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College Football Recap Week 13 – Thankful for Rivalries Edition
by Draft Day Suit
posted November 29, 2010 at 11:06am

It’s rivalry week in college football. Next to bowl season, this is my favorite weekend of the season. You never know what is going to happen. All records are off the table. Here were some highlights from this long weekend’s games, although not all t...more

College Football Recap Week 11 – The Final Stretch Edition
by Draft Day Suit
posted November 16, 2010 at 10:54am

So football fans, there are only three more weeks of college football left before the bowl season begins. And as ESPN says, that is the most wonderful time of the year. Here are some highlights from this past weekend’s games. There were no huge surpris...more

The name of the game is chaos: College Football
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 18, 2010 at 12:56pm

From your favorite Gridiron Gdodess: College Football Is The Best. I mean where else do you get consecutive upsets of the #1 team in the nation, dormant teams waking up in the most delightful of way, unranked opponents taking ranked opponents by surpris...more

College Football Recap Week 6 – Sweet Carolina Edition!
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 12, 2010 at 2:53pm

Well, holy crap sports fans! What a weekend in college football! The number one team in the country got knocked off! That always equals a good week to me! Clearly! By my overuse of exclamation points! (As long as my team isn’t the number one team, which...more

College Football Roundup Week 5 – There’s No Crying In Football
by Draft Day Suit
posted October 4, 2010 at 12:44pm

Not too many surprises this week in college football. Well, if you’re a Florida Gators fan, you may have been surprised that your team kind of sucks. Well, at least compared with Alabama. (Editor’s note: I’m pretty sure everyone sucks that bad com...more

Oriard: Bringing Academics Back to College Athletes
by Sports, Media & Society
posted October 2, 2010 at 8:10pm

The business of college football has changed dramatically in recent decades, and one scholar believes new changes are needed to re-establish the integrity of the relationship between sport and education. Michael Oriard, former University of Notre Dame sta...more

This is why I love college football: NCAA Week 3 Recap
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 21, 2010 at 9:15am

Football Fiends!!! This past Saturday of FOOTBALL GOODNESS encompassed so many examples of why College Football is vastly preferable to the No Fun League. (And you all know how much I love ALL football!) You just don’t get the passion, the spirit, the ...more

Week 2 Pac-10 Wrap-up: Oregon & Stanford lead the way
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 18, 2010 at 11:14am

Amy, aka Gridiron Goddess, will be joining us this season for some dispatches from the PAC-10. We’ll kick off with her recap from last week, first published on her blog, Gridiron Goddess, and look forward to her future insights. Welcome, Amy. Glad to ha...more

Reggie Bush: Former Heisman Winner?
by Draft Day Suit
posted September 7, 2010 at 9:30pm

Sources say that Reggie Bush will be a Heisman Trophy winner no more. In fact, these sources say that Reggie might soon be more appropriately termed a Heisman Trophy loser. Oops. Apparently Reggie was so shady the year that he “won” the Heisman Tr...more

I am a Killer Nut
by Draft Day Suit
posted August 17, 2010 at 4:35pm

Look at what showed up in my mailbox! Sigh. The Sports Illustrated College Football Preview is here and that means the time is near. What does this mean? Well, it means that my Buckeyes will be soon be taking the field. I can almost hear the sn...more

Better than Reno, but not much
by Draft Day Suit
posted July 20, 2010 at 9:35am

Joe Montana is selling his championship rings on eBay for bail money. Bid now! Let’s pretend for a moment that you are Joe Montana, legendary Notre Dame and NFL quarterback and three time Super Bowl MVP. Life is good, you’re probably hanging on a ...more

Title IX in the Football Realignment Universe: sole sanity in a money-mad college sports culture
by Fair Game News
posted June 22, 2010 at 9:05am

By Laura Pappano The frenzy of conference switching (Colorado, Utah, Nebraska plus others at least thinking about it), has caused a stir for one reason: Colleges fret that if the future really is about a few megaconferences that some schools will be big ...more

