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By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — So when can a loss really be considered a win? In the case of Villanova’s season-opening, 27-26 double-overtime, football defeat at Syracuse last Friday night before 41,189 fans at the Carrier Dome, the Wildcats did everything but walk away with the “W.”.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal ANN ARBOR, Mich. — On a cloudy, hot Michigan Stadium afternoon, there were no bolts of lightening to bail Appalachian State’s football team out of trouble on Saturday in a 52-14 loss to Michigan before 106,811 spectators. Returning to the scene of one of college.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It was a gorgeous, sun-kissed day seven years ago on a Labor Day Saturday as I made a short trip from a hotel near the Detroit Metropolitan Airport to Michigan Stadium on the opening weekend of the 2007 college football season. None of the 109,218 fans that filled the largest sports.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal BETHLEHEM, PA. — There are a lot of microphones, as well as media members, at the media days of the Big Ten, Big XII, Pac 12, SEC, and ACC. Judging by that alone, you might get the impression that the only voices that matter in regards.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — It’s been billed as the trial that might break up the NCAA. The O’Bannon trial, involving the former UCLA basketball standout Ed O’Bannon, asks questions of whether the name, image or likeness of college players when they played college ball is owned by.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The NCAA has released its list of APR penalties, and it should be no surprise that it’s the lowest-resource institutions of the FCS that have been disproportinately hit the hardest. Seven schools that compete in football championship subdivision, including six HBCUs, were hit.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal Editor’s note: This column was originally published on Jun. 1, 2011 in the College Sporting News, when the announcement of then-OSU head coach Jim Tressel was dismissed over OSU players trading gear for tattoos. David Coulson looked into his career at Youngstown, and gave his thoughts..
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The College Football Playoff selection committee met last week at the Four Seasons Hotel Resort of Dallas to try to figure out a puzzle that has stumped college football writers for the past one hundred years. “How the heck are we going to determine.
Draft Express By Wayne Otto College Basketball Columnist College Sports Journal PORTSMOUTH, VA – In most areas of the country spring is getting ready bloom, the NCAA basketball tournament is in the books, the NBA Playoffs are upon us and Portsmouth is the epicenter of the basketball universe for the week. That means the 62nd.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The members of the College Football Playoff committee have been spending the last week in Dallas walking through hypothetical playoff selection scenarios, which makes it the perfect time to make a fantasy, hypothetical scenario for playoff selection and how it might play out in.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — “One, two, three – what are we fighting for?” Readers of a certain age might recognize these lyrics from a Vietnam War protest song from Country Joe and the Fish. (“Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn/Next stop is Vietnam,” the song.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — If there is one thing that the NCAA excels at, it’s the ability for it to be the straw man as to what’s wrong with intercollegiate athletics. Schools and programs can misbehave, and it’s the NCAA’s fault. Athletes misbehave, and it’s the NCAA’s.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — There’s been a lot of talk about the historic nature of the bid by Northwestern’s football players to be allowed to form a union for collective bargaining purposes. The first-ever attempt at a college football players’ union passed the first, and easiest, bar.
By Bloomberg View Editorial Staff Special Report College Sports Journal (Reprinted by special permission from Bloomberg View. The original article can be accessed here.) NEW YORK, NY. — At many American colleges and universities, the relationship between athletics and academics needs to be rebalanced. Over the weekend, as fans were watching their.
Southland Conference By Wayne Otto College Basketball Columnist College Sports Journal KATY, TX – In 1836, former soldier Sam Houston defeated original Texas colonizer Stephen F. Austin to become the first president of the Republic of Texas by a substantial margin. Austin was considered the father of Texas and Sam Houston was considered the top.
Flickr By Wayne Otto College Basketball Columnist College Sports Journal SIOUX FALLS, SD – Thundar, the North Dakota State University bison mascot, has had a busy year. First, the Bison complete a perfect 15-0 football season capped off by its third straight NCAA FCS national championship game title in Frisco, Texas in January. The championship.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — It looked like Appalachian State’s 19-game, home winning streak in softball might be in jeopardy early on in the Lady Mountaineers’ home opener Friday against Syracuse. But sparked by a three-run homer from catcher Sarah Warnock in the fourth inning, ASU overcame.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — It was one of the unlikeliest of pairings. One girl was practically softball royalty at Hatboro-Horsham High School, the link between what would ultimately become the two Lady Hatter 4-A state championship squads, a player who was considered one of the top.
