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New Pac 12 safety plan calls for less contact in practice

Photo: USA Today Sports Safety in football has become a growing topic of concern and interest over the recent years, both at the collegiate and professional level and beyond. With so many players suffering from concussions and other injuries and the effects of smash mouth football now becoming more visible through players well beyond their […]

The Sun Belt Preview: A year of upsets, upstarts and letdowns

Western Kentucky's Antonio Andrews returns for 2013 after leading the Sun Belt in rushing yards in 2012. Photo: USA Today Sports Crystal Ball Run will be previewing each conference for the 2013 season with week-by-week coverage. Today we continue our 2013 conference previews with a look at the Sun Belt Conference. A new year brings […]

Made in America: The American has their logo

    The American Athletic Conference, getting set for the first season of its re-branded existence, has a logo. The logo features a blue "A" with a thin white trim around the outside and a red star in the middle, as first seen in a report by USA Today. The conference also has a horizontal […]

Baylor video teases new age of football uniforms

We had been clued in that Baylor was going to be having some new, updated uniforms from Nike this upcoming football season. We got a glimpse of the chrome helmet, which was enough of a suggestion of new things coming from the Baylor Bears. Now, the program looking to continue riding the momentum of the […]

Boise State’s Joe Southwick is no Kellen Moore, and that is OK

Photo: USA Today Sports Joe Southwick stepped foot in to a nearly impossible situation in 2012. After four consecutive years of Kellen Moore directing the offense on the field for the Boise State Broncos, rewriting record books along the way, Southwick was charged with replacing one of the all-time greats in school history. It is […]

Mountain West commissioner says four-team playoff not definite

BCS executive director Bill Hancock has said before that the four-team playoff model that will begin being used in the 2014 season is locked in with four teams through the 12 years of the new format contract. But how long until that playoff pool expands, as many seem to believe is bound to happen at […]

Finebaum’s return to radio will feel familiar and different on ESPN

Paul Finebaum is coming back to radio later this summer. Paul Finebaum, the voice of the SEC, is returning to radio August 1. Finebaum has been off the air for the past four months after his previous contract expired. Now, Finebaum will begin emerging as  a national radio voice for ESPN with a carefully structured […]

The Mountain West Preview: Wild things are happening in the mountains

Photo: USA Today Sports Crystal Ball Run will be previewing each conference for the 2013 season with week-by-week coverage. Today we continue our 2013 conference previews with a look at the Mountain West Conference. College football has very few guarantees on a yearly basis, Alabama being a national championship contender aside. One thing that appears […]

Report: Military Bowl moving out of RFK Stadium

The Military Bowl will be moving out of aging RFK Stadium and relocating to a more appropriate venue, Navy's Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland according to Dan Steinberg, Google+ and Facebook. Follow Crystal Ball Run on 

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