the investigation have been charged. Brandon Vandenburg, Brandon Banks, JaBorian McKenzie, and Cory Batey have each been charged with ...
Football Must Be Here: Shirtless Steve Spurrier Is Making The Rounds
We're not positive when this photo was taken, but so what? Photos of Steve Spurrier shirtless (and barefoot!) and again giving zero fucks are bouncing around the internet. Which can only mean one thing: Football season is at last upon us....
BYU's Radical Uniform Change Lasted About Four Hours
Yesterday afternoon, BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall announced a radical change: for the upcoming season, the Cougars' jerseys' nameplates would be replaced with either "tradition," "spirit," or "honor," or what Mendenhall calls the core values of the program. Well, the players weren't happy. ...