The NCAA's notion of Amateurism came from Victorian England and never really fit the athletic model of the United States.

The colleges were making lucrative financial deals with elite football players long before Name, Image, and Likeness existed.

Red Grange of the University of Illinois, known equally well as the Wheaton Iceman and the Galloping Ghost, was turning pro.

By Mark Schipper Within the next four years, whenever the universities of Texas and Oklahoma are allowed to fly from the Big 12 and...

Old Pitt Stadium opened in 1925, head-coach Jock Sutherland's second season on the job. Photo courtesy of Pitt Athletics. More than one...

By Mark Schipper George Kliavkoff, a major operator in digital-television and a sports-entertainment executive at MGM Resorts...

The infamous Fifth Down Game between Colorado and Missouri is part of college football's living history, and helped name this website.

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...

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...

By Mark Schipper A strange sort of desolation has settled over the legendary Palmer House in the heart of Chicago’s downtown Loop, the...

By Mark Schipper College athletics under the NCAA’s rule have become a Byzantine mess, which the current push to grant student-athletes...

Some time while you're looking out over the television strip-mining operations that blight the otherwise handsome landscape of college...