Speculation has run rampant for months that Syracuse officials were looking to fire Greg Robinson and hire a new football coach.
Now comes the breaking news by Pete Thamel of The New York Times that the school has hired a search firm to find a suitable replacement for Robinson, who is 8-34 overall and 2-22 in [...]

Payback is a bitch, huh?
Thirteen years to the day after O.J. Simpson was cleared of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room.
Simpson and co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart face sentencing for armed robbery and kidnapping [...]

Fresh off his trio of sold-out shows at Giants Stadium comes the news that Bruce Springsteen will play halftime at the Super Bowl next February.
Apparently word got out to Page Six when Steve Van Zandt made an all-tables reservation at a Tampa-area Hard Rock Cafe.
Ever since the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction, Super Bowl officials have [...]

Rutgers will visit Cincinnati Oct. 11, but Ben Mauk won’t be the Bearcats QB.
Mauk, one of the key components in Cincinnati’s rise to Top 25 prominence last season, had his final appeal for another year of eligibility turned down Friday by the NCAA. It was the third time that Mauk’s request for another season [...]

NEWPORT, R.I. — I had never spoken to Pat White before Tuesday afternoon, never interacted with the West Virginia quarterback and Heisman trophy candidate. I had never heard of West Virginia baseball coach Greg Van Zant, either.
Yet in the span of a few minutes at Big East media day, the quarterback made some startling [...]

There has been some swift and telling fallout to my report yesterday that West Virginia QB Pat White chose not to play baseball at the university in part because there aren’t any African-Americans on the team.
Ed Pastilong, WVU’s veteran athletic director, said in a statement issued Tuesday night:
“The university is committed to diversity as [...]

NEWPORT, R.I. – Cincinnati football coach Brian Kelly understands the doubters.
A year after finishing 10-3, 4-3 in the Big East, many observers don’t expect the Bearcats to do that well again in 2008. Hence the No. 5 pick by the coaches in the Big East Football Preseason Media Poll announced Tuesday. Defending league co-champ [...]

NEWPORT, R.I. – The most interesting and controversial comments from Big East Football Media Day came from West Virginia senior QB Pat White, who said he did not play for the school’s baseball team this spring because there haven’t been many African-American players on the team.
“In my knowledge of West Virginia baseball, there’s not [...]

NEW YORK — The Ray Rice Era at Rutgers is over.
Now it’s time to move on.
With Rutgers set to open the 2008 college football season with a nationally televised game against Fresno State on Sept. 1 at Rutgers Stadium, head coach Greg Schiano says it may take more than one tailback to replace [...]

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Check out my first video interview on Big East football and basketball.
While there, check out the interview with Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano and, of course, we highly recommend the daily edition of “The Nooner” with Brittany Umar.