By now, every college sports fan on the planet has heard a great deal about the few teams at the top of the race for a BCS Championship. Put simply, Alabama, Oregon and Ohio State are overwhelming favorites to compete for the title, with LSU on the fringe of that group and seemingly everyone else lagging behind. Unfortunately, college football is not a sport that tends to lend itself to big surprises in rankings or outcomes – but nonetheless,...
Stanford running back Tyler Gaffney is trading in his football helmet for a baseball cap. The would be senior running back is forgoing his final year of eligibility to play professional baseball with MLB’s Pittsburgh Pirates. Gaffney was a two-sport star at Stanford who excelled at both football and baseball. Last season on the gridiron, Gaffney scampered for 449 yards and seven touchdowns as a back-up. On the diamond, he hit .245 with 17 RBIs before being drafted in...
The 2011 Rotary Lombardi Award finalists were named earlier this evening from a strong pool of 12 semi-finalists at a heavily attended announcement party at Houston’s Tasting Room Wine Bar. The four finalists are: LB Dont’a Hightower (Alabama) LB Courtney Upshaw (Alabama) OT Jonathan Martin (Stanford) LB Luke Kuechly (Boston College) The 42nd Rotary Lombardi awarded will be presented on December 7, 2011 during the award show at the Reliant Center in Houston, Texas.
The Rotary Club of Houston announced the 12 semifinalists for the 42nd annual Rotary Lombardi Award (RLA) awarded to the best college football lineman or linebacker. There are eight defensive players and four offensive players who made this year’s cut. The RLA will be awarded on December 7, 2011 at the Reliant Center in Houston, Texas. Last year’s winner was Auburn’s Nick Fairley. Though there are no Auburn players on the list this year, the SEC does lead with...
Hall of Famer and legendary Stanford QB John Elway got duped out of approximately $15 million from a hedge-fund manager who was recently arrested for running a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme. The Stanford grad, who happened to be an econ major, and his business partner invested their millions with 42 year-old Sean Mueller. Mueller created the Mueller’s Hedge-Fund Account that used investors’ deposits to pay off older investors. A simple Ponzi scheme that always fails once the investors dry...
Hyundai, known for manufacturing cars, is trying their hand at the college football arena. The Sun Bowl will be sponsored by Hyundai for the next four seasons. With Hyundai as the bowl’s new sponsor, the bowl is getting a new face-lift as well. The Sun Bowl will now get the third ranked Pac-10 and ACC teams after the respective conference’s BCS selections. Team payouts to play in the game have also been upped to $2 million. The Sun Bowl has...
In an attempt to find harmony between academics and athletics, former Secretary of State and current Stanford political science professor, Condoleezza Rice, is taking on an additional position as a Cardinal recruiter. Dr. Rice is poised to attract top blue-chip recruits for all Stanford sports but most importantly, football. Dr. Rice is no stranger to Stanford or football and she should be a natural fit in her new position. During Dr. Rice’s Stanford years, she immediately got involved with...
Lane Kiffin hasn’t even been USC’s head coach for 3 months, yet he’s back to running his mouth again. College football’s resident court jester has given the press plenty of fodder since his arrival at Tennessee last year and it looks like the LA media outlets will have their fair share of sound bytes from him. In a recent interview with Sporting News columnist Matt Hayes, Kiffin claimed that he would have won an SEC championship he had stayed with...
