Out of Bounds Show Podcast10 Teams That May End the SEC’s National Title Streak in 2013 Spring practice has finished for all 125 Football Bowl Subdivision teams for 2013. And with spring workouts over, the picture for the national championship battle is starting to come into focus. The SEC has won seven championships in a row, but will…
Nation’s athletic directors tired of being shut out of NCAA process SANTA MONICA, Calif. — As outgoing North Carolina chancellor Holden Thorp explained in Chapel Hill on Friday how ill-equipped most collegiate CEOs are to handle the issues surrounding major collegiate athletics, several dozen Division I athletic directors gathered at a beachside hotel probably nodded…
When it comes to spring, everyone is dialed in to his own team and respective position battles. Folks at Florida State are wondering who is going to win the three-man derby at quarterback. Nebraska fans are wondering what Bo Pelini’s plan is for fixing the defense. USC fans wonder how the switch from the Tampa-2…
The press conference the NCAA held on Thursday in Atlanta before the Men’s Basketball Final Four was not a good one. NCAA President Mark Emmert was agitated and it seems he has been reading all of his press clippings. He took time during the press conference to single out Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports and…
Rick Pitino has observed Kevin Ware this week and been amazed at the transformation in his formerly taciturn guard. “I’m blown away by the whole thing,” Pitino told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday. “I’m watching him in these interviews and thinking, ‘Is this Kevin Ware?’ “ This is indeed Kevin Ware. The new Kevin Ware, who…
The Oregon Ducks began spring practice Tuesday under new coach Mark Helfrich. The team’s former offensive coordinator, who was promoted to head coach in January after Chip Kelly left for the Philadelphia Eagles, called his first practice at the helm ”weird, at points.” Oregon is coming off a 12-1 season that was capped with a victory…
By now your bracket is complete and utter shambles. There’s far more red than green on this once former proud piece of paper, and college basketball’s postseason has once again conquered. And then there were four. March Madness has gone from 68 to the Final Four, and the postseason is now just a few games away from…
Kevin Ware did the hardest part. Lying on the court in what had to be immeasurable pain, bone jutting out of the skin below his knee, Ware exhorted his Louisville basketball teammates to win the Midwest Regional in his absence. That moment of wherewithal ranks among the most amazing things I’ve seen in a sporting…
The tide is coming fast now – an orange sea rising, crashing, rolling, licking at your feet, flying at your head. You look up and see a forest of hands. You look down and see hands, too. And you wonder how this is possible. You ask how this is happening. And this is when they…
Joe Theismann was one of several former NFL stars to express sympathy toward Louisville sophomore guard Kevin Ware after he suffered a horrific leg injury in Sunday’s Midwest Regional against Duke. With the Cardinals leading the Blue Devils 22-20 with 6:33 left in the first half, the game was postponed for nearly 10 minutes after…
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