0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 8/17/2012
Every morning I put together the Morning Playbook. Here I try to do so with a light heart while sharing some stories that tend to fly under the radar and covering some of the top college football news.. However, this is one I feel is a bit more serious in tone than usual. One […]
0 comments by John Walters
The sleeper hit film of the summer of 2011, at least critically, was a bro-friendly rom-com titled "Crazy, Stupid Love." The movie starred Steve Carell playing a cuckolded husband, Cal, who has lost his mojo. At a singles bar, he meets uber-dude Ryan Gosling, Jacob, who gives him a harsh but candid scouting report: […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/16/2012
http://youtube.com/watch?v=enMhCfQfeTw As a general rule, we don’t get too much into the dynamics of college football uniform choice here at Crystal Ball Run. Sure, we’ll post our occasional commentary, but at the end of the day, the decisions made by Nike, Adidas, Under Armour and other companies aren’t ultimately about what we think; they’re […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
They say “everything’s bigger in Texas” but when it comes to a love of the local college football team, the biggest, and most passionate group of college football fans reside in Alabama. Alabama fan, Auburn fan, whatever. If you grow up in the Yellowhammer State, chances are you not only care about your football team, […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Pac-12 Network studio hosts Mike Yam and Ashley Adamson welcomed viewers to the new network Tuesday. The Pac-12 Network is now on the air and that means more college football television coverage, where available. Here at Crystal Ball Run we are all about more college football on television, and honestly, who would be against that? […]
“And this offends you as a Jewish person?” –“No, it offends me as a comedian.” As I read Rick Reilly’s rip job on Notre Dame football this morning, I took umbrage. I borrowed against future umbrage, raising my umbrage debt ceiling. Sloan Sabbith cut short her raver in order to warn me about how much […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 8/15/2012
You know the old saying "When it rains it pours," right? Well, it must be raining all sorts of crazy stuff in College Park these days as it was announced yesterday that likely 2012 starting QB C.J. Brown is out for the season with a torn ACL. It apparently happened in a non-contact drill (side […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Since taking over for Rich Brooks three years ago, it's safe to say there hasn't been much to celebrate for Kentucky football coach Joker Phillips. After going 6-7 his first season on the job, the Wildcats fell to 5-7 last year and had it not been for a late season upset of Tennessee, there […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Does the Big East have their man? It sure seems like it. On Tuesday the Big East announced the hiring of new commissioner Michael Aresco, a veteran television executive currently working with CBS and their college sports coverage. With a round of television negotiations on the Big East calendar for September 1, having Aresco leading […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 8/14/2012
The Big East is no longer without a commissioner, and if all goes to plan they may not be a conference to pick on so easily much longer. As we referenced earlier today in the Morning Playbook, reports were filtering through that the Big East had found their man to lead the conference in to […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
The latest developments coming out of North Carolina are not pretty (this seems almost trivial to say after the Penn State incident, but we move on). The News Observer went to town on the academic scandal that continues to unfold with details linking to former Tar Heel Julius Peppers. According to this report, the transcript […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 8/13/2012
When news broke last Friday that something big was going on at LSU speculation spread like wild fire as to what it could be. With so many different playmakers and potential problems people couldn’t help themselves when wondering who did what and how bad was it? Then the news leaked and we all found out […]
