Archive for the ‘College Football’ Category
Eric Berry Article
Check out our article on Eric Berry in this week’s Knoxville Focus. You can read it on page 11 here or find it at many of your more discerning establishments in town.
On tap: What We Learned from Bristol, Sports Blind Items, 5 Burning Questions: Mountain West Edition, NFC QB Unit Rankings, and whatever goodness [...]
Zook Responds to Meyer
We love this feud that is starting between current Florida coach Urban Meyer and former Florida coach Ron Zook. When asked about how he handles fights in the locker room, Meyer said the following:
“When we first got here five years ago they had freshmen in a separate locker room and it was a bunch of [...]
5 Burning Questions: Big East Edition
1)Â Â Can the conference really be that bad? Not one Big East team made the coaches top 25. Not one? Really? The Mountain West had three ranked teams. Does anyone really believe that if there was an ACC/ Big Ten Challenge-like competition in football between the two conferences that the Big East would come out [...]
USC Loses Starting DE For Six Weeks
USC coach Pete Carroll will not be sending happy tweets tonight as one of his starting defensive ends will be missing some time. Armond Armstead will be out six weeks with a broken foot. [USC Trojans] The sophomore defensive end has been playing on the first team defense in training camp and will probably miss [...]
5 Burning Questions: Notre Dame Style
5 Questions facing the team-that-needs-to-be-in-a-conference leading into the football season.
1) Is this finally the last season for Charlie Weis at Notre Dame?
Weis needs to thank Notre Dame’s athletic department for not firing him after last season and for scheduling cupcakes for this season. The Fighting Irish finished 7-6 last season, including an embarrassing loss to [...]
Charlie Ward Better Than Tim Tebow?
As sports fans, we get bored and decide to rip the best athletes in the world like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Â Tiger Woods and Tim Tebow. These four athletes are the best at their sport, but there is always some analyst or fan that will find something in their game to rip. Florida St. coach [...]
Fulmer Will Coach Next Season At…
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Former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer said this past weekend that he plans on coaching next season and wants to coach at a school that has a chance to compete for a championship. Here are schools that fit that criteria that we could see Fulmer interested in:
Texas A&M: I mentioned in my Big 12 rundown that I [...]
5 Burning Questions: Big Eleven Edition
1)  Are Ohio State and Penn State the only 2 teams that can win the conference? There’s little doubt that they are the league’s most talented teams, but there are as many as 4 teams that can take a step forward if the Buckeyes or Nittany Lions were to take more than a small step [...]
College Football Players Admit That Teammates Use PEDs
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Espn The Magazine polled 85 FBS players about drugs, playoffs, refs, gay teammates and other topics. Out of the players surveyed, 55 percent said they know of at least one teammate taking PEDs. A little less than 50 percent believe that they have at least one gay teammate. When asked what college football player they [...]
5 Burning Questions: Big 12 Style
5 Questions facing the conference leading into the football season.
1)Â Why is Oklahoma St. getting no respect?
Almost every college football fan has Oklahoma or Texas winning the Big 12 and playing Florida for the BCS National Championship. While this is not a dumb prediction, people need to realize that Oklahoma St. has a very good [...]