By Wayne Otto College Basketball Columnist College Sports Journal SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Summit League championship tournament semi-finals got off with a bang on Monday with 5,871 rabid fans filling the Sioux Falls Arena for a noon tipoff with women’s number one seed and defending champion South Dakota State Jackrabbits and the fourth seeded.
By Wayne Otto College Basketball Columnist College Sports Journal SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The calendar says it is March and that can mean only one thing to basketball fans: NCAA March Madness, the annual rite of passage for every college basketball player, coach, and fan. March Madness produces a stage for new stars to emerge.
By Dave BartooNational CFB Attrition Expert and Analytics Consultantand Founder of the CFBMatrix Special to College Sports Journal PORTLAND, OR – I love assumptions about college football and finding new ways to look at data and information. The flavor of the year seems to be a focus on the Pace of Play (POP).
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — Kenneth Kluth chose to spend his 93rd birthday watching the final Southern Conference, regular-season, men’s basketball game between arch-rivals Appalachian State and Western Carolina Thursday night at the Holmes Convocation Center. And Kluth actually survived the experience as Western Carolina held on.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Have you ever wondered what a Football Championship Subdivision team would look like if you took the best 63 players and put them together on one squad? That’s what College Sports Journal has done again this year as it honored the top.
By Kavitha A. Davidson Special Report College Sports Journal (Reprinted by special permission from Bloomberg View. The original article can be accessed here.) NEW YORK, NY. — Notre Dame and Under Armour Inc. have signed a 10-year apparel deal worth $90 million that is reportedly the largest in college sports history. Remind me.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — One a cold, snowy Saturday afternoon, trying to stay warm in the cozy confines of my home office, a simple quote from a member of the Football Championship Subdivision alumni club sparked some thinking. The article I read on the Sports Illustrated.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Just as he raced past defenders in opposing team secondaries all season, Eastern Washington wide receiver Cooper Kupp stayed far ahead of the field during the 2013 Football Championship Subdivision season. Kupp was chosen on Thursday as the winner of the third-annual College Sports.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal FRISCO, TX. — Though the Football Championship Subdivision settles its winner on the field, it isn’t every year that the best two teams end up playing in the NCAA Division I Football Championship game. We are fortunate that North Dakota State and Towson have proven.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal FRISCO, TX. — Rob Ambrose watched last season’s NCAA Division I Football Championships with an overwhelming sense of frustration. The fifth-year Towson University coach was convinced in the bottom of his heart that his 2012 team had the best chance of beating North Dakota State.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s NCAA FCS Championship Game preview, North Dakota State versus Towson, is presented by College Sports Journal.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHENEY, WA. — If you went through the list of potential heroes before Saturday’s NCAA Division Football Championship semifinals, played in the snow and fog at Roos Field, Towson reserve quarterback Connor Frazier would have been far down the list. But Frazier came off the.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal FARGO, N.D. — Three plays into its semifinal game of the NCAA Division I Football Championships, North Dakota State found itself in a place where it hadn’t been in the 2013 postseason — losing. Brock Jensen, the winningest quarterback in Football Championship Subdivision history,.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHENEY, WA. — Towson coach Rob Ambrose watched his team work out Friday afternoon on the frozen, snow-covered surface at Eastern Washington’s Roos Field through the eyes of a child. “I’m ready to play right now,” said Ambrose, with snow caking his Towson sweatsuit and.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Georgia, Washington, Clemson, Oregon, Florida State, USC and North Dakota State. What do all these schools have in common? They, or their surrounding areas, all hosted Lee Corso, Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit as a part of ESPN’s College Gameday this season..
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHARLESTON, IL. — There will be an awards banquet somewhere in Philadelphia on Monday evening, where the 26th annual Walter Payton Award will be handed out. That award is suppose to recognize the “best” player in the Football Championship Subdivision, though often-times in recent years.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHARLESTON, IL. — There is a seismic shift occurring at the top of the Football Championship Subdivision as the NCAA Division I Football Championships enter the quarterfinal round this weekend. The sun has set on former champions, six-time winner Georgia Southern and three-time winner Appalachian.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s NCAA FCS Playoff Elite Eight Wraparound is presented by College Sports Journal.
