Fight In The Stands At The U
Last night the University of Miami beat Florida A&M 45-0 in it’s first shutout since 2006. However what is has become typical fashion down at the U there was some fighting in the stands. Talk about taking a tumble.
University Of Iowa Football Player Struck By Vehicle While Riding Moped
When the University of Iowa football team takes the field on Saturday for their opener against Eastern Illinois they’ll be doing so without offensive lineman Josh Koeppel. While he is expected to return to the field soon, the senior is still recovering from a horrific-looking motorcycle accident.
As a police car rolled up to an intersection with its camera continually rolling, it managed to catch Koeppel riding a moped when another vehicle turned into Koeppel and sent him flying.
University Of Houston Wide Receiver Sues Marshall University
University of Houston Cougars wide receiver Patrick Edwards, who broke his leg when he ran into a metal service cart in an October 2008 game at Marshall is suing the school for an unsafe playing field.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial. Also named as defendants were Conference USA and game referee Gil Gelbke, whom the lawsuit said was in charge of inspection and notification. It cites NCAA football rules requiring the officials to remove any markers and obstructions from the playing surface that might be hazards to players.
Edwards, who said at the time he held no animosity toward Marshall, missed the remainder of the 2008 season but returned to catch 85 passes for 1,021 yards and six touchdowns as a junior in 2009.
Penn State Nittany Lion Mascot Suspended 30 Days
Even Joe Paterno Couldn't See That Coming
The Penn State University Nittany Lion mascot, Clint T. Gyory, was issued citations charging him with underage drinking, public drunkenness and criminal mischief for incidents that occurred early the morning of August 1, the day after his 20th birthday. Penn State officials said Gyory has been suspended from performing in the mascot costume for the entire month of September.
The citations say that Gyory broke a rearview mirror off of a vehicle and took it, and was intoxicated to the point that he crawled into the bed of a pickup truck and passed out.
Women’s College Soccer Fight
Elizabeth Lambert is an inspiration to the women of the University of Oregon and Oklahoma State University soccer team. Oregon’s Mercedes Walters and Oklahoma State’s Kyndall Treadwell started to fight in the 63rd minute. Walters pushed Treadwell to the ground and the referee immediately gave both of them red cards. The Cowgirls eventually won the game 1-0.
Former NFL Player Tim Couch To Be Analyst For Fox Sports South
Bust
Tim Couch the one-time University of Kentucky star and former NFL quarterback bust is returning home to begin a weekly gig as an analyst on Fox Sports South’s SEC Gridiron Live, devoted to hitting the topics on Southeastern Conference football. Couch will also work this fall as color analyst for the SEC football games shown on beginning September 4 with Arkansas State at Auburn. Couch’s early view of the SEC is, the West is best and in the East, figures the path to the title runs through Florida.
In 1999 the Cleveland Browns made Couch the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft and now is working in the television industry after lasting only five years in the NFL.
I love how this Sports Illustrated features Couch and Akili Smith and asks if this is the best quarterback class since the infamous 1983 NFL draft class. So I thought I would list the quarterbacks drafted in order for you and ask you to judge for yourself where 1999 compares. Starting with the bust that is Couch, Donovan McNabb, Akili Smith, Daunte Culpepper, Cade McNown, Shaun King, Brock Huard, Joe Germaine, Aaron Brooks, Kevin Daft, Michael Bishop, Chris Greisen, and Scott Covington.
Ex-NBA Player Rumeal Robinson Faces Federal Fraud Charges
Mr. Destiny Your Not
Back on October 6 2009, we posted the story of former NBA player Rumeal Robinson who tricked his foster mother into signing over the deed to her own home and transferred the property to people unknown to her to hold the home as collateral has now a court date on federal fraud charges. Robinson is charged with 13 counts, including eight counts of wire fraud, three counts of bank bribery and one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The trial on the federal charges is scheduled to begin on August 30 and is expected to run for at least a week.
According to the indictment, Robinson and his girlfriend, Stephenie Hodge, worked with a loan officer at Iowa-based Community State Bank to take out nearly $1.4 million in loans by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises. The money was allegedly meant to help finance the development of a Jamaican luxury vacation resort to be known as Harmony Cove. Robinson and Hodge used the money from the fraudulent loans for items related and unrelated to the Harmony Cove project.
Donald Barrows, Robinson’s adopted brother, says that his Rumeal is a “strip club addict” who would spend up to $20,000 a night on exotic dancers.
