Former FBI director Louis Freeh released a damning analysis this morning of the Penn St. administration’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case, including accusations that longtime coach Joe Paterno used his authority to help conceal allegations of abuse dating back to 1998.  The report concludes that Paterno and members of the higher levels […]

I’m not a fan of Sean “P. Diddy”/”Diddy”/”Puffy”/”Puff Daddy” Combs. I’ve found him to be a middling M.C. at best. He is a good hype man, though. I will give him that. Well his son is in the news recently for all the wrong reasons. Actually, to clarify, his son is in the news for […]

  One of the first recorded intercollegiate athletic conferences to form was called the “Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest.” It existed for two football seasons, disbanding after the 1893 football season was played. The four member schools for that league would come together with some other friends a few years later and form the […]

By now, the facts as we know them are out on Bobby Petrino: One of the most successful coaches in Arkansas football history is caught in a self-inflicted shit-storm that he’s going to have a hard time getting out of. What we know is this: Bobby Petrino got in a motorcycle accident. Bobby Petrino told […]

    Let’s begin with a bit of a summation of where we stand today, March 28, 2012:  Round and round the carousel spins during conference realignment. Where it stops, nobody truly knows until there is a press conference in fill in the blank city featuring the conference coordinator, the university president and athletic director.  […]

The Missouri Tigers are having a bit of a rough transition to the Southeastern Conference, and they have not even gotten through spring practice yet.  Quarterback James Franklin was injured in practice last Tuesday, and will be out for the rest of camp after having surgery scheduled for Friday to repair his right shoulder. Franklin was […]

Camp Opens: March 6 Spring Game: April 14 On Sunday, November 6, Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive officially welcomed the Missouri Tigers to the SEC. It was a monumental, program-changing day for the University, but it did not come without generating animosity and hurt feelings from around the rest of the Big 12. However, with exit […]

  It is often said that you can’t go home.  Temple is about to find out if that is true.  According to CSNPhilly.com, it appears that Temple has reached an agreement with the Mid-American Conference to be released to rejoin the Big East for football in 2012. The Owls would move the rest of their […]

It’s always a challenge to move into a new neighborhood, even when you’re nomadic like I am. So before I jump into writing here at The Crystal Ball Run full-time, I figured I should introduce myself to all of you, readers.  I’ve been writing about college football on the web for about 8 years now, […]