Photo: USA Today Sports Most of us have been there before. We have a nice relationship with somebody, share a few laughs and lovable memories we believe we will cherish forever. Then, out of the blue, that relationship is over. You go your separate ways and look for reasons to feel better about your future […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today) Admittedly, Crystal Ball Run isn’t normally a source of late-breaking high school baseball news, but then again there’s nothing normal about Louisiana high school pitcher Manny Miles. For one, the sophomore from University High School in Baton Rouge is an emerging star, and on Friday night threw his second no-hitter of […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) After spending the last five days reviewing the new “American,” it’s time for the Crystal Ball Run staff to make their conference championship picks. Allen Kenney’s Take: The lack of stability within the membership of the Conference Formerly Known as the Big East fits with the outlook for the league […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) This past week, Crystal Ball Run has given you an all-encompassing look at college football’s newest conference, “The American.” We’ve discussed key players, the league’s bizarre scheduling quirks and even the biggest and most exciting games to mark on your calendar. And today it’s time to complete our look-ahead to […]

Texas A&M has big plans for the redevelopment of its legendary home, Kyle Field. A&M is pouring $450 million into eye-popping improvements that will make its home field the biggest in the SEC But Sam Torn, one of the chairs of the redevelopment committee for the stadium, revealed in an interview with TexAgs.com published on […]

It’s a fact of life in any conference: You’re going to have to travel at some point. Now, some leagues have teams that don’t travel much at all save for the conference away games. Those teams are big enough that they don’t have to hit the road, or are very selective about the non-conference tilts […]

The American Athletic Conference exists in a sort of a netherworld. A mashup of the remaining football members of the old Big East Conference plus newcomers from the last iteration of Conference USA, the American is a conference born out of this age of intercollegiate athletics: the age where dollars trumped old alliances. In fact, […]

(Photo Courtesy: USA Today Sports) With a name change from the “Big East” to the “American” it is this writer’s hope that along with a dead football conference, the bad, “Big Least” jokes are dead as well. As Louisville proved in last year’s Sugar Bowl, there is still plenty of good football being played in […]