Lawrence Phillips, the girlfriend-beating, former Nebraska star and NFL flameout recently sold one of his Big Eight championship rings to a Las Vegas pawnshop. For $20. Twenty dollars! The pawnshop turned around and sold the ring on eBay for $1700. Who could have guessed that Phillips would have fallen so far? He seemed like he…

InsideCarolina.com has a little preseason look at UNC’s basketball team, including comments from Roy Williams about almost all the players. My favorite part is the comments about Melvin Scott. According to Coach Williams, Scott just needs to shoot a little better, not turn the ball over and play better defense. Is that all?

Remember that South Park where the Johnnie Cochran-like lawyer uses the Chewbacca Defense? “If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit!” Well, now it seems that playing football for Maryland also means that you must acquit. A judge hearing a case against Terrapin receiver Gregory Powell told him, and I quote, “you are guilty as…

It’s amazing the optimism that new Duke coach Ted Roof seems to have conjured out of thin air. The Duke football program has been profoundly bad for a long while now, so it’s jarring to see people so excited about their season. Roof did coach in five games last year and Duke did look like…

If you’ve never checked out Fanblogs.com, you should. It’s a well done site about college football. I’ve been reading their site (via RSS) for a while now and have linked to their articles several times. Well, evidently they aren’t quite as professional as I thought. What was it Groucho Marx said, “I wouldn’t want to…

Wow. This is a stunning interview. Darryl Dawkins makes a lot of interesting points, but frames it in the very uncomfortable premise that black basketball players are too flashy and white players play team basketball. He thinks the US Olympic team is too black. If you remove the race labels, and just go with individualism…

This is pretty interesting. A Kentucky tee shirt listing its two biggest rivals (the bad and ugly to UK’s good) has Louisville and Duke, in that order. That implies that the Wildcats consider Duke, a very irregular opponent, their biggest rival, bigger even than in-state enemy Louisville. And neither of the two is a conference…

There have been a zillion of these articles and I’ve avoided linking to any of them. I guess it’s time. NC State still doesn’t know who their next quarterback will be. They have a lot of talent at the RB and WR positions though, so it may not matter too much as long as he’s…

ESPN’s otherwise awful Page 2 is running a great feature today. It’s a running series of emails between Bill Simmons and Charles Klosterman. You’re thinking to yourself “Charles Who?” You’re right. You have no idea who he is. Trust me though, this is great funny stuff. He’s a perfect foil for Simmons. edit: They added…

An Iranian athlete (Judo) elected to forfeit his match instead of fight an athlete from Israel? Digraceful. Iran’s delegation backing him up? Shameful. Iran picking him to carry their flag in the opening ceremonies? Despicable. Dan Wetzel is exactly right. Send the whole country home. Kick ’em out until they get an clue about what…