It is very early in the 2010 season, but it is never to early to speculate and discuss what will happen when the season kicks off in the Fall. I have taken the 2010 schedule and broken it up into a small prediction of how each game will go for the Hurricanes next season. I would love to just write 13 - 0 National Champions and be done with it, but I tried ...

Supposing someone said before last fall’s football campaign that the USC defense would implode on the football field, as it did at Oregon and at home against Stanford, but that after being ruled out of any postseason rewards the Trojan basketball team would impose defensive muscle. How would those predictions have been greeted? So it is in the glorious and unpredictable world of college sports, where first-year basketball mentor Kevin O’Neill took over a troubled program and ...

I’ve never been an Alabama fan. I've never really been a fan of any of the old tradition-rich football programs and have always supported the underdogs or the "little guys."  I'm a fan of David and have never really cared for Goliath. Just for the record, I don't have a dog in this hunt. Someone commenting on a story I had recently written brought my attention to something that was rather shocking. In fact, it was so ...

Often when we think of the best quarterbacks in college football, we look towards the big powerhouse schools. Whoever is playing quarterback at places like USC, Notre Dame, or Texas usually gets the first look. But if you look there now, you will only find unproven quarterbacks with less than stellar statistics. If you are looking for mind-blowing statistics, you'll look at places like Texas Tech or Houston. However, these quarterbacks throw the ball over 700 times a ...

Something happened down there in Clemson. Something bad . Something dark. It wasn't just an ordinary loss, apparently. Perhaps the game was so ugly, so tedious, and the loss so crushing, that individual human psyches were shaken loose from their very moorings.  Perhaps not. But whatever it was, our second and third-best players (or third and fourth, second and fourth, whatever) have not been the same since. Eric Hayes and Sean Mosley are both riding some serious ...

Stuck at work? Without a TV? Looking to catch the Olympics on the move? NBC has your problems solved with hours of free streaming Olympic action. You likely will not find Bode Miller's run in the Super G streaming online, but you can find hours of curling and all the men's ice hockey action including the second preliminary game for the Czech Republic hockey team. The U.S. men's and women's curling teams are both in desperate need ...

Walking around the idyllic campus, I think it was the July summer that got me to wondering.  Standing alone, just inside the gates of the stadium, I found my question. Where do men like Johnny Vaught go? Where do they come from. That temple to his memory, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, had no answers. If you've never been to Oxford, perhaps you don't know of the mythic quality of the place. While there, I fell in love and an ...

Since his commitment to the University of Washington the idea of Jake Locker attending the Heisman Trophy presentation has been on the minds of Husky Fans. 'Montlake Jake', after all, is arguably the most athletic Quarterback to take a snap at Husky Stadium. His dual threat abilities have led to comparisons to past Husky Greats such as Marquis Tuiasaspo. Going into the 2010 season, Locker's career has not lived up to expectations, as his Huskies ...

The first full week of the 2010 Winter Olympics are now in the history books. There have been highs and lows, but Day Seven certainly provided its share of great memories. From the Alpine events to the Curling to the action on the ice, Day Seven provided a lot of drama. There were upsets in Figure Skating, epic failure in the Curling Arena and plenty of thrills in Hockey. Here are 10 interesting moments to reflect on from ...

It was only one year ago that two of Pete Carroll’s offensive coordinators had taken over programs of their own. The USC coaching tree was reaching out across the college world. Lane Kiffin was the first to bolt for a head job, but that did not end well, as less than two years later Kiffin was looking for a job again. In Kiffin’s defense, it is the Oakland Raiders we are talking about here—not the ideal situation for ...