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Perfect Pat!

netbros — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:15:33 -0800

First QB in NCAA history to win four bowl games. Patrick White has been a record setting quarterback during his four years at West Virginia University. An early season Heisman trophy candidate, White is the all-time rushing QB in history, and apparently, an unassuming ladies man.

Commitment ceremony, or needing to be committed?

humanfont — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:26:39 -0800

As national signing day approached, a small town in Nevada got excited that one of its football stars would go to a big time college program. Finally on the fated day town notables and media gathered for a ceremony where, Kevin Hart, made his choice known. Then it all unraveled, he was never recruited at all.

Serfs of the Turf

AceRock — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:14:19 -0800

Serfs of the Turf. Michael Lewis on the racket that is college football and the myth of the "student-athlete" football player.

msacheson — Fri, 31 May 2002 10:17:02 -0800

This is the story of what happens when a naïve 15-year-old prodigy collides with an upward-reaching football program, some of whose players feel like they own the campus. Brittany Benefield started college at age 15 with the dream of finishing law school before she turned 21. Didn't quite work out that way, and hers is an amazing story. Take the time to read this, and think about it. Would you fault her parents, for letting her get into something she wasn't ready for; the university, for letting this get out of control; the football program, for running roughshod over the school; or Brittany, for her own decisions?

o2b — Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:19:47 -0800

Sometimes my faith in the world is restored. Not that a girl playing NCAA Division I football is going to change the world, but at least life's not all bad. Check out her teammates in the photo, they look genuinely psyched.

owillis — Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:49:31 -0800

Duke kickers testify in gender case. Asked to rank her leg strength, Sims Lenhardt told jurors: "It was inferior to other guys out there. I would say 35 yards was probably the most she could kick."