The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer is reporting that accused tree killer Harvey Updyke allegedly confessed to a reporter for the Auburn student newspaper The Plainsman todayduring jury selection. Updyke’s attorney Everett Wess apparently was not aware of him speaking to anyone today as he took questions about the incident. During voir dire, potential jurors are instructed not Continue Story…

With college football’s premier minds meeting this week in Chicago trying to iron out changes to the sport, the topic of transparency of the polls is foremost on the agenda. With so much riding on the end of season computer rankings, and with so much of what goes into those mired in secrecy, an attempt to Continue Story…

It’s no secret I don’t like the way events are shaping up in college football these days. In a sport steeped in tradition, wholesale changes are being implemented at such rapid speed–seemingly with no direction–that I feel it shakes the very foundation of the game in general, and the core of the conferences in particular. Continue Story…

What a difference a week makes. No sooner do I get it out of my mouth that the Big 12 is on life-support and the unlikeliness of FSU leaving the ACC for that conference, the SEC and the Big 12 go and blow up college football again. With the announcement of the bowl game contract between Continue Story…

With presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in attendance Sunday night at the Hawks-Celtics game in Boston, TNT basketball analyst Charles Barkley opined about Romney’s political chances in November, presumably against the Democrats and Barkley himself. “Mitt Romney, we’re going to beat you like a drum in November.” At first thought, you think this is Continue Story…

Oh no. Not again. Florida State might just be the next major FBS program to pitch a temper tantrum about their current conference financial arrangement and threaten to blow up college football once more. And these aren’t just rumors this time. University president Eric Barron has written a memo about the pros and cons of the Seminoles Continue Story…

I was out of town in Orlando this past weekend but still managed to catch more draft coverage than anticipated. I forgot that it takes up the better part of a whole weekend, the pure pageant and spectacle it has become. Combine the hype of the Superbowl, the anticipation of the Academy Awards, and the Continue Story…

Ever so cliche’ to discuss, every game in a college football season is a must-win. With the most meaningful regular season in all of sports, even the dropping of one key game can turn your season south in a hurry–unless you’re Alabama last year, naturally, but they’re working on that as we speak. And in Continue Story…