By David Coulson Executive Director College Sports Journal TOWSON, MD. — Coming into Saturday’s second-round NCAA Division I Football playoff game with Towson, Fordham knew it had to contain Terrance West, the best running back in the Football Championship Subdivision. And considering that the Rams limited FCS’s leading rusher to 76 yards and.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s preview of the 2013 SWAC Championship game, Jackson State vs. Southern, is presented by College Sports Journal.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s NCAA FCS Playoff Round of 16 Wraparound is presented by College Sports Journal.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal THE BRONX, N.Y. — You can’t help but feel the tradition that oozes from every building and every monument on the Fordham University campus. The first time I walked into the press box at Jack Coffey Field several years ago, my jaw dropped when I.
NCAA Press Release College Sports Journal INDIANAPOLIS, IN. — The field of 24 teams competing for the 2013 NCAA Division I Football Championship was announced today by the NCAA Division I Football Championship Committee. The top eight national seeds will host winners from the first round match-ups. Two-time defending national champion North.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — I’m a guy that appreciates someone like Joe Friday. How I wish I could get through all of the junk and cut to the chase like our favorite Dragnet character could. No offense to James Madison athletic director Jeff Bourne, but we.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — It’s the night before Selection Sunday, and here’s my final take on the bracket.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — A few evenings ago, I was showing my oldest daughter the contents of a file of school-related items of mine that sits in a cabinet in her upstairs room. One of the items, lying near the top of the substantial stack of.
Special To College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Week 13 Podcast of the FCS Gameday Report with Tony Williams is presented by College Sports Journal.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal YOUNGSTOWN, OH. — How do you measure the worth of a quarterback? Some like to do it by crunching statistical numbers. How many yardages has your passer of choice thrown for? How many yards has he gained on the ground? How many touchdowns is.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Picking brackets is more art than numbers. Sure you have the numbers — seven autobids have been determined out of 11. Thirteen teams will make the playoff field. One team will be champion. But assembling a sample bracket is more than seeding.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s NCAA FCS Week 12 Preview – the North Dakota State Bison vs. the Youngstown State Penguins – is presented by College Sports Journal.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s NCAA FCS Week 12 Preview – the Penn Quakers vs. the Harvard Crimson – is presented by College Sports Journal.
Special To College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Week 12 Podcast of the FCS Gameday Report with Tony Williams is presented by College Sports Journal.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — So when can a loss really be considered a win? In the case of Villanova’s season-opening, 27-26 double-overtime, football defeat at Syracuse last Friday night before 41,189 fans at the Carrier Dome, the Wildcats did everything but walk away with the “W.”.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal ANN ARBOR, Mich. — On a cloudy, hot Michigan Stadium afternoon, there were no bolts of lightening to bail Appalachian State’s football team out of trouble on Saturday in a 52-14 loss to Michigan before 106,811 spectators. Returning to the scene of one of college.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — It was a gorgeous, sun-kissed day seven years ago on a Labor Day Saturday as I made a short trip from a hotel near the Detroit Metropolitan Airport to Michigan Stadium on the opening weekend of the 2007 college football season. None of the 109,218 fans that filled the largest sports.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal BETHLEHEM, PA. — There are a lot of microphones, as well as media members, at the media days of the Big Ten, Big XII, Pac 12, SEC, and ACC. Judging by that alone, you might get the impression that the only voices that matter in regards.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — It’s been billed as the trial that might break up the NCAA. The O’Bannon trial, involving the former UCLA basketball standout Ed O’Bannon, asks questions of whether the name, image or likeness of college players when they played college ball is owned by.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The NCAA has released its list of APR penalties, and it should be no surprise that it’s the lowest-resource institutions of the FCS that have been disproportinately hit the hardest. Seven schools that compete in football championship subdivision, including six HBCUs, were hit.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal Editor’s note: This column was originally published on Jun. 1, 2011 in the College Sporting News, when the announcement of then-OSU head coach Jim Tressel was dismissed over OSU players trading gear for tattoos. David Coulson looked into his career at Youngstown, and gave his thoughts..
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The College Football Playoff selection committee met last week at the Four Seasons Hotel Resort of Dallas to try to figure out a puzzle that has stumped college football writers for the past one hundred years. “How the heck are we going to determine.
