San Jose Mercury News
College football is the finest guilty pleasure in sports. The bowl games this past week have been a gas to watch. So many wild finishes. So many whoop-inducing plays. It's irresistible enjoyment -- even though in our hearts, we know how much sleaziness lurks behind the scenes at too many schools. And I'm not even including the Penn State horror. I'm talking about more conventional sleaziness such as academic shenanigans, or boosters who slip money (or free tattoos) to players, or coaches who pursue recruiting the way that Nigerian scammers pursue email. But in the final moments of a Rose Bowl or Fiesta Bowl or Sugar Bowl, where drama rises and swells, all of that stuff recedes. To me, the...
This is what it looks like without Andrew Luck: Going from Heisman finalist to newbie on the road. Going from rocket arm to unsure. Going from team leader to, well, goat. Ask Josh Nunes. “That was on me,” said... more »
Stanford's stay in the top 10 will be short-lived. The eighth-ranked Cardinal wasted a third quarter lead Thursday and lost to Washington 17-13 at CenturyLink Field — its first regular-season defeat to a team other than... more »
To prepare quarterback Josh Nunes for the noise in Seattle's CenturyLink Field on Thursday, Stanford blasted music during practice this week To prepare Nunes for problems communicating with his linemen and receivers, the... more »
Florida State needs to beat Clemson. For Bobby Bowden, for the ACC, for college football, for its own peace of mind. Yes, Florida State needs to beat Clemson. College football tends to get all teary-eyed about... more »
There is not a better, more electric, more dangerous college football player in America than De'Anthony Thomas. And the question now shouldn't be what the University of Oregon needs to do to help Thomas win the Heisman Trophy,... more »
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