The 5 Most Interesting Spring Football Story Lines You Need to Know
For my money, spring football is the best time of the year. Don’t get me wrong, I love games, I love game week practice and fall camp is nice. But spring ball is…
SI Cover Shows Even at College Hoops’ Key Time, Football Is Still King
Sports Illustrated launched a salvo that resonated with college football and basketball fans alike. Both the Braxton Miller and Jadeveon Clowney covers made it pretty clear that heading into March, football is still on people’s minds. Sure, the “Sorry Hoops, Two More Weeks To Wait” at the top belies a sort of competition between the two sports, where an apology is needed. However, ultimately this is not about college basketball being bad. It’s not about ratings or scoring or even a true battle between the separate entities. Ultimately, like most things on the American sporting landscape, it’s about football taking the lead and everyone else playing the background. We’ve seen it for awhile with the NFL. The league locks down the news cycle for their schedule release. They televise their scouting combine and folks watch in droves, myself included. They force other sports to avoid Sunday competition for fear of losing viewers to the behemoth that …
SI Cover Shows Even at College Hoops’ Key Time, Football Is Still King
Sports Illustrated launched a salvo that resonated with college football and basketball fans alike. Both the Braxton Miller and Jadeveon Clowney covers made it pretty clear that heading into March, football is still…
Jadeveon Clowney should lawyer up, challenge nonsensical ‘three-years-out’ rule (Yahoo! Sports)
He is a 6-6, 256-pound athletic wonder who tracks opposing ball carriers like a laser dot and punishes them like a vindictive medicine ball. If Jadeveon Clowney were allowed to enter April’s NFL draft, rather than prepare for his junior season at South Carolina, the dripping-with-talent defensive end would likely go in the top three, and possibly even the top one. Jadeveon Clowney finished the 2012 season with 13 sacks. (USA Today Sports) Yet Clowney, because of a nine-year-old decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, doesn’t have the option to cash in immediately on his potential. And the risk he’ll assume by playing another season for the Gamecocks has prompted some, including Charlotte Observer columnist Tom Sorensen, to suggest that Clowney sit out the 2013 season before going pro. I have a better idea: Clowney, who turns 20 on Valentine’s Day, should lawyer up and …
Tested Michigan to play South Carolina in Outback
Michigan will face a lot of talent – especially when it tries to block South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney – in the Outback Bowl. The 19th-ranked Wolverines, though, have just about seen it all.
Capital One Bowl: 3 keys for Nebraska
Let’s look at three keys for Nebraska as it takes on South Carolina in the Capital One Bowl. 1. Establish tempo on offense: When Nebraska’s offense operates in high tempo, it’s extremely tough…
