Spring practice is gone and Notre Dame Stadium has gone silent until September. The Irish slogged it out in the rain last Saturday in the annual Blue-Gold scrimmage and it provided a peek at exactly how far Brian Kelly's troops had come since the Sun Bowl victory. The vast majority of starters saw very limited time, but that doesn't mean fans weren't able to glean some insight on what was to come this fall. Let's go ...

Steve Spurrier Will Receive a 50 Percent Raise to Coach South Carolina Football in 2011 Steve Spurrier has made great strides since taking over as South Carolina’s head coach, including taking the program to the SEC title game last year. Even so, yesterday’s announcement of his renegotiated contract—which ESPN notes will pay $2.8 million next season after he made $2 million last year—comes at a tough time for the Gamecocks. MUST READ: The 25 Most Overpaid ...

The SEC East is one dominant division. They have three of the top four ranked teams as of the latest poll with No. 1 Vanderbilt, the defending national champions and No. 3 ranked South Carolina, and pre-season No. 1 and current No. 4, Florida. Then there is also a very tough Georgia team giving the "Big Three" all they want. Going into Saturday's action, there were only two games separating the top four teams in the ...

This Saturday, Nebraska will hold its annual Red-White Spring Game. Or, as head coach Bo Pelini puts it, Nebraska will have the 15th practice of the spring, which just happens to be in front of 60,000 people. So if you're going to Lincoln to watch, what should you pay attention to, and what should you ignore? You Should Watch ... Secondary Violations: There is no area where Nebraska has more holes to fill from graduation than in ...

Larry Burton (Syndicated Writer) First of all, don't expect team altering decisions to come from this spring game. The coaches don't look at it as a game, just a glorified practice, and the outcome of who's hot in the spring game has nothing to do later with depth chart assignments. If it did, A.J. McCarron would have been the starter last year and other backups would have nudged out a first teamer. So what SHOULD you expect ...

After the Arizona Wildcats won the first game of the series thanks to a walk off single by All American catcher Jett Bandy, a rainy Saturday pushed Game 2 to Sunday to set up the first doubleheader of the 2011 season in Jerry Kindall Field, at Frank Sancet Stadium. In a doubleheader, it is vital to have your starter go for the majority of the game in order to preserve the bullpen and give the team ...

As the search and interviews continue for the UNLV Rebel Men's Basketball Head Coach, some in Las Vegas are using their powers of radio personality and Internet article writers on this site to propound false and unverified statements to increase ratings and "views." There are four candidates involved in the interview process: Reggie Theus, Dave Rice, Mike Dunlap and Ernie Kent.  All four were interviewed in great length but the two-horse race is mainly between Theus ...

For those of you who watched the NCAA Tournament's championship game, you noticed many things. Kemba Walker continued to show his amazing skills, and Butler couldn't hit a shot at all. The biggest factor in Butler's inability to make shots was Alex Oriakhi. The final score was 53-41, indicating a very defensive game, and Oriakhi absolutely dominated inside throughout the entire contest. He blocked four shots, altered many more and shut down Butler's big men, holding Matt Howard ...

Whether it was moving on to the Sweet Sixteen or just missing the NIT, every coach had their ups and downs throughout the 2010-11 season.Now that the year is over, it's time to dig into the score books and decide which coaches had a great season, and which coaches will be sitting on the hot seat come next winter.Begin Slideshow

"I'm 6'2 now, 185", Tee Shepard said about his recent growth spurt, "I grew two inches in the past couple of months."   It's easy to envision Shepard filling into the frame, he is one of the premier defensive backs of the 2012 recruiting cycle, a hard hitting specialist that became Notre Dame's first verbal commitment for the 2012 class on March 2nd.  Shepard's early verbal came as a surprise to some, as offers were piling up ...