Big Hits 8/20/11: Super Conferences, AP Poll Released

A Super Conference Cautionary Tale – Global Turnstile My colleague Zach Bigalke takes a look at the first failed Super Conference over at Global Turnstile. A lot of people have forgotten that the WAC was the first conference to try a sixteen team league in the mid-90s. There’s a lot of interesting information about how that league failed, and begs the question of if it would be any different a second time around. 2011 NCAA Football Preseason... Read More

Big Hits 8/5/11: Goodell, Smith Sign CBA, Yards to Glory

NFL Free Agent Tracker — ESPN Interested in seeing what your team has done in free agency this offseason? Or interested to see where a certain player ended up? ESPN has a free agent tracker that lets you keep up with every single NFL free agent. Yards to Glory — ESPN Another cool thing ESPN recently did. The best college football touchdowns from every single yard line from 100+ to 0. A lot of great plays from Desmond Howard’s 93-yard... Read More