“Every year, we all do it. Every year, we all boast that we have the best conference in the country. The Pac 10 fanatics go on and on about USC. The Big XII shoots off with teams like Nebraska and Oklahoma. The Big Ten? Well we all know the two most talked about teams at [...]
“ESPNU will kick off its fourth season of presenting live college football games with the launch of its new high definition network, ESPNU HD, on Thursday, Aug. 28. The first ESPNU event to be televised in high definition will feature a college football matchup between the SEC’s Vanderbilt and the MAC’s Miami (Ohio) in prime [...]
“Preseason begins as a means to an end, but it’s what’s in the middle that counts.” says Chris Dufresne
July 29, 2008
” Aug. 5: UCLA’s first practice begins at Spaulding Field. New coach reprises “over-the-wall” tradition after being told “that’s your offensive line.”* Aug. 10: USC’s first practice in pads. Linebacker Rey Maualuga [...]
“We’re a week away from the start of fall drills (in case you’re wondering, seven days equals 168 hours), so here’s a cleaning of the plate, as it were, as we continue to count down the minutes (and in case you’re wondering, 168 hours equals 10,080 minutes)…”
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“…Coaches agree that no one can decide Paterno’s future but Joepa himself.”
“Every coach in the Big Ten was in the room. And nearly every coach echoed the same words.
Joe Paterno should call it a day when he decides it’s time. The Penn State icon is, of course, in the final year of his contract.
University [...]
“The biggest gaming company in America certainly holds a mixed record on its sports titles in the past few years. EA has a monopoly on football games — publishing the only two on the market — something that has caused both its NCAA and Madden titles to fall into a holding pattern worth more than [...]
“In today’s college football world we see fewer legitimate nicknames for players or teams. I’ve been advised that “it’s not a real nickname if you give it to yourself.”
Certainly we don’t want to offend anyone, but let’s look back at nicknames given to specific squads for specific years, some of which survive to this day.”
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“Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It’s Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong’s book was about a bike.
If you’d guess that Yale [...]
COLLEGE FOOTBALL ‘08: SEC
By Bruce Ciskie(Bruce Ciskie)
“Welcome to The Ciskie Blog’s 2008 College Football Preview. As usual, you can expect a rundown of every Division IA (or “Football Bowl Subdivision”, if you prefer) conference, as well as a brief look at the independents. …”
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