0 comments by Tom Perry on 3/25/2013
First Practice: March 26 Spring Game: April 27 This time next year, Rutgers will be doing its best to get ready for the transition to the Big Ten. Since the Scarlet Knights have been a below-average Big East team for years, the move to the much tougher conference could result in some tough times for […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres
Well folks it’s March, and like it is at this time every year, college hoops hysteria is sweeping the sporting world. And believe us when we say, here at Crystal Ball Run, we’re digging the college hoops as much as anyone… heck, half of our staff is seriously considering quitting the website all together […]
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(photo courtesy USA Today Sports/Matthew Emmons) We've all had bad days at the office or wherever you do your work from these days. We've all been frustrated when we make mistakes from time to time, but none of us have the spotlight that reigning Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel does and thus the microscope that […]
0 comments by Aaron Torres on 3/21/2013
First Practice: March 16 Spring Game: April 20 So in case you hadn’t heard, this Nick Saban has a pretty good thing going at Alabama. Getting ready to enter his seventh season at the school, Saban has won a whole bunch of ball-games, with five-straight 10+ win seasons, two SEC titles and a ho-hum three […]
0 comments by Tom Perry on 3/20/2013
First Practice: March 20 Spring Game: April 13 With Teddy Bridgewater entering his third season at quarterback and riding high from that shocking upset of Florida in the Sugar Bowl, there hasn’t been a spring practice this exciting around Louisville in decades (probably ever). This will be Louisville’s final year in the Big East (until […]
0 comments by Kevin McGuire
Saturdays in the fall is a tradition that is treated like a religion by many. They start with a cool morning drive to your favorite campus, a filling tailgate featuring brats, sausages, hot dogs, burgers and more washed down with a cool beverage of choice or two or seven. The masses then assemble in to […]
The Fighting Irish didn't give Brian Kelly much reason to lose his cool last year. First Practice: March 20 Spring Game: April 20 Relevant. And then some. Last August ESPN’s Rick Reilly unleashed a screed attacking Notre Dame football, declaring the program “irrelevant.” The Fighting Irish devoted the next four months to proving Reilly wrong […]
While everyone else is breaking down brackets, CBR is doing its own version of Selection Sunday. Dave Bartoo of CFBMatrix.com joins CBR managing editor Allen Kenney for a podcast to discuss his formula's 11 legit contenders for the college football national championship. Dave and Allen discuss: *How the Matrix separates out the national title contenders. […]
Who's left that hasn't done the Harlem Shake? We crossed Oklahoma off the list last week. Now, we've got the Mad Hatter and the LSU Tigers taking a break from spring practice to get involved with America's favorite dance craze. Yes, we all want this to end. Let's make this the last one. UPDATE: And […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens on 3/18/2013
(photo courtesy USAToday Sports/Mark J. Rebilas) First Practice: March 19 Spring Game: April 13 The nomadic Todd Graham has perhaps found a home as he's stuck around in the Valley of the Sun for a minute or two and if he's not careful he could make it a permanent home. As it stands it's already […]
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Why wait until tomorrow night to tip-off, or in our case kick-off the madness, right? Earlier today we unveiled the brackets for our CBR Helmet Madness, where you the diehard college football fan get the chance to pick the best helmet in all of college football. All helmets qualified based on their availability for use […]
0 comments by Andrew Coppens
We know, we know – you're all busy not doing work and studying your brackets for that office pool everyone is talking about all Monday morning – I know we all are as well. However, we've caught the fever of Madness here at CBR and for us that means taking college football and having some […]
