Ferd Lewis, Honolulu Advertiser: Hawaii athletic director Jim Donovan said he talked to the Pacific 10 to inquire about "potential opportunities" for the Warriors if the league decides to expand.
Iliana Limón, Orlando Sentinel: Central Florida's program received two years of probation for violations involving improper phone calls and text messages to recruits. Former recruiting administrator Ed Marynowitz and former director of player personnel Steve Rubio combined to place 209 improper phone calls and about 100 improper text messages to 27 prospects and their parents, NCAA and Central Florida investigations found.
Don Kausler Jr., Birmingham News: Marynowitz is now the director of player personnel at Alabama.
Austin Ward, Knoxville News-Sentinel: Rubio is now a recruiting intern at Tennessee. He was named in a New York Times report last December for another possible rules violation.
Steve Yanda, Washington Post: The Maryland and Texas athletic departments plan to jointly request an exemption to a recently passed NCAA rule, which subjects "publicly designated" coaches-in-waiting to the same recruiting restrictions as current head coaches.
Eric Lacy, Detroit News: Four current or former Michigan State players pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and conspiracy charges as part of plea deals to earn lighter sentences for their role in a Nov. 22 fight on campus.
Penn State Clips: Joe Paterno recently had surgery to correct his vision, and here's what he looks like without the glasses.
Ryan Finley, Arizona Daily Star: Aiulua Fanene, a defensive tackle who had a starring role in a "60 Minutes" segment last month about the popularity of football in American Samoa, signed a national letter of intent with Arizona. Click here to view the segment.
Brandon Chatmon, Oklahoman: Quarterback Alex Cate has left the Oklahoma State program. It is unclear where the senior-to-be plans to finish his collegiate career. Cate started in place of an injured Zac Robinson on Nov. 19 against Colorado, but when the Cowboy offense struggled in the first half, Cate was replaced by Brandon Weeden, who led Oklahoma State to a 31-28 comeback victory.
Paige Kirby, Daily Gamecock: South Carolina plans to start construction on $200 million in facility renovations, including the building of an athletics village.
Miami Herald: Miami has cut ticket prices in more than 40 sections of Sun Life Stadium.
Ken Gordon, Columbus Dispatch: A late addition to Ohio State's recruiting class is Adam Griffin, son of two-time Heisman winner and Buckeye legend Archie Griffin.
Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star: Kansas is right for trying to kick Lawrence small-businessman Larry Sinks and his Joe College T-shirt store out of school.
Steve Campbell, Houston Chronicle: Houston has hired a firm for a stadium feasibility study.
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It's hard to reconcile the NCAA wanting to pound UCF "for violations involving improper phone calls and text messages to recruits", when the punk QB for Texas takes himself out of the biggest (most wagered on) college football game of the year, claiming the world's most mysterious and unverifiable injury of "my arm's dead, it's a limp noodle", and not a single medical professional diagnoses or even describes any real injury.
That punk (and his dad) threw the game in a manner as clever as when Mike Tyson bit part of Evander Holyfield's ear off.
When there's hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars to be made, it pays to come up with new and inventive ways to throw the fight or game.
When Mike Tyson saw that punk Texas QB fake his paralysis, I bet he wished he (and Don King) had thought of that, and maybe have kept him from being banned from ever fighting in Nevada again, while still throwing the fight.
"My arm's limp, it's dead, it's a limp noodle."
Posted by: Coach | February 12, 2010 at 12:11 PM