Recruiting

April brings renewal, big questions as spring ball kicks into high gear

April 2, 2013
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April brings renewal, big questions as spring ball kicks into high gear

A year ago today, Arkansas’ coach chose to ride a motorcycle down a country road near Fayetteville without a helmet and with a woman who was not his wife. There have been bigger April Fools, but the list has to be a short one. Smack in the middle of spring practice, more than the fortunes of the coach…

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Updating the 64-Team Dream College Football Bracket with the Final Four

April 2, 2013
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Updating the 64-Team Dream College Football Bracket with the Final Four

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…

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David Shaw building Stanford into a perennial power with unconventional recruiting mandate

March 28, 2013
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David Shaw building Stanford into a perennial power with unconventional recruiting mandate

hen David Shaw and his assistant coaches go out in search of football recruits capable of playing for Stanford, the list of necessary attributes is long. Superior academics are mandatory for admission and success at the elite university. Great athletic ability, strength and speed are a necessity to play for the reigning Pac-12 champions. Character,…

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Amanda Marcum: Andy Enfield’s Wife Will Be the Katherine Webb of March Madness

March 27, 2013
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Amanda Marcum: Andy Enfield’s Wife Will Be the Katherine Webb of March Madness

Get a mop. Brent Musburger is slavering on the floor again! After Alabama quarter AJ McCarron’s girlfriend Katherine Webb stole the show at the BCS Championship game this January, no one expected another sideline beauty to step onto the scene. But much like her husband’s basketball team, stunner Amanda Marcum came out of nowhere this past week and boom—#DunkCity looked more like #SmokeTownUSA. Andy Enfield’s…

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Florida Gulf Coast, other Sweet 16 teams thriving without highly touted recruits

March 27, 2013
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Florida Gulf Coast, other Sweet 16 teams thriving without highly touted recruits

Congratulations, Kaleb Tarczewski. You are the sole survivor of the college basketball freshman top 10. The Arizona center is the only member of the Rivals.com Class of 2012 top 10 still playing in this NCAA tournament. Not only that, he’s the only player to even win a game in this NCAA tournament. Five other top…

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The moment things started to unravel for Ben Howland at UCLA

March 26, 2013
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The moment things started to unravel for Ben Howland at UCLA

It is difficult to discern the exact moment when Ben Howland’s career turned, when he transformed from seemingly the ideal coach to lead the program that John Wooden made famous to a guy UCLA will pay a reported $3.5 million just to go away after 10 seasons in Westwood. But if you were to venture…

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The Incredible (and Perhaps Impossible) Expectations Facing Johnny Manziel

March 15, 2013
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The Incredible (and Perhaps Impossible) Expectations Facing Johnny Manziel

The most remarkable statistic from Johnny Manziel’s preposterous 2012 seasonwasn’t the gaudy touchdown numbers. It wasn’t the yardage totals, which shattered SEC records, or his 229 rushing yards in the team’s Cotton Bowl win against Oklahoma. It wasn’t the endless amount of box score destruction he amassed, although we’ll certainly get to that. The most impressive number in a…

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Spring football 25: Texas A&M Aggies

March 7, 2013
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Spring football 25: Texas A&M Aggies

What happened in 2012 The 2012 season didn’t feature a national championship or even a league championship, but it still might go down as one of the best in Texas A&M history. The Aggies, who many thought would struggle in their first year of SEC football, took the conference (and the nation) by storm thanks…

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Johnny Manziel drives away in a pretty sweet ride for an ESPN segment

March 5, 2013
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Johnny Manziel drives away in a pretty sweet ride for an ESPN segment

ESPN followed around Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel for an all-access piece as spring football started, and at the end Manziel is getting into a black car ready to drive some teammates home as he talks to the camera. “Got a day in the life of a normal football day here at A&M,” Manziel said.…

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Oregon State unveils new athletic logo and brand — and athletes love it

March 5, 2013
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Oregon State unveils new athletic logo and brand — and athletes love it

“Don’t sweat the small stuff,” goes the old saying, but coaches everywhere will tell you it’s the details that matter. And this is the coolest detail from Monday night’s unveiling of the new Oregon State athletics brand and logo: The OSU black football socks are inscribed with the words “hip hip hooray.” What else would you…

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