Stanford running back Tyler Gaffney is trading in his football helmet for a baseball cap. The would be senior running back is forgoing his final year of eligibility to play professional baseball with MLB’s Pittsburgh Pirates. Gaffney was a two-sport star at Stanford who excelled at both football and baseball. Last season on the gridiron, Gaffney scampered for 449 yards and seven touchdowns as a back-up. On the diamond, he hit .245 with 17 RBIs before being drafted in...
The Dennis Erickson experiment has come to an end and newly minted first-year coach Todd Graham is ready to take center stage as the ASU season is just around the corner. With much anticipation in the air, ASU wants to improve the game day experience for all ASU fans. Graham and ASU’s top brass believe the football atmosphere has fallen a bit flat over the past decade and its time the school institutes a few new changes. From...
In the world of college sports, Twitter is a divisive subject. Many coaches go so far as to ban their players from using the social networking site for fear it will distract players or be used as a vehicle for trash talking. Then there’s the ambivalent group, the coaches who don’t block players from using Twitter, but will probably go to their graves without ever sending a tweet themselves. But some forward-thinking coaches have embraced Twitter as a way...
Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino not only crashed his coaching career back in April, but he took down his recruiting coordinator as well, 25-year-old Jessica Dorrell. To recall, Dorrell was forced to resign because of coach Petrino’s inappropriate relationship with her. After the dust settled, Arkansas posted a want ad for a new on-campus recruiting coordinator. During Dorrell’s absence, football staff members have been picking-up the slack, but with the season right around the corner, the university feels its...
The popularity of professional football is often credited to its possession of the greatest level of parity among teams of any of the major sports. Any year could be the year for any team to make a deep run into the playoffs. College football, on the other hand, does not enjoy such a reputation. The rankings might be mixed every year, but it always seems to be the same handful of schools that dominate. And when a team becomes...
An official from an upstate New York cemetery reported last week that someone stole a football from the grave of Ernie Davis, the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy. The cemetery is now reporting that the football was recovered over the weekend about 50 yards from Davis’ grave. Last summer, an unknown individual paid tribute to Davis by displaying a football at the headstone of Davis’ grave. However, officials have reported on multiple occasions that the football...
LSU women’s soccer sensation Mo Isom made headlines when news broke she was trying out for the Tigers football team as a kickoff specialist. Unfortunately, her dream of becoming a D1 football player has come to an end. On Tuesday, coach Les Miles announced that Isom did not make the cut stating, “we kind of felt like there’s four guys on the team right now that would be ahead of anybody that tried out the other day.” Miles did...
For generations of kids who grew up rooting for their parents’ alma maters, the dulcet tones of the school’s radio man piped into the living room or the car and became synonymous with college game day. The old school guys who survived the decline of radio made it because of their trademark catchphrases, their knowledge of sports, and the simple fact that people loved listening to them call games. These seven immortals of radio broadcasting are our picks for...
