86% Of College Baseball Players Are White

It’s hard to watch the college-baseball World Series, under way now in Omaha, Neb., without noticing how different the college game is from the major-league version. Not in the caliber of play or the funny ping of the aluminum bats, but in the way the players look.

College players in the three main divisions are 86% white, according to the most-recent NCAA figures. That’s a big difference from Major League Baseball, where one study puts the number at less than 60%. The most striking difference is in the number of Latinos on the field: They made up about 29% of all major leaguers in 2007 but only 5% of players in college. [WJS]

Arizona Wildcat’s Basketball Hopes Ride On An SAT Score

Arizona fans have Thursday marked on their calendars.

That’s the day Brandon Jennings is scheduled to receive his final SAT score, and if the score is sufficient the McDonald’s All-American will be eligible to compete as a freshman for the Wildcats (pending clearance from the NCAA, of course) this season. It’s supposed to be a big development, one way or another. So I called Jennings’ advisor, Kelly Williams, on Sunday to see how things were going, how he was feeling and whether anything had changed.

What I learned is Thursday probably won’t end Jennings’ anxiety. [Sportsline]

Our friends at MyChillPill have declared Carrie Underwood the hottest girl to come out of American Idol. It’s safe to say that Carrie’s “girl next door” looks and love of sports are a major turn on for guys everywhere. Carrie was recently spotted ripping up the diamond at last week’s Softball Celebrity Challenge for the City of Hope Charity. For even more hot sofball athletes, head over to our complete list of the Sexiest Women of NCAA Softball.

Check out the rest of the pictures at MyChillPill.com here!

Harvard Students Arrested In Gay Rights Protest

Four members of Harvard’s “Right to Serve” tour were arrested this morning at a military recruiting station in Portland, Maine on the charge of criminal trespassing.

The arrested members were Samantha G.M. Barnard ’09, Robert J. Ross ’09, Amary K. Wiggin ’09, and Jacob P. Reitan, a Harvard Divinity School student who first conceived of the tour.

Twenty Harvard students have been traveling since Saturday on a week-long trip up and down the east coast to protest the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy barring openly homosexual or bisexual recruits from enlisting in the armed services.  [Harvard Crimson]

Miami Lands #1 Seed For NCAA Baseball Championship

After hearing the good news that they would be hosting the Coral Gables Regional as the No. 1 national seed of 64 teams for the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, Miami players and coaches watching the selection show in the clubhouse were thrown an unexpected curveball.

No. 2 seed Missouri (38-19), No. 3 Mississippi (37-24) and No. 4 Bethune-Cookman (36-20) are set to come to town this weekend in a surprise bracket that left some wondering how the top seed didn’t get matched up with the likes of Mt. St. Mary’s (21-32) or Texas Southern (16-32) in its regional instead of lower No. 1 seeds such as North Carolina or LSU.

Miami will take on Bethune-Cookman in the second game Friday at 4 p.m., following the match-up between Missouri and Mississippi. All games will air on ESPNU, with games at both 12 and 4 p.m. through Sunday, and the final game on Monday if necessary. [The Miami Hurricane]

The NFL Draft is taking place in NYC this weekend so lets take a look at the Top 10 College Football Players of All-Time.

Hint: Brady Quinn didn’t make the list.

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Every time I see this douchebag in the headlines, I remember that Britney Spears was hot when she married him. She was every teen-aged boy’s lonely night “love-in.” Then “Popozoa” here came along and turned a sex symbol into low class trailer trash faster Amy Winehouse can smoke crack. Sure she was trash before, but at least she was hot.

I think SouthPark put it best this past week when they said that it was time to move on from Britney. Then this a**hole shows up in the headlines - that he was having a huge party in Vegas this weekend for his birthday. WTF?!

“K-FED GETS A JOB,” “KFED DIES OF AIDS,” “KFED GETS 2 JOBS.”

These are the next headlines I need to see from this a**clown before I take him marginally serious. Every time this tool celebrates something, every newspaper has something to say, but why? He destroyed a national treasure and we celebrate him?!

I am one of the few chick-writers here, and I have no problem looking at boobs and following the NCAA tourney, but you guys have to help me take this douchebag down!

Where to go to set up an NCAA Bracket? That’s my question: I was trying to get a mid-sized 15 person pool going between my friends, but wasn’t sure what site is best for the job - until now.

I’ll break down what I found to be the best NCAA Group Bracket sites on the web and within the Facebook Application network.

After the jump, the best brackets on the net! Read More »

On Sunday, Bone took a 1-0 lead over DA Zeus when Wake Forest beat University of Virginia 80-64.

As Bone predicted, Lawrence Joel Coliseum was rocking behind James Johnson’s 21 point performance. DA Zeus said the key to the game would be Hasheem Thabeet and what a game he had, scoring a career-high 24 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and blocked six shots in leading No. 19 UConn to a spread busting 80-68 win on Saturday.

Today we add two new cappers to the mix, Gebsta and Fenboy - lets see how they do.

Check out today’s picks after the jump! Read More »

Some consider the college football tailgate, a hobby - yet others, an art form.

We are COED have learned that, “Go Big or Go Home!” is not just a mantra for drunk frat boys looking for a place to puke, but rather a rule of thumb that helps differentiate true tailgates from a bunch of dudes partying out of their trunks.

The latter is not fit for man nor beast, but a real tailgate will make you believe in the kind of God who likes to eat and drink before a football game.

(Cue Irish car bomb into the side of COED offices) Read More »

Don’t get me wrong, there have been tons of truly amazing football players in the ranks of the NCAA - but there are a rare few that deserve recognition. Some have committed murder, yet others have gone on to illustrious careers that led to the Hall of Fame - some have done both. Cheers gentlemen!

Top Ten College Football Players of All-Time

10. Vince Young -Texas
In the 2006 Rose Bowl, he completed 30 of 40 passes for 267 yards and carried the ball 19 times for 200 yards and 3 rushing touchdowns. Those 200 rushing yards set a Bowl game rushing record by a QB. He was named Rose Bowl MVP for the second time in his career.

9. Tommy Nobis – Texas
He averaged nearly 20 tackles a game as a two time All-American linebacker and made the All-Southwest Conference team three times. Nobis also played on both defense and offense for his entire college career, playing guard on the offensive side of the ball.

8. Roger Staubach – Navy
As a junior in 1963, he won the Heisman Trophy and the Maxwell Award, while leading the Midshipmen to a 9-1 record and No. 2 final ranking. In his three seasons at Navy, he completed 292 of 463 passes, with only 19 interceptions, and gained a school record 4,253 yards of total offense. Read More »