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Air Force Academy Football Suspends Five
Integrity. Service. Excellence. The three values of the United States Air Force. They come out easy for me because I spent over five years active duty and another in the reserves. Although I never spent one day as a cadet at the Air Force Academy, I didn’t have to to know that discipline is the [...]
TweetRant Sports Preseason All American Team: Special Teams
We come to the end of our Rant Sports Preseason All American Team with our special teams performers. Let’s jump right into it with our All American punter. Brad Wing, Punter, LSU: Wing burst onto the national scene as he averaged 44 yards per punt and that was as a redshirt freshman. Wing has a [...]
TweetNCAA Football Preseason Power Rankings 2012: Mountain West Conference
This week the USA Today Coaches’ Poll was released with only one Mountain West school included. Boise State, ranked 22, is by far the favorite to take the conference championship especially with TCU out of the picture. With the season so close it is time to let the debate begin. The following is the first installment [...]
TweetPreviewing The Schedule: Week Three In College Football
Here’s the bad news: on the completion of this week’s games, the college football season is a quarter to its conclusion. The good news? A ridiculously entertaining set of matchups and nine more weeks of Saturday debauchery. September 13th (Thursday) Rutgers at South Florida Kyle Flood spoke like a new head coach at Big East [...]
TweetMountain West Conference: Top 5 Quarterbacks for 2012
It’s that time of year again, when college football is so close, writers such as myself have to make top five lists. This year the Mountain West Conference will be much more under-the-radar than in years past. Within the conference there are several quarterbacks that are worthy of your attention this upcoming season. The position is not [...]
TweetOnly 13 NCAA Schools have Untarnished Athletic Programs out of 120
Penn State just became another name off an ever-shrinking list. Only 13 schools out of the 120 division one schools have never committed an NCAA violation. Boise State was the most recent team previously to fall off the list and Central Florida’s bowl ban shows that the penalties are not about to stop. If the [...]
TweetNCAA Delivers One-Year Bowl Ban to Central Florida Football
Update: Central Florida was also given five-years probation, a three-year show cause penalty due to the actions of a former AD, a reduction of three scholarships per year, and a $50,000 fine in the official announcement this morning. After self-imposing sanctions earlier in the summer in an effort to head off further punishment from the [...]
TweetWhen Did Former Auburn Running Back Michael Dyer Go Wrong?
Former Auburn running back Michael Dyer shook the world of college football Sunday afternoon once the news of his dismissal from the Arkansas State football team was announced. It was reported Monday that the junior was pulled over for speeding, going 96 mph in a 70 mph zone, when marijuana and a gun were found [...]
TweetMichael Dyer Dismissed From Arkansas State
Michael Dyer had all the makings of a future star back at Auburn. That did not work, so he ended up transferring to Arkansas State to apply his trade. That route has come to an end, as Dyer has been dismissed from the team before he could play a game. It is a sad thing [...]
TweetRant Sports Preseason All American Team: Offensive Line
We move forward in our Rant Sports Preseason All American Team as we are hitting the offensive line and tight end. As all intelligent football fans know, games are won and lost up front and these big boys on our All American Team are the best in the country at pushing people around. Every great [...]
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