Robinson, a former NBA player who was drafted in 1990 by the Atlanta Hawks, is most famous for hitting two crucial free throws in the 1989 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship game for the University of Michigan Wolverines against Seton Hall University.
Former Arkansas RB Michael Smith New Razorback Reporter After Florida Cap Firing
Sooooooooooie
Back on August 17, we posted the story of Renee Gork who was fired from her Arkansas radio station for wearing a Florida cap to a press conference as now found a replacement. The station hired former Razorback running back Michael Smith, who was once arrested and suspended for using a stolen credit card. Smith was arrested on felony charges of forgery and theft by receiving. His only radio experience was only helping out with the spring game but he did rush for 2,018 yards for Arkansas between 2006-09 after being reinstated to the team.
University Of Minnesota Golden Gophers Get Into The Act Of Hazing
Haircut hazing has officially reached epidemic status. The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was inspired by the Denver Broncos, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Oakland Raiders haircut hazing that they felt their fellow teammates should be humiliated as well.
Great to see a little team bonding but will that improve on a defense that ranked 113th out of 120 in sacks allowed and last in rushing in the Big Ten?
New Mexico Lobo Elizabeth Lambert Reinstated
I like my women to have some hood in them and that’s why we are revisiting the story of University of New Mexico Lobos soccer player Elizabeth Lambert because she has just that. Lambert was served a two-game suspension for her gritty style against BYU and now has been reinstated and is eligible to play as a senior this season.
That’s a girl bad and me have always liked. A lot!
Big 12 ADs Meet With Learfield Sports To Discuss Cable Network
Est. 1996
Eight Athletic Directors from the Big 12 Conference met with Learfield Sports on Friday to discuss forming their own cable network, according to Dennis Dodd of CBSSPORTS.com. The ADs from Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M and Texas Tech were part of the discussions about the net, which is not related to any conference shifting, but is seen as a new revenue stream.
Texas A&M AD Bill Byrne, who has “talked and tweeted about the meeting publicly,” said of the net, “It’s something I’m quite interested in. … It’s something that our fans are going to be demanding sooner rather than later.”
Dodd reported experts have indicated that the success of a college sports cable net is dependent on the number of football and men’s basketball games it can broadcast. FOX, ESPN and ABC own those Big 12 rights, but there could be some flexibility in new negotiations.
Dodd noted it wasn’t immediately clear what Colorado was doing at the meeting if it is soon leaving the league. Texas rights are not handled by Learfield, and the school has made it clear it wants to develop its own channel or network.
This also comes on the heels of a NCAA report shows that just 14 of the 120 Division 1-A schools made money from campus athletics in 2009, down from 25 the year before.
Alabama, Florida, Ohio State, Texas and Tennessee are among the select group that made money. So is Missouri, which reported generating $2 million in profits from campus athletics in 2009.
The largest reported amount of revenue generated by an athletics program was $138.5 million — nearly three times the median of $45.9 million. The top-spending program reported $127.6 million in annual expenses, with a similarly sized gap from the median. 68 schools reported turning a profit on football, with a median value of $8.8 million. The 52 schools that lost money on football reported median losses of $2.7 million.
In Iowa, the Board of Regents voted unanimously to order school presidents at Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa to come up with plans to scrap or dramatically decrease such sports subsidies.
Oregon State Football Player Dismissed After Trying To Tackle Cops Naked
No Need To Get Naked
Tyler Thomas an Oregon State University football player was dismissed from the team following an arrest in which he tried to tackle the local police while naked. Thomas, 19 of Kalispell, Montona, was arrested on charges of first-degree criminal trespass, second-degree criminal mischief and resisting arrest.
According to information from the Corvallis Police Department, at about 4:51 a.m., police were called to 519 N.W. 14th Street after a 32-year-old woman reported there was a naked man in the upstairs office of her residence.
When officers arrived, they ordered him to get on the ground several times, but he refused. Then Thomas, who had reportedly been drinking, got into a “three-point stance” and lunged at the officers, who Tased him.
Monday, Oregon State coach Mike Riley dismissed the Montana native saying it wasn’t the first incident for Thomas who had been involved in a minor possession of alcohol incident this spring.
University Of Alabama Rob Ezell Imitates Head Coach Nick Saban
In honor of Calvin Casey, who won’t be on today’s show as he attends to a personal matter, here’s this video of University of Alabama Crimson Tides walk-on quarterback turned wide receiver R ob Ezell doing a spot on impression of his favorite college coach Nich Saban.
Stay in the moment.
