Where would college football be without Joe Paterno?He remains a legend in the game of college football for never letting go of his integrity cap.Paterno had an unfortunate incident to report way back in allegedly 2002 involving his former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Sandusky has since been charged with sexually abusing eight boys.  Penn State's athletic director Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, the school's vice president for finance and business were charged with perjury and failure to ...

We are less than one hour from the biggest game of the 2011 college football season. Both teams are finishing up their pre-game prep work and the coaches are finishing up their offensive and defensive game plans.  We here at Bleacher Report will have you covered on every possible angle of this titanic game.  If you want to know what’s going on with Alabama’s second possession of the third quarter and how that pertains to ...

Looking at the conferences around the nation, the SEC and Big 12 Conference are clearly once again sitting as the kings of the mountain of the college football world.Yet when discussing conferences, the Big Ten's name always seems to get brought up, though this is clearly not the year to try and include to Big Ten among the big boys of college football.Reason being, they simply aren't that good.In fact, as a conference, the Big ...

If there's anything college football fans have learned about the Big Ten this year, it's that, as deep as the league may be, none of its top teams are or should be considered threats to contend for the BCS national championship.The Legends Division, in particular, has become a bit of a mess of late, with No. 10 Nebraska, No. 15 Michigan and No. 17 Michigan State all refusing to take control of their respective destinies ...

I don’t know if I can sugarcoat this: the ACC sucks this year. Yes, North Carolina starts the year as the prohibitive favorite to win the national title. And Duke is, well, Duke. But the ACC has been slowly trending downward over the past six years, as its 32 NCAA Tournament bids during that stretch—including some of the most questionable bids and seeds in that period—put it as the No. ...

Unless you are a Wisconsin alum, from the Big Ten or a former coach, you may not much enjoy watching the Wisconsin Badgers play basketball. Since Bo Ryan arrived as coach, they have always been good and pretty much a lock to contend in the Big Ten before booking a trip for a few games in the NCAA Tournament, but they don’t win pretty. What, you need proof? Exhibit ...

Arizona had its chance at winning a national title last year with an Elite 8 matchup against eventual champion Connecticut. After knocking off Texas and Duke in the previous two rounds, they came up a few points short against the Huskies in a 65-63 nail-biter as a 3.5-point underdog. Nonetheless, it was a very successful season for this perennial PAC-12 power, earning a regular ...

After making it to three straight Finals Fours, the UCLA Bruins had a down year in 2009-10, going 14-18 and missing the NCAA Tournament for the first time in six seasons. But last year, after a slow start, UCLA bounced back and made a return appearance to the Big Dance. This year the Bruins look like they've got the (big) bodies in place for another run toward a ...

Rick Pitino is a really good college basketball coach. If you didn’t already know that before last year, the success of the 2010-11 Louisville Cardinals should have made that clear. Louisville wasn’t in the preseason top 25 last year. In fact, they didn’t even receive a single vote in the preseason polls. Most publications had Louisville pegged somewhere between the 50th and 60th spot ...

"Cancer might've taken my leg, but it can't take my smile," said Wayman Tisdale as he smiled while holding his bass guitar. This is how he approached life—he smiled while playing his music.I was one of the lucky few to be given a chance to watch the advance screener on the Wayman Tisdale story. And it was a privileged look on a person who gave so much and expected nothing in return.Wayman was an All-American, ...