A new Joe Paterno bio, written by one of America’s best sportswriters, Joe Posnanski, is intriguing. But it just doesn’t fit …
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‘Death Penalty’ Would Be an Act of Mercy for Penn State Football
In a PBS interview broadcast Monday night, NCAA president Mark Emmert refused to take “anything off the table” regarding its possible punishment of Penn State University in the wake of the damning Freeh Report. The results of …
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A College Football Playoff Is Here! So Why Does It Feel Like A Letdown?
A four-team playoff is a start for fixing college football. But it doesn’t go far enough
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Alabama’s BCS Win: A Fitting End to a Subpar Bowl Season
With ticket sales down and other teams feeling snubbed, it might be time to reevaluate the Bowl Championship Series
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Penn State’s New Coach: What the Backlash Says About The Program
In major college athletics, coaching staffs regularly get purged when a team does something relatively harmless, like finish a few games below .500. So it was only natural that a school like Penn State, plagued by one of the …
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Life Inside the College Bubble at Penn State
In this week’s issue of TIME, we explore the insular nature of college campuses — and how “Happy Valley” stays happy amid scandal.
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University of Miami’s Booster Scandal: Who Really Deserves Punishment?
Wednesday, the NCAA handed down its punishment for eight current University of Miami players who accepted benefits deemed illegal under its rules.
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Antitrust Allegations: Can the Feds Crush the BCS?
The Bowl Championship Series (BCS), that college football oligarchy that stands in the way of a long-desired college football playoff, is facing its biggest threat: the Department of Justice.
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BCS Championship: A Quirky Little Game
Before last night’s Tostitos BCS national championship game in Glendale, Ariz., Oregon and Auburn, the two schools vying for the title, last played football during the first weekend of December. The geniuses who run college …
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Reggie Bush Says He’ll Forfeit His 2005 Heisman Trophy
Amid reports that Heisman trophy officials would strip former USC running back Reggie Bush of the 2005 award, Bush, who since college has played football and dated a Kardashian sister as a member of the New Orleans Saints, has …
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USC Returns Reggie Bush’s Heisman Trophy
It’s shakeup day at USC.
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College Sports: Conference Craziness
Is the Big 12 about to go bust?
Top 10 Heisman Trophy Winners
Mark Ingram became Alabama’s first Heisman Trophy winner Saturday night, Dec. 12, snagging one of sport’s most coveted pieces of hardware — the first for the school’s storied football program. Ingram, who hails from Flint, …