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 […]