He was the talk of college football earlier this month when he rumbled 69 yards for a touchdown in Nebraska's spring game. Now pediatric cancer patient Jack Hoffman is being immortalized in a time-honored sports tradition. Upper Deck announced Tuesday that the seven-year-old Cornhuskers fan is getting his own trading card. Upper Deck is releasing […]

All-in-all it was a 7-5 regular season for the Badgers and a lot of it had to do with the QB carrousel never stopping. It's never good when you have to talk about three quarterbacks making multiple starts, but that's exactly what happened to the Badgers. Yet, Wisconsin found a way to win it's third […]

We have known for a while now that North Carolina was hinting at an all-black alternate uniform for the 2013 season. There has been talk and evidence of a black-out type game this season against ACC rival Miami, with suggestions of a black helmet being worn for the occasion and leaving the minds wondering what […]

(photo courtesy USAToday Sports) Scheduling in the world of the current BCS system is a bit of a catch 22, if you aren't in one of the big four conferences, and perhaps no other team heading into 2013 better represents that catch 22 than the Louisville Cardinals. On Monday night ESPN's Brett McMurphy reported that […]

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(Photo Courtesy: Brent Pease's Instagram Account) So last week, Crystal Ball Run shared an interesting story, about the always interesting Joker Phillips and his liberal use of the photo editing and enhancing service Instagram. In it, we described how the ex-Kentucky head man turned Florida wide receivers coach has a growing reputation as the most […]

Texas A&M’s smooth transition from the Big 12 to the SEC and the emergence of Johnny Manziel at quarterback can only mean one things for 2013 — expectations are sky high. The reigning Heisman Trophy winner looked outstanding in the Aggies’ spring game, and the offense should be one of the best in the SEC […]

(photo courtesy USAToday Sports/Greg Bartram) Never doubt Urban…. Never doubt Urban… Never doubt Urban – those are words to live by in life as a college sports fan and should be on your daily reminder list, especially after what was witnessed on Saturday in Cincinnati as the Scarlet beat the Gray 31-14 in front of […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) LOS ANGELES– A year after USC football entered spring practice with as much hype as any program in the country, it was a rather subdued day at the Los Angeles Coliseum on Saturday afternoon, where a little over 15,000 stopped by to check in and to check out the Trojans […]

(Photo Courtesy: Mark Stoops' Twitter) As recently as six months ago, had you asked most Kentucky fans how they planned to spend Saturday April 13, 2013, most would’ve likely responded by saying that if anything, they’d spend the early evening watching the Jordan Brand All-American high school basketball game. That is of course, if they […]

The SEC’s poorly kept secret – at one timed dubbed “Project X,” even though it had nothing to do with teaching chimpanzees to fly planes – became ever more poorly kept Friday when John Ourand of the SportsBusiness Journal revealed that the plans for the SEC television network will be unveiled next week. Launching the […]