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You hired the Domino’s guy to be your new Athletic Director. Not the delivery guy – he was too busy making house calls – but Chairman and CEO David Brandon. He sounds qualified enough, having played football for the Wolverines, worked as finance chairman for the Republican Party and run a multi-million dollar business based [...]

It took you THIS LONG to realize you were missing out on millions of dollars and an extra week of publicity by not having a college football conference championship game? Really? Where were you during the whole nation-wide reshuffling across college sports a few years ago? Maybe you left Joe Paterno in charge of keeping [...]

It’s as trendy this December as buying a Zhu Zhu  – and it’s lead-free.
But here’s the problem: For once in its beleaguered history, the Bowl Championship Series doesn’t entirely deserve the criticism.
The issue at the center of debate is the Boise St.-TCU match-up in the Fiesta Bowl.
College football experts spent most of Monday screaming about [...]

Tom Hanks once said, “There’s no crying in baseball.”  It’s a sentiment that he tried to get across to the female baseball players he was coaching the movie “A League of Their Own.”  Apparently, that simple motto has not transferred to the male sports world.  Since the Yankees were crowned World Series champs, and the [...]

In a couple of hours the SEC Championship between the Florida Gators and Alabama Crimson Tide at the Georgia Dome and it doesn’t get any more exciting than this.  I can’t remember a game that had more on the line in every aspect.  #1 vs #2, Heisman Trophy could be decided (depending on who you [...]

In the century-plus history of “The Civil War” in Oregon, the game has never had more meaning.  The winner of the Oregon vs. Oregon St. football game Thursday night will punch their ticket to the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day.   That’s the good news…
The bad news….nobody cares.   Call me an idiot.  Call me a [...]

Hofstra University, of the NCAA’s Football Championship Subdivision, will announce Thursday morning that it will drop its football program after 69 years, citing high costs and minimal interest from fans.
This is concerning being that only two weeks ago, Northeastern University (also from the FCS’ Colonial Athletic Association) dropped their program citing similar reasons.  It appears [...]

Florida Gators DE Carlos Dunlap was suspended by head coach Urban Meyer Tuesday after he was arrested and charged with a DUI that morning.  Apparently the cops found Dunlap slumped over in the driver’s seat sleeping with the car still on.  They woke him up but he could only talk to them for a few [...]

Seems that today Bobby Bowden will annouce his retirement.  Sad day in Florida State.  Even though he hasn’t had the best seasons of late, he still is the face of that college and outside of one or two others, the face of college football….