Dorothy Davidson Photoshops Herself With Nick Saban For Political Race
WTF
If your alright with University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban than your alright with the state of Alabama. That’s why Bessemer mayoral candidate Dorothy Davidson decided to photoshop herself with Saban and used it to post onto fliers declaring his endorsement of Davidson around town. But the University of Alabama athletics officials said there is no such endorsement.
“Coach Saban has not been contacted for a political endorsement of any kind,” Associate Athletics Director Jeff Purinton wrote in an e-mail.
Davidson at first said the image of her and Saban together was real and taken about three weeks ago. However, when presented later with a 2007 photo of Saban and his wife that appears to be the base photo onto which Davidson’s image was added, the candidate acknowledged that her image was digitally added to the 2007 photo.
Arkansas Broadcaster Fired For Wearing Florida Gators Gear
Sooooooooooie
Renee Gork, an Arkansas radio personality announced on Twitter that she was fired by KAKS, two days after wearing a Florida Gators hat to an Arkansas Hogs news conference. The radio station calls itself Hog Sports Radio. Arkansas Razorbacks football coach Bobby Petrino, whose team lost to the Gators last season 23-20 at Florida, commented on Gork’s hat after answering a question she asked.
“And that will be the last question I answer with that hat on,” Petrino said.
Gork, a Florida graduate, said she grabbed the hat without thinking Saturday because it was raining outside. She also said she sent a letter of apology to the university and Petrino.
“Was hoping to publicly apologize to coach Petrino and UA fans on the show today … but I won’t get that chance,” Gork wrote on KAKS’ Twitter account. “I’ve been fired.”
The power of the Hog.
Former Texas Tech Head Coach Mike Leach Hired By CBS
The Pirate's Ship Has Risen
Former Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach will call games on television as he pursues a lawsuit over his firing from the school. Cable network CBS College Sports announced that Leach will work as an analyst this season. Leach will work with play-by-play announcer Roger Twibell on CBS College Sports, which airs Mountain West, Conference USA and service academy games.
Leach sued the school claiming he is owed $9 million because of breach of contract.
New Orleans Saints Reggie Bush Never Apologized To USC
Over Hyped Flop
This past week reports had come out that New Orleans Saints Reggie Bush apologized to new USC athletic director Pat Haden in a 15-minute phone conversation. However the Los Angeles Times has learned that the former Heisman trophy winner in fact did not apologize.
“Never did he say I’m sorry or I apologize. Never did he say, ‘I lied to the NCAA or I took stuff,” USC athletic director Haden said.
USC removed Bush’s 2005 Heisman trophy from display and the team is banned from playing in bowl games for the next two years. In June, the NCAA stripped USC of its victory in the 2005 National Championship game and vacate the entire 2005 season.
Texas A&M Jerrod Johnson Has Future In Singing If Football Doesn’t Work Out
Texas A&M Aggies Jerrod Johnson was a stud at quarterback last year, throwing for 30 touchdowns and while adding 8 more TDs on the ground while just throwing 8 interceptions. If football doesn’t work out for him after this year, his senior, he surely has a future in signing.
You know that ‘No Diggity’ is a classic and you where mouthing along. Thank you Blackstreet or should I just say thank you Teddy Riley
Tim Tebow Nike Shoe Sells Out In 15 Minutes
Nice
When Nike announced that the EA Sports NCAA Football 11 version of its Nike Trainer 1.2 sneaker designed after former Florida Gators now Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow in mind would go on sale on Friday, Aug. 6 at NikeStore.com, fans clamored to find out what lengths they would have to go to in order to get one of the 500 limited edition pairs.
Ironically they only had 15 minutes to try and get their hands on the $120 sneaker as they quickly sold out. Nike claims they sold out the shoe in exactly 5 minutes though. The limited edition sneaker is up there with some of the fastest sellouts.
The Tim Tebow Trainer 1.2 features Tebow’s “Promise” speech from Sept. 27, 2008, along with a blue and orange color scheme, and EA Sports and NCAA Football 11 logo and can now be bought on eBay for over $1,000.
Former NFL Player Joey Harrington To Be Color Analyst For Oregon Sports Network
Bust
The former number 3 overall pick from the 2002 NFL Draft Joey Harrington has found work and will join Joe Giansante and Anthony Newman in the booth on Oregon Sports Network TV broadcasts.
The former Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year and University of Oregon Duck wants to be involved in Oregon football. Harrington might night have been an number one overall pick like David Carr was in 2002 but draft day bust can be attached to his name as well.
