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by | Feb 9, 2024

They pounded another nail into the coffin that is traditional amateur athletics on Monday. “They” is an amorphous actor, to be sure, comprising athletes, power brokers, agents, the courts, the government, and general mucky-mucks dissatisfied with a model of amateur…

by | Jan 12, 2024

As discussions of greatest-ever go, this one’s pretty clear-cut. There’s always room for debate — sports talk radio wouldn’t exist without it — but the best college football coach of all time (the GOAT) has to be the guy in…

by | Dec 29, 2023

The last Selection Sunday of the four-team College Football Playoff era went down pretty much according to chalk. Michigan’s inclusion everybody was certain of. Undefeated, ranked No. 1, conqueror of archrival Ohio State. Nobody for a moment doubted their bona…

by | Dec 14, 2023

Matthew Araiza won the Ray Guy Award in 2021. In 2022, he won the Bad Guy Award. After Araiza set the NCAA record for yards per punt at 51.19, the Buffalo Bills expended a 2022 sixth-round draft choice and bestowed…

by | Dec 4, 2023

From late Saturday afternoon (or early Saturday evening, depending on your time zone) until noon or so Sunday, the universe of college football held its breath. The College Football Playoff Selection Committee (try saying that fast) would be meeting in…

by | Nov 18, 2023

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A protest at the Yale Bowl on Saturday broke into a football game. Harvard and Yale’s competing colors of blue and crimson yielded to a united black, red, white, and green displayed by students of both…

by | Sep 22, 2023

Got your fill of Coach Prime yet? If college football has had a face this season, it’s been the well-known mug of Deion Sanders, head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes, albeit concealed behind reflective shades and hidden partially under a…

by | Sep 16, 2023

Polling data confirm that Americans, in general, have a rather low opinion of their colleges and universities. They think they are too expensive and are turned off by the wokeness and arrogance of the administrators and faculty. Some data suggest…

by and | Sep 13, 2023

This week’s episode of The Spectacle podcast begins with a brief discussion of college football, but it’s definitely not a college football podcast. Instead, hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay talk about the future of the country and what recent…

by | Aug 11, 2023

The Pac-12, one of the nation’s Power Five athletic conferences, died last Friday. Some are even pinpointing the time of death — 7 a.m. The presidents and chancellors of the member universities were supposed to assemble in emergency session at…

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