(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) If there's a more entertaining and controversial head coach at SEC Media Days than South Carolina's Steve Spurrier than I'd love for you to point that guy out. Spurrier has had is classic moments and on Tuesday he did it again, taking on Notre Dame, the ACC, paying players and […]

Johnny Football made it through one camp as instructor, too bad it wasn't two (Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) Earlier this week reports via the four letter network indicated that Johnny Manziel was told to tell the truth and nothing but the truth while facing the coming media storm following his dismissal from the Manning […]

Fox Sports 1 is coming in one month with the intent on providing a legitimate challenger to ESPN for our sports viewing entertainment and information. This will be FOX's attempt to crack a dent in the sports empire, one that NBC and CBS have attempted to do over the last couple of years. Who knows […]

Kids these days…. We've all heard that statement at one point and time in our lives. As sports fans and college football fans specifically there are just some names, dates, and figures that should stand out to you no matter where you are from or where you were born. The name Bear Bryant should be […]

Muschamp takes media questions, doesn't pull punches at 2013 SEC Media Days (Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) Over the past five years or so the SEC Media Days have gone from interesting and quirky to flat out ridiculous. It's also given the media exactly what they want – juicy quotes we can all dissect. However, […]

SEC Media Days are underway in Hoover, Alabama but here on Crystal Ball Run we get our Crystal Ball out and look towards the actual games on the field.  Unlike most seasons there is an abundance of quality non-conference games being played by the SEC in 2013, so much so it was impossible to mix […]

I, like many others, applied to be a credentialed member of the media for this week’s SEC Media Days: a three-day media circus at which coaches and players from each SEC school take questions for some reason. Unfortunately, I was rejected and kicked into the lonely abyss of a 90-degree Alabama afternoon. The festival of […]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took time out from potentially nuking one of the chamber's most venerable institutions to offer his take on the state of USC's football program. It sounded like he was talking about Mitch McConnell. “I hope you have a better football team than last year, that was a disaster,” he told […]

There are times in all of our lives where we come to crossroads, where we look back and reflect on the choices we make and chose to keep going down the road we've been on or chose a new path. LSU running back Jeremy Hill should've already faced such a choice following an incident in […]

It's SEC week here at Crystal Ball Run and it also happens to be SEC Media Days this week as well, so it's no coincidence that the conference is foremost on our minds. Of course it also helps when the conference goes and does something big. So, on Monday the conference unveiled it's "new" SEC […]