The Davey O’Brien Foundation announced the three finalists for the 2012 Davey O’Brien Quarterback Award. Either Collin Klein (Sr., Kansas State), Johnny Manziel (Fr., Texas A&M) or Braxton Miller (So., Ohio State) will be recognized as the nation’s best quarterback during The Home Depot College Football Awards show at Disney’s BoardWalk at the Walt Disney World Resort on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 6:30 p.m. (CT). Fans have an opportunity to help determine who wins this prestigious award by voting...
Most mascots fall into two categories: area-relevant, or tough (or both). You’ve got gators in Florida, buckeyes in Ohio, and cowboys in Oklahoma. But sometimes, a school fronts a mascot that just leaves everybody else scratching their heads. We’re looking into the worst offenders in college sports and either passing along the accepted, convoluted explanations or simply expressing a collective “WTF?” for the sports world. 1. HokieBird, Virginia Tech: If you’re not up on turkey lingo, you might think...
Great athletes are great because they understand the potential for injuries common to their sport, and take the necessary steps to prevent them from occurring. Although preventing injuries entirely from happening is impossible, a little knowledge can go a long way toward keeping you healthy and fit. Below are nine common sports injuries, many not exclusive to one particular sport, and some tips for prevention. 1. Muscle pull: This may be the most common sports injury on this list....
According to publishing company Bantam Dell, the infamous Victim 1 from the Jerry Sandusky scandal is releasing his tell-all memoir next month. His memoir, Silent No More: Victim-1’s Fight For Justice Against Jerry Sandusky, written by Victim 1’s mother and his psychologist will be released October 23, 2012. Victim 1, 18, was the catalyst to uncovering the Penn State scandal. As a key witness, he helped launch the investigation to the Sandusky child sexual abuse allegations back in...
Freshman linebacker Jamie Kuntz, 18, was kicked off the North Dakota State College of Sciences football team for kissing a much-older man during a football game and then lying about it. Coach Chuck Parsons was adamant that Kuntz was dismissed from the team for lying, not for being gay. On September 1, 2012, the Wildcats traveled to Pueblo, Colo. to face the Snow College Badgers. Since Kuntz did not dress for the game and is recovering from a concussion, he...
Vince Lombardi once said “Winning isn’t everything—but wanting to win is.” It seems longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, and Lombardi admirer, will forever be remembered as the coach who turned a blind eye to a defensive coordinator who turned out to be a serial child molester of boys all in the name of winning. In Joe Posnanski’s new biography “Paterno” the author regales the reader with an inside look at the life of Penn State’s iconic coach....
Let’s just come right out and say it: the National Collegiate Athletic Association is not popular. Whether it’s the way it enforces its litany of rules or the arbitrary way it hands out penalties, virtually every college sports fan has found something to dislike about the organization over the years. So when a player or a coach or a business takes special exception to something the organization did and decides to sue (as happens fairly frequently), most of us...
Sports fans love talking about how they prefer college sports to their professional counterparts because of the “purity” of a system uncorrupted by the ravages of greed. Except they’re very wrong about that. While the NCAA definitely deserves accolades for the things it does right, like providing scholarships for high schoolers seeking higher education, that doesn’t mean the organization stands above valid criticism. And, with the number of scandals conflagrating across the country as a result of pursuing success...
