College Football

NCAA Nailed for Hypocrisy, Selling Jerseys of Players It's Investigating

There have been some interesting developments lately in the debate over compensation of top college athletes, who, as we know, are basically professionals, given the amount of time they have to devote to their sport at the expense of their education. First off, the NCAA was absolutely humiliated t ... More >>

Pride Issue: High Schools, Colleges Lag Behind the Pros in Fighting Homophobia

Gay is still not OK

March Madness Rankings: Do The Math, People

For some reason--probably because they figure the tournament will settle the issue anyway-- college basketball fans don't pay attention to computer power ratings the way football fans do. The best power ratings around are Jeff Sagarin's at USA Today, and a quick glance at his numbers gives some insi ... More >>

Has the Manti Te'o Story Run its Course? Not by a Long Shot

You know the state of sports journalism has turned to shit when the toughest interrogators on sports hottest issues are Oprah Winfrey and Katei Couric. Thursday afternoon Couric finally asked Manti Te'o the question that every sportswriter in the country has talked around: "Are you gay?" "No," Te' ... More >>

Alabama vs. Notre Dame: Will It Even Be Close?

The highest rated college football game to date was the January 2, 1987 Fiesta Bowl between Miami and Penn State. Tonight's BCS championship game between No. 1-ranked Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama should blow the Nielsens for that one away. These are, after all, the two most successful college footba ... More >>

BEST OF NYC™
Have a Ball (And Puck and Uppercut): NYC Is Sportstown, U.S.A.

Penn State Orders Paterno Statue to Be Taken Down

As the Sandusky controversy began to heat up last year, Joe Paterno, long-time coach of Penn State's football team and former god-like figure in college sports, testified in front of the court that he had no recollection or knowledge of the molestation charges set against his coaching sidekick, Jerr ... More >>

Paterno Speaks To Washington Post About Sandusky Scandal

​Joe Paterno spoke out about the child sexual abuse scandal involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky that cost him his job as head coach of the Penn State University football team in an exclusive interview with the Washington Post. "In hindsight, I wish I had done more," he told the Pos ... More >>

Hombre Blanco Edition

Bowling for Chumps

How insiders use the college bowl system to loot American universities

Heisman Goes to a Player in a Second-Rate Conference Who Played a Cheesecloth Schedule

​Do you remember Troy Smith, Chris Weinke, Ty Detmer, or Andre Ware? Do you switch on the TV when Matt Leinart's team is playing -- do you remember what team he plays for? Does your heart beat faster when you think of the pro careers of Danny Wuerffel, Ron Dane, Eric Crouch, Jason White, Gino ... More >>

DEA Money Laundering; German Evacuation From WWII Bombs; Socrates Dies

via Wikipedia​A New York Times report says the Drug Enforcement Administration has laundered money for drug cartels in an effort to "identify how criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets and, most important, who their leaders are." This controversial tactic was ban ... More >>

Columbia Marching Band Banned From Game For Being Slightly Irreverent

​Columbia's marching band was banned (and subsequently un-banned) from performing at Saturday's football game against Brown for pointing out the simple fact that Columbia hasn't won a game all season. After every game, the band plays the school fight song "Roar, Lions, Roar." But after the tea ... More >>

Jerry Sandusky Sex Scandal Means Joe Paterno Will Be Remembered for Failure, Not Accomplishments

​A couple of hours ago, Penn State University announced that Joe Paterno's weekly Tuesday press conference was cancelled. It's probably just as well, since the Paterno camp had already advised the press that he would not be taking questions on his role in the sex abuse scandal -- and that's th ... More >>

Bubba Smith, Huge Guy On and Off Gridiron, Found Dead at 66

Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith died yesterday in his home in Los Angeles at age 66 and took an awful lot of history with him. There were two primary reasons why Bubba Smith became such a folk hero while still in college, at Michigan State. The first is that the '65-'66 Spartans were the first major c ... More >>

If Auburn Wins Tonight, Its Title May Be Short-Lived

​If the Bowl Championship Series has accomplished nothing else - and most critics would argue that it hasn't - it has at least made the final title game into a national story as no college game, not even the Rose Bowl at the height of its glory - did before it. That makes tonight's title gam ... More >>

Why Doesn't Cameron Newton Have a Lock on the Heisman?

