Notre Dame and Maryland will meet on November 12, 2011, at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland. As of last year, Notre Dame’s athletic department decided to play one home game a year away from South Bend. As a result, the Irish played Washington State in San Antonio last season at the Alamodome, and are scheduled to play at the new Yankee Stadium against Army next season. While D.C. has a large number of Notre Dame alums, the University of Maryland is only 15...
Russell Shepard will be moving from quarterback to receiver for the LSU Tigers this upcoming football season. Shepard, a true sophomore, will be playing the slot role in a move that is expected to allow him more touches and playing time. This news comes as a bit of a surprise as Shepard was the #1 ranked QB coming out of high school in 2009, and was one of LSU’s most heralded recruits in recent years. Shepard enrolled early at...
It looks as if Texas A&M Commerce head coach Guy Morriss is trying to challenge the Citadel’s Miguel Starks for crazy college football story of the week honors. On February 19th., Dionte Garrett and DeAndre’ Bowers, both members of the Texas A&M Commerce football team, were arrested and charged after being nabbed as part of a campus wide drug bust. Scrambling to do damage control after the incident, members of the football team set out to snatch copies of The East...
Lane Kiffin hasn’t even been USC’s head coach for 3 months, yet he’s back to running his mouth again. College football’s resident court jester has given the press plenty of fodder since his arrival at Tennessee last year and it looks like the LA media outlets will have their fair share of sound bytes from him. In a recent interview with Sporting News columnist Matt Hayes, Kiffin claimed that he would have won an SEC championship he had stayed with...
NC State received some good news late last week in finding out that LB Nate Irving has been cleared to participate in spring practices. This news bodes well for the NC State defense considering how much of an impact Irving has when on the field. Irving suffered serious injuries during the summer of 2009 which forced him to miss all of the Wolfpack’s 2009 season. He fell asleep at the wheel of his car while driving and suffered a...
South Florida RB Mike Ford has been dismissed from the team. The exact reason for his dismissal hasn’t been announced, but we do know that it was for an unspecified violation of team rules This loss comes as a big hit to the South Florida football program. Ford garnered International Bowl MVP honors and was expected to compete with Mo Plancher for the starting job next season. Ford’s career with the Bulls has been one that’s been tumultuous at best. He’s been arrested...
Texas head coach Mack Brown has lost his mother to cancer. Katherine Brown, 81, was battling pancreatic cancer and passed away on Sunday. Brown was able to fly to his mother’s home state of Tennessee to be with her at the time of her death. Mack Brown has mentioned numerous times how important his mother is to him and the two have always been very close. Our hearts go out to Mack Brown and his family. Brown is one...
Colonel Rebel’s time at Ole Miss has come to an end. In a move to part ways with the old south image that the school has been stricken with, Ole Miss students successfully voted today that their mascot’s days must come to an end. Almost 4,000 students voted online and around 75% of the vote favored the change. Earlier this year, the KKK held a mini march on campus in opposition to the proposed change. This is the latest in a string of moves...
