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, […]

Evaluating College Football’s First-Year Head Coaches: Charlie Weis

How could this go wrong? (Photo: USA Today Sports.) The Charlie Weis era at Kansas didn't start off with the same kind of bluster heard when he was introduced as the head coach at Notre Dame eight years ago. Remember all that bravado about the Fighting Irish's "decided schematic advantage" in every game? The big […]

Johnny Manziel’s off-season was better than your’s

The rise to stardom of Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel has been quite the ride. The day his shirtless mugshot made the rounds around the internet last summer feels like it happened ages ago. That is what happens when you lead your team to a surprisingly successful debut seaosn in the SEC on your way […]

The Big Ten is talking tough

"We demand the not-quite-weakest of your weakest…" (Photo: USA Today Sports.) In conjunction with the beginning of Lent, the Big Ten is giving up cupcakes. Yet, while a sugar fiend would only have to sweat out 40 days of abstinence, the country's most prestigious athletic conference apparently plans to go cold turkey on scheduling games […]

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