Draft Express By Wayne Otto College Basketball Columnist College Sports Journal PORTSMOUTH, VA – In most areas of the country spring is getting ready bloom, the NCAA basketball tournament is in the books, the NBA Playoffs are upon us and Portsmouth is the epicenter of the basketball universe for the week. That means the 62nd.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The members of the College Football Playoff committee have been spending the last week in Dallas walking through hypothetical playoff selection scenarios, which makes it the perfect time to make a fantasy, hypothetical scenario for playoff selection and how it might play out in.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — “One, two, three – what are we fighting for?” Readers of a certain age might recognize these lyrics from a Vietnam War protest song from Country Joe and the Fish. (“Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn/Next stop is Vietnam,” the song.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — If there is one thing that the NCAA excels at, it’s the ability for it to be the straw man as to what’s wrong with intercollegiate athletics. Schools and programs can misbehave, and it’s the NCAA’s fault. Athletes misbehave, and it’s the NCAA’s.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — There’s been a lot of talk about the historic nature of the bid by Northwestern’s football players to be allowed to form a union for collective bargaining purposes. The first-ever attempt at a college football players’ union passed the first, and easiest, bar.
By Bloomberg View Editorial Staff Special Report College Sports Journal (Reprinted by special permission from Bloomberg View. The original article can be accessed here.) NEW YORK, NY. — At many American colleges and universities, the relationship between athletics and academics needs to be rebalanced. Over the weekend, as fans were watching their.
Southland Conference By Wayne Otto College Basketball Columnist College Sports Journal KATY, TX – In 1836, former soldier Sam Houston defeated original Texas colonizer Stephen F. Austin to become the first president of the Republic of Texas by a substantial margin. Austin was considered the father of Texas and Sam Houston was considered the top.
Flickr By Wayne Otto College Basketball Columnist College Sports Journal SIOUX FALLS, SD – Thundar, the North Dakota State University bison mascot, has had a busy year. First, the Bison complete a perfect 15-0 football season capped off by its third straight NCAA FCS national championship game title in Frisco, Texas in January. The championship.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — It looked like Appalachian State’s 19-game, home winning streak in softball might be in jeopardy early on in the Lady Mountaineers’ home opener Friday against Syracuse. But sparked by a three-run homer from catcher Sarah Warnock in the fourth inning, ASU overcame.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — It was one of the unlikeliest of pairings. One girl was practically softball royalty at Hatboro-Horsham High School, the link between what would ultimately become the two Lady Hatter 4-A state championship squads, a player who was considered one of the top.
By Wayne Otto College Basketball Columnist College Sports Journal SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Summit League championship tournament semi-finals got off with a bang on Monday with 5,871 rabid fans filling the Sioux Falls Arena for a noon tipoff with women’s number one seed and defending champion South Dakota State Jackrabbits and the fourth seeded.
By Wayne Otto College Basketball Columnist College Sports Journal SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The calendar says it is March and that can mean only one thing to basketball fans: NCAA March Madness, the annual rite of passage for every college basketball player, coach, and fan. March Madness produces a stage for new stars to emerge.
By Dave BartooNational CFB Attrition Expert and Analytics Consultantand Founder of the CFBMatrix Special to College Sports Journal PORTLAND, OR – I love assumptions about college football and finding new ways to look at data and information. The flavor of the year seems to be a focus on the Pace of Play (POP).
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal BOONE, N.C. — Kenneth Kluth chose to spend his 93rd birthday watching the final Southern Conference, regular-season, men’s basketball game between arch-rivals Appalachian State and Western Carolina Thursday night at the Holmes Convocation Center. And Kluth actually survived the experience as Western Carolina held on.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Have you ever wondered what a Football Championship Subdivision team would look like if you took the best 63 players and put them together on one squad? That’s what College Sports Journal has done again this year as it honored the top.
