Archive for November, 2011

Alabama Basketball: The Crimson Tide Take Aim on This Season’s First Title

Posted by Damon Young on November 19 2011 Add Comments
Championships.Titles.These are accomplishments that mark success no matter how small they are, which is especially important when you are trying to re-build program.Alabama basketball has an opportunity to capture a championship in only its fifth game of the season.Yes, it's just the Puerto Rico Tip-off, but when you want to get where many other programs are you enter a tournament to win it and that's exactly the position Anthony Grant and company are in.It started ...

Chris Harvey Skips Senior Year of High School to Join Vanderbilt Commodores

Posted by Vance Penn on November 12 2011 Add Comments
Chris Harvey has skipped his last year of high school baseball at Germantown Academy in Pennsylvania to join the Vanderbilt Commodore's program.Harvey's move recalls Bryce Harper—the most famous baseball player to skip his final year of high school to expedite his college, and then professional, career.In 2009, at age 16, Harper earned his GED and skipped his last two years at Las Vegas High School to enroll early at the College of Southern Nevada. The ...

Arizona State Penalties Upheld by NCAA Appeals Committee

Posted by Vance Penn on November 12 2011 Add Comments
Arizona State is ineligible for the NCAA baseball post season in the 2012 season after they recently learning that their appeal had been denied.ASU was originally notified of the infractions in December of 2010 and ultimately cost Coach Pat Murphy his job. The NCAA Division I Infractions Appeals Committee upheld the infractions they received last year., along with the most of the appealed findings. Two of Arizona State's major infractions were upheld, while a third ...

Oral Roberts Leaving Summit League To Join Southland Conference

Posted by Vance Penn on November 12 2011 Add Comments
Oral Roberts University plans to leave the Summit League in July 2012 to join the Southland Conference. ORU, a member of the Summit League since 1997, will move from a geographically dispersed league to one with members contained in a three-state area. The Summit League includes Oral Roberts, Nebraska-Omaha, Missouri-Kansas City, North Dakota State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, Western Illinois, Southern Utah, Oakland, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne and Indiana-Purdue Indianapolis.It stretches from Utah in the West, Michigan in ...

NAIA Player Podcasts Sheds Light on the Inner Workings of a College Athlete

Posted by Devon Teeple on November 12 2011 Add Comments
What started out as some emails back and forth between administrative staff with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has turned out some pretty compelling and interesting ventures.  As a former NAIA player with York College in Nebraska, my heart will always be with the school that gave me the opportunity to become a starter during my four years. The NAIA provided me an opportunity to live my dream while becoming ...

LSU vs. Alabama: 10 Things We Learned from the Tigers’ Win over the Tide

Posted by Donovan Lanham on November 5 2011 Add Comments
Many are calling this the best game of the season, and we haven't even reached the BCS National Championship Game yet. Many more are even calling it "The Game of the Century.It's guaranteed that many of this nation's most devoted college football fans surrounded televisions all across the country to watch SEC powers collide when the LSU Tigers faced off against the Alabama Crimson Tide in Bryant Denny Stadium. The SEC has the pride of ...

Final LSU 9 ALA 6

Posted by Ian Berg on November 5 2011 Add Comments
LSU made two huge runs on offense to whittle the ball down to the seven yard line. With two attempts the Tigers got the ball to the middle of the field. Jordan Jefferson led the Tigers and put the kicker Alleman in the best position to win the ball game. On third and goal Alleman was able to put the kick through and win the game for the Tigers. LSU marches forward despite their inability ...

Alabama 6 LSU 6 OT 3 Plays -10 Yards Missed Field Goal 3rd of the Game

Posted by T.J. Mcaloon on November 5 2011 Add Comments
Welcome back to the bleep list Cade Foster.  It’s not his fault that Alabama did absolutely nothing on their first offensive possession in overtime. It’s not his fault that AJ McCarron completely missed Trent Richardson as he was wide open down the sideline.  It’s not his fault that AJ McCarron took a stupid sack on 3rd and 15.  And it’s not his fault that they put him at a long length of 52 yards to ...

Alabama 6 LSU 6 Overtime 2 Plays 2 Yards :12 Time of Possession Game Clock Ran out of Time

Posted by T.J. Mcaloon on November 5 2011 Add Comments
And just like that we are heading to overtime!  Alabama got the ball back :55 seconds left with two timeouts, and you would think that they would take a shot at going down field right? Wrong. Instead this Alabama team runs a screen pass to a hurt Marquis Maze that only goes from two yards, then runs a draw play to Trent Richardson for no gain.  Instead of taking a shot or two down field, ...

Overtime LSU 6 ALA 6

Posted by Ian Berg on November 5 2011 Add Comments
Drive Began: 4:33 Total Plays: 8Jordan Jefferson made an excellent throw to put the Tigers out of the end zone and in a good drive. Jefferson had a big 18 yard scramble on one passing down and because of the Alabama man coverage had a lot of field to run through. Despite the big plays, LSU was forced to punt after five consecutive runs. They were able to punt it to the Alabama 20 and ...