http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... title-game

The comments on this story are some of the most vomit inducing things I've ever seen. A good collection of all the usual racist, sexist, biggoted, gay baiting, and internet Don Juan beauty judges.

ESPN article comments usually tend to make me lose just a lil' bit of faith in humanity

fox sports ones may actually be worse.

There's a reason you have to click on the comments to view them.

another thing I always get a kick out of is older men talking to athletes on twitter. I saw that LeBron posted something at halftime like "Wish the Ducks could get here for the second half!" And this middle aged white guy responded, "Wouldn't make a difference, @KingJames." Are you seriously trying to have a 140-character argument with LeBron James about college football? Get a life, old man! You have no excuse! My excuse is that I think twitter is hilarious.

Far worse than that in my opinion is middle aged men following high school football recruits.

Absolutely. It's an interesting combination of pathetic and weird. In the suburb I grew up in, I went to a public grade school but a Catholic high school, which happened to be the town's public high school's rival. To this day, old men from around the town will still talk shit to me about high school sports. It's like "Felt good to dominate you guys in football this year!" and I'm like "Neither of us are students there."

before he's gone (to the NFL) for good, I just want to make sure everyone knows that Chip Kelly's nickname at Oregon was "Big Balls Chip" and on every fourth down students would mime the motion of carrying enormous testicles in their arms.

also, this Manti T'eo thing...wtf?!?!?!

There are like 70 things about this story that don't add up, no matter what you think happened. It's too fucking weird.

yeah, it's weird. there was a replay of an interview he did a few months back and for one of maybe five times in my life, i couldn't listen out sheer embarrassment for that person.

you can only go so deep into the story before you just hit a wall where none of it makes sense. There are really only two options
a) Manti T'eo is basically sociopath-lite
b) Manti T'eo was tricked into caring about a fake person for about a year
Both are hard to believe, but they're the only two options.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/colleg ... ax-quotes/

OK reading this it seems more and more clear to me that when this interview happened he already knew she was fake. Man does SI look bad in this specifically their fact checking department.

hey crx what do you make of this:

http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/johnny-manziel-opens-massive-loophole-in-paying-players-rule.php

basically johnny manziel's corporation is suing someone for using his "johnny football" trademark name to sell t-shirts. if he wins he keeps the proceeds, but it doesn't count as an improper benefit because of the player lawsuit filed against the NCAA and EA sports for making money off of athletes' likenesses in video games. if the players win or the case is settled out of court the NCAA would be paying all of those players, making it the biggest violator of improper benefits rules ever, and rendering thousands of athletes ineligible. so they need the loophole in place. but, this loophole could be easily abused by rich boosters trying to persuade a top prospect to play for their schools. they deliberately profit off of a player's athletic image, get sued, settle out of court, and indirectly pay the player a large sum of money to come to their school.

does this sound plausible or accurate at all?

Crx, do you know what's going to happen in the ACC vs. Maryland case?