FANHOUSE notes the difficulties of working for a student newspaper covering big-time college sports. (See, kids, it’s not just the adults taking crap!) THE DAILY TEXAN sports writers have taken quite a bit of abuse for reporting student-athlete arrests, receiving veiled and really-not-so-veiled threats from the Athletics Department, students, and boosters.
FANHOUSE also adds […]

As Roger Clemens continues to sully America’s pastime (steroid allegations, the Brian McNamee mess, the long-time affair with Mindy McCready), it would be nice to see a feel-good story coming out of baseball for a change. But we couldn’t find one, so we checked out it’s sister sport, softball - and discovered a tale […]

If you’re an Alabama student who can’t wait to roll with the Crimson Tide at Bryant-Denny Stadium next season, better take a number.

The university’s CRIMSON WHITE newspaper (via EDSBS) reports that only 16% of the stadium’s seats are allotted to the Tuscaloosa enrollment, the 3rd smallest allotment in the football-fanatical SEC.
But school officials argue that […]

Last time we checked up on Allison Stokke, the pretty pole vaulter was reaching new heights as a Cal freshman, setting new records at Berkeley.

(”Snack bar? It’s right over there.”)
Now thanks to the fine folks at MYCHILLPILL.NET, we have new snapshots of the Golden Bears’ golden babe in action. More photos after the jump.

Notre Dame-Michigan has been one of those classic college rivalries that’s recently lost some of it’s luster, thanks to the Irish’s football woes under Charlie Weis. (To be fair, the Wolverines didn’t help matters by limping into last season’s meeting 0-2, with a shocking loss to Appalachian State and a home blowout at the hands […]

With the NFL Draft only weeks away, the subject of big-time busts will likely come up. And no pick flopped as fabulously as Ryan Leaf. (You can’t spell “failed leader” without “l-e-a-f”.)

So, Matt Mosley of ESPN’s HASHMARKS went to track down the former Charger in charge, and found that he’s alive and well in […]

YOU BEEN BLINDED passes along the seamy story of two student-athletes in Arizona going at it in a collegiate catfight.

(L: Patty Paniagua; R: Katrina Johnson)
Patty Paniagua and Katrina Johnson of Arizona Western College were arrested on Tuesday, after both were entangled in not just one but a series of assaults in the school’s residence halls […]

NBC Raleigh affiliate sports anchor Penn Holderness is not the guy from the popular comedy duo “Penn and Teller.”

After seeing this, we feel obligated to make the distinction.

With URLs named baylorbears.net, baylorbears.biz and baylorbears.name, you would expect to see sites celebrating the Big 12 school’s sports teams.

And you do see a Big 12 school - but it’s Texas A&M.
Those addresses - along with baylorbears.tv & baylorbearssuck.com - all forward surfers to the Aggies’ official athletic site. But now an arbitrator has ruled […]

The hometown paper ANN ARBOR NEWS won’t roll over and fluff the Michigan Wolverines, even if college counselors are that way with student-athletes by pointing many of them toward lenient general studies majors and enrolling in the classes for them.

In a four-day exposé, the newspaper compiled not exactly startling, but rather sobering information about […]