Wednesday, July 6th, 2011
In his first interview since being fired by the University of Tennessee, Bruce Pearl told Atlanta radio station 790 The Zone that he thinks he'll get another chance at coaching in college basketball again. Pearl was fired on March 21 for committing multiple NCAA violations. Despite that, he thinks he ...
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Saturday, June 18th, 2011
It has been five years since the NCAA enacted a policy that essentially prohibits member institutions from using Native American mascots and logos. This policy supposedly affected many schools including well-known ones like the Florida State Seminoles, Utah Utes, and Illinois Fighting Illini. Illinois even got rid of Chief Illiniwek, ...
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Friday, June 10th, 2011
I was reading this article about Terrelle Pryor telling the CFL to stick it, and I was all prepared to make at least 25 jokes about how he probably shouldn’t write off that league so quickly given how truly mediocre a quarterback he is (example: Tommy Maddox thinks Pryor left ...
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
USC was supposed to be dead. The Trojans were buried by what most feel were excessive penalties in the wake of the Reggie Bush ruling by the NCAA. But somehow Lane Kiffin and his staff have chugged right along on the recruiting trail, pulling in commitments as if those penalties ...
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Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
The only reason the NCAA's treatment of the Ohio State "tattoos for autographs" scandal isn't their worst decision of the year is because they already defied logic with the Cam Newton recruiting decision.
Terrelle Pryor and four other Ohio State players will miss the first five games of the 2011 season ...
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Thursday, December 16th, 2010
The Internets have ruined our attention spans to the point that we need to find ways to entertain ourselves between when the regular season of college football ends and the start of bowl season. I swear we used to be able to find things to do before the Internet meant ...
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Let's be real here, with all the rumors, reports and investigations going on can we just all be honest about this? Cam Newton and his father Cecil did something wrong. Did Cecil ever specifically mention pay-for-play? Maybe not. Did Cam know it was going on? Maybe not. But all of ...
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
Top-rated defensive lineman Marvin Austin has been kicked off of North Carolina's football team today. Austin, who has been at the center of an NCAA probe for months, was clearly booted because the university's athletics department is in full damage control mode.
Highly touted receiver Greg Little and defensive end Robert ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Dustin Keller hypes it up on Twitter - Fantasy Knuckleheads
The most valuable teams and individuals in sports - Forbes
Did Mark Ingram break NCAA rules too? - TMZ
Tito Ortiz's comeback fight will be at UFC 121 against Matt Hamill - Fanhouse
Michael Beasley smoked too much pot in Miami. And I just ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Let me take a wild guess here: it's going to take less than four years to figure out this Maurkice Pouncey situation. Then again, it might take longer, since we're stuck with unnamed accusers, from Canada apparently, who say that Pouncey took $100,000 from an agent before Florida's bowl game ...
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