By Kavitha A. Davidson Special Report College Sports Journal (Reprinted by special permission from Bloomberg View. The original article can be accessed here.) NEW YORK, NY. — Notre Dame and Under Armour Inc. have signed a 10-year apparel deal worth $90 million that is reportedly the largest in college sports history. Remind me.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — One a cold, snowy Saturday afternoon, trying to stay warm in the cozy confines of my home office, a simple quote from a member of the Football Championship Subdivision alumni club sparked some thinking. The article I read on the Sports Illustrated.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Just as he raced past defenders in opposing team secondaries all season, Eastern Washington wide receiver Cooper Kupp stayed far ahead of the field during the 2013 Football Championship Subdivision season. Kupp was chosen on Thursday as the winner of the third-annual College Sports.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal FRISCO, TX. — Though the Football Championship Subdivision settles its winner on the field, it isn’t every year that the best two teams end up playing in the NCAA Division I Football Championship game. We are fortunate that North Dakota State and Towson have proven.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal FRISCO, TX. — Rob Ambrose watched last season’s NCAA Division I Football Championships with an overwhelming sense of frustration. The fifth-year Towson University coach was convinced in the bottom of his heart that his 2012 team had the best chance of beating North Dakota State.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s NCAA FCS Championship Game preview, North Dakota State versus Towson, is presented by College Sports Journal.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHENEY, WA. — If you went through the list of potential heroes before Saturday’s NCAA Division Football Championship semifinals, played in the snow and fog at Roos Field, Towson reserve quarterback Connor Frazier would have been far down the list. But Frazier came off the.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal FARGO, N.D. — Three plays into its semifinal game of the NCAA Division I Football Championships, North Dakota State found itself in a place where it hadn’t been in the 2013 postseason — losing. Brock Jensen, the winningest quarterback in Football Championship Subdivision history,.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHENEY, WA. — Towson coach Rob Ambrose watched his team work out Friday afternoon on the frozen, snow-covered surface at Eastern Washington’s Roos Field through the eyes of a child. “I’m ready to play right now,” said Ambrose, with snow caking his Towson sweatsuit and.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Georgia, Washington, Clemson, Oregon, Florida State, USC and North Dakota State. What do all these schools have in common? They, or their surrounding areas, all hosted Lee Corso, Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit as a part of ESPN’s College Gameday this season..
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHARLESTON, IL. — There will be an awards banquet somewhere in Philadelphia on Monday evening, where the 26th annual Walter Payton Award will be handed out. That award is suppose to recognize the “best” player in the Football Championship Subdivision, though often-times in recent years.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal CHARLESTON, IL. — There is a seismic shift occurring at the top of the Football Championship Subdivision as the NCAA Division I Football Championships enter the quarterfinal round this weekend. The sun has set on former champions, six-time winner Georgia Southern and three-time winner Appalachian.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s NCAA FCS Playoff Elite Eight Wraparound is presented by College Sports Journal.
By David Coulson Executive Director College Sports Journal TOWSON, MD. — Coming into Saturday’s second-round NCAA Division I Football playoff game with Towson, Fordham knew it had to contain Terrance West, the best running back in the Football Championship Subdivision. And considering that the Rams limited FCS’s leading rusher to 76 yards and.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s preview of the 2013 SWAC Championship game, Jackson State vs. Southern, is presented by College Sports Journal.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s NCAA FCS Playoff Round of 16 Wraparound is presented by College Sports Journal.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal THE BRONX, N.Y. — You can’t help but feel the tradition that oozes from every building and every monument on the Fordham University campus. The first time I walked into the press box at Jack Coffey Field several years ago, my jaw dropped when I.
NCAA Press Release College Sports Journal INDIANAPOLIS, IN. — The field of 24 teams competing for the 2013 NCAA Division I Football Championship was announced today by the NCAA Division I Football Championship Committee. The top eight national seeds will host winners from the first round match-ups. Two-time defending national champion North.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — I’m a guy that appreciates someone like Joe Friday. How I wish I could get through all of the junk and cut to the chase like our favorite Dragnet character could. No offense to James Madison athletic director Jeff Bourne, but we.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — It’s the night before Selection Sunday, and here’s my final take on the bracket.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — A few evenings ago, I was showing my oldest daughter the contents of a file of school-related items of mine that sits in a cabinet in her upstairs room. One of the items, lying near the top of the substantial stack of.
Special To College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Week 13 Podcast of the FCS Gameday Report with Tony Williams is presented by College Sports Journal.
By David Coulson Executive Editor College Sports Journal YOUNGSTOWN, OH. — How do you measure the worth of a quarterback? Some like to do it by crunching statistical numbers. How many yardages has your passer of choice thrown for? How many yards has he gained on the ground? How many touchdowns is.
By Chuck Burton Publisher/Managing Editor College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA. — Picking brackets is more art than numbers. Sure you have the numbers — seven autobids have been determined out of 11. Thirteen teams will make the playoff field. One team will be champion. But assembling a sample bracket is more than seeding.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s NCAA FCS Week 12 Preview – the North Dakota State Bison vs. the Youngstown State Penguins – is presented by College Sports Journal.
By Emory Hunt Special Report College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — Football Gameplan’s NCAA FCS Week 12 Preview – the Penn Quakers vs. the Harvard Crimson – is presented by College Sports Journal.
Special To College Sports Journal PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Week 12 Podcast of the FCS Gameday Report with Tony Williams is presented by College Sports Journal.
