College Football

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BCS or Just BS?

Alden Loury | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Sports, College Football, Bcs, BCS Championship Game, Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, College Football Bowl Games, Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl, College Football Playoff, Chicago News

Here's a way for the bowl games to keep their money (and make a little more) while the rest of us get a chance to see the very best two teams in the title game.

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Turning White Men Into Victims

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Myles Brand, Sports, College Football, Affirmative Action, Racism, Race, African Americans, African American College Football Coaches, Politics News

In the workplace, few hiring decisions have ever been based on merit only. For most of our nation's history, we had, in effect, de facto affirmative action for white men.

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Orange Bowl : Virginia Tech Takes On Cincinnati

AP | Posted 12.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Virginia Tech Cincinnati Orange Bowl, College Football, Orange Bowl, Bcs Bowl Games Bcs Orange Bowl Game, Cincinnati, Virginia Tech, Home News

Cincinnati's first bowl opponent was Virginia Tech, more than six decades ago. So maybe it's fitting that the Bearcats' first trip to the Bowl Champio...

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Wolverine Football and the Presidential Honeymoon

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 12.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: College Football, Michigan, Barack Obama, Michigan Football, Sports, University of Michigan, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan Sports, Entertainment News

If Obama wants to know the challenges he can expect to contend with in his first days of office, he can learn from the state of Michigan, and I'm not talking unemployment, where we are #1!

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Chick Fil A Bowl : Georgia Accepts Invitation

AP | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Georgia Chick-Fil-a Bowl, Georgia Yellow Jackets, Chick Fil a Bowl, College Football, Georgia Chick Fil a Bowl, College Football Bowl Games, College Football Chick-Fil-a Bowl, Chick-Fil-a Bowl, College Football Chick Fil a Bowl, Home News

After repeated bowl trips to the opposite side of the country, Georgia Tech wanted to stay closer to home this time. How does two miles away sound? ...

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AUBRUN TIGERS : Tommy Tuberville May Get Fired

AP | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Sports, College Football, Auburn Tigers Coach Fired, Tommy Tuberville, Auburn Tigers, Tommy Tuberville Fired, Auburn Football, Home News

Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville and athletic director Jay Jacobs are still in talks regarding the future of the football program. Tuberville was meetin...

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Tommy Tuberville Fired? Countdown Begins

The Post-Dispatch | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Sports, Auburn, College Football, Tommy Tuberville, Aubrun University, Auburn Coach Tommy Tuberville, Auburn Tigers, Tommy Tuberville Fired, Home News

Is Tommy Tuberville going to be fired after 10 years coaching the Auburn Tigers football team? Fresh off their embarrassing loss to cross-state riva...

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Please, Mr. President-Elect, No Playoff!

Andrew Brandt | Posted 11.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Texas, Playoffs, Ncaa, March Madness, President-Elect Obama, College Football, College Football Playoff, Entertainment News

With all due respect to the learned opinions of our incoming leader, his suggestion about college football would reduce the sport to a three-week event for attention-deficit sports fans in America.

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Thankful for a President-elect Willing to Challenge the Ossified Status Quo... of College Football

Paul Begala | Posted 11.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Thanksgiving Commentary, Football, Thanksgiving, University of Texas, College Football, Obama Bcs, Obama College Football, Entertainment News

This Thanksgiving I am grateful we have a president-elect who stood strong against the focus of evil in the modern world: the BCS college football bowl system.

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Fate of Local Television Lies with the Big 3: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 19, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Automotive, Local Television, Jerry Yang, Espn, Forecast, Mediabytes, Yahoo, Senator Ted Stevens, Hp, Big 3, Shelly Palmer, Bailout, Advertising, College Football, Hewlett Packard, Bcs, Detroit, Media News, Media News

The fate of the local television is inherently tied to the fate of the Big 3. So much so that a bailout for the automotive industry might as well in...

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ESPN Makes Deal To Bring BCS To Cable

Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 11.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Sports, BCS, Espn, Orange Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Sports on TV, BCS Championship Game, College Football, Sugar Bowl, BCS ESPN, Media News

NEW YORK -- ESPN and the BCS Group played defense Tuesday about their new four-year deal that would put the highest-profile sports championship square...

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Working Overtime Before The Game Even Begins

Ferentz LaFargue | Posted 01.16.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Ncaa, College Athletes, College Football, Rutgers Womens Basketball Team, College Sports, College, Entertainment News

Considering that the "average" American workweek is 40hrs, and that "NCAA rules limit mandatory practice and playing time to 20 hours a week," college athletes are committing more time to their sport than most workers donate to their employers.

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We're All Going to Die, But What a Football Game

James Sample | Posted 11.21.2007 | Living

Read More: Sports, Boston College Football, College Football, Clemson Football, Football, Thanksgiving, Living News

Watching the game through the eyes of our four-year old son, Luke, reminded me why that which does not really matter -- sport -- actually really does.

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Nov. 16, 1957: A Day That Will Live in Infamy in Oklahoma

Al Eisele | Posted 11.16.2007 | Living

Read More: Oklahoma, College Football, Oklahoma Sooners, Football, Notre Dame, Living News

There was little celebrating when Oklahoma observed its 50th anniversary on Nov. 16, 1957. That was the day the longest winning streak in college football history come to an abrupt end.

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