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Former Major League player who's never held a real coaching position named new Nebraska baseball coach. Darin Erstad, a guy with no real experience other than being Tom Osborne's friend, gets the job.

'Cause it's Friday, you ain't got no football, and you ain't got s#!t to do. Break yo' self, fool -- the preseason USA Today Coaches' Poll has been released in all its premature, ghostvoted...

We're attempting to do about seventy different things at once this morning--packing, filing a column, various bureaucratic tasks of a a nature so mundane they don't bear specifying, dissolving...

Live long enough, and you will see your hero become your oppressor, and then morph into your doppelganger, and then just at the end will change into your demon tormentor just long enough to reach...

Show me your scruples... If you weren't quite convinced that this whole BCS system is a giant, steaming pile of elephant dung, you will be once you get through the coaches ballots. Among my...

You don't make mosaics without breaking a little pottery. Here's today's fine tilework. Before Photoshop, life was a dull, grey waste, filled with marauding hyenas and only the chill of the north...

When did FSU begin this long, slow, and sad descent into mediocrity? Who cares? It really doesn't matter, as long as it's dead, right? For historical purposes, we think the long slide to tonight's...

Name: The Emerald Bowl. Our fingers really just wanted to keep typing here--whaaa? No improbably clunky secondary sponsor? No long modifiers? No Pioneer Purevision Bell Helicopteredness?--but...

No supplements needed on Bobby Bowden's explanation for his son's inability to call anything besides a square-in, jump ball, or blown-up screen as an offensive coordinator: As for why things didn't...

We have five simple rules to life. They are based upon observation, experiment, and peer reviewed statements made in numerous bars across the world between the hours of seven p.m. and 4 a.m. They...