National Collegiate Athletic Association

Carl Pelini Named New Head Coach of FAU Football

huskers.comCarl Pelini​Carl Pelini -- the former defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Nebraska -- is officially the new head coach of the Florida Atlantic University Owls.Replacing the retiring Howard Schnellenberger, Pelini signed a five-year contract that starts with a $450,000 ... More >>

Adam Meyer, Florida's Gambling King, Shouldn't Have Bet on Nevin Shapiro

huskers.comCarl Pelini​Carl Pelini -- the former defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Nebraska -- is officially the new head coach of the Florida Atlantic University Owls.Replacing the retiring Howard Schnellenberger, Pelini signed a five-year contract that starts with a $450,000 ... More >>

Florida Gators Accused of "Cheating" to Block Punts

​The University of Florida Gators are going to Lexington this weekend to face off against the Kentucky Wildcats, and after the Gators blocked three punts in two previous games against the Wildcats, people in Kentucky are bitching bringing up the point that UF may be "cheating" to block punts.To cl ... More >>

Did Bobby Kent Invent "Da Da Da Da Da Da Charge!" or Steal It?

Bobby Kent​You know at a stadium, when they play that "Charge!" thing over the PA? It's the kind of annoying tradition that people never stop and think about -- and certainly people never wonder who first came up with it.Well Bobby Kent (pictured), co-owner of Pompano Beach's Hollbrand Music Publi ... More >>

Win The Sushi-Eating Contest at RA Sushi and Eat Free For A Year!

​Think you have enough gustatory prowess to demolish inordinate amounts of sushi in a short amount of time? If so, RA Sushi in Pembroke Pines wants you to come out to the first annual Maki Madness sushi-eating contest Saturday, March 26 from 2-5:00 p.m. Find out more...

Return of the Nordic Wonder

​Think you have enough gustatory prowess to demolish inordinate amounts of sushi in a short amount of time? If so, RA Sushi in Pembroke Pines wants you to come out to the first annual Maki Madness sushi-eating contest Saturday, March 26 from 2-5:00 p.m. Find out more...

Michigan Football Puts Itself on Probation; Former Deerfield Star Not Named in Report

Flickr: Michigan DailyFeagin's career in Maize-and-Blue was cut short by an off-field incident.​The University of Michigan today announced that its football coaching staff violated NCAA rules for the amount of athletics-related activity its players could perform and the number of coaches who could ... More >>

Superstar Pine Crest Hoopster Sparks Controversy With "Pseudo-Commitment"

Flickr: Ganon Baker BasketballKnight (center) at a basketball skills camp in Dallas.​When Brandon Knight committed to the University of Kentucky earlier this month, he did not do so in the usual way that high school athletes do, by signing a letter of intent. Rather, the Pine Crest School point gu ... More >>

South Florida Football Stars Committed to Lane Kiffin; He Just Didn't Commit to Them

Flickr: National Collegiate Scouting AssociationKiffin​With University of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin accepting the same job at USC, it looks like the only memory that some local football players will have of the coach is a pending NCAA investigation. Though former Volunteer and Pahokee nativ ... More >>

Top Five Orange Bowl Moments of the Decade

flickr.comTebow's finest hour came at the BCS championship game in 2009.​Since Bucknell beat Miami in 1935, the annual Orange Bowl has provided some of the best moments of every college football season. Starting in the '90s, the game also provided a few national championships. Though the game hasn ... More >>

Clip Those Wings

flickr.comTebow's finest hour came at the BCS championship game in 2009.​Since Bucknell beat Miami in 1935, the annual Orange Bowl has provided some of the best moments of every college football season. Starting in the '90s, the game also provided a few national championships. Though the game hasn ... More >>

UPDATE: Pahokee's Nu'Keese Richardson Part of Tennessee Investigation

Nu'Keese Richardson, during his short stint in Tennessee​UPDATE: A University of Tennessee sports web site is reporting that Richardson says he is not participating in the NCAA investigation of the school's recruiting practices. He's quoted saying: "I'm not involved in that." These are Richardson' ... More >>

University of Tennessee Probe Leads Investigators to South Florida

Flickr: imnatronCheerleaders are OK; but is the University of Tennessee using its feamle student body for football recruiting?​Tennessee Volunteers head football coach Lane Kiffin loves South Florida football players --  we told you how he bought a billboard in their honor, which you can see ... More >>

Deerfield Beach Football Star Getting Buzz for Big Game; Another Won't Be Playing

That's the long, long highlight video from Denard Robinson's career at Deerfield Beach High School. Impressive, but no more so than Justin Feagin's highlight reel of a year before. Feagin played at American Heritage, but he's also from Deerfield Beach. Both played quarterback. And both players acce ... More >>

Billboard Top 5: The Football Stars Who Inspired Region's Creepiest Advertisement

National Collegiate Scouting AssociationLane Kiffin wants South Florida's 17-year-old boys.​South Florida football players are a weird obsession for University of Tennessee Coach Lane Kiffin. In the last recruiting campaign, he sparked controversy -- then the kind of back-pedaling you'd prize in a ... More >>

Bank Shot

For a former basketball star, a new career starts with the J.V. team. B

For This Deon, Prime Time Is Overdue

Deon Thomas was a Chicago hoops legend. He would become one of the University of Illinois' all-time basketball greats. And for the last decade-plus, he was a globe-trotting, championship-winning professional basketball star. Now he's a JV coach in the Broward 'burbs.Specifically, Thomas is the absur ... More >>

Lil Wayne Knows a Lil Something About Bracketology

Lil Wayne as a guest panelist on Around the Horn Around the Horn is ESPN's fantastic game of competitive sports banter. Every day, sports columnists from large markets across the country shout at each other about men (and sometimes women) in colorful uniforms, trying to make valid arguments. ... More >>

SEC Fans: Boycott The Big Dance

All right, for the first time since I was about six, I'm going to stay away from the NCAA tournament this year. This is a whole new version of March Madness for me. Because I'm mad. And I'm boycotting the tournament -- and urge all you Gator fans to do the same. Those of you more familiar with ... More >>

The Beer-Offs: Way Better Than the Bud Bowl

Calendar editor John Linn was very sick this weekend. I know this not because he told me (he did tell me, but he's tricky), but because he was unable to fulfill his duties as a judge in this year's Beer-Offs, held Saturday at the Coral Springs Whole Foods. This second annual tournament had diffe ... More >>

Reel in the Big Game

Cinema Paradiso brings the BCS Championship to the big screen

Touchdown Jesus Fishes for Snapper in Fort Lauderdale

It's no shocker that a St. Thomas Aquinas High School senior has accepted a scholarship to play at the University of Notre Dame. The Fort Lauderdale football powerhouse has two players in gold helmets already -- offensive linemen Sam Young and Dan Wenger. Another, senior punter Ben Turk will be the ... More >>

Cane Collapse

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Is Arthur Anderson Accountable?

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The Phantom Bank Shot?

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Bet on Black

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Full Court Pressure

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Florida Atlantic's multimillion-dollar investment in a legendary coach has so far been a bust

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Hurricane Andre

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