​There probably hasn't been a Heisman candidate this decade with such strong credentials for the title of Outstanding College Football Player in The Nation as Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton. Newton's numbers are phenomenal: as a passer. 123 completions in 185 attempts for 1890 yards (a 10.3 ... More >>

Best Of NYC: We're the Greatest Sports City in the World

And proud of it

MEN IN MOTION

Fordham football is looking up

Reggie Bush More Scorned than OJ Simpson, Somehow

You must forget this image -- it's the rules!​So now, it appears, Reggie Bush's fabulous stint at the University of Southern California never happened. As reported on ESPN, the Heisman Trophy Trust will strip Bush of his 2005 Heisman Trophy and leave the award "vacant." The Trust's own inve ... More >>

Jockbeat: Tonight's BCS Championship Should Be A Lopsided Affair

​If you're a fan of any college football team except the Alabama Crimson Tide, tonight should be a good time to catch up on the holiday movies. In the Bowl Championship Series national title game in Pasadena, the number one-ranked Tide is favored over the number two-ranked Texas Longhorms by 3 ... More >>

PERFECT DRIVE

Take a day trip to West Point for college football action

Jockbeat: Will Jets fans have patience for Sanchez to grow?

There are two definitely good things to be said about the Jets obtaining Southern Cal quarterback Mark Sanchez. The first is that he's probably the best prospect available. The second is that he looks a hell of a lot better than anything they have right now.   But there are potential pitfa ... More >>

Jockbeat: Lord Help Tim Tebow

Florida's Tim Tebow is the best college quarterback I've ever seen.  Not the best looking, the smoothest or the most classic, but the best, as in the one I want to quarterback for my team in the big game. His performance in Thursday night's 24-14 victory over Oklahoma in the BCS national champi ... More >>

LION’S DEN

Take the subway to see Cornell at Columbia

Why the Giants Shouldn't Be in the Super Bowl and Ways They Can Win It

If the Favre treatment doesn't stop Brady, maybe Jessica Simpson could?

Unmanning the Flock

The Giants win by a goal post while intimidating no one

New York's Fumble Recovery

Why Rutgers deserves more New York love, and Notre Dame less

USC's Topless Professor

Feminist Diana York Blaine bares her boobs and talks gender equality

Playing Games

Title IX Was Always About More Than Sports. So Is the Fight.

The BCS Mess

Our Guide to the Bowl Championship Series

'Star' As In 'Stargell'

The Real Top 25

The Worst of the Best in College Football

All-American Boy

Remembering Ozzie Simmons

Who Got Game?

• • • Running the Numbers on College Sports

Faceless Wonders

Giants’ Lesser Lights Lead the Way

Our Year in Sports

2000 Village Voice Sportswriters' Poll Results

Unsportsmanlike Conduct

College Football's Real-Life Top 25

Head Case

Pigskin Pioneers

Slow Racial Progress and a Cloud of Dust

Madness!

The College Basketball Real-Life Top 25

A Bookie's Wild Week

Hanging Out With a Bookmaker on the Super Bowl, Betting's Biggest Event

Letters

Game Misconducts

College Football's Real-Life Top 25

The Overachiever

Ray Lucas Surmounts All Obstacles as He Guides the Jets Back to Respectability

They Call Me Coach

The women who dare to lead men into battle

ESPN'S Ho-Mo-Sexual Safari

Running on mpty

Tyrone Wheatley: A lost giant in a lost season

On the Line

The defensive front is big blue’s big-play unit