So I'm driving on I-76 today and thinking how it's too bad I don't have a digital camera. It's raining like crazy on the Schuylkill Expressway and I see a Temple billboard that proclaims "Friday, Sept. 3" as the date of the home football opener with Villanova. That called for a photo, but it had a deeper meaning as well. It meant only one thing. Temple's "negotiations" with fellow Lincoln Financial Field tenant, the Philadelphia Eagles, over its ...

With the 2010 season quickly approaching, and the drama at an all-time high up in Oregon, it's time to take a look at some potential Player of the Year candidates. Unfortunately for the Ducks, this won't be the Players of the Year at the Eugene Correctional Department so a few of your players that might have been in the running for a Pac-10 award aren't quite candidates now. There are plenty of candidates that could take home ...

As Spartan fans look ahead to the match up with the quintessential March Madness "Cinderella," Brad Stevens' Horizon League champion Butler Bulldogs, questions of Tom Izzo's approach on how to handle the north siders are being raised. How will Izzo attack Stevens' Big Ten-esque mode of operation? The Bulldogs play much more like one of the Spartans' conference foes, and less like a meek mid-major hoping to upset mighty Michigan State. Things could get a little interesting ...

So after what the media seemd to portray as a Final Four drought the likes which have never been seen, the Duke Blue Devils have made it back to the Final Four. Following a six year hiatus from the NCAA Tournament's biggest stage, the Blue Devils are no longer on a list of some pretty prominant Blue Bloods who have been shut out of the biggest part of the big dance. The list still contains some impressive ...

Although no leader has been named in the Auburn Quarterback competition, Cameron Newton has certainly put himself in a favorable position. It was apparent to me that this competition was a situation where one contestant simply had better tools. There is no reason to assume at this point that Cameron Newton will not do exactly what was expected. He picked Auburn to win and lead the team—he is now well on his way to doing exactly ...

Now that the West Virginia basketball team is in the Final Four, Mountaineer fans are experiencing a golden moment in time, a wave of euphoria and pride for which most of them are relatively unfamiliar. The last time the Mountaineer basketball team went this far was 51-seasons ago, 1959, the year I was born. It goes without saying that I don’t remember any of it firsthand. My father, another long-time Mountaineer fan, used to regale me with ...

The college football transfer leads a funny life. The NCAA rule requiring transfers to sit out one year sometimes means fans, teams, and the recruitosphere at large lose track of the athletes everyone was buzzing about two years ago. From what Ryan Mallett did for Arkansas last year and Jevan Snead did for Ole Miss two years ago, we've seen the immediate impact transfers can have on the success of a program. I expect the following 10 transfers ...

With the McDonald's All American Game coming up on Wednesday, along with National Signing Day in a couple of weeks on April 15th, recruiting talk is the big buzz around campus for those that have already been eliminated from postseason play. High school standouts are taking their last-second visits and getting the last couple of calls from recruiters as time is running down; who can pull out the best players or the best class? We will ...

After three exhilarating weeks consisting of millions of busted brackets, numerous game winners, and a few too many shots of Ashley Judd, we have arrived at the Final Four. It's not how most pictured it. We have only one No. 1 seed. There is no Kentucky or Villanova. And Kansas? They've been out for so long, Cole Aldrich had time to declare for the NBA draft. What we do have are four teams with a bunch of ...

Media sources are reporting that Oregon booster and Nike chairman, Phil Knight, wants Tubby Smith to become the next coach of the Ducks.    Rumors are circulating that Knight will ensure that Smith is richly rewarded with a compensation package beyond what he is currently receiving from Minnesota. Minnesota Gopher Nation appears to be split into two camps concerning the rumors of coach Tubby Smith going to Oregon. Some Gopher fans would be happy to see coach Smith head ...