Like it or not, You're a role model!
by PrincessPunish
posted June 16, 2010 at 12:11pm

Signing that big contract deal means also signing on as a role model!...more

No Offense, It's Just Business
by amber2jewel
posted June 12, 2010 at 5:41pm

Marie Hardin recently posted a WTS blog in response to Eric Deggens' column regarding a study confirming that while participation in women's sports has increased with Title IX, media coverage itself is stagnant, if not decreasing (see "Why the Apathy...more

No One Remembers Second...
by amber2jewel
posted June 10, 2010 at 5:00pm

Amidst the USC-Reggie Bush/O.J. Mayo scandals and the sanctions announced by the NCAA today, the Memphis-Derrick Rose scandal, Marion Jones and her steroids scandal, and yes, the fossil that is the MLB steroids scandal, I’ve been doing a l...more

Let’s agree: The challenge in Title IX compliance is football. Now we can talk.
by Fair Game News
posted March 25, 2010 at 3:24pm

By Laura Pappano Given that the Super Bowl is a distant memory, the NFL Combine is done – and we have a day or two before spring college football begins (yes, games are now broadcast on TV), we have a sliver of free air to highlight Vanderbilt vice Cha...more

One way or another?
by Title IX Blog
posted March 24, 2010 at 7:13am

A panel on gender equity and intercollegiate sports held at Vanderbilt University Law School yesterday brought out a Title IX founder, a realist, and a wrestling coach.According to the AP coverage, the panel discussion focused on "whether the law requirin...more

Good Parent/Bad Citizen
by Draft Day Suit
posted March 23, 2010 at 7:01am

Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram Jr’s. father had his prison sentence extended by 27 months as a punishment for jumping bail. Of course he was jumping bail to attempt to watch his son play in the Sugar Bowl in 2009. He got caught in a hotel room in Mic...more

The Bubble Watch: O'Bannon, Keller, Hart and the Business of College Athletics
by amber2jewel
posted March 17, 2010 at 7:07pm

Professional amateurs - has the bubble burst?...more

“If we appreciate each other, then we have a chance for something great.”
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted March 5, 2010 at 5:38pm

This is a quote from an interview this week with Jim Tressel, the Ohio State football coach whose team won the Rose Bowl this year. Tressel agreed to do the interview with Outlook Columbus, a local GLBT magazine. I am not sure of this, but I am betting ...more

Grambling State opens Eddie Robinson Museum
by Draft Day Suit
posted March 5, 2010 at 7:13am

My first recollection of the Grambling State University campus in 1990 was how run down it looked compared to the other state school just a few miles down the road. Louisiana Tech in Ruston represented itself to the world with manicured lawns, freshly...more

NCAA Football Coach Swap
by Draft Day Suit
posted January 28, 2010 at 6:33pm

As promised, I’m back with the latest in NCAA football coach musical chairs. You really can’t tell a player without a program anymore. Lane Kiffin: From Tennessee to USC. Violations. Investigations. And L’il Wayne. Blah, blah, blah. It just sucks...more

Who's talking about Tebow?
by After Atalanta
posted January 28, 2010 at 9:55am

So much for my one religion post a month. I guess I just can't will culture to limit my exposure to such things.So who is talking about Tim Tebow--besides this reluctant blogger? Well every guy on Sports Center and Mike and Mike in the Morning (I sit thro...more

Lane Kiffin’s first USC recruiting violation
by Draft Day Suit
posted January 24, 2010 at 3:22pm

Whoever had 10 days in the pool can come collect their money. That was how long it took Lane Kiffin to commit his first recruiting violation at USC. On Saturday he picked a USC prospect up at the airport in a limousine. At this rate he should be able t...more

"Summit disappointed that Kiffin left UT"
by Swish Appeal
posted January 15, 2010 at 8:35am

"Summit disappointed that Kiffin left UT" OK, so clowning on a mercenary football coach like Lane Kiffin is already getting kinda old... Everybody from Charles Barkley to Tennessee clergy is doing it... But -- fair or not -- at how many schools could ...more