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[Editor’s note: An old friend called and asked if he could take over today's column. He sounded really sad and desperate on the phone, so I agreed.] In case you were too busy NOT being the greatest shortstop AND third baseman of all time, he...

How the best running back in football became the best running back in football again.

A quick one this week, amigos, with a rundown of the top 10 games and Your Perfect Saturday: 10. Kent State at no. 15 Rutgers Big Ten fans will be unhappy to see that I chose this one over Michigan-Nebraska, if only because the Big East is starti...

Plus a Mississippi hunk and the week in college football.

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency will ban Lance Armstrong for life and strip him of his seven Tour de France titles after Armstrong elected to stop fighting ...

Scenes from college football's uniform crisis: 1. Two Aggies log on to a message board. Aggie No. 1: You like our new football uniforms? Aggie No. 2: If the goal was to look exactly like Mississippi State, our new SEC West rival, then, yeah...

Yesterday, former Indiana and Southern Mississippi guard Neil Reed died after heart complications at just 36 years old. Below, Reed's childhood friend David Hill remembers a different side of the man. My papaw sang in the Stamps Baxter Quartet, a ...

Perhaps you remember young Emma Burton, my favorite kindergartner. Long story short: Wee Emma was reportedly told to color a picture of a Jayhawk with the rest of her class on Kansas Day, but she kinda did the opposite, by which I mean she totally re...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday. Tim Tebow capped a game-winning drive with a 20-yard touchdown run to give the Broncos a 17-13 win over the Jets. It would be easy to overstate the signi...

And the rest of the week in college football.

The most intriguing televised contests of your college football Saturday, collated into the somewhat obvious (The Manning) and the somewhat less obvious (The Leaf): Act I The Manning: North Carolina (5-2) at no. 7 Clemson (7-0), noon EST, ESPN ...

The week in college football.

Across the college football landscape Saturday, undefeated heads were rolling. Georgia Tech lost, Illinois lost, Michigan lost, and for a while, it looked like that unlucky group would welcome a fourth member. Humility and history beckoned in College...

A casual observer might look at Saturday's schedule and say to himself, "This is a down week." That man requires an education. The truth is, there's no such thing as a down week in college football. It's a myth. Maybe they existed back in t...

It was a fine, solid, decent week in college football. Not great, because that would imply the promise of high drama was realized, and that didn't happen very often Saturday. It was a bit of a day-long tease, in fact, with game after game ending one ...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday. At a hearing that lasted 80 minutes, Roger Goodell heard Terrelle Pryor's appeal of his five-game suspension. Pryor's appeal opened with a take-off on th...