0 comments by Dave Singleton on 3/12/2012
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 […]
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With March Madness officially beginning this week and nearly every sports blog doing some sort of bracket-style tournament, the CBR staff just had to get in on the action. Sure, we could have done a tournament to crown an on-field champion, but what would be the fun in that? Pssshh… save that for the FCS, […]
Ten points to ponder as you ignore for the duration of this article that this is a college football blog… 1. From November to February, the sport of college basketball may be in shambles, but there’s still no beating March Madness. In the next couple weeks, you’re going to hear crotchety dudes like myself throw […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 3/9/2012
Camp Opens: March 15Spring Game: April 14 Another year, another head coach. Unlike their Pennsylvania rivals from State College, Pittsburgh has become all too familiar with finding a new head coach in the off-season over the last few years. This time though, hopefully, they got it right with former Wisconsin assistant Paul Chryst. On the […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 3/8/2012
Camp Opens: March 9Spring Game: April 14 Fresh off its second BCS National Championship in three seasons, Alabama will use the spring to try to refocus the players on the ultimate goal – back-to-back titles. Alabama lost some key components off of last year’s 12-1 team that went on to take down LSU in the […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire on 3/7/2012
The Temple Owls will be rejoining the conference that once turned a cold shoulder to their hapless football program, but oh how the times have changed. The Big East and Temple are getting back together under a new set of circumstances. Now the hope is that this news will somehow generate some buzz for the […]
In the wake of recent of recent reports of misdoings within the basketball programs at Syracuse and UCLA, outspoken NCAA critic Tommy Craggs of Deadspin yesterday brought his fastball in going after the usual object of his employer’s affection, the mainstream media. In this case, Craggs threw a little chin music at Yahoo! Sports and […]
0 comments by Dave Singleton
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 […]
First Practice: March 5Spring Game: April 14 A 2011 season that started with grandiose visions of a crystal ball ended in a three-loss disappointment of a year for the Oklahoma Sooners. Since then, Bob Stoops brought his brother Mike back to help shore up the defense and lost right-hand man Brent Venables in the process. […]
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Months after the fallout of an alarming and disturbing sex abuse scandal tore the fabric of trust and everything that was right at Penn State, head coach Bill O’Brien dedicated himsefl to an unenviable task, to put it nicely. “Penn State is toxic,” CBSSports.com’s Brett McMurphy wrote when discussing Penn State’s bowl future toward the […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 3/6/2012
By now, I think we’re all pretty aware that the SEC is the king of college football. Six straight championships will give a conference a reputation like that. What is also safe to say is that the SEC is the king of the NFL Draft. Last year the conference had 38 players selected, and this […]
0 comments by Michael Felder
Spring Practice Primer: Clemson Tigers 2011 was a banner year for the Clemson Tigers as Dabo Swinney got the folks in Tiger Town their first ACC title since Ken Hatfield’s 1991 championship. To add to it the Tigers were back in the Orange Bowl on the 30 year anniversary of Danny Ford’s national championship. However, […]