Kansas Changes Fight Song Because Of Nebraska & Colorado’s Departure
Porn Star Samantha Ryan?
For almost a century, the Kansas fight song has boasted about husking corn and listening to the Cornhuskers “wail” and even mentions six foes from the old Big Eight. Kansas is sending in “I’m A Jayhawk” for a second revision of the original written by 1912 graduate George “Dumpy” Bowles. The song caught on in 1920 and was first altered in 1958 to remove the “braves” of Haskell Indian Nations College and the “aggies” of Oklahoma A&M, the precursor to Oklahoma State.
Now it will have to be revised to account for Nebraska’s move to the Big Ten next year and Colorado’s move to the Pac-10 next year or in 2012. “I’m A Jayhawk” wasn’t changed when the Big Eight became the Big 12 in 1996.
KU Alumni Association president Kevin Corbett office is holding a contest for students to come up with new lyrics to replace those mentioning Nebraska and Colorado. The winner will be announced on homecoming October 23, and the new lyrics will be implemented in 2011-12.
The Jayhawks and Huskers have played 104 straight years in football, the nation’s longest continuous series, and 116 times since 1892.
Rick Pitino’s One Night Stand Found Guilty Of Extortion
15 Seconds
Karen Cunagin Sypher the woman who tried to extort millions of dollars from Rick Pitino to keep secret their one-night stand in a restaurant has been found guilty of three counts of extortion, two counts of lying to the FBI and one count of retaliating against a witness.
The sexual encounter between Pitino and Sypher came on top a table of an Italian restaurant closed for the night, where Pitino testified she came on to him and the sex lasted only “15 seconds” and was consensual. After she was charged, Sypher told police it was rape but Pitino was never charged.
In a story we posted back on August 12, Pitino received three threatening phone calls and two letters demanding cash and gifts for Sypher to keep the tryst secret. One of the letters showed to the jury was a handwritten note from Sypher that asked for cars, tuition for her children and her mortgage to be paid off.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 26 years in prison, but under federal sentencing guidelines, the penalty will likely be lighter. She will remain free until her sentencing October 27. Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich said Pitino has been 100 percent truthful and will not be disciplined.
University Of Texas Tells High School To Change It’s Logo
Does A Texas High School Get Away With It?
A Kansas high school had to change its logo after University of Texas officials said it was too similar to thier logo. Gardner Edgerton High School was told by Texas to change its logo on its football helmets, team uniforms and gymnasium floor after Gardner Edgerton wanted to put a blue ox-horn silhouette on the gymnasium floor which would have been very similar, albeit orange instead of blue.
Officials with Gardner Edgerton contacted Texas to make sure there were no problems with the university’s burnt orange logo of the Longhorns but Texas officials didn’t like the idea and said the logos were not different and requested Gardner Edgerton change its logo.
“We don’t have deep enough pockets to mess with the University of Texas,” said Bill Miller, district director of operations.
So Gardner Edgerton’s basketball court is now safely emblazoned with the school’s official steer and covered wagon logo instead. The coaching staff has been working with a graphic artist to develop a new and improved logo to debut on helmets at this year’s first football game.
Tennessee Titans Sue Lane Kiffin & University of Southern California
take me to another place, take me to another land
The Tennessee Titans are suing Southern California and coach Lane Kiffin for maliciously luring away assistant running backs coach Kennedy Pola a week before training camp opens. The lawsuit accuses Southern California and Kiffin of violating Pola’s contract that required him to have written permission to discuss a job with anyone other than the Titans.
Tennessee hired Pola as running backs coach in February only to lose him Saturday to Southern California as the Trojans new offensive coordinator and running backs coach.
“USC and Kiffin maliciously intended to – and did – induce Pola to breach the Pola contract,” the lawsuit charges. USC and Kiffin engaged in improper means in their procurement of the breach and were not legally justified in their actions. Kiffin and USC’s actions, through him, were part of a course and pattern of conduct fostered by Kiffin and USC to use improper methods and means to the direct harm and damage of parties to contracts …”
Titans coach Jeff Fisher, a Southern California alumnus, said that Kiffin neglected to make the customary courtesy phone call to let him and the NFL team know he was interested in hiring Pola. Fisher told The Tennessean newspaper he was very disappointed in Kiffin’s lack of professionalism. Fisher himself had hired Pola, letting go Earnest Byner to free up the spot on his coaching staff.
I cannot believe he had the nerve to step back in Tennessee so soon after all the death threats he said he received.
