This time last year, Clemson’s Kyle Parker was a redshirt freshman who was entrenched in a heated quarterback competition with Willy Korn. Fast forward to 2010, Parker is set to enter the 2010 season as Clemson’s #1 QB on the depth chart while Korn has left Clemson for the greener pastures of Marshall. Parker led the Clemson Tigers to an ACC Atlantic division football title last season and hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down. While Parker demonstrated that he...
Football and politics go about as well together as Oprah Winfrey and Lean Cuisine. One does not have to look further than the current United States Senate vs. BCS spat going on right now to see this. Most recently, Paul Finebaum, a regionally well-renowned Alabama sports talk show host and columnist, may have thrown a wrench in Alabama gubernatorial hopeful Tim James’s election bid. During yesterday’s afternoon edition of the Paul Finebaum Show, Finebaum announced on-air that there was a rumor circulating that James (an...
Flint, Michigan is getting ready to welcome their native son. Alabama junior running back Mark Ingram is set to return home to central Michigan this upcoming Saturday and the whole Flint community will honor Mark’s return with a Heisman Homecoming Celebration. The fiesta will be held at Flint’s Atwood Stadium, a historic venue that Jackie Robinson and Jessee Owens once played in. The Heisman Homecoming Celebration will be held from 12-2pm EDT and will feature Ingram’s HS band and...
If you’re an Alabama fan, things can’t get much better for you these days. This past football season, fans witnessed Mark Ingram become the first ‘Bama football player to win the esteemed Heisman Trophy and saw ‘Bama win their 13th national championship in football. People in Tuscaloosa haven’t been this excited since Paul “Bear” Bryant and Broadway Joe Namath graced the sidelines together in Denny Stadium. As if the Tide’s recent gridiron success wasn’t enough, ‘Bama and Nike just inked...
Boise State football’s Knockout Kings road tour will continue in 2011 in Oxford, MS. Boise State and Ole’ Miss have agreed to terms to bring Boise to Mississippi for a SEC/WAC showdown. The Rebels and Broncos will play on college football’s opening weekend in 2011and Ole Miss will pay BSU $900,000 for their trip down south. Boise State’s athletic department has made it a priority to schedule heavyweights from power conferences like Virginia Tech, Oregon, and Oregon State in...
Lost in all of the recent Big Ten/SEC/Pac-10/Big XII conference expansion noise, is Boise State and the Mountain West Conference’s (MWC) courting of the Broncos. Boise State could be the first school to bolt for greener pastures if they accept the rumored MWC invite next month during conference president meetings. While everyone is focusing on the four power college football conferences and their potential expansions, a situation is brewing out west that could be the first shot fired in...
The Georgia Bulldogs received some good news today concerning Logan Gray when he announced that he’d be staying at Georgia. Gray made news a few weeks ago when it was rumored that he’d be transferring from Georgia, a move that had many in Athens worried given their lack of depth at the QB position. Gray, a QB on Georgia’s depth chart, was unhappy with the decision by head coach Mark Richt to tab Aaron Murray as the starter heading into...
Virgina Tech football received a crushing blow this past week. No, no members of the football team were arrested, but rather, head coach Frank Beamer tore his bicep after falling while exiting Va. Tech’s private plane upon landing at a stop on the team’s Orange and Maroon tour. Beamer, ever the good sport, laughed off the incident: “It just chucked me,” said Beamer, laughing. “I thought I was being careful and the next thing that hit was my shoulder...
