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After nearly eight months without college football, you're probably ready to suit up and cover the opening kickoff yourself. So instead of wasting your time with some nonsensical rambling to start the preseason...

Listen. Do you hear the whistles blowing? It's getting to be a cacophony, a virtual choir of stool pigeons singing their songs, telling their tales of sports scandals to the media, to the authorities, to anyone who...

Sportswriters tend to be a pretty jaded bunch, but the guy standing a few feet from me in the Ford Field media room prior to Sunday's Kansas-Davidson game may have taken the cake.

Underrated: Oklahoma. Most prognosticators have already written off the Sooners after a soul-crushing, three-game losing streak. Not me. I like that the players will have had 12 days to stew over the program's worst...

With only five conference championship games remaining, we can safely assume that North Carolina, Memphis and UCLA will all land No. 1 seeds. The fourth was shaping up to be Tennessee until the Vols lost to Arkansas...