By Chuck Burton
Publisher/Managing Editor
College Sports Journal

PHILADELPHIA, PA. — CB Robert Alford, selected with the 28th pick in the second round by the NFL's Atlanta Falcons, was the first FCS player taken in the NFL Draft this season.

The 5'10, 186 lb Alford, who was College Sports Journal's FCS Defensive Player of the Year in 2012, was one of 17 FCS players represented in the NFL Draft and one of many FCS players who will be entering training camps this summer looking to win a role on an NFL team.

Below is a list of all the FCS players who will be attempting to turn pro this coming summer.

Read more: FCS In the NFL - 2013 Edition

By Chuck Burton
Publisher/Managing Editor
College Sports Journal

PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Two years ago, the "end of days" was predicted in regards to one very big and very powerful FBS conference. 

The Big XII had just lost Nebraska and Texas A&M, and the conference was predicted by many so-called smart people to go the same way as the carrier pigeon and the dodo bird into extinction.

Two years later, many so-called smart people, including some people whose jobs are to cover the subdivision for a living, are saying that it's the end of FCS football as we know it, simply because a few schools have chosen to eschew championships for lower-tier bowls.

Here's a news flash - that's not happening.

Many, many people have predicted the end of the FCS in the past, claiming that bowls are the only way to balance the books, or that the big-money BCS or big conference schools are scheming to destroy the subdivision. 

It would be foolish to think that nothing is happening in the upper echelons of the FBS.  But then, as now, the would-be Nostradami are wrong.

Read more: Those Predicting The Demise of FCS Ought to Read Their History Books

By Wayne Otto

College Basketball Columnist

College Sports Journal

PORTSMOUTH, VA — The 61st annual Portsmouth Invitational Tournament is again the center of professional basketball for a four day run in the unlikely city of Portsmouth, Virginia, a neighbor of Norfolk.

The April 10-13 event, which has 64 of the nation’s best collegiate seniors, is the only 5 on 5 post season event that enables the NBA, NBDL and foreign league team’s to evaluate collegiate prospects in an all-star type setting.

Read more: Portsmouth Invitational Tournament: A springboard to success