There is so much to anticipate and be excited about as we enter this 2010 campaign Tide fans!But, as we eyeball this Saturday's opener and take the first step towards a potential 14th National Championship, it is always good to get grounded with why we are Alabama fans in the first place.There are thousands and thousands of locals, masses of alumni, hundreds of former players, and throngs of fans throughout America who latch on to ...

Football fans, it's ok for you to go nuts now. It's ok for you to go bonkers. It's ok to don your favorite team's jersey and wear it proudly. It's even ok to paint your face.Well, as long as it's only on game day. Yes our favorite past time has returned. It's college football season and it's time for the trash talking to commence once more. It's time for the age old argument as to ...

The college football season starts tomorrow and that is when the fun begins.  USC and its fans certainly welcome this after a preseason full of distractions. Several media reports yesterday addressed the 2004 National Championship convincingly won by USC and 2005 Heisman Trophy awarded to Reggie Bush. Let’s hope these articles wane during the football season because who cares about five years ago. But, they deserve a response in the interim. John Taylor of NBC Sports wrote an article, ...

Its unfortunate college football relies on a fraudulent BCS system to dictate which teams are worthy of playing for the national title. If there weren’t any corrupt computer systems in existence that literally cripple the rectitude of collegiate sports and ruin it for a plethora of major universities, Boise State likely would have been in the national title game last season. Much buzz is heard on a small campus in a tiny community that represents ...

The hype surrounding Florida State quarterback Christian Ponder is getting to the point where it is borderline insane and all the way questionable. How can a guy who has had only two winning seasons with no BCS bowl appearances and no clear cut shot at a title game be talked about so much? It's easy; it's all in the numbers. Before a shoulder injury halted Ponder's stellar season a year ago forcing him to sit out the ...

With all the noise lately about Stephen Strasburg, inverted W's, and mechanics, I started to think about my life in baseball as a player and a coach. Therefore, this post will be a little different, a little more on the development side, called Devon's Development Insider. I really hope that any parents or readers email me after reading this. The cream of the crop will no doubt rise to the ...

The No. 4 ranked Florida Gators begin the post-Tim Tebow era Saturday when the Miami Ohio RedHawks come to town. Tebow may go down as the best college football player of all-time, but Florida figures to be alright without him. All you have to do is look at Urban Meyer's record. The guy is 96-18 as a head coach, including 57-10 at Florida. College football lines makers expect Florida to dominate Saturday, listing the Gators as ...

The Illinois Fighting Illini and the Missouri Tigers are set to open up their 2010 campaigns this Saturday in St. Louis' Edward Jones Dome.  This matchup has been all Mizzou with the Tigers winning the last five head-to-head meetings, and college football lines makers don't expect that to change. They have listed the Tigers as an 11-point favorite with the total set at 53.5. Missouri is coming off an 8-5 season, which included a 37-9 ...

BYU, Notre Dame, Army, Navy. Those are the four football independents. Does the West Coast Conference care? Only because it now has another perennial NCAA tournament team in the conference as a result. Saint Mary's, Gonzaga, BYU. Before the conference shifts this summer, the Atlantic 10 or Mountain West were considered the best mid-major basketball conferences. The Atlantic 10 is still solid, to be sure. But the MWC has taken a turn for the worse. The losses of Utah and BYU ...

This Saturday marks the first official Saturday of the 2010 college football season. It marks a new day at the field and a new night under the lights, but most importantly, it means one thing: A clean slate. Every team is undefeated and looking to start off strong. After coming off of a disappointing 7-6 season, Florida State may perhaps be the team that has looked forward to redemption the most. The Seminoles start the ...