South Carolinais heading into Saturday’s match-up against Kentucky without star TE Weslye Saunders. Saunders injured his ankle in last week’s beat-down of South Carolina State. The 6’5 TE aggravated the ankle which has given him troubles before in the past. In his absence, SC will be forced to start Justice Cunningham. Cunningham has seen action in all of South Carolina’s games this season so they will have some experience to turn to while Saunders recovers.
Alabama’s Courtney Upshaw has been court ordered to take anger management classes for a misdemeanor domestic violence and harassment charge. The charge stems from an incident this past August where both Upshaw and his girlfriend were arrested for an altercation that occurred in the parking lot of Alabama’s campus recreation center. From the beginning, Upshaw has had the support of his coach Nick Saban, who believes that the incident was a lapse in judgement by Upshaw, and that Upshaw is a good...
Jacksonville.com reports that Florida consistently refuses to play stronger out of conference teams unlike other SEC powerhouses. For example, in 2005, Arkansas played at SoCal and Tennessee played at Cal in 2007 and then at UCLA in 2008. Georgia took the long distance flight to Arizona State last season and this season LSU traveled to Washington. Next season, Alabama is playing a home-and-home against Big 10 powerhouse Penn State. SEC schools are scheduling difficult non-conference BCS opponents, but it...
Georgia fans are being asked by school officials to make a better effort to clean up after themselves following home football games. According to UGA president Michael Adams, tailgaters left behind 70 tons of trash following Georgia’s Sept. 12th game against South Carolina. That’s right, SEVENTY tons. Some fans even used the lawns as toilets by going both number 1 and 2 on campus grounds. That’s expected behavior for UGA VII, but certainly not for adults. These disgusting antics were met...
Kentucky freshman LB Ridge Wilson has been charged with fourth-degree assault and has been suspended indefinitely from the football team. The charges stem from an incident that occurred outside of a university dorm on Monday night. A resident of the dorm called the university police and informed them of an altercation taking place outside. The female involved in the incident stayed at the scene and informed the police that Wilson had struck her in the face. Wilson turned himself in on Tuesday after an arrest...
Ole Miss DE Greg Hardy will not suit up this Saturday for the Rebels’s second game of the season against Southeastern Louisiana. Hardy sprained his ankle on September 6th during Ole Miss’s game against Memphis and it is still giving him trouble. Rebel head coach Houston Nutt announced on Monday, “I’d say Greg is very doubtful for this game,” Nutt said. “His ankle is still swollen. There’s some discoloration. He has a ways to go.” Hardy has been one of...
Arkansas wide receiver London Crawford will be sidelined 4-6 weeks with a broken collarbone suffered in Saturday’s game against Missouri State. The 6’2, 205 lb., senior underwent surgery to repair the collarbone Monday morning. This comes as a hit to the Razorbacks as Crawford was expected to be a major focal point of the team’s offense this season. This is the second time in three weeks that an Arkansas wide receiver has suffered a collarbone injury. Fellow senior Lucas Miller broke...
Former Tennessee QB, and current Indianapolis Colt Peyton Manning, announced on Saturday that he will be donating 1 million dollars to the Tennessee Volunteers new athletic training facility.”This facility will allow UT athletes now, and in the future to train at the highest level possible. I want to continue to challenge others to be a part of this as well. I hope this will serve as a challenge to others who are considering making a pledge. It’s great that we...
