Here is the BYU press release on the school departing the Mountain West while taking football independent and moving all other sports to the West Coast Conference:

PROVO, Utah (Aug. 31, 2010) — Brigham Young University today announced it resigned from the Mountain West Conference, effective June 30, 2011.
Additionally, the University announced its football program will […]

Iowa City, the home to the University of Iowa, recently passed an ordinance forbidding anyone under the legal drinking age of 21 to be in an Iowa City bar after 10 p.m.

Univ. of Iowa school officials were major proponents of the new law, which has effectively wiped out the town’s off-campus bar scene. So Iowa […]

The ORANGE COUNTY (CA) REGISTER reported recently on a large, hillside brush fire that was somehow started by a golf shot.

The Shady Canyon Golf Course was the site of the blaze, which was first reported to the Orange County Fire Authority at midday on Saturday in Irvine, California.
Orange County Fire Authority Captain Greg McKeown noted […]

Yesterday WASHINGTON POST columnist Mike Wise Tweeted that a source had told him that Ben Roethlisberger had been suspended for five games by the NFL in response to the Pittsburgh quarterback’s off-field issues.

The Twitter report from the Washington Post columnist and former NEW YORK TIMES reporter set off a chain reaction in the mainstream NFL […]

Suffering from a groin injury throughout camp, Detroit Lions defensive back Louis Delmas was ecstatic to finally get a chance to play in a game last Saturday. If video from his introduction before that game at Ford Field is any indication, Delmas was a little too ecstatic.

(Kids Were Trucked By Michigan Plates: OHAND16)
Before the […]

The haggle for ownership of the Dodgers between Frank and Jamie McCourt began today during their divorce proceeding in a Los Angeles courtroom.

(Funny, had her pegged for Secretary of Grate)
At issue is a document signed by the couple in 2004 that Frank claims gave him full ownership control of the Dodgers and Jamie ownership […]

The first new airing of ESPN’s Around The Horn went off today without regular panelist Jay Mariotti - who has effectively been suspended from the show. During today’s production, host Tony Reali quizzed panelists about media reaction to Mariotti’s recent arrest for felony domestic assault.

No surprises in the reax from panelists Bob Ryan and Woody […]

Here’s a photo Floyd Mayweather recently posted of himself and linked to his Twitter account.

Floyd wrote of the photo: “I’m teaching a life skills class to the youth at my boxing camp.”
To be a fly on the wall for that skull session! While we can only guess what worldly wisdom Mayweather imparted, perhaps some of […]

Phil Stukenborg of the MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL APPEAL reports today that the son of Memphis-based FedEx founder and chairman Fred Smith, Cannon Smith, will start at quarterback for Memphis in its Saturday opener at Mississippi State.

(With Memphis O-Line, on-time delivery has never been more important)
Smith is an undersized 23-year-old redshirt sophomore who transferred from the […]

While hawking a book the past couple weeks, Bobby Bowden has been lamenting how he was pushed out at Florida State after he’d repeatedly asked for “just one more year.”

(Post-Bowden crowds: It’s all about quality over quantity)
That was actually the thinking when Florida State originally scheduled Bowden alma mater Samford for its home opener […]