In the wake of Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino’s firing, the Fayetteville faithful can memorialize the good ‘ole ball coach’s brief albeit successful tenure with a vintage Bobby Petrino Motorcycle Club t-shirt. For $31.99 you can proudly own your very own Petrino t-shirt which sports a motorcycle on the front and “Fayetteville, AR 2008-2012” on the back. This vintage apparel comes in both grey and cotton blue. In case you missed the press confernece, here is Petrino’s statement: The...
Despite what happens off the field, if you win 21 games in two seasons, fans will support you wholeheartedly, at least if you are Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino. Ever since the infamous motorcycle accident in which Petrino was anything but truthful, the university placed him on administrative leave causing a stir amongst the Razorback Nation. So much so, loyal fans have cried out to save Petrino’s job. As the facts surrounding the motorcycle accident and inappropriate relationship with...
In the wake of LSU’s soccer sensation Mo Isom failing to make the cut to kick for the Tigers, Virginia Tech’s Lauren Luttrell also fell short in her quest. Yesterday, the Hokies held kicking tryouts in which Luttrell was one of 10 kickers trying to make the team. The former high school star athlete, made seven of eight field goal attempts and advanced to the second round beating out three male counterparts. Unfortunately, at the end of the day,...
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...
The Justice Department stuck its foot in the game to ensure children with disabilities are offered an equal opportunity to play midget football. This case stems from the Mountain Valley, Pa., Midget Football League’s refusal to allow a seven-year-old boy with ocular albinism from wearing a tinted visor on his helmet while playing football. The league specifically ruled that though the seven-year-old boy has this serious eye condition, league policy does not allow for tinted visors during game play....
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...
