The SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (and Holly at EDSBS) has an update on the big stink between homeless tree-sitters and Cal officials who are trying to build a sports training facility next to Memorial Stadium.

(”Look, in the distance, a Flying J truckstop shower with your name on it!”)
UC Berkeley’s plan to build a state-of-the-art athletic […]

Time-lapse of the inevitable addition to Univ. of Texas’ Darrell Royal stadium (from WIZARD OF ODDS):

 
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An Oklahoma football player has said so long to the Sooners, so he can sign up to serve his country.

Scott Wright of the OKLAHOMAN reports that Britt Mitchell, a freshman offensive lineman for OU, left the football team last week in order to enlist with the U.S. Marine Corps.
Are workouts with Bob Stoops so intolerable […]

What makes Ohio State think it’s so much better than Harvard?

Harvard (yeah, that Harvard) and almost three dozen other schools have issued licenses to Victoria’s Secret to use their marks in a new line of loungewear. But Ohio State isn’t giving it up. Ohio State, apparently, is not that kind of girl.

The announcement of John Harbaugh as head coach of the Ravens came as a surprise to many.

It certainly came as a surprise to the University of Cincinnati, who interviewed Harbaugh for the top job at their football program, and turned him down, twice.

In the dying wake of SpyGate, another football team has been outed as sign stealers: the 1997 Northwestern Wildcats, specifically in their game against Michigan that season.

(Bill Belichick not the only huge, fake boob stealing signals, wives?)
Stealing signs with the naked eye is legal in college football, and if it wasn’t for a couple of […]

Tim Brewster received a nice little post-Father’s Day present on Tuesday, as the Minnesota Golden Gophers football coach learned that his son is leaving the program.

(Tim Brewster, or Bob Griese?)
The MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE reports that redshirt freshman QB Clint Brewster is transferring to another school, although he hasn’t decided on one yet.
Next Sunday’s family dinner at […]

University of Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez continues to show the judgment usually associated with road kill as he allows his name to be battered about in a civil lawsuit regarding his departure from WVU. (Or, as we call it, “the gift that keeps on giving“.)

(Winner!)
This week, we find out that Captain Savvy took […]

Rashard Mendenhall, now in camp with the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers, said he was close to “walking out” on football during his senior year at Illinois.

Rashard and his brother Walter played together for the fighting Illini last season. When Rashard left for the NFL, Walter transferred to Illinois State. And neither had anything nice to say […]

After saying aloha (goodbye) to Hawaii last January, June Jones might be saying aloha (hello) to the islands once again - if only for one game.

The HONOLULU ADVERTISER hikes along news that the Rainbow Warriors are talking with June’s new school, SMU, about the Mustangs heading out to Oahu to start the 2009 season.
It would […]