It wasn’t pretty, but Spartans’ rally saves the Big Ten from another New...
Outback Bowl: Michigan State 33, Georgia 30 (Triple Overtime). As the old saying goes: Most games are lost, not won. In the case of the Outback Bowl, it was lost at least four different times before...
View ArticleIt wasn’t pretty, but Spartans’ rally saves the Big Ten from another New...
Outback Bowl: Michigan State 33, Georgia 30 (Triple Overtime). As the old saying goes: Most games are lost, not won. In the case of the Outback Bowl, it was lost at least four different times before...
View ArticleBowl Roll Call, Round Two: Why yes, that is chrome Oregon’s wearing
The best of the all-day bowl-a-thon. 1. Oregon's helmets. We knew the Ducks' helmets for today's trip to Pasadena were going to be different, but the promotional photos released by Nike last week...
View ArticleBowl Roll Call, Round two: Why yes, that is chrome Oregon’s wearing
The best of the all-day bowl-a-thon. 1. Oregon's helmets. We knew the Ducks' helmets for Monday's trip to Pasadena were going to be different, but the promotional photos released by Nike last week...
View ArticleOregon empties both barrels in overdue Rose Bowl burst
Rose Bowl: Oregon 45, Wisconsin 38. When the dust cleared, this was the highest-scoring Rose Bowl in the 98-year history of the game, so you know you're going to get hit with a few numbers. But for a...
View ArticleOregon empties both barrels in overdue Rose Bowl burst
Rose Bowl: Oregon 45, Wisconsin 38. When the dust cleared, this was the highest-scoring Rose Bowl in the 98-year history of the game, so you know you're going to get hit with a few numbers. But for a...
View ArticleOklahoma State sticks to the script in harrowing Fiesta triumph
Fiesta Bowl: Oklahoma State 41, Stanford 38 (Overtime). OK, you can relax: I've packed away my usual anti-BCS harangues for the new year, and I'm not going to make some futile plea for sanity on...
View ArticleOklahoma State sticks to the script in harrowing Fiesta triumph
Fiesta Bowl: Oklahoma State 41, Stanford 38 (Overtime). OK, you can relax: I've packed away my usual anti-BCS harangues for the new year, and I'm not going to make some futile plea for sanity on...
View ArticleHeadlinin’: Justin Blackmon makes the leap
Making the morning rounds. • We hardly knew ye, part one. There was never any doubt about it — the guy was honored alongside the seniors at his final home game — but Monday night was as good a time as...
View ArticleTennessee clears the way for DeAnthony Arnett to go home again
DeAnthony Arnett has been officially #freed. About a week ago, Arnett, a freshman receiver at Tennessee, made headlines after he claimed coach Derek Dooley refused to grant his release to return home...
View ArticleTo kick, or not to kick? If Andrew Luck is your quarterback, is there even a...
You're Stanford head coach David Shaw. It's late in the fourth quarter of the Fiesta Bowl. You have a decision: With the game tied at 38, your team has just picked up a first down at the Oklahoma...
View ArticleBuckeye linebacker calls foul on race-baiting Gators
Trash talking is as old as football itself. A player baiting another player with a taunt or threat is usually par for the course during any game, especially a game between rivals or with championship...
View ArticlePostmortem: Another toothless turn for Neuheisel’s underachieving Bruins
A season in review. It was never fair, saddling Rick Neuheisel with the "Monopoly" ad before he'd ever coached a game at UCLA. The program he inherited in 2008 was nowhere near the juggernaut Pete...
View ArticleMike Leach discusses a hypothetical fight between a shark and a bear, and...
New Washington State coach Mike Leach has a lot to say about just about everything, and bestowed a typically eclectic bloc of wisdom upon a grateful citizenry today in a live chat with the Seattle...
View ArticleVideo: Craig James openly aspires to become the next Rick Perry
As political role models go, Rick Perry isn't exactly sitting tall in the saddle at the moment — even in his home state, Texas, where Perry's persistent gaffes on the presidential campaign trail have...
View ArticleVideo: Somebody up there has money on Michigan’s passing game
Michigan's offense has done very, very little through the first three quarters of Tuesday night's Sugar Bowl, and what it has done has hardly been by design: All 17 of the Wolverines' points going...
View ArticleMichigan completes the circle in its sweetest send-off in ages
Sugar Bowl: Michigan 23, Virginia Tech 20 (Overtime). First of all, I suppose a few congratulations are in order: You did it, Wolverines. You vastly improved the defense, vanquished Ohio State for the...
View ArticleHolly Rowe stiffarms her way to the top of Brady Hoke’s post-Sugar Bowl dance...
ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe plays second fiddle to no one, especially not some other female reporter who's trying to snake an interview with the winning coach while ESPN is still on the air....
View ArticleHeadlinin’: Upon further review, Danny Coale’s diving catch is still too...
Making the morning rounds. • You make the call. All the bounces seemed to go Michigan's way in Tuesday night's Sugar Bowl win over Virginia Tech, none more so than the official decision to overturn a...
View ArticleClemson fans stimulate Florida’s economy with paw-printed $2 bills
Clemson hasn't been to the Orange Bowl since 1982, so its fans want to make sure south Florida knows it was there long after the game ends. To do that, Clemson fans have spent the past week in Miami...
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