On December 10, 2016, some college athlete will be crowned the next Heisman Trophy Winner, the award given to the most outstanding football player. W...

Pundits and Ohio State boosters have managed to convince college football fans, cable pundits, and the College Football Playoff committee that the Bu...

Al-Tony Gilmore is this week's guest author. "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes --- not that you won or lost ...

It's good advice for Joe Alleva at Louisiana State University, where his best choice in his college football coach may be Ed Orgeron, the man currently coaching at LSU.

Horace Dodd isn't a household name. Yet. And maybe that's because he's too much of a renaissance man, chasing ideas, exploring new avenues, readin...

By Alex Glenn Football tailgates offer fans a chance to escape the weekly grind and cut loose in the name of bone-crunching tackles and char-grilled ...

This is a time of year when colleges lure alumni and parents back for homecoming and family weekends. In the midst of so much that looks new, it's har...

Petros Papadakis, former USC college football captain and current analyst for Fox Sports, tells Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer about the lure of the game for young people. The two also debate whether politics belong on the field and in the locker room.

Late September-Early October is a rough time of year for many college freshmen. While they have figured out their course schedules, they haven't yet f...

Despite Coach Mike Riley's swift and deft endorsement of the players' right to express themselves, Husker Nation saw red. The milder among them called for the student-players to be expelled. Donors threatened to cut the program off without a dime. But it gets worse.

Applying to federal agencies and private foundations for funding might not be consistent with playing an anthem to the Atlantic slave trade at football games.

Suffering from "Florida Envy," Georgia schools and teams think they're serving their fans with a "win a championship or bust approach," desperate to keep pace with their Southern neighbors. But all the state is doing is making it less likely its teams will ever win a championship.

The ability to know you are more than who you are. It's inside each and every one of us. As much as we are different, we have much in common. We are all broken... yet at the same time we are all amazing.

By Brandon Ferris, Rider University ‘18   There are about 70 days and counting until college football starts again. You might ask you...

In this week's Scheer Intelligence podcast on KCRW, Robert Scheer speaks with former USC football player Anthony Davis about living with the brain injuries Davis sustained during his celebrated career.

The most important play in Jimbo Fisher's career wasn't a Jameis Winston touchdown pass in the Rose Bowl, or a coast to coast Dalvin Cook run. The play that changed everything for Fisher and his FSU program was made on a punt against an unranked team.