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Tony Manfred at Business Insider reports on some statistics from the NCAA on the likelihood that a college athlete will become a professional athlete: Even if your kid is good at sports in high school, gets a scholarship, and excels in college, there’s almost no way they are going to go pro. Scott Soshnick of [...]
For the third year in a row, the Super Bowl was the most-watched television program in history: NEW YORK—For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants beat the [...]
The NFL and NBC probably thought that hiring a headliner for the halftime show who was born before the Super Bowl even existed would keep the controversy to a minimum, but they were wrong: The NFL and a major television network are apologizing for another Super Bowl halftime show. There was no wardrobe malfunction, nothing [...]
As long as I can remember, George Will’s response to any question about the Super Bowl on ABC’s This Week has been some variation on pointing out that baseball season is just around the corner. Given that Will has written several books on the game, and has been a regular presence at Nationals games since [...]
After a depressing and sad end to a storied career, Penn State’s legendary JoePa has passed away.
College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.
Tim Tebow has been at the center of a culture war battle, but he seems to have a more balanced view of the whole thing.
Republican candidates have reached out to Tim Tebow for an endorsement. Desperation?
There’s no perfect system for choosing a champion but we can do better than this.
The Panthers rookie is having a historic season. Were doubts that he could succeed colored by race?
For the first time, the NFL is making the Super Bowl available online: NEW YORK (AP) – The biggest draw in television is going mobile. The Super Bowl will be streamed online and to phones for the first time, the NFL said Tuesday. NBC’s broadcasts of wild card Saturday, the Pro Bowl and the Super [...]
Despite winning the AFC West last year, Todd Haley was fired today after the team’s 37-10 loss to the Jets dropped the Chiefs to 5-8. Haley’s fractious relationship with GM Scott Pioli was not exactly a secret, so the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty Haley caught in yesterday’s game was especially stupid. And, in the least-surprising NFL [...]
Penn State Assistant Coach Mike McQueary is, as far as we know, the only independent witness to the alleged child abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky. In the Grand Jury Testimony that led to Sandusky’s first arrest, McQueary describes seeing Sandusky naked in the showers at the PSU athletic facilities with a young boy, also naked, [...]
Former Penn State Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested for a second time this morning at his home after two new men accused him of having abused them when they took part in the Second Mile program: The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office has filed new charges against Jerry Sandusky, 67, as part of an investigation [...]
Reacting to Monday’s news that The Ohio State University had hired former Florida Gators coach Urban Meyer to be the new Buckeye’s Head Coach and given him a 6-year contract worth $26,000,000 not including benefits and bonuses, Bill Press is rather obviously upset: I’m sorry, but no football coach, no matter how successful, is worth [...]
The NBA strike/lockout is apparently on the verge of being over: NBA owners and players reached a tentative agreement early Saturday to end the 149-day lockout and hope to begin the delayed season on Christmas Day. Neither side provided many specifics but said the only words players and fans wanted to hear. “We want to [...]
Greg Halman, an outfielder for the Seattle Mariners baseball team, was stabbed to death in his native Holland. His brother is the chief suspect.
Joe Paterno recently sold his share of their house to his wife for $1, presumably to shield it from legal settlements.
Bob Knight coached Mike Krzyzewski at West Point. Now, Coach K has broken his mentor’s record for all-time victories as a head coach.
Is the star witness in the Penn State case changing his story, or just trying to protect his reputation?
The New York Times is reporting that more people have come forward to say they were sexually molested by Jerry Sandusky: STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Close to 10 additional suspected victims have come forward to the authorities since the arrest of the former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky on Nov. 5 on 40 counts [...]
The Big Ten has decided that naming its championship trophy after a man who enabled the raping of multiple children is a bad idea.
If you’re a fan of college football, I’d highly recommend ESPN Films’ “Roll Tide/War Eagle” by director Martin Khodabakhshian. There are many great rivalries in sports: Yankees-Red Sox, Michigan-Ohio State, North Carolina-Duke. But they don’t compare to the venomous and consuming in-state college football rivalry that is Alabama-Auburn. With no pro sports, the state of [...]
One of the most productive players on the Washington Nationals was kidnapped late yesterday from his home in Venezuela: Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos has been kidnapped in his hometown of Valencia, Venezuela, according to his Venezuelan winter league team. Ramos, 24, had gone home for the winter and planned to participate in roughly 10 games [...]
A Sports reporter in Pennsylvania is passing along a rumor that, if true, could turn the Penn State child rape scandal into a full blown disaster for the university: In April, Pittsburgh radio host Mark Madden wrote a story revealing Penn State for much of the cover-up of Jerry Sandusky’s alleged child rape that has [...]
The firing of legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno led to a full-blown riot by outraged students.
The Board Of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University announced late tonight that Joe Paterno and the President of the University have been fired in the wake of a widening child sex abuse scandal: Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was fired late Wednesday night as the result of a growing child-sex scandal that has engulfed [...]
The end of Joe Paterno’s coaching career was going to come some day, but I don’t think anyone would happen this way: STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — A person familiar with the decision says Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has decided to retire at the end of the season. The person says Paterno will [...]
The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Patriot-News made this editorial the entirety of today’s front page: There are the obligations we all have to uphold the law. There are then the obligations we all have to do what is right. It has become increasingly clear that while Penn State University President Graham Spanier has not been charged with breaking [...]
Penn State is cleaning house, including the legendary Joe Paterno.
If true, Joe Paterno’s actions in response to charges of child abuse by a coach are indefensible.
Jerry Sandusky, the longtime defensive coordinator for the Penn State football team, is being charged with eight counts of child sex abuse.
Contrary to popular belief, college athletes graduate at a much higher rate than other students.
Pete Gent, the former Dallas Cowboy and Michigan State player best known as the author of “North Dallas Forty,” has died at 69 from pulmonary illness.
While most of the Nike “pro combat” uniforms that college teams have worn over the last few years have been garish one-offs never seen again after their debut game, their revamp of the Navy unies is actually an upgrade
Was it wrong for the NFL to schedule its opening Sunday on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks?
Horrible news: A Russian jet carrying a KHL ice hockey team crashed into a river bank Wednesday while taking off in western Russia, killing at least 43 people and leaving two others critically injured, officials said. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed in sunny weather immediately after leaving an airport near [...]
The Maryland Terrapins upset the Miami Hurricanes 32-24 last night in college football’s opening weekend. But all anyone is talking about is the ugly uniforms.
