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Evaluating College Football’s First-Year Head Coaches: Mike Leach

The turn of the century seems like ages ago. The iPod and Microsoft Xbox were first being introduced to consumers, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings were just being given a film adaptation, and reality television was starting to blossom. Washington State was also winning ten games a year. If the idea of Washington […]

CBR’s The Bachelor Diary: Sean Tells All

It's Sean's chance to sit down with the man we haven't seen much of all season long – the venerable Chris Harrison. Now for anyone who has seen this show before there's no denying that when there's more Harrison involved the show usually is significantly better.  Tonight it's Sean sitting down for a full hour […]

Johnny “Online School” Football could set a new trend

Johnny Manziel has been living the life since making his mark known on the college football map last fall. After leading Texas A&M to an impressive first run through the SEC and winning a Heisman Trophy as a redshirt freshman, Manziel has certainly become the talk of the town. And this town. And this town. […]

Evaluating College Football’s First-Year Head Coaches: Rich Rodriguez

Until he arrived at Arizona, Rich Rodriguez had a history of losing big in his first season. But the former West Virginia and Michigan coach finally figured out how to win in year one. Probably one of the biggest reasons why everything clicked right away with the Wildcats is the fact that the administration and […]

CBR’s The Bachelor Diary: Hometown Date Week

Things get real… really real if you believe what we saw in the preview last week. Why? Because it's hometown date week on The Bachelor. It's down to AshLee, Catherine, Desiree & Lindsay – with only AshLee and Desiree having been in our CBR Oddsmakers Top 5 all season long. Can the favorites of ours […]

Ten college football coaches likely to end up in Canada

On Thursday breaking news shocked the college football world when it was announced that former Boise State and Colorado head man Dan Hawkins had been named the new head coach of the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes. Yes, the news was indeed shocking. Not so much in that Hawkins would continue his career North of […]

Evaluating College Football’s First-Year Head Coaches: Tim Beckman

Back-to-back winning seasons at Toledo and the top scoring offense in the MAC opened the eyes to many at the job Tim Beckman was doing with the Rockets. In three years on the job Beckman had Toledo snapping four consecutive losing seasons and turning around one of the worst scoring offenses in the league to […]

Accusations against Ole Miss come up empty

There’s an old saying that goes “to whom much is given much is expected,” and if the last few weeks were any indication, that phrase certainly holds true in college football recruiting. There are few places in sports where the stakes are higher, and where the vitriol from opposing fans, coaches and schools is more […]

Charles Barkley’s got jokes about Alabama arrests

Motormouth basketball analyst Charles Barkley decided to tweak his college rivals tonight during Thursday night's NBA on TNT broadcast. Barkley, who played his college ball at Auburn, opened the broadcast with a bandage wrapped around his head. The Chuckwagon quipped that he had been mugged and robbed on a trip to Tuscaloosa, a not-so-veiled allusion […]

Moms Gone Wild Vol. II: FSU Recruit wanted to go to USC

‘Tis the season… for mother’s across the nation to alter their son’s futures, apparently. That’s right, one week after the Alex Collins fiasco down in South Florida, we’ve got another case of Mom’s Gone Wild, courtesy of another top-flight recruit. This one’s name is Matthew Thomas, and for those of you who don’t follow recruiting, […]

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