While Auburn continues to soar to great heights this season, far surpassing even the most ardent Auburn fan’s expectations, perhaps no one is more grateful and appreciative than Auburn safety Zac Ethridge. For Etheridge knows firsthand that although football is the game he loves and plays with a fierce and fiery passion, it is still just that, a game. When compared to something as precious as life, it is far minuscule. October 31, 2009, is a day that will forever live...
For the Arkansas faithful still irritated by the poor officiating in Saturday’s shootout loss to Auburn, one fan base may have a solution. A Fayetteville, Arkansas, based ophthalmic practice is offering free Lasik eye surgery to all the zebras who officiated the game. The reason being, Drs. Jay McDonald and Dusty McIver do not want to see their beloved Razorbacks get the short end of the stick when it comes to officiating. In the Razorbacks’ 65-43 slug-fest, there were two controversial...
Auburn offensive coordinator, Gus Malzahn, is arguably college football’s most creative offensive mind. One of the early innovators of the current wildcat offense, a formation he routinely ran at Arkansas with former Razorbacks Darren McFadden and Felix Jones, Malzahn has been successful at every stop throughout his coaching career. Most recent, his offensive philosophy has propelled the Auburn Tigers to the top of nearly every single offensive statistical category since his arrival last season. Under his guidance, this year’s Auburn...
After his arrest in Gainesville, FL, in November 2008 on charges in connection with a stolen laptop, Cam Newton’s career as a Division 1 athlete seemed to come to an end. As the legal system played its course, it was learned that Newton had indeed purchased the laptop from a seller he believed was legitimate. However, with his name and reputation tarnished, Newton and his family decided it best to part ways with the University of Florida and transfer from the school. In January 2009, Netwon enrolled at Blinn...
All eyes will be on Tuscaloosa, AL, this Saturday night when #7 Florida takes on #1 Alabama. There will be no shortage of storylines as these two schools’ bitter rivalry has become renewed over the past five seasons. The last time these two teams met was on December 5, 2009, in Atlanta, GA, for the SEC Championship game and a chance to play in the BCS National Championship. Alabama (#2) handily beat Florida (#1), 32-13, in route to their...
The hits just keep on coming for the Trojans. This time the Trojans have the honor of achieving something no other collegiate football championship team has ever accomplished–the revocation of a national championship award. The 2004 Grantland Rice Trophy, awarded by the Football Writers Association of America to the nation’s top college football team, has been stripped from the program. The committee voted and agreed that USC was not deserving of the award due to its most recent NCAA rules...
Three years removed from winning his first and only BCS National Championship, LSU skipper Les Miles could be entering his last season as head coach of the Tigers. Miles assumed head coaching duties on January 3, 2005, when current Alabama head coach Nick Saban bolted Baton Rouge to try his hand in the NFL. Miles got off to a red-hot start by going 11-2 in his first season as head coach and earned a trip to Atlanta to represent...
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...
