Think the college football news cycle stops because it’s a holiday weekend? Think again. Because while you were stuffing another hot dog down your gullet this Memorial Day, a major transfer- one which could shake up the entire Big XII title race- hit the newswire. That player was TCU’s Ed Wesley, a key cog in […]

We salute you General Neyland. Via Reddit. Good morning and welcome back to your regularly scheduled program. On behalf of the entire Crystal Ball Run crew here, I hope you had a wonderful, safe Memorial Day weekend. Today we get back to the grind and in doing so we are introducing a new daily feature […]

College football previews have started hitting the racks, and, according to clandestine bathroom surveillance, time spent reading on the toilet is spiking. But is what you’re reading worth what you just deposited? I’m a new contributor on CBR and will be popping in and out as we lead up to what looks like the final […]

Rich Rodriguez has never been afraid to meddle with tradition. Just take his offense, which at one time flew in the face of conventional football wisdom. Now it’s not so crazy, but the man is always tweaking it. The changes he made at West Virginia after taking over for legendary coach Don Nehlen received a […]

An interesting little nugget came across the newswire yesterday, when it was announced by THE Ohio State University that over the next two years, they plan on outfitting every student-athlete at the school with an iPad. The initiative, a part of the Digital First program, will start by giving out 500 this fall, and should […]

Sue Paterno (right) will continue to donate money from Joe Paterno’s pension back to local charities such as the Special Olympics. Joe Paterno and his wife spent years helping to raise funds to expand the Patte Library, Penn State’s university campus. When all was done, the Paternos fueled enough energy to help raise $13.5 million to build […]

Mark your calendars, fire up the grill, and send your wife to the mall for the day: The biggest game of the college football opening weekend is now officially set! That’s right, the announcement we’ve all been waiting for officially came yesterday, when the powers that be let us know that the September 1 showdown […]

Blame the end of final exams. Or the slow last weeks of May before summer workouts begin.  Or the simple fact that the police blotter doesn’t seem quite as active as usual. But without much real “news” to cover here at Crystal Ball Run, we’ve been left with little choice but to dip our toes […]

There’s an old saying that goes “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” and in the case of new Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze, he takes that saying quite literally. The man who proudly boasts of his role in the movie “The Blind Side” also isn’t afraid to drum up some excitement on the recruiting […]

One of the saddest and most shocking news pieces to hit college football in many years came across the wire today, as West Virginia University announced today that former head coach Bill Stewart died of an apparent heart attack this afternoon during a golf outing. Stewart coached the Mountaineers coach from 2008-2010, accruing a record […]