Florida Gators Legend Steve Spurrier Remembers Hula Bowl as First Time with Black Teammates
By Mark Schipper Steve Spurrier played three brilliant seasons at the University of Florida in the middle 1960s, quarterbacking the...
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Mark Schipper
Apr 15, 2022
Hemingway Wrote About the Notre Dame/USC Rivalry in his story 'The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio'
By Mark Schipper College football is such a permanent fixture in American culture the legendary writer Ernest Hemingway found multiple...
Mark Schipper
Jul 30, 2021
Fear Came for College Football: NCAA's TV Takeover Created Conditions for Conference Re-Alignment
By Mark Schipper Within the next four years, whenever the universities of Texas and Oklahoma are allowed to fly from the Big 12 and...
Mark Schipper
Jul 2, 2021
Modern NCAA Conference Commissioner was Forged in Fiery Destruction of the Pacific Coast Conference
By Mark Schipper George Kliavkoff, a major operator in digital-television and a sports-entertainment executive at MGM Resorts...
Mark Schipper
Jun 11, 2021
Hugo Bezdek Led Three Teams to Rose Bowl, Managed a Major League Baseball Club, & Coached in the NFL
By Mark Schipper In the misty twilight that spread quickly after a blazing sun had set behind a shoulder of mountain near the end of the...
Mark Schipper
Jun 4, 2021
1996 was an Iconic College Football Season Featuring Seminoles, Gators, & Cornhuskers at War
By Mark Schipper The timing on Jon Finkel’s new book, 1996: A Biography—Reliving the Legend-Packed, Dynasty-Stacked, Most Iconic Sports...
Mark Schipper
May 4, 2021
Infamous Fifth Down Game that Inspired 5th Down College Football Website was a Brouhaha for the Ages
The infamous Fifth Down Game between Colorado and Missouri is part of college football's living history, and helped name this website.
Mark Schipper
Apr 7, 2021
University of Texas Defied Trends by Stepping Back to Consider Merits in "Eyes of Texas" Controversy
By Mark Schipper The Eyes of Texas, a cultural pillar at the Lone Star State's flagship university, and a song with tenuous linkages to...
Mark Schipper
Mar 28, 2021
Haunted by an Error in First 'Game of the Century,' a Michigan Wolverines' Star Took His Own Life
By Mark Schipper Alone in a hotel a continent away from his estranged wife and three children, tortured by the belief he wore a scarlet...
Mark Schipper
Mar 18, 2021
Hayden Fry and Jerry LeVias Made the Southwest Conference Black and White and Shook Up the Old Order
By Mark Schipper THEY ALWAYS MADE GOOD The young head coach Hayden Fry, and his even younger player, Jerry LeVias, had trust in their...
Mark Schipper
Feb 23, 2021
Paul Bear Bryant's Last Magic was Spent on Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Crimson Tide Football
By Mark Schipper “Forget it, it’s all changed, they took it away from me,” Paul Bear Bryant said, referring to the committee convened to...
Mark Schipper
Feb 11, 2021
The Ballad of Walter Eckersall and the Snake Born Eating its Tail
By Mark Schipper There’s no shattered visage on the ground next to Walter Eckersall’s grave marker at Oak Woods cemetery, but the lone...
Mark Schipper
Feb 1, 2021
Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, Where Big Ten Conference was Founded, Has Closed
By Mark Schipper A strange sort of desolation has settled over the legendary Palmer House in the heart of Chicago’s downtown Loop, the...
Mark Schipper
Jan 25, 2021
Oregon and Oregon State Drop 'Civil War' Name from Historic Rivalry for All the Wrong Reasons
By Mark Schipper THE CIVIL WAR Saturday melees between fans of the Oregon and Oregon State football teams have escalated into mini riots...
Mark Schipper
Jan 17, 2021
NCAA Delays Vote on New Compensation and Transfer Rules, but Revolution Remains a Real Threat
By Mark Schipper College athletics under the NCAA’s rule have become a Byzantine mess, which the current push to grant student-athletes...
Mark Schipper
Dec 11, 2020
Greed Comes for College Football: Knight Commission Recommends FBS Leave the N.C.A.A.
Some time while you're looking out over the television strip-mining operations that blight the otherwise handsome landscape of college...
Mark Schipper
Oct 8, 2020
Georgia Tech's Destruction of Cumberland College in 1916 Wasn't Exactly As It Seemed
Georgia Tech beat Cumberland College 222-0, but there's more to the story than the mind-bending final score.
Mark Schipper
Oct 8, 2020
Auburn and Pat Dye is a Real College Football Story
Auburn University is honoring their old football coach Pat Dye in simple fashion, and that's a beautiful thing.
Mark Schipper
Sep 18, 2020
Hayden Fry Classic: North Texas Mean Green Set to Honor Legendary Head Coach against SMU Mustangs
By Mark Schipper If he is looking down from football Valhalla, former North Texas head coach Hayden Fry will see the program he led in...
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