Sue Paterno (right) will continue to donate money from Joe Paterno’s pension back to local charities such as the Special Olympics. Joe Paterno and his wife spent years helping to raise funds to expand the Patte Library, Penn State’s university campus. When all was done, the Paternos fueled enough energy to help raise $13.5 million to build […]

Mark your calendars, fire up the grill, and send your wife to the mall for the day: The biggest game of the college football opening weekend is now officially set! That’s right, the announcement we’ve all been waiting for officially came yesterday, when the powers that be let us know that the September 1 showdown […]

Blame the end of final exams. Or the slow last weeks of May before summer workouts begin.  Or the simple fact that the police blotter doesn’t seem quite as active as usual. But without much real “news” to cover here at Crystal Ball Run, we’ve been left with little choice but to dip our toes […]

There’s an old saying that goes “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” and in the case of new Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze, he takes that saying quite literally. The man who proudly boasts of his role in the movie “The Blind Side” also isn’t afraid to drum up some excitement on the recruiting […]

One of the saddest and most shocking news pieces to hit college football in many years came across the wire today, as West Virginia University announced today that former head coach Bill Stewart died of an apparent heart attack this afternoon during a golf outing. Stewart coached the Mountaineers coach from 2008-2010, accruing a record […]

About this time every year I start to contemplate what my perfect fall would look like. It involves an endless supply of cash, one of those John Madden-type buses and two or three of my closest friends. What will ensue? Well, I hope the greatest four months ever. See, we’re going to be on the […]

Welcome to this week’s “Case of the Mondays” where we at Crystal Ball Run take a look at the good, bad and the ugly in the college football world and beyond. This week, we start with… 1. The dumbest storyline that isn’t really a storyline to hit college football in years: When it was announced […]

The Big Ten and Pac 12 have long been on a stance that preserving the Rose Bowl is of the utmost importance. The SEC and Big 12 decided to create their own. Sort of. The two conferences announced today that they have agreed to send their respective conference champions to a bowl game to face […]

So, tell us where you’ve heard this before: USC just landed the commitment of a top-flight, stud running back in the class of 2013. If you answered, “Hey stupid, you already told us that Tuesday,” well, you’d be partially correct. That’s because after getting a verbal commitment from Ty Isaac, the top running back in […]