Even though college football recruiting is overhyped, fans love it.
Even though these players have not played a down, fans want to know which school snagged the best recruits.
So that’s what we do, offer information about signed players. And fans eat it up, reading even one-sentence updates from newspapers by the tens of thousands in Atlanta, [...]
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College papers cover ‘Blount’ meltdown well
Apologies do not minimize the penalty Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount should receive after punching an opposing player and then trying to attack fans in the stands after the Ducks lost to Boise State 19-8 on Thursday night. Blount had to be restrained and hauled into the locker room by teammates.
Boise State’s The Arbiter did [...]
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Writers shouldn’t vote for Hall, BCS champ
I’ll say it again – journalists should not be part of the news; instead, we should be reporting the news. Yet, sports writers have been doing just that, making news during the past two days – first, for their votes on baseball’s Hall of Fame, and, second, for their decisions about BCS champ.
Sure, the BCS [...]