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The Future Of College Football Is ... The University Of The South?
Larry Majors saunters toward Hardee-McGee Field—the oldest on-campus football stadium in the South—from the brick house his family has owned for nearly 50 years, the one so close that a rusty tackling sled practically sits in the front yard. He passes a flagpole behind the east end zone that stands ...
No. 5 Alabama Survives No. 16 LSU After Yeldon Injury And Turnover
No. 16 LSU and No. 5 Alabama played a pretty boring, low-scoring game tonight, often outdoing each other in terms of offensive ineptitude. ...
Anything Goes In The SEC, Including Depantsing
Or is it pantsing? I can never remember....
Two Fumbles In Final Moments Doom No. 3 Auburn
Auburn, so routinely a team of preposterous miracles, has just managed to bumble its way to a come-from-behind loss tonight at Jordan-Hare Stadium, where the Tigers hadn't lost since 2012. Three weeks after Alabama burned Texas A&M to the ground and salted the earth for good measure, the Aggies, los...
Auburn Attempts Field Goal At End Of Half, Gives Up Touchdown Instead
Auburn was expected to cruise past a Texas A & M team without its starting quarterback today, only to find freshman Kyle Allen throwing four touchdown passes against them in the first half and a further deficit thanks to this breakdown at the end of the half, a ten-point swing that left the intermis...
Jim Leyland Belts Out "Who's Your Daddy?"
Former Tigers manager Jim Leyland has a well-known love of singing, and it was a possible career path if that whole baseball thing hadn't worked out for him. A couple great moments of him singing have been captured on tape, like when he sang some of the Stylistics hit "Betcha by Golly, Wow" during a...
AHL Changes Rules To Stop Goalies From Flipping Their Own Nets
On Sunday, Bridgeport Sound Tigers goalie David Leggio escaped a 2-on-0 breakaway by toppling his own net, happily opting to face (and stopping) a penalty shot. Terrified that the move would inspire other netminders, the AHL has enacted a rule change....
Auburn Newspaper Defends Publishing Photo Of Laquon Treadwell's Injury
One of the most crucial and dramatic plays in college football this year also featured a season-ending injury that remains painful to look at. How do you weigh the import of the moment with sensitivity to the injured player? If you're one Alabama newspaper, you put it on the front page of the spor...
Auburn Beats Ole Miss After Winning Touchdown Wiped Away By Injury
Fourth-ranked Ole Miss appeared to have scored the winning touchdown at home against Auburn tonight with 90 seconds remaining, when Laquon Treadwell crossed the goal line. Unfortunately, Treadwell fumbled the ball before he reached the end zone—and with good reason, as the Rebels wide receiver suffe...
Was F. Scott Fitzgerald One Of Football's Greatest Innovators?
F. Scott Fitzgerald is known as one of America's greatest authors, but was he also responsible for one of football's most important strategic advances? Maybe. Possibly. Probably not. But how cool of a story would it be if he was?...
Ole Miss Fan Throws Milk-Busting Tantrum Over Loss To LSU
The No. 3 Ole Miss Rebels were upset by the No. 24 LSU Tigers yesterday, and this Ole Miss fan did not handle the loss so well. That poor carton of milk never stood a chance....
LSU Upsets Ole Miss As Rebels Make Baffling Decision On Final Drive
No. 3 Ole Miss and No. 24 LSU played in pretty much Saturday's only interesting game, and things didn't even get exciting until the end of the fourth quarter. Trailing for most of the night, LSU took a 10-7 lead with just over five minutes to go. ...
Colonel Reb Voted Obama: Your <em>College GameDay</em> Sign Roundup
SEC football superiority means SEC GameDay sites and SEC-level GameDay sign humor. (That's increasingly proving to be a bad thing.) ...
Botched Snap Leads To Spectacular Two-Point Conversion
This is from last night's Mercedes (Tex.) vs Edcouch-Elsa game. Mercedes holder Roel Garcia drops the PAT snap, then manages to score the two-point with an awesome hurdle. This will not make you shit your dick, but it's impressive....
This Clemson Fan Somehow Got On The Louisville Bench
I don't know who this man is or how he found his way onto the Louisville bench, but it looked like he was reluctant to leave. Those Cool Zone fans must be pretty great....
Auburn OC Fall Down Go Boom
Auburn offensive coordinator Rhett Lashlee needed to call a time out, and quick. It's pretty wet today in Starkville, though. (He succeeded.)...
Things Are Not Going Well For Auburn Right Now
Two turnovers, two scores, and second-ranked Auburn is down 14-0 to Mississippi State....