Star TCU defensive end Devonte Fields is being investigated by police for allegedly pointing a gun at his ex-girlfriend and threatening to shoot her, according to a report by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
LSU freshman defensive tackle Trey Lealaimatafao “cut his arm to the bone” when he punched a glass window outside the team’s weight room on Monday, but thankfully won’t require amputation.
You won’t find a bigger supporter of Bryce Petty than Baylor coach Art Briles, who on Monday bristled at Petty’s perceived snub from the Heisman Trophy ceremony in New York last year.
After missing most of the 2013 season with a concussion and part of spring practice with a fractured foot, Texas quarterback David Ash was medically cleared on Monday to take part in preseason practice.
Consider this: On a per-game average, Phil Steele projects Florida State to out-score its opponents by 29 points and out-gain its opponents by 273 yards.
Some good news to start your week: Isaac Kolstad, who was allegedly assaulted by then-Rutgers quarterback Phillip Nelson in May, continues to make encouraging progress in his rehabilitation from injuries that nearly left him for dead.
One of the historic rivalry games that got the axe during conference realignment was the Missouri-Kansas Border War, which, you know, has roots in an actual war.
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby came out guns blazing on Monday, offering pointed remarks about college athletics’ current model, the effects of the O’Bannon lawsuit and the NCAA’s toothless enforcement standards.
Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen is a big soccer fan, as evidenced by the question to him at SEC media day about Liverpool’s chances this season without Luis Suarez.
From ESPN’s David Hale, who wrote a fantastic story on why golf is so important for some college football coaches: South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier welcomes being challenged to a round of golf by one of his players, but he’s never lost.
According to SoonerScoop’s Carey Murdock ($), former Mizzou wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham is in Norman and meeting with Oklahoma’s coaching staff on Thursday.
Tuesday is moving day for conference realigners, with Rutgers and Maryland joining the Big Ten and Louisville officially jumping to the ACC, among others.
Here’s a pretty good representation of the height/weight limitations the service academies have for their players: Army senior offensive lineman Ryan Powis has left the team, according to the Times Herald-Record’s Sal Interdonato.
File this under things I never want to see happen while flying: From the Chicago Tribune: In retrospect, the photo looks kind of silly, but I can’t imagine watching an emergency chute inflate within a plane cruising at 38,000 feet is all to fun an experience.
Today is the final day of testimony in the O’Bannon trial, and it’ll bring to close three weeks of what SI’s Stewart Mandel characterized as a “tone-deaf” defense by the NCAA.
