Future success often hinges on the amount of improvement redshirted players make in their year off the field.    With spring approaching and 2009 redshirts now foaming at the mouth for playing time, lets take a look at the newly available 2010 players.  Starting on offense and at wide receiver Alabama redshirted three players.   During fall camp Kenny Bell suffered shin splints and thanks to good depth at the position likely had no chance of avoiding ...

The Big Ten is a guard-heavy conference—everyone knows that. The league boasts some of the best men in the business: Michigan State's Kalin Lucas, Purdue's Etwaun Moore, and Illinois' Demetri McCamey. All three men are certainly in the mix for the league's prestigious "player of the year" honor, but there's another name that has stood out for the last half of the season: Ohio State's Evan Turner. After his superb showing in East Lansing last Sunday (74-67 OSU ...

Below is a look at some South Division notes entering the final week of the regular season on the SoCon hardwood. SOUTH DIVISION NOTES 1. College of Charleston (19-9, 13-3) It will all come down to Thursday night for the Cougars, as College of Charleston looks to win its first South Division title since the 2003-04 season and first under the direction of legendary head coach Bobby Cremins. The Cougars come into the last week of the regular ...

(Will Muschamp was a pioneer. Is he now the last of a dying breed?) Not unlike the Spice Girls or a bad 24-flu virus, the whirlwind-popular trend of naming a "coach in waiting"—a planned successor, if you will—might soon come to a sudden, thudding end. Not that it didn't have a good run. Just in the last six years, I can think of a handful of college programs and at least one NFL team that attempted to ...

With three-pointers raining from all over the building, the Baylor Bears did all they could to hang with the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday afternoon in Stillwater. However, it wasn’t enough as the Cowboys held on for an 82-75 victory over the No. 22 Bears. “The shooters made shots, so credit them,” Bears head coach Scott Drew told Baylor’s official athletic site. “Obviously, you always want to feel a little better defensively, but they made some tough ...

During a pep rally held at the University of Michigan yesterday, Rich Rodriguez—the oft maligned coach of UM's beloved Wolverines—boldly declared to over 700 fans, "I am a Michigan Man". He went on to say, "A few years ago I left my comfort zone, a place where I played. I’m not from Michigan—as many people have said—and as close as that place was to my heart, a terrific school, had great fans, we were fortunate to ...

It's been three years. Three long years of frustration for Florida Gator fans. Three years of frustrating losses and late season collapses have kept the Gators from going back to the NCAA Tournament. Well, here we are again. Saturday in Oxford, at times in spite of themselves, Florida got a huge win over Ole Miss. Vernon Macklin was huge. He scored a career high 22 points and virtually was unstoppable in the paint. However the Gators were ...

If the selection committee wanted a signature win from Maryland, they got it. People (including me) wanted to see the Terps stand up to a top-50 RPI team. Boom. Want a buzzer beater? Here you go. Oh, were you up getting another refreshment out of the fridge? Sorry about that. Here, let's do it again for you.  Did you want a Valium with that?  Or perhaps a nice aromatheraphy pillow?  Perhaps a defibrillator. It's rare that any sporting event, much less ...

Should USC football be punished at all? Of course. Some USC fans contend that the NCAA does not have 100 percent rock solid certain evidence that Reggie Bush received a significant amount of money and benefits over a lengthy period of time. The truth is that the NCAA does not need to cross such a threshold. After all, not even legal proceedings do. In a criminal trial, the threshold isn't guilt beyond a shadow of a ...

The University of Georgia's basketball team has created tons of positive chatter in Athens and the rest of the state lately, despite having just a 12-13 overall record. The team has well reflected first-year coach Mark Fox's coaching skills, drastically improving and winning games over Illinois, Georgia Tech, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt. The Dawgs have just a few more wrinkles to iron out before they become a polished and dangerous piece of equipment. Georgia's progress has shown up ...