Kris Hughes
College Football Network Manager
Kris Hughes is the College Football Network Manager for Rant Sports and the host of Rant Sports Radio. Kris has been published on FoxSports.com, AtAriSports.com, MSN.com, HuffingtonPost.com, CNNSI.com, and Yardbarker.com and is a member of the Football Writers Association of America.
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2012 Rimington Trophy Watch List Announced
The 2012 Rimington Trophy watch list was announced earlier this morning, featuring the top centers in the country. Centers are a group that are not often recognized and rarely get the credit they deserve when an offensive unit plays to their potential. Here are the centers which have the greatest impact on their teams, and, [...]
Tweet2012 Mackey Award Watch List Announced
It’s a week of announcements in the world of college football awards. Today the watch list for the 2012 John L. Mackey Award was released to the public, honoring the top tight ends in college football. Plenty of familiar names highlight the list, including Auburn’s Phillip Lutzenkirchen, who is the prohibitive favorite entering the 2012 [...]
TweetCincinnati Bengals Charge Admission for Team-Sponsored Pep Rally
The Cincinnati Bengals over the course of time have developed one of the more, well, interesting, reputations in the NFL due to off-field and on-field activities alike. Even their most die-hard fans decry some of the decisions management has made in the boardroom and in player personnel– even moves they have made which discourage the [...]
Tweet2012 Maxwell Award Watch List Announced
Over the course of the next two weeks, we’ll be releasing the watch lists for several national college football awards. The Maxwell Award honors the nation’s top overall player each season and is awarded by the Maxwell Football Club. Those voting on the award recipient include sportscasters, sportswriters, and members of the National Collegiate Athletic [...]
TweetRant Sports 100 in 100 College Football Previews: No. 55 Illinois Fighting Illini
The countdown to the 2012 college football season marches on. Today we preview the No. 55 team on the Rant Sports 100 in 100 college football preview series, the Illinois Fighting Illini. Illinois enters the 2012 campaign following a 7-6 finish in 2011, which ended with a 20-14 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl win over the RS No. [...]
TweetCollege Football Recruiting: Herschel Sims Lands at Lamar
Today’s most interesting college football recruiting story has to do with a running back who has landed at a barely-known outpost in Texas, Lamar University. At one time, former Abilene Wylie standout running back Herschel Sims was on top of the world. One of the top recruits in the 2011 class, Sims was moving up [...]
TweetOfficial United States Men’s Basketball Olympic Roster Announced
After several weeks of discussions about who would finally emerge on the U.S. Men’s Basketball team given all of the injury issues and the crazy off-season so far, the roster has been finalized. During a special on NBA TV, the following NBA stars were announced as members of the team that will take on the [...]
TweetCollege Football Recruiting: Package Deals Shifting Balance of Process?
So-called “package deals” in the world of college football recruiting are hardly new. For decades, high-profile players have used the leverage of a teammate with schools they are considering to make their own process more comfortable. The most recent of these scenarios comes with 2013′s prime prospect, defensive end Robert Nkemdiche, who has verbally committed [...]
TweetCollege Football Recruiting: Nike’s The Opening Features Top 2013 Talent
Nike has a huge profile in the world of collegiate sports, and as you read this article, they are making in roads in one of it’s most important aspects: recruiting. College football recruiting is all about finding, evaluating, and securing the best talent possible to ensure the future success of your program. Nike-sponsored event The [...]
TweetNBA Rumors: Jason Kidd Chooses Knicks Over Mavericks
One of the more interesting NBA rumors of the day appears to have some serious steam, as buzz around the Internet suggests Jason Kidd will sign a three-year deal with the New York Knicks rather than with the Dallas Mavericks as previously believed. Marc Stein, a well-respected NBA journalist, just tweeted the following: It’s a [...]
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