Baseball may have been America’s national pastime once, but today football is king. No doubt attention spans are shorter, and the relaxed pace of a 9-inning ballgame isn’t for everyone. But the exodus of fans from the gentlemen’s game was certainly hastened by the Steroid Era. People who had loved baseball because of its purity and resistance to change felt betrayed by players who had shattered decades-old records by cheating. For many, college sports remain the only place to...
With the NC State football season long gone, students need to find that buzz to fill the void until spring football is underway. Well the Wolfpack are in luck as the 8th annual Krispy Kreme Challenge is just around the corner. The ultimate collegiate challenge is a five mile doughnut infused race that must be completed in one hour. The race begins at the NCSU Memorial Belltower at the corner of Hillsborough Street and Pullen Road. Participants run 2.5...
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...
Now that the dust has settled, it is clear that Penn State’s acquisition of New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien will prove to be a good move for a scandal-ravaged university. For the first time in nearly half a century there will be no Paterno on the Penn State sidelines. This move is exactly what Penn State needed to do in taking that monumental leap in rebranding itself after a horrific past few months. Though several former players...
In Westwood, there is a new sheriff in town with UCLA Bruins head coach Jim L. Mora taking the reins of a once proud program. Mora stepped into the coaching spotlight when former head coach Rick Neuheisel was relieved of his duties after a four year stint with a paltry 21-28 overall record. Mora’s first act of change, dismissing three players for failing to meet the “standards that we expect every student-athlete to adhere to”. Redshirt sophomore defensive end...
Former Northern Illinois and NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd was indicted earlier this week and was named the ringleader of a drug-dealing network spanning from Texas to Illinois. The indictment was handed up to a grand jury on January 4, 2012 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Hurd and co-conspirator Toby Lujan were both named in the indictment for possession with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and attempted possession...
The Penn Stater, Penn State alumni’s award-winning bimonthly magazine, released its first issue in the aftermath of the alleged child sex-abuse scandal that rocked the university and the college football world. The dark ominous cover is symbolic of the bleakness that surrounds the university and the days to come. The cover portrays Penn State letters crashing to the bottom piled in disarray much like the university sits as it frantically works on restoring its once proud reputation. The emblematic...
