The Seattle Seahawks might have had one of the strangest offseasons in the NFL this year. Despite claiming a division championship and a home playoff victory over New Orleans, they completely remade their team. What’s even more notable than just the fact of remaking the roster was where they drew many of the new pieces from: the […]

With the college football season set to kick off this coming week, one of the country’s largest spotlights is locked on the Lousiana State University Tigers. The Tigers are set for one of the most prominent games on opening weekend, as they’ll head to the massive Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas to take on Oregon, last year’s […]

It’s been a scandal-plagued offseason in NCAA football, with Ohio State, Oregon and North Carolina all landing in hot water to one degree or another. The biggest story of all happened in Florida, though, where an 11-month Yahoo! Sports investigation into repeated NCAA violations by booster Nevin Shapiro at the University of Miami may have […]

Every offseason, plenty of CFL players head south attempting to crack NFL squads. This year was no different despite the NFL lockout, with both stars such as Andy Fantuz and lesser-publicized players like Mark Restelli and Andrew Hawkins crossing the border to try and earn four-down football jobs. There’s plenty to gain for CFL players if they’re able to […]

Few college football observers are usually all that interested in the Florida Atlantic Owls, a middling team in the Sun Belt Conference, but they were the focus of much of the NCAA world last week. Unlike many other schools that have made headlines lately, the sudden attention paid to Florida Atlantic wasn’t because of scandalous moves […]

For much of college football’s recent history, the former Pac-10 (now the Pac-12) has been a bit of a middle ground; firmly established inside the group of BCS automatic qualification conferences, but sometimes overlooked in favour of the SEC and Big Ten thanks to its geography, late start times and television distribution issues. That’s starting to change, though, […]

The Minnesota Vikings are no strangers to quarterback drama. They’ve been one of the most notable NFL teams on that front over the past few years, first benching Tavaris Jackson for veteran Gus Frerotte midway through the 2008 season, then luring Brett Favre out of retirement before 2009 and doing so again before 2010. Now, they’re back in the […]

The saga of Craig James, Mike Leach and Texas Tech has left its impacts all over the map of college football, but one of the most interesting residues of that era is at a small Conference USA school: East Carolina University. The ECU Pirates have been playing football since 1932 but haven’t found all that much success over time, and […]

Coaches’ books have become quite a popular phenomenon recently, but few of them have any real news value. That’s not the case with former Texas Tech head coach Mike Leach’s recently-released book, Swing Your Sword, which goes into substantial detail about the controversial saga that saw him fired over allegations he mistreated a player. That […]

Compared to Ohio State’s tattoos, cover-ups and firings and Oregon’s scouting, recruiting and sneaker issues, Nebraska’s self-reported textbook violations haven’t received much attention by comparison. From a perspective of what they’ll mean to the program, that’s fair; these don’t seem likely to cause much harm to the Huskers, and their fans have more important things to worry about this […]