There’s enough drama in professional sports to script a thousand melodramatic films, with retiring in your prime possibly being the most dramatic. Sports fans never want to see their heroes, be they male or female, age and lose their game and drive. With that in mind, many athletes have retired at the just the right time, and gone on to enjoy successful careers outside of professional sports. Still others have retired in their prime, only to experience unexpected surprises...
It seems like we’re constantly hearing about the trouble that college athletes manage to find themselves in, with athlete scandals and arrests as a hot topic in news and sports blogs. If you think that college athletes seem to get in trouble more than anyone else, you’re not imagining things: The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that arrests of college athletes are more than double that of professionals, an impressive number in all the wrong ways. We’ve found 15 of...
For those enrolled at Colorado State University, first-year head coach Jim McElwain is opening the doors to current students for football tryouts. McElwain is in bad need of linemen and hopes to fill the enormous void as he is trying to turnaround a program in the midst of three 3-9 seasons. Colorado State hired McElwain, who is coming off a national championship as Alabama’s offensive coordinator, with the hopes to bring much needed success to Fort Collins. Students are...
With the aftermath of one of the most controversial seasons in college football history still lingering, fans can rest easy as the 2012 season is underway. Schools have released their spring practice schedules with some programs already begening their allotted 15 practices. Below is a complete list of practice dates for the major conferences and programs compiled by nbcsports. ACC Boston College: first practice — Feb. 18; spring game March 31 Clemson: first practice — March 7; spring game...
The sports agent who inspired the Hollywood blockbuster “Jerry Maguire” has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in Santa Ana, California. After years of excessive drinking and recklessly spending millions of dollars and failing to pay personal and business taxes, Leigh Steinberg, who represented some of NFL’s greatest athletes, is flat out broke. Hopefully, Steinberg does not relapse and return to alcohol or visit an on-line Canadian pharmacy to escape the financial and legal responsibilities he created and the...
Prior to Penn State and Houston facing off in the TicketCity Bowl, protesters showed their disgust with Penn State and the child sex abuse scandal that rocked the college football nation earlier this season. Protesters quietly held up signs such as “Penn Rape” and “Pope JoePa”. Some signs were explicit and a bit distasteful, but you be the judge (watch video HERE).
Social media is so prominent, particularly on college campuses, that it’s difficult to find a college without a social media policy these days. The vast majority of college social media policies detail guidelines and helpful ideas for getting the most out of social media as a student or university representative, but some take a negative turn, cutting off communications, restricting what can be said, and enacting strange requirements. Read on, and we’ll take a look at 15 colleges that...
