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Longtime Football Coach Startled to Learn Caps Lock Could Be Turned Off

Posted on Friday, July 30th 2010
Tags: abusive, all, caps, coach, college athletics, football, yelling
Longtime Football Coach Startled to Learn Caps Lock Could Be Turned Off
by Anselmo Watkins Freelance Writer In the last 25 years, Axmead College Head Football Coach Brett Killman has won over 230 games and led his teams to seven Great Northern Pine League Championships and three NCAA Division III post-season appearances. His booming basso-profondo voice is well known in football stadiums across the Northern United States. [...]

Online Colleges Kick Off Recruitment for Inaugural Football Season

Posted on Friday, March 26th 2010
Tags: college, college athletics, football, online, phoenix, recruiting, rick neuheisel, university
Online Colleges Kick Off Recruitment for Inaugural Football Season
Cyber-colleges, University of Falconer and Kapstone College, have begun recruitment for the first-ever online football league. Using an innovative scouting and training program, nine teams will join to form the NCAA’s Big Tech organization. The group was inspired by the unique Collegiate Sprint Football League, which pits small for-profit colleges against Ivy League competitors. The [...]

D-III Athlete Forgets He Really Isn\’t a Big Deal

Posted on Friday, December 4th 2009
Tags: athletes, college athletics, d-iii, division iii, egos, game of life, NCAA, privilege, sports
D-III Athlete Forgets He Really Isn\’t a Big Deal
Quinn “Q-Bee” Benton, quarterback of the Arkansas Liberal Arts Acorns, forgot that he was actually a nobody this week when he wasn’t moved to the front of the seating line at Waffle House. “It was French Toast Friday, so we had a large crowd that night,” said Waffle House manager Roscoe Prodkin. “All of the [...]

College Football Coach Moonlights at Home Depot to Cover Living Expenses

Posted on Monday, October 12th 2009
Tags: coach, coaches, college, college athletics, football, NCAA, salaries, salary
College Football Coach Moonlights at Home Depot to Cover Living Expenses
Joe “Old Flint” Cousins, head coach of the Charleston State Univerity men’s football team was spied recently working as a cashier at a Home Depot about seven miles from his home campus. “I feel so sorry for him,” said math professor Paulina Gorzki, who bought a set of screwdrivers from Coach Cousins. “Most football coaches [...]

Indiana University Introduces New H2Onor Code for Bobby Knight Induction

Posted on Monday, August 24th 2009
Tags: bobby knight, college athletics, double standard, ethics, hall of fame, indiana, IU, NCAA
Indiana University Introduces New H2Onor Code for Bobby Knight Induction
As predicted, Indiana University’s decision to induct Bobby Knight into its athletic hall of fame has brought mixed reactions and accusations of hypocrisy. IU has responded with an innovative creation: The H2Onor Code. “The H2Onor Code is a watered down version of our current code of conduct,” explained IU spokesman Chester Gorney. “We use bold [...]

Universities Sanctioned by NCAA for Replacing Racist Masots with Stupid Alternatives.

Posted on Thursday, July 9th 2009
Tags: chiefs, college athletics, college humor, comedy, diversity, indian, mascots, multicultural, NCAA, PC Police Log, political correctness, racism, redskins, satire, social justice, spoof
Universities Sanctioned by NCAA for Replacing Racist Masots with Stupid Alternatives.
After several years of warnings, the NCAA has taken action against colleges that replaced culturally insensitive college mascots with what have been deemed “idiotic replacements” by the impatient athletics organization. The first institution slapped with a reprimand was Shippensburg University in rural PA, which made the decision to change its “Red Raider” mascot from an [...]

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